The Birth of a New Healing Art?
The Genesis of the Wellness Revolution, the Story of Chiropractic
It was September of 1895 when a magnetic healer named D.D. Palmer examined a deaf janitor in Davenport, Iowa. Harvey Lillard, a deaf janitor who worked in the building in which D.D Palmer practiced, described to Dr. Palmer that he lost his hearing 17 years previously while exerting himself. Mr. Lillard explained that he felt something give way in his back and immediately became deaf. Dr. Palmer examined him and located a subluxated vertebra in his spine. Dr. Palmer then purposefully repositioned the vertebra back into place and Mr. Lillard’s hearing was miraculously restored.
Shortly after the Harvey Lillard case, Dr. Palmer had a patient with heart trouble that also was resolved when he replaced (adjusted) a subluxated vertebrae. In this particular case, he examined the spine and located a subluxated vertebra pressing on the nerves supplying messages to the heart. Dr. Palmer reasoned that if two diseases, so different as deafness and heart trouble, came from pressure on the nerves, then other diseases may have similar causes.
Thus the science and art of Chiropractic were formed. The dawn of a new era of health care was born; a system to investigate the cause of all disease and treat the cause, not the sign or symptom; a system based on a vitalistic approach that allowed our bodies to heal naturally without the use of toxic drugs or surgery.
Wellness chiropractic has always been and always will be about restoring health and wellness in the body, not treating back and neck pain. Wellness chiropractic is a lifestyle that creates well-being, improves your quality of living and improves your performance at every level.
Kid’s Health Concerns
Related To Pelvic Subluxations
-Journal of Vertebral Subluxation
Current research in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation revealed a relationship between children’s health concerns and subluxations of their pelvic bones. The study involved 650 children, 327 boys and 323 girls, and compared the results of their physical examinations, x-rays, surface EMG, and thermograph tests along with their complaints (or the problems mentioned by their parents). The children were divided into three age groups for the study; 2-4, 5-12 and 13-18 years of age.
The results of the study allowed the authors to conclude the following:
96% of the children examined were found to have pelvic subluxations.
As a result of these subluxations, the beginnings of spinal degeneration, commonly found later in life in adults, becomes evident very early in life.
The children examined experienced numerous physical complaints such as: limb pain and numbness, low back and neck pain, growing pains, sinus problems, headaches, dizziness, stomach problems, bed-wetting, constipation, diarrhea, asthma, breathing problems, fatigue, colic, croup and menstrual cramps. Behavioral concerns included: ADHD, learning difficulties, temper, memory and sleeping problems. Immune complaints such as: allergies, colds, ear infections, fever, acne and throat complaints such as: sore throats, strep throat and tonsillitis were also noted.
The complaints the children experienced were fully or partially the result of their bodies adapting to the negative neurological changes associated with the pelvic subluxations.
A child’s developing nerve system will learn negative patterns of body movement and function that result from subluxations as easily as it will learn positive patterns when no subluxations are present. It is not always possible to distinguish “good” input from “bad” input.
This nerve system learning process, involving body movement, body position awareness and posture, begins within a few months after birth.
Chiropractic care should be started as soon as possible, so that these negative body movement patterns, abnormal joint function, disc stress and early degenerative changes can be corrected as soon as possible.
Parents who often appreciate the importance of checkups for their child’s teeth, hearing, eyes, ears, nose and throat draw a blank when it comes to their child’s spine. In fact, a spinal checkup could be one of the most important checkups of your child’s life.
Chiropractic, Energy Healing and Health
Chiropractic has always known that health is not a person, place or thing. You cannot isolate it in a test tube. It is not the lack of symptoms that the medical model would like us to believe. If the medical model were correct, then dead people would be the healthiest people because they do not complain of any problems. I have never heard a corpse complain about a headache or back pain, have you?
From our point of view, health is not a lack of something; it’s not the absence of symptoms or not feeling ill. Health is the ability to perform those activities that are not only essential to life but are essential to achieve our hopes, dreams, increase our levels of happiness and to have the energy and capacity to easily handle all the strains and stresses life hands you.
Health is a state of being that automatically brings out the processes of repair, regeneration and homeostasis (adapting properly to your environment). It cannot be ordered around by sheer force of will. It can and is affected by mental and emotional states, lifestyles and genetics. Chiropractic doctors are the traditional healers of the western world based upon the vitalistic principles of Hippocrates, the quoted father of medicine who said; “For the cause of disease first look to the spine”.
Pass The Butter...Please!
This is interesting…
DO YOU KNOW……… the difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end…gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they area added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years
And now for Margarine…
Very high in trans fatty acids
Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol,( the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
Lowers quality of breast milk
Decreases immune response
Decreases insulin response.
And here’s the most disturbing fact….HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC…
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this mean hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself:
Purchase a tub of Margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:
- No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it ( that should tell you something)
- It does not rot or smell differently because it has
Share This With Your Friends……. (If you want to “butter them up”)!
Chinese Proverb:
“When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.
So….., DO IT!
