Monday, April 20, 2009

How does one attain Wellness in today's environment?

We will begin by addressing Stress, which is at the root of most health problems. Stress has 3 dimensions, but interestingly enough they affect your body in the same way.
1.Physical Stress – Car accident, repetitive injury, poor posture, exercise
2.Biochemical Stress – what you eat, what you drink, pollutants, skin products
3.Psychological Stress – the emotional aspect – work, home, financial (this is how you can “think yourself sick.”)
Stress can be good (eustress) or bad (distress). For instance, eating healthy, drinking water, and exercising are all a form of stress that benefit you positively. Conversely eating fast food, drinking soda, and low physical activity all work against your body cumulatively. Lets see how stress changes your body.

Stress » Muscles » Joints » Nervous System
Stress puts your body in a defensive mode, known as fight or flight. Your body reacts the same way to the stress of running away from a bear as it would to your computer crashing when you did not save your work, or a supersized value meal. When your body assumes this defensive mode it is focused on survival, not on healing, growing, and becoming more efficient.
Stress will first affect your muscles, making them tight. Since muscles move bones, if the stress is not dealt with, it begins to change or limit your joints movement. Joints have position sensors that tell your brain their location at all times (close your eyes and have someone move your finger up & down, you will know which way it is going). When the joints are not moving properly for long enough, it changes the nervous system control of the body. Since nerves control every muscle, organ, gland, and cell in your body, if they are not working at 100% your body is not regulating at 100% and not repairing/healing at 100%.

As stress from the 3 dimensions affect us, it drives our level of health (and immune system) down. If stress overwhelms our body’s ability to adapt, we exhibit symptoms (pain, cold, flu, digestive problems, etc…). This is when we are traditionally taught to seek help, and once the symptoms are gone most people think they are healthy even though they are barely above that threshold of having symptoms. Receiving regularly scheduled Chiropractic care, even when you do not have symptoms releases the deeply held stress from the nerves, joints, and muscles. This results in increasing your body’s ability to handle stress, adapt to the environment, and approach optimum health. When you approach optimum health you build up a buffer against lifestyle stress so you no longer fall into symptoms/poor health. This is why Wellness is impossible without Chiropractic, because getting adjusted increases your potential for health. This was demonstrated in the ten-year Alternative Medicine Integration Study conducted by Richard Sarnat, MD. The results proved that regular utilization of Chiropractic care in the absence of symptoms led to:
60.2% decrease in hospital admissions
59% decrease in days stayed at the hospital
62% decrease in oupatient surgeries and procedures
85% decrease in pharmaceutical costs

What does this mean to you? Happier, healthier, well-adjusted families that have more energy and a better immune system. Come join our Wellness revolution today!

In Health,

Dr. Cole

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Chiropractic in the News - "The Cutting-Edge of Wellness"

Some news that does not get the publicity it needs:

The Prime Minister of Japan stated that Chiropractic is "the cutting edge of wellness."

"Interference to the nervous system results in permanent damage in a short period of time and therefore, Chiropractic care should begin at birth on a preventative basis." Dr. Arpad De Nagy, Rockefeller Institute

"Subluxations decrease the Genetic potential of the human species." Ronald Pero, Ph.D. (a subluxation is interference in the nervous system)

Latent Spinal Cord and Brain Stem Injury in New Born Infants
Dr. Towbin, MD, Harvard Medical points out that seven of the eight of the SIDS infant cadavers he performed autopsy on, died from spinal injury with neurovascular damage. Dr. Towbin describes various clinical neonatal spinal cord and brain stem injury groups. In the first group, death of the neonate occurs during the course of labor or soon after birth. The second group, is composed of newborns with cord or brainstem damage who survive for days. The third group are infants who survive for long periods, often for years. Under this group, Dr. Towbin describes a subgroup, or the fourth group. “…there must exist a large number of instances with mild injury, with minimal neurologic symptoms, going unnoticed clinically, or being relegated to the category of cerebral palsy.”
Can the Vertebral Subluxation Complex be caused at birth ? Yes. Can the Vertebral Subluxation Complex cause an early death in some of these cases? Yes. Abraham Towbin, MD. Neuropathologist, Harvard Medical School.

Why isn't this on the front page of every paper? Why do we waste billions on drugs and surgery?

Lets do a logic exercise...
1. We know that the body is self-healing and self-regulating (you heart beats, you digest, cuts on your skin heal without you thinking about it)

We know that the Nervous System controls every organ and cell in your body (it coordinates over 2 million functions inside you every minute!)

THEREFORE if you interfere with the Nervous System, you necessarily interfere with the body's ability to heal and regulate, regardless if you have pain or not.

2. We know the far-reaching negative effects of stress on the body, and how most diseases are stress and lifestyle related. We also know that there is physical, psychological, and biochemical stressors that contribute.

Your body can handle a set amount of "normal stress," anything over that puts your body in defensive mode (called fight or flight) that stores stress in your muscles -> joints -> nerves.

TWO THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH STRESS
--medicate it so you don't feel it, but it still kills you (in the form of heart disease, diabetes, etc)
--Go see your Chiropractor so you can release deeply held stress, and allow your body to heal from the inside out

A question for you to think on:
If you or your children are taking pharmaceutical drugs, ask yourself "What would happen if I gave these drugs to a healthy person?"
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If you need a hint, what would happen if you put a healthy fish in a polluted pond?

In Health & Wellness

Dr. Cole

Motion is Life

God made our bodies as a phenomenally complex grouping of nerves, muscles, joints, and bones that intimately work together to achieve Motion. This is why we say thatMotion is Life, and is the key to maintaining a high quality of life and feeling youthful.

Our entire body was designed for movement: nerves signal the contraction of muscles, muscles then act as levers moving bones, and bones can only move when muscles cross joints. Nerves also give the brain feedback about the motion that is occurring.

Current research has demonstrated how vital motion is for our overall health. In fact, a lack a motion has negative effects on our ability to concentrate, the strength of our immune system, emotional health, energy levels, digestion, sleep cycles, and even life span! If you are lacking in motion, your body will begin to degenerate prematurely.

How can lack of motion manifest? Aside from deteriorating mental and physical health, you can experience many symptoms such as hypertension, headaches, and anxiety. The lack of energy and impairment of focus will make you less productive at work and home, and because you have less energy, your activity levels will tend to decrease as time goes on. This gets you caught in the downward spiral of decreased energy and activity until you are physically exhausted at the end of each day, even if you work at a desk all day long.

As a Chiropractor, I work to restore motion to the body by releasing tension from immobile joints. This stimulates the nerves that control the muscles that move your joints, allowing your own God-given ability to heal and restore your body from the inside out!


Bottom Line 
1. Physical health, mental health, and emotional health are all linked to Motion.
2. Drugs and Doctors do not heal, only your body and Creator can do that. 
3. All I do is facilitate change and restore motion.

In Health and Happiness,

Dr. Cole