Your Nervous System and You

There has been a lot going on at Trinity Chiropractic Wellness with Health Fairs, The New Year, New You classes, and people just wanting to start the year off right...with a healthy nervous system.  Remember, your nervous system controls everything in your body, heartbeat, respiration, digestion, muscle tone and balance.  With a healthy nervous system, anything is possible.  If you want to find out how to receive true Health care instead of sickness and symptom based care, give us a call at 919-261-0202.


It's been an amazing week at the office so far, and we are keeping the momentum going. Have you had your nervous system checked for stress and interference?  Wellness checkups are available, learn where you are at on your journey to health.


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STUDIES ON CHIROPRACTIC AND DEPRESSION

Proven RESULTS, and NO SIDE EFFECTS

1.) Study of 2,818 patients found chiropractic care significantly improved patients' well being: Seventy-six percent of the patients studied reported improved combined wellness changes in all categories assessed, emotional well being improved 26 percent, negative feelings toward self improved 23 percent, depression improved 20 percent, difficulty sleeping improved 11 percent and family relations improved 21 percent.

2.) A published 15 person study concluded "that a positive relationship exists between a correction of the occipitoatlantoaxial subluxation complex and a reduction in depressive symptoms in some people".

3.) Another 98 subject study published in Molecular Psychiatry found that when an addiction treatment program was supplemented with frequent chiropractic adjustments over a 30-day period, the patients displayed an unprecedented 100 percent program completion rate. In addition, initially rampant depression and anxiety dropped significantly.

4.) From the 1920s to 1960s, several chiropractic mental asylums existed in the Midwest of the U.S. Surviving documentation shows a North Dakota judge reporting a 65% recovery or improvement rate at one asylum, compared to 27% at a standard asylum.
Chiropractic has also amassed a sizable collection of case studies documenting drastic results in: ADD/ADHD, Depression, Bi-Polar Diagnosis, Tourettes, Autism Diagnosis and other neurological disorders.
AGAIN, ONLY BENEFIT AND NO DEADLY SIDE EFFECTS. WHO DO YOU KNOW THAT HAS THESE PROBLEMS AND ISN'T SEEING A CHIROPRACTOR?

5.) A related study in Journal of Neuroscience conducted at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, found that physical changes in the brain caused by chronic pain are likely to lead to depression as well as other pain-related symptoms. In the study, the researchers demonstrated that the wiring in the brain of someone dealing with chronic pain is different than that of pain-free individuals. In the brain of a pain-free individual, all the regions of the brain exist in a complementary state, meaning that if one region of the brain is active the other regions are at rest. But in people with chronic pain, a front region of the cortex mostly associated with emotion is constantly active.

Chiropractic Improves Brain Wave Patterns, Brain Function

A study presented at the International Research And Philosophy Symposium held at Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic in October, 2004 finds that Chiropractic adjustments have a positive effect on the Central Nervous System (CNS), specifically on the four primary frequencies of brain function.

Brain function is measured on four primary frequencies: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta. Alpha waves reflect the meditative, relaxing healing mode. Beta waves represent the active, busy brain. Theta waves reflect light sleep, relaxation and conceptual development. Delta waves represent the brain activity during deep sleep, repair mode and energy storage.

The study was conducted over a three year period. Approximately 100 volunteers were examined with an electroencephalogram (EEG) before and after chiropractic adjustments.
The EEG scans were examined to check the right/left balance, the amount of total activity, the primary regions of activity and the effect of the adjustment.

After receiving a chiropractic adjustment, post EEG scans revealed improvement in all areas of the volunteer's brain function. Particularly, the researchers noticed an increase in the meditative Alpha brainwave patterns that are associated with a greater degree of relaxation, health and healing.

The researchers noted that some of the volunteers already had balanced and active brain scans and the adjustments had little effect on their post scans. They felt this was a good indicator that the adjustments had no negative effects on brain activity.

In Health,

Dr. Cole

Why Chiropractic IS Wellness

What is Wellness?  It is a ten-cent word that is heard everywhere and has effectively lost its meaning.  You see “wellness” at local gyms, in the supermarket, on pharmaceuticals, and at physical therapists, but it is never truly explained or measured.  I find this aggravating because Wellness is the core of my vision for this community, and I am taking a moment to explain what it truly is.

To talk about wellness, you must know what it is.  Wellness defined is “the degree to which an individual experiences health and vitality in any dimension of life.”  What keeps us from experiencing health and vitality?  Stress (physical, biochemical, emotional).  Stress includes everything from injuries to poor nutritional choices to a sedentary lifestyle, and it puts your body in “survival mode.”  When stress occurs, one of two things happen:

1. You deal with it immediately
2. Store it in your nervous system

Our technology will let us measure the lifestyle stress that you have been keeping within, and how it is affecting your nervous system and general health.  I mention this because there are two things you can do with stress:

1. Medicate it so you don’t feel it, but it still kills you
2. Come see me so we can develop a plan to release it.

When you are in survival mode, you are not growing, adapting, and healing like you should.  This brings me to how wellness is possible!  It is because your nervous system learns, which means that your body adapts.  Only a chiropractic adjustment reprograms the nervous system, so when you keep someone adjusted they stay out of survival mode and the nervous system can start learning from its environment and expand its efficiency, which increases your health and vitality.  

I believe to claim wellness, you have to measure wellness.  Because of this, we have invested in NASA certified technology that measures the efficiency and performance of your body and nervous system.  It is the same technology used on the Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens, and USA Olympians.  Whatever your wellness goals may be, we will deliver on the promise.

In Health and Happiness

Dr. Cole

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

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