Are you searching for greater health and wholeness for yourself and your family?

Would you like to do more than treat symptoms? Are you interested in making disease prevention and health enhancement part of your lifestyle? Looking for more than a drug approach?

Then welcome to a more natural world ~ welcome to the world of chiropractic.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. - Mother Teresa

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. -  Albert Einstein

We will be closed Friday, February 15, 2008 through Monday, February 18, 2008. Please take a moment to reschedule any standing appointments by calling the office at 480-730-7950. Thank you!

Here are some recent success stories from our office.

Mom notes children have not been sick since chiropractic care started.

Mom notes after adjustment of 9 mo. old, ear pressure gauge went from "5" (highest) to "3" to a "1" in just 2 days. Notes it has never dropped that fast.

Mother reports after 7 visits, child's cold that normally lasts weeks is virtually gone in less than a week wtih no drug intervention.

All of these patients above had one thing in common... they had subluxations that were preventing their bodies from working properly or had nutritional deficiencies. They did not know they had subluxations because subluxations are usually painless and have no symptoms themselves. They subluxations were keeping them from being as healthy as they could have and should have been.

Health is natural. If you know of someone who is not as healthy as they should be, recommend they have their spine checked for subluxations by a chiropractor today! And above all - if you know of someone with a child or have a child yourself, have their spines checked for subluxations ... you could prevent a life time of sickness by keeping their nervous system free of the nerve interference caused by subluxations from the very beginning.  

 
People sometimes ask us to review some of the basics of what a visit to a chiropractor entails. Actually a visit has two broad components: analysis and adjustment.

 

During the analysis we determine where your nerve pressure, your vertebral subluxation complex (VSC), is located. Based on over a century of research, the chiropractic profession has developed many unique procedures for this purpose: muscle, bone and motion studies; X-ray and imaging studies; leg and posture measurements and many others.

 
Next we perform an adjustment to eliminate your VSC. An adjustment introduces force/energy/information into your body, which helps to release pressure from your nerves, muscles, joints and discs and to realign or balance your body structure. The force must be introduced at the proper angle or direction, at the right time, and with the right pressure. The chiropractic profession has developed a sophisticated array of adjustment techniques. Ask us about the ones we use.

 

Chiropractors help individuals and families get healthy and stay healthy naturally, without drugs and surgery.
 

Chiropractors have a wonderful, unique perspective on healthcare that is growing dramatically in popularity.

 
You can even have fun speaking and lecturing to people of all ages and presenting information they generally can't get anywhere else.
 

As a chiropractor you have the freedom to "set up shop" nearly anywhere in the world and the excitement of knowing that you are in a unique profession that goes back thousands of years but is still new to millions of people.

 
For more information on chiropractic as a profession, please call our office.

 

Too many people who have been in an accident or suffered trauma don't receive chiropractic care. That's a big reason why over half of all accident victims never completely recover from their injuries and may live on painkillers, muscle relaxants and physical therapy or even endure repeated surgeries over the years. Sometimes they're told that they'll have to live in pain for the rest of their lives. In fact, even a "minor" trip or fall from childhood may cause severe health problems later in life.

 
Why?  Because nearly any physical force radiates to your skeletal system and can cause subluxations. For that reason a chiropractic spinal checkup is essential after an accident. Chiropractic care may make the difference between true recovery, healing and strength or lingering pain, sickness and disability.
 

 

Yet another study has verified that the fevers and infections of infancy have a protective effect against allergies and asthma later in life.

 
In this study, children who developed fevers during the first year of life tended to have a lower risk of allergies by age seven. Half of the children who experienced no fever during their first year had allergic sensitivities by age seven compared to only a 31% incidence of allergies among children who experienced two or more fevers during infancy. It appears that children exposed to more germs develop stronger immune systems. (1)
 

Comment: Children need to develop their immune systems by fighting infections. Aspirin, TylenolT and other anti-pyretics interfere with fever development and may keep a child sick longer. Childhood vaccinations prevent the immune system from developing properly. Working with nature, not against nature, helps create healthier children (and adults).

 

A new medicine is needed. The old medicine has reached its limits; it can no longer cure more than harm. - Rick J. Carlson

 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
 - Buckminster Fuller

 

Chiropractic care frees you from a severe form of dis-ease known as the vertebral subluxation complex (VSC). This is a distortion in your structural system that can affect the health of your bones, nerves, muscles, glands, brain, organs - and lots more.

 
Chiropractic is needed no matter what condition a person may have - it may make the difference between a life of suffering and illness and a life of ease and health. 
 

Disabling low back pain. This is a study of 171 patients who had been totally disabled by chronic low-back pain ("constant severe pain") for an average of 7.6 years. They were not helped by medical care and were considering back surgery. They were referred for chiropractic care. After 2-3 weeks of chiropractic, 87% returned to full function with no restrictions for work or other activities. One year later they were still doing fine.(2)

 
Learning disabilities and dyslexia. Eight studies were reviewed containing 25 case reports. All studies showed beneficial effects of chiropractic care in individuals suffering from learning disabilities and dyslexia.(3) 
 

Neck pain. Seventy patients with neck pain (25 males and 45 females, ages 20-55 years) were randomly divided into either a chiropractic group or a control group. The chiropractic group showed a significant improvement in neck pain after only one adjustment.(4)
 

 
Babies have an intense need to be held and one of the most comforting things for a newborn is the physical act of nursing. Leaving a baby alone with a bottle is not emotionally satisfying to the child and does not make them feel safe or secure.
 
Breastfeeding also promotes bonding between mother and baby in a way that bottle-feeding cannot. Most women naturally feel a strong desire to hold their baby and there are physical and emotional reasons for this. Breastfeeding ensures that mother and baby have some intimate time together and actually stimulates the mother's release of the oxytocin hormone, which is known to promote maternal behavior.
 

 

"The key to a good salad is vegetables at the peak of freshness, cut up into small pieces, then dressed with a high enzyme dressing composed of raw ingredients - high-quality oils, vinegar, lemon juice, whey, avocado and raw or cultured cream. Chopping or grating vegetables is the first step in the process of thorough digestion, leaving less for the teeth and digestive juices to do, and allowing more surface area of the vegetables to be coated with healthful dressing."(5)  It is now recommended to eat 7-13 servings of raw fruits and vegetables a day.  If you are finding that hard to do, you are not alone. 90% of Americans do not get enough to stay healthy and prevent disease. Juice Plus is an affordable and convenient way to fill that gap in your nutrition. Call the office for more information on how you can get your family started on this whole food supplement.

 

Here is an online personality test that some say is uncanny in its accuracy. Find out for yourself. Take it at www.41q.com.

 

Is there another word for synonym?
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"
Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"
What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?
How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

 
Bye. See you next month. Don't forget to stop by for a checkup and adjustment.
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1. Williams LK et al. The relationship between early fever and allergic sensitization at age 6 to 7 years. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2004:113(2):291-296.
2. Kirkaldy-Willis WH and Cassidy JD. Managing low-back pain. Canadian Family Physician. 1985;31:535-540.
3. Pauli Y. The effects of chiropractic care on individuals suffering from learning disabilities and dyslexia: a review of the literature. JVSR. January 15, 2007:1-12. https://www.jvsr.com/abstracts/index.asp?id(0
4. Martínez-Segura R, Fernandez-de-las-Penas C, Ruiz-Saez M et al. Immediate effects on neck pain and active range of motion after a single cervical high-velocity low-amplitude manipulation in subjects presenting with mechanical neck pain: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. 2006;29(7):511-517.
5. Fallon S. Nourishing Traditions.  Washington, DC: New Trends Publishing. 2001:175.
6. Weintraub S, Fahey C, Johnson N et al. Vasectomy in men with primary progressive aphasia. Cognit & Behavior Neurol. 2006;19(4):190-193.
7. Reuters. November 21, 2007. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=4&objectid477291