People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. - Epictetus

 
Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.
- Chinese inscription cited by Henry David Thoreau in Walden

Looking for a drug-free lifestyle? For health and wholeness for yourself and your family? Interested in disease prevention and health enhancement?

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

Christmas is Coming!

No, it's not a misprint!  Our 11th annual Christmas in July program begins July 1st and runs throughout the entire month to benefit La Mesita Homeless Shelter!  There's alot happneing during the month, so start spreading Christmas Cheer and invite your friends and families to experience the healing power of Chiropractic!  During July, New Patients will receive a New Patient Consultation, Exam and first adjustment for only $40 with donation of needed food/clothing item (a $75 savings).  The donation and the $40 fee is then donated to La Mesita!  Help your friends, help La Mesita, and make this the best Christmas in July ever!  New Patient appointments are limited so call early to ensure a spot. We also will be accepting patient donations of new items for the shelter. A list of needed items is available from the office. Together we can make a real difference! Thanks for your continuing support and generosity!  Merry Christmas... in JULY!

Office Closure

The office will be closed in the afternoon on Friday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.  We will be open from 8:15am to 11:30am only.  Have a terrific and safe 4th of July! 

Here are some recent success stories from our office:

Pregnant patient at 34 weeks says feeling better since getting back under chiropractic care and able to exercise again!

Breast-feeding infant no longer clinching or snorting while feeding since receiving care.

Female patient notes marked improvement in pain after pubic bone adjustment.

Patient with frequent migraines is headache free after just 2 visits.

Female patient notes after just 1 visit her shoulder pain has reduced and her hip pain is gone.

Patient with symptoms of soreness, aches and fatigue now reports doing great and going back to work.

Patient experiencing back pain at night, no longer suffers pain since chiropractic care.

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.    

 
Your body is the world's greatest drugstore. It makes every chemical you need to live a long and healthy life.
 

Over-the-counter and prescription drugs often have side effects that can be deadly. They are never what your body really needs.

 
In addition, drugs usually suppress acute symptoms (fever, inflammation, rash, cough, aches and others), which prevents your body from performing its cleansing and healing functions. Suppression of acute symptoms has been shown to cause chronic health problems.

 
Chiropractic's purpose is to help your body function as it is meant to function - permitting it to be balanced so it may work at its peak and manufacture its own drugs. If your spine is unhealthy, your ability to function optimally is impaired. How can that occur?  Read below.

 

Without a healthy spine you cannot live a healthy life. Why? Because your spine does so much.

 
First, what is your spine (spinal column or backbone)?
 
It is a column (or stack) of spinal bones or vertebrae that start under your skull and end at your tail. It is made up of seven neck (cervical) vertebrae, 12 mid back (thoracic) vertebrae and 5 lower back (lumbar) vertebrae. At the bottom is your sacrum - a large triangular shaped bone made up of 5 fused bones and under that is your tailbone or coccyx, made up of 4 fused small bones.

 
All the bones in your body attach (directly or indirectly) to these vertebrae.

For example, your head sits on top of your spine, and your shoulders, ribs, sternum and hips connect to it.  Your arms, wrists, hands and legs, ankles and feet connect to your spine through your shoulders and hips.

 
Muscles move you because they are attached to your bones. Therefore your spinal column is involved in nearly all of your movements.

 
But if the spine contains subluxations (tiny spinal distortions) it is unbalanced. 

If your spine is unbalanced your muscles will not work smoothly, your energies will be drained and you will age faster than you should.
 
But subluxations can also interfere with the flow of energy and information to the nerves that connect to your internal organs. Your ability to fight infections (immune system), digest and assimilate food (digestive system), eliminate wastes (excretory system), produce hormones in the proper balance (endocrine system) - in short, your ability to live a fully healthy life can be undermined.
 
Chiropractors are trained to locate and correct subluxations. Do you have any in your body?
 
Get a chiropractic checkup and find out.

   
Now that the draft has been abolished, mandatory vaccination remains the only time an American is asked to risk his life for his country. - Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.
 

 
Chiropractic and depression. A 46-year-old man suffering from his third bout of major depression presented at a chiropractic office. He complained of neck and low back pain, anxiety, fatigue and little appetite. Many other symptoms he exhibited were adverse effects of depression medication such as dizziness, overall muscle weakness and insomnia.
 
The patient received specific chiropractic adjustments for the correction of his vertebral subluxations. His life began to improve as measured by self-assessed quality of life and wellness indicators such as the Global Wellness scale, Daily Living Health Questionnaire (SF36), and a retrospective Health, Wellness and Overall Quality of Life Self Assessment questionnaire. (1)
 

Note: For many decades the chiropractic profession owned and ran nearly 200 sanitaria and nursing homes that often helped those with neurological and psychological conditions. There are numerous case histories of individuals suffering from major psychological disorders resolving under chiropractic care. Today doctors of chiropractic are helping children and adults suffering with ADD/ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, depression and many other conditions.

 

Mercury fillings are not safe. Studies at the University of Calgary have found that mercury vapor from dental fillings enters the body and may cause brain cell degeneration and immune suppression, among other problems. (2)

 
Have your dentist use mercury-free fillings and try to have existing amalgams replaced with composite fillings by a "biological dentist."

Researchers have linked Alzheimer's to the buildup of heavy metals in the brain, primarily mercury and aluminum. Major sources of brain mercury are flu shots and "silver" amalgams used in dentistry. (3) There have been some clinical findings showing that chelation, a process whereby heavy metals are removed from the body, has been able to reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's (and autism) in certain individuals.

Researchers investigating a large outbreak of mumps in 2006, when 6,584 cases were reported among college students, discovered that virtually every sufferer had been vaccinated twice against the disease. CDC researchers are explaining that the failure of the MMR vaccine and the resultant outbreak (primarily among 18- to 24-year-olds) was because the college students got the "wrong type of mumps." (4)

This is one of many reports of vaccine failure.  Of course, in addition to ineffectiveness, the MMR shot has been linked to autism, brain injury, encephalitis, allergies, asthma, eczema and many other conditions.

An extensive 7-year study determined that people who visit chiropractors for a neck adjustment are no more likely to suffer a stroke than those visiting an MD. The research was conducted by the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders with results published in the journal Spine. "This type of stroke is extremely rare and has been known to occur spontaneously or after ordinary neck movements such as looking up at the sky or over the shoulder when backing a car," said lead author David Cassidy, MD, professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto. (5)

Are we getting overcrowded? "Total fertility (the number of children a woman has over the course of her lifetime) has been dropping nearly everywhere on the planet since 1970. In fact, it has dropped from around 6 children per woman in the 1960s to around 2.8 today - and shows no signs of stopping. Total fertility rates for 79 countries, including the United States, are below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. If present trends continue, it looks like the world population will likely peak at around 8 billion in 2040 and will then begin to decline. (6)

 

"The blue-ribbon commission has come up with a list of ways to improve the next presidential election.  I've got an idea.  How about better candidates?" Jay Leno, the Tonight Show

Energizer Bunny arrested - charged with battery.
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
A pessimist's blood type is always b-negative.
My wife really likes to make pottery, but to me it's just kiln time.
Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
I fired my masseuse today. She just rubbed me the wrong way.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Shotgun wedding A case of wife or death.
I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.
I used to be a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe. 
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Corduroy pillows are making headlines.
Sea captains don't like crew cuts.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.
Without geometry, life is pointless.
When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination.
Reading whilst sunbathing makes you well-red.
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I. 
 

 See you next month. Remember, a chiropractic adjustment today can make a big difference for you and your family. Come visit us and bring your family. Remember: friends don't let friends stay subluxated.

Have a great and healthy day!

Dr. Ross and Staff

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1. Desaulniers AMJ. Effect of subluxation-based chiropractic care on quality of life in a patient with major depression. JVSR. April 23, 2008;1-7.
2.  www.toxicteeth.org and www.momsagainstmercury.org  
3. Transcribed notes of Dr. Fudenberg's speech at the NVIC International Vaccine Conference, Arlington, VA September, 1997. Quoted with permission.
4. Dayan GH, Quinlisk MP, Parker AA. Recent resurgence of mumps in the United States.  New England Journal of Medicine. April 2008;358:1580-1589.
5. Holm LW, Carroll LJ, Cassidy JD. The burden and determinants of neck pain in whiplash-associated disorders after traffic collisions: results of the bone and joint decade 2000-2010 task force on neck pain and its associated disorders. Spine. 33(4S) Supplement:S52-S59, February 15, 2008. Press release at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2008/15/c2658.html
6. Baily R. The planet's future has never looked better. Reason Magazine. May 2000.
7. Am J Clin Nutr. 1991;54:438-463.
8. Lab Invest. 1968;18:498.
9. NEJM. 2/8/96.