Real Doctors?
These days so many Chiropractors are trying to be “real doctors”. It is a bit frightening to me when they try to get into medicine without a license. To me Chiropractic is so much more than medicine, that why try to change it, it is like reinventing the wheel. So that being said, then what is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is the study of dis-ease not disease. The word disease just means lack of ease or proper function. The body can express is lack of ease with symptoms or lack of symptoms, every body is different. Symptoms that your body can express when it is not in a state of ease can be things like low back pain, neck pain, headaches, and even things like diabetes and high blood pressure. Sometimes symptoms can be a lack of sensation such as numbness or tingling or even a pins and needles sensation. In either case a body is expressing a lack of proper functioning and good health.
Your nervous system is the center of your well being. As we can tell, the brain is a very important part of your body, being the only part that is completely housed in a bony structure. Your spinal cord is also surrounded by bones called vertebra. These bones protect your body’s central nervous system. When one of the bones of your spinal column (vertebra) moves out of its normal alignment, this is called misalignment, also known in the Chiropractic world as a subluxation. This very basically just means a misalignment of one or more of the bones in your spinal column. It may or may not hurt or cause symptoms immediately; however, over time they can cause interference with the communication between your body and brain and cause problems later down the road.
Most people think, so what, a bone moves a tiny bit out of place in my spinal column, if it doesn’t cause me pain, who cares? Well, although this concept may seem trivial, think about the consequences of it. Your brain is the mechanism that regulates your whole body. It increases and decreases your body temperature based on the body’s needs. It sends healing messages throughout your whole body that tell it where and when to release hormones and endorphins and where to focus extra heat and energy. It even tells your body when to protect itself, like in the instance of a broken bone, where swelling builds up to protect the injured area and tells it to heal.
If these messages to and from the brain are getting mixed up or not getting through at all, then the ability of your body to take care of itself is limited. Usually, when your body’s healing ability is limited, this is the time at which you wind up going to see the medical doctor for treatment of a disease or symptoms. Unfortunately, for the most part, the medical profession is unable to do little more than symptom relief for you, either by medicating you or removing the part that is giving you trouble. These things just mask the body’s real problems however. Mind you I am in no way saying not to see a medical doctor, I am just saying that if you need to see one, you may have one of these subluxations that could be causing you more damage internally, even though your symptoms are being covered up.
Try to use this example:
Your neighbor comes running from their house screaming FIRE! At three o’clock in the morning. You want him to stop so you can get back to sleep Right? So you run over tie him up and put tape over his mouth and go back to sleep? No that is absurd! Well of course it is, and yet when our bodies start screaming that there is a disharmony in them, we quick run out and get something to cut off that message. We can’t be dealing with that issue right now. Well in America we have been taught that pain is bad and we need to make it go away as quickly as we can. Pain is the way for your body to communicate with you, and you are not listening. You need to listen to your body’s messages and address them if at all possible.
