Benjamin Franklin said it well; “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

I want to help you understand how your body works so think about this analogy. 

Your spine is like a construction crane when you stand upright. The weight you carry in the front of your body is what your spine (crane) has to lift and balance. Muscles in your back are like the winch and cable, pulling to keep you vertical. The more weight you have, the more your back muscles have to work. That can lead to back problems, pain and muscle weaknesses.

Having insufficient core strength is contributing to spine and back problems. Your core is the term for the muscles of your back and abdomen (stomach area).  Having a stronger core is ensuring the crane can handle heavier loads. The muscles of your abdomen are important because they help anchor your back muscles.  

Here’s another concept to help show how these stresses affect nerve function. Let’s try an experiment. Place a dime on your arm or your finger. Can you feel it?  The answer should be yes.  Leave it there for a few minutes.  Can you still feel the dime?  Almost always, the answer is no. How is that possible? 

Dr. Suh’s study at the University of Colorado demonstrates that only ten millimeters of mercury of pressure on a nerve can decrease the flow of nerve power up to 60 percent. Stresses build up in your body, causing this pressure on your muscles, ligaments, joints, spine and nerves.  That pressure can create interference to the nerve force without the person feeling it.  That’s what we’re up against.  

You can’t accurately feel the presence of nerve interference or subluxation, because you feel less than 10% of what’s happening in your autonomic nervous system (which runs everything in your body your not consciously aware of).  60+% damage is present in the musculoskeletal and nerve structures when you start to feel symptoms.  This is an example of how the presence or absence of pain isn’t a good indication of how your spine and nervous system is functioning.  There can be prolonged subluxations in your spine, affecting your nerves and major body functions, without you even feeling it; until you do and much serious long term damage has already occurred.

What’s the solution?  Go to the chiropractor, get checked and receive regular chiropractic adjustments to maintain you spine and preserve your health for life. 

Your Friend and Servant, 

Dr. G

“Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health” – Galen

Chiropractic care is all about enhanced communication within your body. Communication is essential in all aspects of life.  If it breaks down within a business, it can cause a bankruptcy; in a marriage, it often leads to divorce; in the body it will cause disfunction.  If there is interference in the nerve forces of the body and communication is affected, this leads to dis-ease. The reason I advocate for lifetime chiropractic care is it improves your body’s ability to properly communicate, allowing optimal life expression.

The brain needs to receive the correct information, otherwise the messages will be altered and incorrect.  Think about this next time you listen to the radio.  Your nervous system communication can be compared to frequencies on the radio. The sounds we perceive from the radio are waves transmitted through the air.  When altering the frequency on the radio, we alter the waves and thereby the message transferred is different.  If there’s static or interference on the station, the message and sound will not come through clearly.  We need a clear signal on the channel to enjoy the music.  

Similarly, the brain transmits mental impulses through the nerves as signals for every body function continuously, your entire life.  Proper structure of the spine allows for the channels to send and receive the correct messages for full function.  It’s essential to have clear connection and communication for every process to work efficiently. I believe chiropractic is essential for everyone because it removes interference to allow your innate intelligence to clearly direct all life processes within you.

Within you is a life power and intelligence that runs everything in your body.  If it’s blocked, you cannot express your fullest potential in all areas of life.  A clear connection to your innate intelligence allows you to live healthy. 

Any nerve pressure in your spine will block life power from your brain and produce a variety of negative effects and health problems over time.  People often don’t correlate how their spine is related to every part of their body function through the nervous system.  A back or neck problem may be reason to seek medical help, but the real problem is the body’s inability to effectively communicate and send/ receive life power. 

Here are a few common health problems people experience today.  A person with high/ low blood pressure may seem to have a circulatory problem. A high/ low thyroid problem is attributed to a faulty glandular function.  ADHD has become an unexplainable imbalance of brain chemicals.  All of these conditions are routinely treated with long-term drugs, which all have side effects, without looking into the underlying causes.  

What if people regularly got their spine and nervous system checked by a chiropractor to look for the cause of dis-ease and restore it naturally?  When the spinal problem (subluxation) is corrected, these other problems/ diseases improve and health is regularly restored.

Does that make chiropractic a treatment for any of these conditions?  No.  

The intent of chiropractic care is to maintain function to your nervous system. When there is a bone misaligned, there is pressure on the soft nerves and distortion in nerve signals.  When the interference on the nerves is removed, function is restored.

Everyone needs a clear functioning nervous system for health and longevity.

Getting your spine checked on regularly helps keep your body working optimally, through a clearer connection to your body’s innate intelligence.

Who do you know that needs to their spine checked and receive chiropractic care? 

Bring them in.  It will transform and save their life.