Post by derekbruno on Sept 11, 2012 23:01:13 GMT -5
An Introduction to Chiropractic Thinking
By: Derek Bruno
Why chiropractic? Though public awareness and acceptance of chiropractic has been expanding, there is still a vast misunderstanding in regards to be the benefits in practical settings. Everyone has heard "one miracle story" but few people can visualize the direct effects of chiropractic, how our unique skill addresses the root of symptoms rather than a symptom itself, or draw a correlation between an equivalent case in the medical field related to wellness, time frame, financial, and emotional costs of chiropractic care.
By viewing a disease, a problem, or discomfort as a symptom, chiropractic is able to assess the cause of a problem. Common examples include nerve compression resulting in carpal tunnel syndrome, knee pain from adhered fascia to the IT band, and headaches from an upper cervical compression. Deeper seeded effects of chiropractic care include improved insulin production or sensitivity, thyroid secretion stabilization, heavy metal detoxification, increased mobility, decreased allergies, improved cognitive function, and overall synchronization of the body systems from dis-ease to ease.
Regardless of specific technique, chiropractic offers unequivocal, unparalleled results. While the majority of American citizens view medicine and surgery as the primary approach to health care, chiropractors and a number of our patients realize that the body is a living organism, capable of producing and repairing all the essential components if itself, given the right internal and external environments. While diet, exercise, habits, and emotional aspects of every moment effect a persons life over time, few people comprehend the direct relationship between each of these things and chiropractic care.
Better absorption and assimilation of nutrients from food, smoother movements coupled with quicker reaction time, balancing and regulation of hormonal secretions, and neurological repair are all resultant from an appropriately balanced lifestyle coupled with chiropractic.
There is a fundamental difference between chiropractic care and medical care; the situations in life that individually demand each. Never should it be said that medical care is ANY less important than chiropractic, but it receives more attention and credit than chiropractic care. This is due largely to the fact that medicine has a tangible effect with permanently visible results such as scars, side effects, or radiation. Chiropractic care, instead, leaves a less direct external imprint that is harder to measure. Chiropractic therefore becomes less likely to be pinpointed as a direct cause of improvement.
So, medicine as we know it, is an allopathic approach to health. Any ailment that is seen in the body (headache, stomach ache, "acid reflux", strep, the common cold, chrones disease, MS, and cancers) is viewed as a disease in the medical community. An allopathic approach sets its main goal as removing the obvious symptom. Radiation, surgery, and medicine are currently the main tools to rid the body of a symptom or disease. The allopathic approach is based on EMERGENCY CARE and is best suited for treatment after a problem already exists. Without an emergency, one should not need to see a medical doctor, essentially.
When considering emergencies like bullet wounds, communicable diseases, accidents, and the like, nothing beats emergency care. Stoppering open wounds, stitching them, and rescuing patients experiencing heart attacks or strokes aren't things chiropractic care could ever do. Without a doubt this is where the medical field's expertise truly has the most value.
Chiropractic care instead takes a homeopathic approach to wellness. Through this scope, health and wellness are viewed as two different things. Health is a body's current state of being. You can be well but not healthy, and you can be healthy but not well. Wellness, on the other hand, is a body's ability to interpret, assimilate, adapt, and respond, and express to the best of its ability, 100% of the time.
In chiropractic care we do not approach all of the disease mentioned above as disease. We consider them ALL to be "DIS-ease". In other words, disease is just more serious symptoms resulting from more centrally rooted source. Even cancer can be described as a breakdown of normal function or communication in the human (or any living thing's) body. True? Chiropractic does not claim to cure genetic disorders, it does not claim to fix a common cold, and it doesn't claim to improve anything other than communication within a person's body. Any recovery beyond this is up to the individual's body. The body has known what to do since before birth, and will continue to function at to the best of its ability until death; chiropractic is the only method people can use to both check and restore the function to their bodies.
So, what is responsible for all communication and function in the body? How does a person know what goes on around in the surrounding environment? How to feel? How to react? Physically? Emotionally? Internally? Externally? To most anyone unfamiliar with chiropractic care and the holistic approach, the answer is less than apparent: the nervous system. Everything the body takes in or puts out is regulated centrally via the nervous system. Externally we interpret sensory input as light, images, sounds, touch, taste. All of these break down eventually into electrical and chemical signals, which must be interpreted and appropriately responded to by the nervous system. Anything, at any time, that interrupts the flow of information (via this electro chemical signal) through out the body results in decreased function.
As a result of the American medical association (which you can read about in a court case called Wilks vs AMA) chiropractic care has been shunned and denied purposely from the majority of people. This has resulted in a general population who no longer believes, supports, or simply understands what chiropractic is offering/saying because they've never even heard a suggestion of it, nor often any truth.
The common interpretation of chiropractic is that it is a technique for dealing with back pain or headaches. People think chiropractic work with bones. In reality we work through the bones. If everything in the body is controlled by the nervous system, then everything is a result of the nervous system; all diseases are symptoms from this perspective. Chiropractic care has true value in that it explores a person's nervous system for interference and removes the interference. In a medical (allopathic) approach, the idea is to destructively remove a DISEASE while in a chiropractic (holistic) approach the idea is to constructively alert the body to a site of DIS-EASE. Neurological input and stimulation is provided in order for the body to restore its ability to appropriately interpret and deal with any dis-ease.
The reason chiropractic care can function in this way, is that it puts information or a force into a person's nervous system, which the nervous system interprets what to do with. Chiropractic care has been shown to remove 'symptoms' or 'diseases' ranging from cancer to diabetes, from chronic headaches to sciatica, and from hyperthyroidism to essentially anything you can imagine. Another fact often overlooked is that chiropractic is just as essential for a person who shows no symptoms as a person who does. Neurological balance is not determined by symptoms in the classic sense, though chronic disease can allude to neurological dysfunction.
Some people are unwilling to budge their concrete opinions on how modern medicine is responsible for health, healing, and wellness. This opinion begs the questions; "What about after drugs and surgery?"; "How does a person recover?"; "Do they think "stitches... Heal my hand" or so they wait for their body to do the work?".
In response chiropractic asks, "Doesn't the body control every process via the nervous system?" So couldn't one say that equally important to receiving all other aspects of appropriate wellness care, chiropractic care can play a vast role in recovery?
The goal of chiropractic wellness care is to keep your nervous system fully functioning, resulting in less frequent - or no - emergency care . Once wounded or diseased, emergency care, drugs, and surgery may be the only options, but isn't it ideal to focus preventatively rather than reactively? More often, people's bodies would be capable of dealing appropriately with any sensory input/output and steer away from drugs and surgery.
By: Derek Bruno
Why chiropractic? Though public awareness and acceptance of chiropractic has been expanding, there is still a vast misunderstanding in regards to be the benefits in practical settings. Everyone has heard "one miracle story" but few people can visualize the direct effects of chiropractic, how our unique skill addresses the root of symptoms rather than a symptom itself, or draw a correlation between an equivalent case in the medical field related to wellness, time frame, financial, and emotional costs of chiropractic care.
By viewing a disease, a problem, or discomfort as a symptom, chiropractic is able to assess the cause of a problem. Common examples include nerve compression resulting in carpal tunnel syndrome, knee pain from adhered fascia to the IT band, and headaches from an upper cervical compression. Deeper seeded effects of chiropractic care include improved insulin production or sensitivity, thyroid secretion stabilization, heavy metal detoxification, increased mobility, decreased allergies, improved cognitive function, and overall synchronization of the body systems from dis-ease to ease.
Regardless of specific technique, chiropractic offers unequivocal, unparalleled results. While the majority of American citizens view medicine and surgery as the primary approach to health care, chiropractors and a number of our patients realize that the body is a living organism, capable of producing and repairing all the essential components if itself, given the right internal and external environments. While diet, exercise, habits, and emotional aspects of every moment effect a persons life over time, few people comprehend the direct relationship between each of these things and chiropractic care.
Better absorption and assimilation of nutrients from food, smoother movements coupled with quicker reaction time, balancing and regulation of hormonal secretions, and neurological repair are all resultant from an appropriately balanced lifestyle coupled with chiropractic.
There is a fundamental difference between chiropractic care and medical care; the situations in life that individually demand each. Never should it be said that medical care is ANY less important than chiropractic, but it receives more attention and credit than chiropractic care. This is due largely to the fact that medicine has a tangible effect with permanently visible results such as scars, side effects, or radiation. Chiropractic care, instead, leaves a less direct external imprint that is harder to measure. Chiropractic therefore becomes less likely to be pinpointed as a direct cause of improvement.
So, medicine as we know it, is an allopathic approach to health. Any ailment that is seen in the body (headache, stomach ache, "acid reflux", strep, the common cold, chrones disease, MS, and cancers) is viewed as a disease in the medical community. An allopathic approach sets its main goal as removing the obvious symptom. Radiation, surgery, and medicine are currently the main tools to rid the body of a symptom or disease. The allopathic approach is based on EMERGENCY CARE and is best suited for treatment after a problem already exists. Without an emergency, one should not need to see a medical doctor, essentially.
When considering emergencies like bullet wounds, communicable diseases, accidents, and the like, nothing beats emergency care. Stoppering open wounds, stitching them, and rescuing patients experiencing heart attacks or strokes aren't things chiropractic care could ever do. Without a doubt this is where the medical field's expertise truly has the most value.
Chiropractic care instead takes a homeopathic approach to wellness. Through this scope, health and wellness are viewed as two different things. Health is a body's current state of being. You can be well but not healthy, and you can be healthy but not well. Wellness, on the other hand, is a body's ability to interpret, assimilate, adapt, and respond, and express to the best of its ability, 100% of the time.
In chiropractic care we do not approach all of the disease mentioned above as disease. We consider them ALL to be "DIS-ease". In other words, disease is just more serious symptoms resulting from more centrally rooted source. Even cancer can be described as a breakdown of normal function or communication in the human (or any living thing's) body. True? Chiropractic does not claim to cure genetic disorders, it does not claim to fix a common cold, and it doesn't claim to improve anything other than communication within a person's body. Any recovery beyond this is up to the individual's body. The body has known what to do since before birth, and will continue to function at to the best of its ability until death; chiropractic is the only method people can use to both check and restore the function to their bodies.
So, what is responsible for all communication and function in the body? How does a person know what goes on around in the surrounding environment? How to feel? How to react? Physically? Emotionally? Internally? Externally? To most anyone unfamiliar with chiropractic care and the holistic approach, the answer is less than apparent: the nervous system. Everything the body takes in or puts out is regulated centrally via the nervous system. Externally we interpret sensory input as light, images, sounds, touch, taste. All of these break down eventually into electrical and chemical signals, which must be interpreted and appropriately responded to by the nervous system. Anything, at any time, that interrupts the flow of information (via this electro chemical signal) through out the body results in decreased function.
As a result of the American medical association (which you can read about in a court case called Wilks vs AMA) chiropractic care has been shunned and denied purposely from the majority of people. This has resulted in a general population who no longer believes, supports, or simply understands what chiropractic is offering/saying because they've never even heard a suggestion of it, nor often any truth.
The common interpretation of chiropractic is that it is a technique for dealing with back pain or headaches. People think chiropractic work with bones. In reality we work through the bones. If everything in the body is controlled by the nervous system, then everything is a result of the nervous system; all diseases are symptoms from this perspective. Chiropractic care has true value in that it explores a person's nervous system for interference and removes the interference. In a medical (allopathic) approach, the idea is to destructively remove a DISEASE while in a chiropractic (holistic) approach the idea is to constructively alert the body to a site of DIS-EASE. Neurological input and stimulation is provided in order for the body to restore its ability to appropriately interpret and deal with any dis-ease.
The reason chiropractic care can function in this way, is that it puts information or a force into a person's nervous system, which the nervous system interprets what to do with. Chiropractic care has been shown to remove 'symptoms' or 'diseases' ranging from cancer to diabetes, from chronic headaches to sciatica, and from hyperthyroidism to essentially anything you can imagine. Another fact often overlooked is that chiropractic is just as essential for a person who shows no symptoms as a person who does. Neurological balance is not determined by symptoms in the classic sense, though chronic disease can allude to neurological dysfunction.
Some people are unwilling to budge their concrete opinions on how modern medicine is responsible for health, healing, and wellness. This opinion begs the questions; "What about after drugs and surgery?"; "How does a person recover?"; "Do they think "stitches... Heal my hand" or so they wait for their body to do the work?".
In response chiropractic asks, "Doesn't the body control every process via the nervous system?" So couldn't one say that equally important to receiving all other aspects of appropriate wellness care, chiropractic care can play a vast role in recovery?
The goal of chiropractic wellness care is to keep your nervous system fully functioning, resulting in less frequent - or no - emergency care . Once wounded or diseased, emergency care, drugs, and surgery may be the only options, but isn't it ideal to focus preventatively rather than reactively? More often, people's bodies would be capable of dealing appropriately with any sensory input/output and steer away from drugs and surgery.