How can chiropractic care affect your rehabilitation and change your life

The biggest way chiropractic can help you is not focusing on symptoms, but on the body’s ability to regain health. When you chase symptoms, you never regain your body’s optimal health potential. It will be a matter of time until your next symptom. Your key focus will be on relieving those symptoms immediately. Being under chiropractic care allows you to change your perception of going to your doctor only when there is a problem. You will go to your chiropractor because you do not want to have any problems in the future. Where would we be if our health care system is where the doctors were only paid based on how healthy they keep their patients? Sound a bit bizarre? That’s exactly what they do in Japan. The doctor’s only get paid based on how healthy their patients are. It does not impress me whatsoever, when the medical physician says that it’s a good thing that you came in because we just found some major problems in you.....we need to go into immediate surgery for a bypass, or something highly dangerous and invasive. Medical health problems just don’t appear out of the clear blue. It takes several years for medical issues to develop and get to that medical urgency. The medical community has the technology that that emphasizes early detection, but very little, if any, on prevention. You cannot just blame the doctors. Everyone has the responsibility for their own health and to take healthy lifestyle modifications to prevent disease. It is also the responsibility of each parent to be role models of health so their children have a good chance of having a long good quality life and health through preventative care. HOW CHIROPRACTIC CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE? Here is a summary of the key factors needed to sustain health. The first aspect of the system involves beliefs. You must first create the mental construct that will allow you to filter a reality with which you want to be congruent. In other words, you must believe in things that you want to have happen. You can attract good or abundance in your life with healthy thoughts. Next, is to understand the importance of movement and exercise. You must exercise. It is not an option, and you can’t justify not exercising because you already work hard at work, you already chase the kids around the house, and you already work in the garden. All of these activities are a good start to movement, but do not constitute a real workout. You must have a cardiovascular workout for health one that challenges and works your heart. Remember your heart is a muscle and it needs to pump a lot of blood through your entire body every day for a very long time. You must challenge it so it can be as strong as possible. The third aspect of this equation is the importance of breathing correctly. You must provide oxygen to the tissues of the body. If you don’t, you will have problems because they will suffocate. Oxygen supplies and nourishes not only the lungs, but every cell within the body. The lungs are just the clearinghouse. The fourth important factor is drinking water. This is necessary in order to flush out toxins from the body. After all your body is 75% water; not 75% coffee, or tea, or soda. These drinks just give you an illusion of energy. There is no sustaining power behind any of them, even though the caffeine addict may object to this statement. The next fundamental truth relates to greens. Most people do not understand the magnitude of the importance of greens. Eating enough green, leafy vegetables each week is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself. Think about this, to understand why plants are so necessary to good health. When plants are outside, they convert light into energy, in the process known as photosynthesis. Through this amazing process, we are able to literally consume energy through the plants. Most importantly, you must consume some raw vegetables, or you are totally defeating the purpose. Raw plants contain the necessary enzymes that are often destroyed by over cooking. Enzymes are vital to good health. The next nutrient that you need to have is antioxidants. Antioxidants allow you to minimize the ravaging effects of free radicals that are within us and increase in number as we age. Free radicals are produced in times of stress, during injury, or during chemical processes that are taking place due to the consumption of processed foods. Free radicals left to roam can cause damage right at the cellular level. Damaged cells lead to a lowered immune system and increase the likelihood of infection and disease. The next dietary items you need to have are fats and oils. Fats are needed to assure that your body has sufficient levels of oil to make the cell membrane of the cell. This outer layer of the cell is made of a double layer called a biphospholipid layer. The problem with fats and oils in the diet is that many of us consume too much or the wrong type of fats. According to researchers, the average person is deficient in correct oil consumption by up to 90%! That is staggering considering the connection between low levels of essential oils in our diets and cardiovascular disease and the resulting list of degenerative disorders. So, believe it or not, oils are by far the best preventative measure that you can take. The last pro-active step you that you need to take is to maintain a healthy nervous system. Think about this for a moment. If you were consuming everything that we recommended, and yet your nervous system was not functioning properly, how would the brain tell the cells what to do with the nutrients it just received? How would the brain contact the cell to let it know when to remove waste? Consider this research from a professor by the name of Professor Tzu. He claims that pressure put on a nerve with the weight of only a dime can interfere with normal transmission of impulse by up to 60%! It is staggering how little pressure it takes to reduce your body’s own ability to send corrective, healing messages by so much. MAKING CHIROPRACTIC PART OF YOUR WELLNESS PROGRAM Ideally, chiropractic should be a part of everyone’s health care efforts. It is by far the least invasive form of healthcare and is based on the principles that the body has innate intelligence and can take good care of its self if nothing else gets in the way. The problem with the average healthy person’s care is that there is not enough empha- sis placed on preventative care. Many Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) pay for annual physicals and all of the wellbaby care, often with no deductible or co-pay. 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