What do you use to see with? If you said your eyes… you’re wrong . How about hearing? Ifyou said ears… wrong again! You don’t see or hear with your eyes or ears. Those are just end organs for collecting light and sound waves. To actually see and hear you have to interpret those waves with your nerves and brain (Nerve System) first.

In reality, you LIVE in your Nerve System. EVERYTHING you experience in life is processed through it… what you see, what you hear, what you feel.  That’s why Chiropractors care so much about keeping it healthy. If your Nervous System is stressed, there goes your ability to interpret your world, and there goes your ability to successfully navigate life.  Regular adjustments keep your Nervous System clear so you can respond to life’s challenges in a positive way. If you’re feeling a little foggy, or just disconnected from the world, maybe it’s time for some Nervous System house cleaning. Give Total Health Chiropractic a call today and one of our doctors get you reconnected to life.

Western healing philosophy studies show that Chiropractic Care is beneficial for many medical conditions and health concerns.
Based on numerous studies as listed below, Chiropractic Care is in my opinion an essential part of health and healing based on improvement of circulation, muscle function and stress reduction, just to name a few.
Nowadays in medicine, we are all well aware of how stress affects our body negatively. We see time and time again that patients who are stressed, anxious or depressed tend toward more negative health outcomes than those who are feeling balanced, calm and positive.
Studies indicate that Chiropractic Care likely helps with stress reduction as well as other aspects of physiology. But even taking those other physiological benefits aside, the reduction of stress alone has tremendous health benefits to patients, as related to more positive outcomes to overall health and daily functioning.
So, my recommendation to everyone reading this article is to stop thinking of Chiropractic Care as dangerous. It is well worth the investment on a regular basis if you can afford it.
I am a firm believer that the therapeutic alliance between a patient and a health care practitioner is stronger when there is a respectful level of healing touch involved in treatment and diagnosis. In order to achieve an accurate level of diagnosis, physicians were taught in medical school to obtain at least 90 percent of the diagnosis from the patient. In order to do that, they would need to lay their our hands on their patients to fully evaluate and diagnose them…
I highly recommend that you utilize the services and not wait until you have longstanding chronic pain, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome or hypertension, just to name a few adverse consequences of longstanding stress and discomfort.
I like to frequently remind everyone that our body is not cut off at the neck; such that what is in our mind does affect our body, and what is happening in our body does affect our mind. So, why not make use of a healing modality that seems to treat both our mind and body?
Ultimately, if you have to put in some leg work on your end to figure out an affordable way to achieve regular Chiropractic Care, Total Health Chiropractic is in neighborhood near you, with 7 locations and growing. In the long run, your mind and body will both be better off for it.

Shawn

Acute Conditions
Acute conditions may result from birth trauma, sports mishaps and accidental injury. Chiropractic care benefits children by correcting the spinal alignment to improve their overall health. When vertebral joints are misaligned during birth or from a blow or fall, muscle tissue and nerves may also be affected. Spinal adjustment frees joints, restores motion and relieves nerve pressure, which may be the cause of additional ailments. Parents report successful treatment of children’s health issues such as acute earache, upper respiratory infection, muscle pain, neck pain and accident trauma. Spinal manipulation for children as young as newborn babies is an alternative treatment for the discomfort of colic and other digestive disorders as well.

Parents surveyed by the ICPA reported behavioral improvement for kids who saw a chiropractor, as well as improved sleep and stronger immune systems. Although scientific evidence in these areas is still inconclusive, the growing number of those seeking children’s health care from chiropractors (up 8.5% since 1991, according to the American Chiropractic Association) is a positive endorsement of its benefits. Chiropractic America reports that natural, drug-free chiropractic care is sometimes more effective than traditional medical approaches for chronic earache, scoliosis and neck pain. Headaches and sleep disorders of nonspecific causes respond well to spinal adjustments, which affect and repair interrupted neural pathways. Asthma and allergy symptoms and patterns of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may also be treatable with chiropractic.

Prevention
Success in these areas has implications for chiropractic care’s preventive capacity. Periodic ongoing adjustments at a young age may help stave off the above ailments before they begin. Proper spinal alignment now may delay or prevent degenerative bone or joint disease, such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. In addition to maintaining children’s health, regular visits to the chiropractor also instill the value of proactive health care in kids. They’ll be more likely to monitor and manage their health as they grow up and less likely to be afraid or in denial of any health problems. Encouraging good lifelong health habits is one of chiropractic’s best benefits for kids.

Your neck is packed with all kinds of things: bones nerves, blood vessels, glands, voice box, esophagus, trachea, discs, connective tissue, muscles, ligaments, tendons and other structures. Your amazing, incredible neck balances your heavy head as it turns, tilts and twists without damaging it’s vital occupants.  You have 7 neck bones and they are numbered C-1 to C-7 from top to bottom. Your top cervical vertebrae C-1 has a special name- the atlas-it balances a globe, your skull. The next one is C-2 it also has a special name- the axis- because it permits your neck to move in many directions. All of your vertebrae work together to balance your head and protect your spinal cord, an extension of your brain that lies in your neck. This protection is extremely important because a spinal cord injury can result in paralysis or death.  So if you have headaches, neck pains you write off as sleeping wrong, stress, etc. It’s so easy to just take a pill to mask the pain for it only to show up 4 hrs later, rather than taking a few minutes and seeing one of the awesome doctors of Total Health Chiropractic and fix the problem. 
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