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December 1,
2002 |
Healthy Living
Newsletter |
Volume 1
Number 5 |
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What Exactly Do Chiropractors Do?
 We
chiropractors are specially trained to locate and
correct a severe form of stress called a vertebral
subluxation. Subluxations can damage your health
weeks, month or years before you notice symptoms.
What does a subluxation do to your body?
A vertebral subluxation causes:
1. Joint problems - Your spinal
vertebrae are jammed, or “noisy”. You can’t
turn, bend or twist your neck, hips or back equally in
every direction.
2. Nerve damage - The impulses
traveling through the nerves are altered and important
chemicals that flow over your nerves may be blocked.
Pain may or may not be felt.
3. Muscle damage - Your muscles may be
tight, weak, overly sensitive and/or sore.
4. Tissue damage - You may have
swelling, tenderness, “trigger points,” and painful
spots.
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Disease - Your muscles, joints, ligaments and organs
show signs of wear and tear and premature aging.
There is fatigue, lowered resistance to disease, and
symptoms of disease or organ malfunction.
A healthy spine is as important for
your overall healing as proper nutrition. No matter
what disease or condition you have, you can benefit
from a healthy spine. Are you and your family
carrying the vertebral subluxation complex in your
spines? Only a chiropractic spinal checkup can
tell.
Why Should I Return If I’m Feeling Fine?
Delays have dangerous ends.
– William Shakespeare
You entered our office feeling terrible
and now you are experiencing the wonders of what
happens when your spine and nervous system are
subluxation free.
You'd be happy to return if your health
deteriorates to the point where you feel terrible
again but we suggest you return even if you feel fine.
"Why should I return if I’m feeling
fine?" you may ask.
Of course you can wait until you’re
miserable again, but should you? You may be
making a big mistake if you wait until you have
symptoms to do something about your health. Lack of
pain is a poor way of determining how healthy you are.
We've all seen people looking like
death warmed over who "feel fine." They are walking
targets, waiting for disease to strike before they
decide to do anything about their health. They "feel
fine" but have no energy; they "feel fine" but sleep
poorly; they "feel fine" but are tired, have aches and
pains, headaches or backaches.
Too many people who "feel fine" one day
have a sudden heart attack, stroke, debilitating pain
or are diagnosed with a serious disease such as cancer
the next day. Surely "feeling fine" is no indicator of
your health status.
Laughter Is Good For You
Not into exercise? Well then at
least have a good laugh. Half of a group of 48 heart
attack survivors watched a comedy of their choice for
30 minutes a day for one year. The other half did not
watch anything funny.
Only two of the comedy watchers had
repeat heart attacks within 12 months, compared with
10 who did not watch comedy.
Possible reason: Laughter lowers levels
of stress hormones, epinephrine and norepinephrine and
may help restore the brain chemicals that help with
stress.
(Stanley Tan, MD, Ph.D, director of
clinical research, Center for Neuroimmunology, Loma
Linda University, School of Medicine, California. In
Bottom Line Personal Nov. 15, 2000).
People crave laughter as if it were an
essential amino acid… A water-squirting rose
always looks good on your business suit. – Patch
Adams, MD
A happy heart is good medicine and a
cheerful mind works healthy, but a broken spirit dries
up the bones. – Proverbs 17:22
Childhood Diseases Are Good For You?
"Contracting and
overcoming [childhood] diseases are part of a
developmental process that actually helps develop a
healthy, robust, adult immune system able to meet the
challenges that inevitable encounters with viruses and
bacteria will present later on." (Coulter H.
Vaccination, social violence and criminality.
Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books; 1990.)
 Many
parents notice that after a fever children experience
a physical and/or emotional growth spurt. Fevers
and various symptoms have long been considered a part
of normal development and how the body cleanses,
purifies and heals itself in young and old alike.
Make sure you and your
children are “healthy” sick so they can quickly
recover and benefit from their symptoms in a
constructive manner by keeping their spines healthy
through chiropractic care. There is no need to
fear fevers as they are almost always benign.
According to Robert
Mendelsohn, M.D., “Unless there are additional
symptoms [accompanying a fever] such as extreme
listlessness, abnormal behavior, respiratory
difficulty, and others that could indicate the
presence of serious diseases such as diphtheria and
meningitis, your doctor should tell you there is
nothing to worry about and send you and your child
home.”
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Humor
One thing they never tell you about
child raising is that for the rest of your life,
at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know
your child’s name and how old he or she is.
Erma Bombeck
Children are the most desirable
opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to
beat and fun to cheat.
Fran Lebowitz
We are given children to test us
and to make us more spiritual.
George Will
A loud noise at one end and no
sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Knox
Insanity is hereditary; you get it
from your children.
Sam Levinson
What is more enchanting than the
voices of young people when you can’t hear what
they say?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Words of Wisdom
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The greatest threat of childhood
diseases lies in the dangerous and
ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through
mass immunization.
Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
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Everything should be made as
simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert
Einstein
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Never go to a doctor whose office
plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
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All happiness depends on a
leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
Baby walkers delay development?
A recent paper in the British
Medical Journal says that baby walkers delay
normal develop-mental milestones.
Children who used the devices took
three to four weeks longer to crawl and walk on
their own.
The study involved 190 babies.
Because of this and injuries associated with the
walkers, researchers discourage their use. (BMJ,
June 22, 2002.)
By the time the youngest children have learned to
keep the house tidy, the oldest grandchildren are
on hand to tear it to pieces.
–
Christopher Morley
Want copies of this newsletter for your friends?
Stop by the office and we'll give you some hard
copies or write to us and we'll add them to our
mailing list. Please remember that everyone needs
to be free from Subluxations so bring your friends
and loved ones for a spinal checkup.
Call
503-644-8844
to schedule
today!
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