No more numbness and weakness!

When most people think about chiropractic, they think of one thing, pain. Luckily, pain is what gets people through the door but its how they leave that is important. Chiropractors believe in the philosophy of above down and inside out. This is the principal that our body has an innate ability to do what it needs to do to function properly. The nervous system is our main system of communication with the brain being the command center. Its messengers are the nerves that control every function in our body. We have 12 cranial nerves and 31 pairs of spinal nerves. These nerves are the origin of all of the other nerves.

So when your leg falls asleep, this is a nerve that has been compressed somehow either by crossing your legs or your arms. This is the simplest way to view pressure on a nerve. Our arms or legs puts pressure on the superficial nerve of the thigh and after 20 minutes or so its start to become numb. One thing to note is that only 10% of nerves are pain nerves and the rest are function nerves. So when there is pressure on those function nerves, some bodily function is decreased.

The superficial nerve comes from the nerves of our low back and  is much smaller than those found near the vertebra. It only takes 8-10 mm of pressure to affect these nerves. That is a weight of a dime. What happens is that once we feel the symptoms of this, the nerve has had a 60% decrease in function.

Now back to the case, A female patient came in with unilateral numbness and weakness on the left side. She had suffered from headaches throughout her life and this was her first chiropractic experience. X-ray's and palpation revealed subluxations, when a bone twists out of its normal position, throughout her spine. After one adjustment she stated that her numbness had decreased 60% and that her headaches had gone away.

I want to explain the adjustment that took care of these symptoms.... The atlas. So called the atlas because it holds our head in place. Attached to the brain is the spinal cord. The spinal cord goes through a big hole called the foramen magnum and the first bone below the foramen magnum is the atlas. If the atlas is subluxated or misaligned, it affects the brain, the brain stem and the spinal cord which in turn affects the entire body.

After 3 adjustments, the weakness, numbness and the headaches were gone. All it took was to take the pressure off the spinal cord and the body was able to do the rest.

Chiropractors do nothing but locate and eliminate subluxations, the body does the rest.

As quoted by Hippocrates, "Look well to the spine for the cause of disease".

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Cancer Cancer Cancer

What can we say about cancer that hasn't already been said or thought. It is one of the scariest ailments, it has no preferences and it can strike whenever it wants. That is what makes cancer so scary. The only thing scarier than cancer is knowing someone who is or has been afflicted by it.
Cancer by definition

Pathology .

a. a malignant and invasive growth or tumor, esp. one originating in epithelium, tending to recur after excision and to metastasize to other sites.

b. any disease characterized by such growths.

2. any evil condition or thing that spreads destructively; blight

Cancer is our body working "normally" in hyper speed. Our cells die and grow. That is its job. Every time our cells die, there are new ones to take its place. These new ones should be an exact copy of the old one, that is the normal process. Cancer, is the same but the cells are different and they grow a lot faster than they should. This is the body working but with the wrong information.

Information is controlled by the brain and then sent out to the body via the nerves and hormones. If the wrong information keeps getting sent to the right place, there is going to be a lot of wrong information. Well this "miscommunication" can be caused by many things, one of which is called a vertebral subluxation. A subluxation is a big word for a simple fix. All it means is that a vertebrae, your spinal bones, have twisted out of its normal alignemnt. A bone can either mover forward, backwards, left, right, up, down, or any combination of those and when it does, it causes pressure on our delicate nerves. Now this pressure doesnt have to be much. All it takes is the weight of a dime to decrease the function of our nerves 60%. Doesnt take much at all.

Now, I am not saying that we can heal or prevent anyone from getting cancer, but I am saying is that if we get rid of subluxations, then the body is allowed to communicate and heal. 

Here is some recent new research on cancer.

Women firefighters are at risk of breast cancer and other forms of cancers due to the hazards of their jobs. These chemicals that firefighters are exposed to everyday are all known to be cancerous. The common chemicals are Formaldhyde and Benzene.

http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/learning/alert/fire08.cfm

A new study in France showed that kids living near heavy traffic may increase the risk of actue leukemia.

Note that for children living within less than a third of a mile of a heavy-traffic highway or main road this study found a doubled odds ratio of developing acute leukemia, typically ALL.

Here is a study that shows the harmful effects of cancer drugs. It states that serious and sometimes life-threatening side effects often go unreported until, years afer cancer drugs have been approved. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B55IN20101206

BPA ,

Bisphenol-A, a hormone-disrupting chemical linked to cancer, diabetes, early puberty and neurological problems- which we all know is found in plastic, is also a cancer causing substance. Normally when we go out shopping, we are aware of this and we buy BPA free plastics but did you know that you will bever be BPA free, because the money you use to pay for your BPA free bottle has BPA on it. Here is a link to the article.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/08/MN8H1GN4FQ.DTL

Know before you Go....

The body is a self healing organism. The only way it can function 100% is if its subluxation free.
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