While Chiropractic is unique and different, it certainly is not something that you have to “believe in.” Chiropractic works whether you believe in it or not. It produces results because it acknowledges scientifically confirmed facts. The nervous system controls everything in your body. In this article, I will explain some of the common misconceptions about Chiropractic wellness care and will curb some long standing arguments against a proven and widely accepted practice.
How Chiropractic Works
Nerve impulses flow from the brain, down the spinal cord where nerves branch off to every organ and tissue. Impulses sent back to the brain confirm that the body is functioning normally.
The bones of the spine can misalign and interfere with this exchange of communication by irritating the corresponding nerves. Dysfunction and ill health will result from a compromised nervous system. Chiropractic wellness care removes the interference and helps restore the integrity of the nervous system thereby promoting health and healing.
“If you start, do you have to go for the rest of your life?”
You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. However your spine, like your teeth, need ongoing care at some level or problems and decay will inevitably return. Would you go to the dentist to get your cavities filled and not maintain some level of care? Health in our whole body is an ongoing process.
“Chiropractic results are “All in your head”?
This is a convenient claim made by critics who have chosen to overlook convincing proof to the contrary. Being “all in your head” implies the power of suggestion. Yet, Chiropractic results have been experienced by newborns, infants, animals and others for whom the power of suggestion is not possible! The power of suggestion cannot begin to explain the millions of patients who have been helped with Chiropractic health and wellness care.
“My medical doctor told me not to let a Chiropractor adjust my neck because it will cause a stroke.”
Those in the medical profession who make this statement either have unknowingly been misinformed, or they choose to spread misleading and inaccurate information. Such comments need to be backed up with fact and research, if not, it is hearsay.
Facts and Figures
Research done by the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) reported that the risk of stroke from a Chiropractic neck adjustment is 1 in 5.85 million adjustments. The published death statistics for women taking a daily birth control pill is 1 in 25,000.
According to data obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics in the United States, the mortality rate of Chiropractic patients from stroke is less than half than that of the general population. Therefore, one could infer that by having Chiropractic care, your chances of having a stroke are actually reduced by 50 percent.By:
Dr. Alan RosenthalRosenthal Chiropractic & Health
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