What is health?
Both health and wellness have lost their meaning and impact in today’s culture. To most, health simply means not being sick or more specifically not experiencing any symptoms. That could not be further from the truth. The actual definition for health is “proper cellular function”. That means ALL the cells of the body working in a coordinated fashion to maintain you in a state of balance or homeostasis.
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What is sickness?
Anything less than 100% function. As you lose health, you gain sickness. This doesn’t mean symptoms. It means you progressively lose the organized function of the cells, tissues and organs
and the processes they are designed to carry out. People often say “I got the flu and then I got sick”. The truth is they gained sickness (less function) and became susceptible to the flu. “I got cancer and then I got sick”. Again, sickness (lack of proper function) allowed cancer to develop. Can you get rid of darkness? No, you must turn on the light. How do you regain and express health? You must turn on LIFE. Nature needs no help, just no interference.
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What are the requirements for health?
Health is the normal, natural state of an organism that receives everything that is essential for life. Proper nutritional building blocks, adequate movement, rest, oxygen, water, healthy thinking and a GOOD NERVE SUPPLY. All of these must be present regularly for an extended period for any person to truly know what it is like to be healthy.
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What is chiropractic?
Our approach is sometimes referred to as principled chiropractic or straight chiropractic. Our practice seeks to address one of the required needs for ALL people…A GOOD NERVE SUPPLY. By restoring and maintaining the neurological connection between the brain and body, we help everyone to more fully express their maximum potential.
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What do you mean by maximum potential?
Each individual human being has his or her own unique blend of potentials. These include such factors as the capacity to see and to hear, the capacity for eye-hand coordination in work and play, the capacity to think clearly, to remember, to reason, to organize thoughts, to solve problems, the capacity to resist disease and to recover from injury, the capacity for balanced emotional response, for humor, for love. These are but a few examples of the many potentials and capacities inherent within the individual. While nobody can know the outermost limits of these potentials, it is easy to see how failure to express them fully would make us less than we could be.
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What do chiropractic and the bones of the spine have to do with expressing potential?
The bones of the spine house and protect the spinal cord, which is the brain's control pathway to organs, glands and other body parts. A loss of normal relationship between spinal bones, called a Vertebral Subluxation, initiates 3 major types of dysfunction:
- Structural – like a misaligned tire not only leads to damage of the tire itself, but also reduces the fuel efficiency and performance of the car; a subluxation leads to changes in the appropriate movement of the spine, muscles, ligaments and a reduction in the overall movement and performance of the body.
- Neurological – nerve interference is a partial disruption in the transmission of information to and from the brain. This interference reduces the harmonious interaction of the tissues supplied, including muscles, organs and glands, thereby disturbing their optimal function.
- Chemical – since all the glands and organs manufacture body chemicals, nerve interference disturbs the delicate balance of body chemistry. This disturbance affects every physical, mental and emotional aspect of life, thus interfering with the ability of your body to completely express its full potential in all areas.
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Are you saying that internal changes in body chemistry, caused by vertebral subluxation, can affect such mental factors as mood, memory or creative ability?
Yes. We have only to think of the physical, emotional and mental changes that can result from alcohol, drugs, medicines and life changes such as menopause, to realize how important body chemistry is to ALL functions. When body chemistry is disturbed either by adding chemicals from the outside, or by changing what the body manufactures from the inside, the result always affects every aspect of life.
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What causes vertebral subluxations?
When the body is forced to adapt to a stress or an accumulation of stressors (physical, chemical or emotional) the result is a myriad of changes aimed at ensuring that the organism survives. One of those changes is a vertebral subluxation. Almost any fall or accident could cause a subluxation, so could poor posture, birth trauma or any one of thousands of other things. In fact, almost everyone becomes subluxated at some time or another, often as soon as birth. Unless these subluxations are corrected (which the body is always attempting to do), we spend our entire life being less than we could be in every area. Having your spine checked regularly for vertebral subluxations is a major factor in maintaining optimal body function and maximizing your performance in all areas of your life at all times.
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How do you know if you have nerve interference being created by a vertebral subluxation?
Unfortunately, you won’t know. The overwhelming majority of the the time vertebral subluxations cause no symptoms. In fact, symptoms are typically the final stage of malfunction in most processes, not the first. It is true, changes in body chemistry may lead to altered performance of one or many noticeable functions. Altered spinal mechanics due to vertebral subluxations may irritate surrounding tissues causing pain or spasm, but most of the breakdown, disorder and disharmony occurs without you feeling it. The only way to be absolutely sure your family is at their best is to have their spines checked by the trained hands of a chiropractor who focuses solely on restoring neurological integrity and maximizing the expression of life energy in the body.
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How does a chiropractor correct these vertebral subluxations?
To be absolutely accurate, we must point out that the chiropractor does not really correct vertebral subluxations. The body has its own spinal muscles to do that and is always attempting to do so. Where there are muscle fibers working to correct a vertebral subluxation, we apply a very gentle and specific force in the direction indicated so that your body may utilize that additional force to create motion and alignment. If after this application of force your body is no longer working for change, an adjustment has occurred and our job is complete.
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What particular physical, mental or emotional conditions respond to chiropractic?
As offered at the Café of Life and Richards Family Chiropractic, chiropractic is NOT a treatment for any condition or an attempt to cure any disease. Yes it is true, if you have health conditions,
regular chiropractic care may very well help you better recover from them. Remember that one of the potentials which could be reduced by nerve interference is the body's potential for
health. A body which has interference in the nerve system could never be as healthy as it could be under the same circumstances but with an adequate nerve supply to all
tissues and organs. Whatever potential one has for resisting illness or recovering from disease will be better expressed with a clear neurological connection. But, if you use chiropractic just for
that reason, you are using less than 1% of chiropractic and wasting the rest. It is important to realize that ALL people are better off with A GOOD NERVE SUPPLY under ALL circumstances,
without regard to whether they are sick or well. If you want to maximize the amount of life energy in your body just because that's the best way to be all that you could be, see your chiropractor
regularly.
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If you are not treating any specific conditions, what benefits can my family expect from a better nerve supply?
With chiropractic care you will be able to think more clearly, concentrate better, be better coordinated physically, digest and extract nutrients from your food better, heal better, resist illness and disease better, be a better athlete, enjoy a better pregnancy, a stronger immune system, and adapt to stress better. Regardless of your current health status – sick or well – you are better off with a clear nerve system. What are the benefits to your family? What are the benefits of being healthy vs. sick? What are the benefits of safeguarding your children’s well being and ensuring they live the life they deserve?
EVERY BENEFIT IN THE WORLD.
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How much does it cost?
Practice members have the choice of a per visit fee or special individual and family memberships.
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So what's next?
The first visit requires approximately 1 hour to complete and includes a consultation, an explanation of what we do and what we don’t do; a full neurospinal assessment, recommendations for your care and in most cases, any necessary specific adjustments.
If you are really serious about being the best that you can be physically, mentally and emotionally, then you need to add chiropractic to your life. What’s next is really up to you!
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