March Madness

It’s that time of year again. The “big dance” is in full swing. Another year filled with upsets and excitement as teams compete for this year’s NCAA men’s and woman’s basketball titles. When looking at a few of the potential champs this year and reviewing previous winners I can’t help but thinking about what comprises a talented, championship-caliber team. I have found a few common threads.  Great teams consist of more than just one or two players who score all the points. Quality teams consist of each player doing his part, contributing his share and most importantly working together and playing as a cohesive unit on the court. There are so many examples of teams with the national player of the year who did not fare well in the tournament because one player does not make a team great. Another common point when looking at great college teams is to look at the coach and his ability to control and coordinate the game through his players. It’s no surprise that teams like Duke (just a little personal bias!), North Carolina, Syracuse, UCONN and Kansas are great year in and year out. They have legendary coaches who can clearly communicate and get the best out of their players. When you think about it, it’s kind of like that with our own bodies and our health. Let me explain…
Just like each player on the team has his role and part to play, so do the various parts of our bodies. Our digestive system, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, lymphatic system, and all the other systems each have an important role to play in maintaining health.  Each one of these systems is intertwined with and dependent on the others, just like players on a championship basketball team. Like the coach with his players, what in our body controls and coordinates these systems and all the functions of the body? The nervous system. The nervous system is comprised of our brains, spinal cords, and nerves which branch out to every cell in the body. The nervous system acts as the coach of our bodies by sending messages down the spinal cord and over the nerves to all the parts of the body. Likewise, the players can communicate back to the coach by sending messages back up the spinal cord to the brain about what they are experiencing. In the game of basketball, when a coach loses the ability to communicate with his team, chaos usually ensues. Many times he calls a timeout to be able to re-connect with his players on the sideline. In the game of health, when the nervous system is disturbed and interfered with, the body always functions at less than 100%. The brain can’t clearly direct and coordinate the rest of the body. Without calling a timeout to re-establish communication and the brain-body connection, health problems ensue.
So what does a chiropractor do? Chiropractors remove interference from the nervous system to restore the body’s self-healing and self-regulating ability. The adjustment acts as the timeout in our basketball analogy. By removing interference and re-establishing the brain-body connection, our bodies begin to heal and move towards their natural states of health. By removing interference, we can get the best out of our bodies just like a great coach can get the best out of his players. Make sure the coach of your body is able to communicate with his/her team and make chiropractic adjustments a part of your healthy lifestyle routine.

Can You Hear Me Now?

Cell phone use in our country is at an all-time high and will undoubtedly continue to expand as phones become capable of doing more and more. As things tend to speed up in our world, cell phones have enabled us to communicate whenever a need arises. From hosting a business teleconference that links people from various locations, to providing a way to tell our spouse to pick up dinner on the way home from work, cell phones have made new things possible. The newest fads are the smart phones such as Apple’s iPhone, which provide amazing internet possibilities, video cameras, planners, applications and just about anything you can imagine and more in a phone. These apps are wonderful, but without a clear signal, no matter the bells and whistles, a cell phone can no longer serve its main function. At some point, everyone who owns a cell phone has experienced the frustration of either not being able to make a call due to poor service or engaging in a conversation where you can only hear every third word. Most remember laughing at and relating to the Verizon commercials from a few years back where the guy is constantly asking “can you hear me now?” Much like interference to a cell phone signal hampers and limits the potential of our phones; interference to the body’s nervous system restricts a person’s ability to express life and health to the fullest extent. The nervous system is wonderfully comprised of the brain, spinal cord and nerves which disperse and connect with every cell, tissue, muscle, organ, gland, etc. in our body. The nervous system coordinates and controls all functions the body performs, from breathing to walking to digestion to healing…everything!!!  The brain communicates with the body by sending messages down the spinal cord and over the nerves to a particular part of the body. This is also how our body communicates back to our brain. For example, when we place our hand on a hot stove a message is sent from the nerve receptors in our hand back up the nerve, up the spine and to the brain to let us know we better move our hand. When interference is present in the nervous system it negatively affects the body’s ability to function properly because our brain has a bad cell phone reception with the rest of the body. What if the heart is on the other line of that call? Is it going to get the proper messages from the brain to work the way it is supposed to? Or if the reception between the brain and stomach is poor, how will our digestive function be?
Nervous system interference is called a subluxation and the goal of Chiropractic is to correct these subluxations by adjusting the spine and to restore balance and a clear signal to the nervous system. Chiropractic is an essential component of health, healing and functioning at 100%. Like apps on an iPhone, exercise, diet, meditation and deep breathing are all great features that can enhance health, but in order to get the best use of our body and highest levels of health, a clear signal is a must. Who do you know who may be struggling with interference? Share with them how chiropractic and a clear nervous system signal has enhanced your life.     

Your body is amazing!

Have you ever stopped to think about just how amazing you are? If not I’m encouraging you to do so now…However long ago it was, you were formed from just two cells. All that you are at this point in your life started when two cells united. What happened to those two cells is incredible. They began to multiply, the nervous system was formed, organs appeared, limbs grew and voila, 9 months later you were born. The wonders don’t cease there though. From that time until now your body has been doing some pretty impressive stuff. First off, think about the growth both physically and mentally that has occurred since you were welcomed into the world. On top of that your body has been taking food and turning it into living tissue, getting rid of waste products daily, destroying old worn out cells and replacing them with new ones, and so much more.

                What’s perhaps most impressive is that you never even had to think about doing any of this. Your body automatically knows to make your heart pump, to breathe air through the lungs, to digest food, and all the other countless processes that occur every second inside you. It’s pretty practical that our body does this automatically considering how busy life can get for us. There is no doubt we are intelligent beings and this intelligence directs and coordinates everything going on in our bodies.

                Have you ever taken the time to think how this intelligence runs the show? Our bodies’ innate intelligence directs life over the nervous system. It is the first system that forms from those two cells and controls everything from that point on. The nervous system is comprised of the brain, spinal cord and nerves, which go to every single cell, tissue and organ we have. It serves as the highway upon which innate intelligence drives the body. For anything to occur in our bodies, messages are sent from the brain, down the spinal cord and over the nerves, which go everywhere. The body parts in turn communicate back to the brain using the reverse route.  Our bodies are so wonderfully created that the skull and spinal bones encase our brain and spinal cord to provide protection to this powerful, yet delicate system.

                As life plays out and we take part in it, all of us are exposed to a great amount of stress. Some of these are positive stressors such as going for a hike or working out, and a bunch are negative stressors. Over time this negative stress (slips and falls as kids, sports injuries, car accidents, poor posture, financial worries, relationship woes, eating processed foods, drinking sodas, you get the idea!) cause interference to the nervous system. The spinal bones begin to lose their proper alignment and motion. When this happens it causes direct interference to the nervous system by interrupting the brain-body connection. This is known as a subluxation and any time this occurs it always causes the body to operate at less than 100% or full potential, because the brain can’t properly communicate with the body and vice –versa. Most of the time this occurs without any signs and symptoms ,which are a poor indictor of health anyway.

                Many people are pleasantly surprised to learn that it is this same nervous system and innate intelligence that Chiropractors work with. We carefully assess the spine and nervous system, locate these areas of interference and remove them.  By doing this we allow that intelligence that resides in each of us to be more fully expressed.  Boxing chiropractic into back pain and neck pain severely limits its potential. Don’t get me wrong, decreased pain is a wonderful side effect of chiropractic, but its prospective is so much more. Think about the potential side effects of removing interference to the intelligence that runs your body: (increased energy, feelings of ease, improved health and healing, etc.) Why constrict such a powerful thing to back and neck pain. What’s even better is that all this is done by working with the body, rather than imposing our will with toxic drugs and chemicals. We simply remove the interference and let the body do its thing.

                The great thing about chiropractic is that anyone can benefit from its application. From those who are health compromised to those wanting to reach more of their potential. From the newborn to the elderly, everyone benefits from a clear brain-body connection.

                Is your nervous system operating free from interference? Have you made chiropractic a part of your healthy lifestyle choices? A proper brain-body connection is required for you to be living out your full health and life potential. If you experience the wonderful benefits of chiropractic share it with someone you love today. If not I want to encourage you to join all those who already do and reap the benefits of the full expression of your innate intelligence.

A friend of mine wrote this, - Brent Vuyovich, DC, but i feel the same way!

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Why do some people have "allergies" and others don't....

I was THRILLED to hear a Practice Member say this exact quote to me this past week.
I was even more thrilled at his answer when I asked,
"Have any idea why?"
Can you guess what his answer was?
"IT'S BECAUSE I'M GETTING ADJUSTED!"
Yes, yes, yes.... a thousand times yes!  I am so proud that he's gotten the BIG IDEA!
Have you ever wondered why some people are allergic to pollen and some aren't?  How is it that some people can eat fast food for every meal and never gain a pound, and some eat it once a month and regret it forever?  It has to do with YOU!  As with everything else we encounter, WHAT WE DO.... WHO WE ARE... AND HOW WE FUNCTION.... IS ALL PATTERNED IN OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM.   When we have vertebral subluxations, we cannot adapt to the environment around us.   Our nervous system is choked out because of the pressure on the nerve from the vertebral subluxation.  The lack of adaptation to these outside factors leads to "allergies", "symptoms" and "syndromes" because those subluxations have been lying there quietly FOR YEARS.  From the moment we are born our body is learning to adapt to it's environment.  The more we come in contact with, the more we learn to fight the pollen in the air and the chemistry in our body.  It's our way of learning to adapt to our new environment.  Your immune system is linked directly to the nervous system.  Having practice members recognize that they are NOTICING that their immune system is getting stronger is a HUGE indication that the NERVOUS SYSTEM  is getting stronger.... and when that happens your quality of life is improving with every adjustment. You are doing great things for yourself by getting adjusted on a regular basis.  Is your whole family enjoying the benefits of chiropractic?  

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These Chiropractors have plans available for your entire family, so everyone can get adjusted for what you'd pay at another Chiropractors office for one person to get one visit!

Alot of my practice members often ask for "other" Chiropractors that practice like i do, a Membership style.  We now have a list of Chiropractors who "practice" with style compiled, and can be found at www.affordablechiros.co

Everyone on this list has a common mission, it is to offer affordable and easy chiropractic care to everyone in our community.  We believe that chiropractic care is for every man, woman and child, regardless of income or insurance.   

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Chiropractic isn't about neck pain and back pain, it is about LIFE and ENERGY and VITALITY.   When you have subluxations you cannot function at maximum capacity.  Getting REGULAR chiropractic adjustments reduce subluxations, decreases irritation to the nervous system and MAXIMIZES YOUR LIFE.  Isn't that what we all want?  Better life... 

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