What Chiropractic, Cracking, and Highways Have in Common

Your spine is like a highway.

If you ask most people what a Chiropractor does, they'll probably look at you funny and then answer "they crack your back."  Well, that's a start.  What's important is what all the cracking leads up to:  A healthy nervous system and a healthy body. 

The term "cracking" really refers to part of a larger treatment called an "Adjustment."  Chiropractic doctors adjust the alignment of your spine because this is the root of all your body's systems.  The spine is where all communications between your brain and your body take place. It's like a highway.  If there's an accident on the highway, then traffic backs up for miles and the flow of cars comes to a halt.  No one gets anywhere.  The same is true for impulses in your spine.  A chiropractor keeps your spine aligned so that your brain and your body are communicating perfectly:  No backups or traffic jams.  Neural messages travel freely from your brain to your body helping it to heal faster and work better.   The spine is the highway.  The
road you drive on is made up of vitamins and minerals.  Good nutrition paves the way.   If you have deficiencies in these elements, it's the same thing as a pothole in the road.  You may get where you're going, but it's going to be a bumpy ride. 

Chiropractic is really about using your body's own natural healing impulses to stay healthy.  Often using drugs to kill pain just masks the underlying problem. Chiropractic really works from the inside out, tackling the root causes of your physical problems.  Pain, high blood pressure, headaches, chronic sickness.these are all symptoms of something that's gone wrong with your immune system or your nervous system.  Chiropractic is about prevention and treatment through natural processes like adjustments, massage, vitamins, exercise and healthy living. 

So what is Chiropractic?  At its core, it's about living a healthy, active, drug free life.   And isn't that what everyone hopes for?  Let us help you get on that highway and have a smooth ride.
For more information on how we can help, take a look at the Sarasota Physical Medicine website or call us at (941) 922-9312. 

Study shows Chiropractic Care Saves You Money!

Great article from the American Chiropractic Association about how Chiropractic care saves insurance companies money.  But what's really important is how much money Chiropractic care can save patients.  

If you don't have to buy over-the-counter meds or prescription drugs, then that's more cash in your wallet.... and your lower back will feel better, too.  

Study Finds That for Low Back Pain, Starting with Chiropractic Saves 40% on Care

From the ACA’s “Week in Review” of 11/12/10              

A new study finds that care for low back pain initiated with a doctor of chiropractic (DC) saves 40 percent on health care costs when compared with care initiated through a medical doctor (MD), the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) announced today. The study, featuring data from 85,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield beneficiaries, concludes that insurance companies that restrict access to chiropractic care for low back pain treatment may inadvertently pay more for care than they would if they removed such restrictions.

            Low back pain is a significant public health problem. Up to 85 percent of Americans have back pain at some point in their lives. In addition to its negative effects on employee productivity, back pain treatment accounts for about $50 billion annually in health care costs—making it one of the top 10 most costly conditions treated in the United States.

            Results show that paid costs for episodes of care initiated by a DC were almost 40 percent less than care initiated through an MD. After risk-adjusting each patient’s costs, researchers still found significant savings in the chiropractic group. They estimated that allowing DC-initiated episodes of care would have led to an annual cost savings of $2.3 million for BCBS of Tennessee.

            “As doctors of chiropractic, we know firsthand that our care often helps patients avoid or reduce more costly interventions such as drugs and surgery. This study supports what we see in our practices every day,” said ACA President Rick McMichael, DC. “It also demonstrates the value of chiropractic care at a critical time, when our nation is attempting to reform its health care system and contain runaway costs.”

A Flu Shot on Every Corner! Don't Listen to the Hype.

You see the messages on Walgreens street signs and inside every and grocery  store: "Get your flu shot here!"  How convenient that I can get a shot filled with mercury and other toxic chemicals on just about every street corner!  It doesn't make any sense.  

The pharmaceutical companies want to scare you into buying one of their $20 dollar shots, but the real cost could be a lifetime of side effects.  The flu shot is a Frankenstein cocktail of liquids created in a lab using chicken eggs and various flu strains that are manipulated into something strange and horrific.  

The most effective way to fight the flu is to start with a healthy immune system.  Eating well, getting the right amount of vitamins, adjusting your spine, and staying active are the keys to good health.  It's very simple, but for some reason most people find following this prescription too difficult.  It is much easier to buy immunity in shot filled with cow pus, chicken egg, and monkey blood. You will be getting a lot more than you paid for, and in this case, that's not a good thing.

Additional Flu Shot Facts
"People who got vaccinated were just as likely to get flu-like symptoms as those who didn't get the vaccine," Web MD 01/25/04

" 93 kids that died from the flu this past flu season, 33 of those kids had not been vaccinated, meaning 60 had been vaccinated," J. Rappoport 1-10-04

The CDC stated  " the flu vaccine had no or little effectiveness against the flu this year. The flu vaccine protected from zeroto 14% of the study participants," The New York Times 1-15-04

What Heroin and Happy Meals Have in Common

Fast food is terrible. Really really bad.  Unhealthy.  Are you getting the idea?  Millions of Americans feast on fast food everyday because it's easy, quick and addictive.  Have you ever eaten a McDonalds burger and still felt hungry afterward?  That's their plan. 

The types of chemicals that go into that burger are an atrocity. Even if nutritional guides say your "low fat" fast food meal is low in calories, it doesn't list the high levels of chemical additives you'll be eating.  And you have to wonder if those hidden ingredients act like an addictive drug that makes you want more.  It kind of works like heroin.  After the first bite, you're hooked.   Your pleasure hormones surge and you create an emotional bond with the burger.

Try this little experiment:  Grill a homemade lean burger made with organically fed ground beef.  Eat just one and see how full you'll feel.  Your body is getting the calories it needs, so you feel satisfied with a single serving.  Now eat one of those  processed McBeef Burgers and wait to see how long it takes before you're hungry again.  Before you know it you'll be reaching for processed french fries and a fake shake made out of liquified milk product.  

Fast food restaurants don't care about your health or your body, just their bottom line.  The more you eat, the richer they get, and the sicker you become.  The really alarming part is that we reward our children with meals that promise to make them "happy."    Would you hand your 10 year old a pack of cigarettes and tell them to light up?  Of course not because that's ridiculous.  So why is feeding them fast food any different?   If you want your family to become sick, overweight and emotionally addicted to food, then keep going to the drive-thru.  It's really that simple. 

For more information on Nutrition, Chiropractic, and Physical Therapy go to the Sarasota Physical Medicine website,  email Sarasota Physical Medicine or call (941) 922-9312.