The Man in the Glass                                              

                          

                                                                                               

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest
For he’s with you, clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most difficult, dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.                                                                                         

-          Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.  (1934)

                Don’t cheat yourself.  Give your body time to heal itself with natural aids like chiropractic, massage, and natural Integrative Medicines to support the process.  First, try to get well without introducing new risks to your health as you do when you take drugs or, worse, have surgery.

Take care of the person in the glass.  

The Specialist

Fortunately, the heart stops working correctly before it stops working altogether.  You call a heart specialist, an expert.  As a specialist, he looks only at your heart, not you as a whole.  He does blood tests, ultrasound, EKG, and a host of other tests.  After repeating some tests, he arrives at a diagnostic conclusion.  He prescribes injections or pills that will force your heart to behave in a way that is expected.  After getting limited results, you seek other specialists and research hospitals where they put bits of your heart under microscopes hoping to find a cure.  These endless exhibitions of apparent futility, fueled by your hope that someday someone will find the cause and cure of your malady, begin to leave you feeling helpless and hopeless.

Wanting to live, you hear about chiropractic.  You find a chiropractor, and you sneak in the door hoping that no one you know will see you going to a back doctor for a heart problem.  The chiropractor explains that your heart is a muscle and without energy from the flow of nerves it cannot work anymore than the lights in your house can work without electricity.

That treating the heart without restoring proper nerve supply is like changing a light bulb without checking to see if the switch is on.

The chiropractor then makes an adjustment that removes interference and restores proper nerve supply and your heart starts working normally again.

Sports and Exercise

How to Achieve Optimal Performance

Exercise pushes bones, joints, muscles, heart, and lungs to the limit.  Even light or moderate intensity stresses these systems, often resulting injuries that can reduce your capacity and performance.  There are ways to avoid injuries and maintain optimum performance.

All functions of the body are controlled by the brain through the spinal cord and nerves.  The brain and spinal cord are protected by bone.  The spine has 24 movable segments that can become misaligned and damage the cord and nerves.  The resulting pressure ingerferes with the function of the nervous system and reduces performance.  This leads to decreased focus, concentration, energy, and immune response, which lowers your resistance to sickness and disease.

Also, when the joints don’t function properly, the muscles that move them lose strength and flexibility, and that makes them more prone to injury.  This then can lead to degeneration and arthritis.

When the brain, spinal cord, nerves, muscles and joints aren’t working properly, exercise is more difficult and less effective.  Running is slower, jumping and throwing are shorter, lifting is weaker, and so on.  The list of impaired functions is huge!

Chiropractors are the only doctors trained and licensed to analyze and correct spinal misalignment, called subluxation.  Chiropractic adjustments align the spine, remove nerve interference, and resotre optimum health and performance. This is why all professional sports teams have a team chiropractor.  In fact, a team of chiropractors travels with the US Olympic Team.

Join the top athletes and get your spine checked regularly.  It’s your life; live it healthy!

Live Healthy, Stay Active, Fulfill Your Dreams

It’s Your Choice

Maintain the health of your spine and nervous system naturally with chiropractic

Or…

Wait for it to degenerate into a crisis and use dangerous, invasive methods

Because your nervous system controls everything in your body, the health of your spine and nervous system should be maintained throughout life from birth.

Unfortunately, most people don’t do that.  That is because they don’t know that they should or the consequences if they don’t.

Most will wait until crises develop before they seek care.  Their bodies begin sending warning signs (pain) which they cover with medication.  They continue until that stops working, or until much more severe signs begin, like tingling, numbness, or weakness.  At that point, the problem may be so advanced that natural care won’t work and they must get invasive procedures, like that pictured above.

Sadly, that mistake is common.  Regardless of why you came to our office (pain, auto accident, allergies, etc.), our goal is to return your nervous system and spine to optimal structure and function.  Then, we want to help you maintain your health with regular visits to keep you healthy.

Invasive cures change the structure and function of your spine forever, and they are not pretty.   So the choice is an ounce of prevention or a pound of cure!