Rockford Chiropractor - Minding the Atlas

While travelling in England, you can be sure of two things - you must look to your RIGHT before crossing the road, and you must pay attention to how you step around and onto things. The ubiquitous sign in the rail system is "Mind the Gap," which simply reminds us to think about where we are stepping.

I have tweaked this image to remind ourselves that success and failure in health care actions we take hinges on how well the atlas subluxation complex has been reduced, corrected and maintained.

We may find that the NUCCA correction has helped us to heal over time from sleep problems, high blood pressure and digestive disorders, but that the headaches remain. Does that mean we abandon our efforts to maintain the central nerve system integrity? No, it means we look at other elements to find out what else might be causing the headaches (or back pain, or leg pain). Sometimes, quitting a bad habit, like smoking or drinking, is all that needs to be done. Sometimes a nutritional protocol is indicated, or even another procedure that requires a referral.

But we must never overlook the importance of the atlas. Your highest expression of life depends on it!

Rockford Chiropractor - Clear Out Subluxation!

You may begin your day with a refreshing bolt of vitamins and food supplements, followed by a fortifying breakfast.  As unique as your nutritional requirements may be, we are reminded that there is more to the daily task of keeping ourselves going besides food.

A Texan court recently ruled that there is such a thing as a "subluxation," which is the term applied to a bone out of place interfereing with the nerve system. Why is that important?

The nerve system (usually called the Nervous System - except that makes it sound "nervous") controls and coordinates all the systems of the body. It is through our nerve system that we see, hear, feel everything, think, and it is our nerve system that relates us to the world inside and outside.

If that is so, then it is very important that we feed, nourish and look after our nerve system. That is the special work of the chiropractor, who looks for the presence of the subluxation, removes it, and sets the conditions favorable for the body to heal.

So next time you consider how to best start your day, your week, your training schedule, remember that your nerve system also requires attention.

Rockford Chiropractor Helping Neck Pain

A recently new patient described neck pain of 50+ years duration. I'm thinking, "I don't think that's going to change anytime soon with all the adhesions that have probably formed in that time."

But here it is, about four weeks after the initial spinal correction, and she is already feeling better! Isn't it nice when we set up conditions favorable for the body to heal and then it gets right to work!

1st Step Chiropractic, the first step to take in restoring health...

Rockford Chiropractor Christmas in May!

Spring is already here, and that's not all...it's the 9th anniversary of 1st Step Chiropractic, S.C.!! Beginning our tenth year of upper cervical health care for the Northern Illinois region, we want to invite you to an "Early Christmas!"
On Saturday, May 19th, 2012, please plan on joining us for breakfast, for demonstrations, for fun, gifts, and for lunch too!
Everyone who attends gets a free gift, those of our patients who refer a friend or family member for a new patient exam between now and May 20, 2012, get a SPECIAL free gift, and the referred person gets a FREE EXAM (Medicare Restrictions Apply, ask about our Medicare discount!)
Why upper cervical health care? The top of the neck where it meets the head is the "steering wheel" of the nerve system, which controls and coordinates all the other systems of the body. From headaches and earaches to fallen arches and everything in between, if there is a problem, you must ask, "What's the status of the Atlas?" Most of the time, the first bone in the neck, the atlas, is going to be in the wrong place.
1st Step Chiropractic, the 1st Step to take in Wellness Care!
815-398-4500

Rockford Chiropractor - Asking Questions

You might think that all I am concerned with is spreading the word about upper cervical spinal care with the NUCCA procedure. It really is important. But I run into some interesting articles. Now, I am not intending to scare anyone. Just raising questions that need to be answered by someone who is not shouting "ABSOLUTELY!"  ....on any issue. There is a compelling argument here by Dr. Tim O'Shea. What do you think?


New Poisoning for San Jose Water

For years now San Jose has prided itself on being the largest 
non-fluoridated city in the US.
No more.  Combined lobbying from the American Dental Assn and the huge  industries who sell fluoride wastes to US communities have now won.
An introduction to this dark story is available on the Water chapter on my site.  In order to appreciate what has just happened in San Jose, the reader first must be informed about the real issues behind water fluoridation.  Here is an excerpt from that chapter:
           "Fluorine is an element. It is a gas, never occurring naturally in its free state. In microscopic amounts complexed with other minerals, it is often listed as a trace mineral, a nutrient for human nutrition. 
Other sources disagree, holding that 'no experimental work or clinical observations have proved that fluorine is in any manner essential for animals or man.' (Alesen, p.5)
           "This has nothing to do with fluoride or fluoridation. The fluoride added to drinking water is a compound of fluorine that is a chemical byproduct of aluminum, steel, cement, phosphate, and nuclear weapons manufacturing. Such fluoride is man-made. In this form, fluoride has no nutrient value whatsoever. It is one of the most caustic of industrial chemicals. Fluoride is the active toxin in rat poisons and cockroach powder. (Dustrude)
           "Hydrofluoric acid is used to refine high octane gasoline, to make fluorocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons for freezers and air conditioners, and to manufacture computer screens, fluorescent light bulbs, semiconductors, plastics, herbicides,  and toothpaste. It also has the ability to burn flesh to the bone, destroy eyes, and sear 
lungs so that victims drown in their own body fluid."
Now here's the Bait and Switch that many people have missed all these years:   The fluoride added to city water supplies bears little resemblance to the sodium fluoride that appears in toothpaste and dental offices, which itself is bad enough.  But water fluoridation uses a completely different compound:  industrial waste. 
Community water companies have million dollar contracts to buy fluoride waste materials from the aluminum, phosphate, and nuclear industries. 
Turns out, if these industries were not able to be selling these toxic wastes, they would be paying billions in toxic waste storage and disposal.
Everybody knows this much.  Except of course those whose only sources are the most superficial of media.  But to get this far is not difficult.
Other dots need to be connected to grasp the new California situation, however.  Here it comes:
Before he left office, Willie Brown and his cronies sold out the future a little more by passing a unique law that states that any town of more than 10,000 people MUST fluoridate if they can find outside funding to do it. 
Which means even if a referendum of the people votes it out, the town has to fluoridate, if they can find 'outside funding.'
Now for the twisted part.  Guess who has been more than happy to fund any community fluoridation they can. Give up?  The California branch of the American Dental Association.
That makes no sense, you may ruminate.  Why would the ADA be willing to spend millions of their own money to fluoridate community water supplies?  Altruistic interest in dental health?  Hardly.  That type of thing does not appear anywhere in their history. 
Correct answer:  dental fluorosis.   Destruction of teeth from fluoridation:  market expansion.   Job security.    ADA scientists have done their homework. They have read all the studies and know well what fluoridated city water really does to human dentition.
Tell me I'm wrong here.  Prove it.

Rockford Chiropractor - Helping Pain

Why did the American Heart Association suggest in 2007 that physicians change the way they prescribe over-the-counter pain relievers from a first choice to an alternate recommendation following nonpharmacologic treatment? Most non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications work by down-regulating the COX-2 enzyme that produces inflammation in tissues. (Watch out for farm-raised Talapia fish, they up-regulate this enzyme due to the feed).
The problem comes in when these medications also down-regulate the COX-1 enzyme, which protects kidney and stomach cells. The unwanted result is stomach bleeding and liver damage...
OUCH!
Are there safer ways to bring down inflammation?
1st Step is to check the status of the atlas.
The first bone in the neck, the atlas, can be out of position to a very small extent. It can be so small that its displacement interferes with nerves that control inflammation!
Certain food supplements can also normalize this inflammation response. Let us help you turn your pain around and begin the healing process!
1st Step Chiropractic, using the NUCCA procedure, and where appropriate, precision use of food supplementation. 815-398-4500

Rockford Chiropractor - Helping Hearing Problems

1st Step Chiropractic is THE center for the NUCCA procedure in Rockford, IL. When you are ready to turn the corner, make us a part of your journey back to wellness! 815-398-4500