Throw It Away Or Restore?

I fixed my car today.

Not just a little fix, but everyone was saying, "270,000 miles on it? Sounds like it's time to let it go!" My '91 Accord was acting like the transmission was giving up the ghost. But I did some research and discovered the key to fixing, not a mechanical problem, but an electronic problem.

So I replaced a tiny, 15 ohm resistor and two capacitors (haven't used a soldering iron for over 20 years...), stuck everything back together again, and the car works now.

I celebrated by cleaning it up real well. Will it last another 100,000 miles? We shall see.

But this isn't just a story about a few electronic components.

This week, I gave a correction to a 92-year old with low back pain. The lumbar spine was twisted and the hips were not level. Most people would have told her, "you have arthritis...at your age there is nothing you can do about it!"

Sounds like pretty grim advice, hopeless...

Good for this patient, she had useful helpers who sent her my way. I corrected the problem (a tiny, two-ounce bone at the base of the skull) and her low back straightened out, bringing the hips perfectly level.

It wasn't a structural problem at all! It was a communication problem between the brain and the body. Kinda like the electronic problem with the Accord. Communication, that's all. Fix the communication, and you can erase signs of the problem.

For the Accord, the problem looked like a broken transmission. For the 92-year-old, the problem looked like an old, broken down backbone. In both, the real problem was a little piece interfering with communication.

I like the pattern emerging here...we don't give up, we look for the underlying problem that is causing all the symptoms. Then health is restored.

Rockford Chiropractor - Getting to the Real Problem

This was a hole.

The gas company was looking for a leak, and eventually found it under the first patch. But a couple of months later, a sinkhole developed for some reason in the same area. (According to my old friend and engineer, Donald Mosshart, they didn't pack the soil right). You can see the patch over the sinkhole, and you can also see that another sinkhole is developing.

Be thankful that the road crews aren't working as your chiropractor - simply band aiding the problem and letting it recur. Your Rockford Chiropractor believes in getting the foundation set right, so you don't have to keep fixing the "sinkholes" that develop.

So, no matter what you are dealing with - headaches, autoimmune disorders, pain syndromes, ask yourself if the original problem is being corrected.

Rockford Chiropractor Balancing the Body

Our colleague, Dr. Justin Brown, down in Florida, is bringing NUCCA care to people who need help. What sort of conditions respond to this type of care? In this video, people talk about their asthma, poor health, multiple sclerosis, and other wheelchair events being helped by restoring proper head/neck alignment. We are the only office providing this type of care in Rockford, Illinois.

Rockford Chiropractor - Spinal Balance is REAL!

It was back in 1921, and Dr. Winsor wanted to find out if Chiropractors were right in stating that the spine was important for health. So he performed autopsies on 75 human and 22 cat cadavers. He found they were right. There really IS a connection between slightly curved spines and diseased organs.

Here is the link...

When the nerves come out of the spine, they go to specific structures to feed them with the right nerve impulses. According to the design of the vertebrate, those nerves will exit the spine in specific places. So the top of the back (the first and second thoracic vertebrae) has nerves that run the heart and lungs. Interestingly enough, Dr. Winsor observed that in 26 spines belonging to people who died of lung disease, this region was not aligned correctly.
People who died of heart disease suffered from a misaligned spine in the top five vertebrae of the back (T1-5). The 17 who had kidney disease also had a misaligned spine in the lower Thoracic vertebrae....and so on.

It would be nice if we could duplicate this study to more carefully define "misaligned."

However, the take-away lesson for us all is this: Be sure your spine is aligned. That means have your Rockford Chiropractor check to see if you have the atlas subluxation complex present. It will throw your spine out of balance. We can predictably bring the spine back into balance by removing the atlas subluxation complex.

Rockford Chiropractor - Restoring Health

Regarding upper cervical chiropractic (this Rockford Chiropractor uses the NUCCA procedure), the important issue is to restore normal physiology of the vertebrate. The most efficient way to do that (I am comparing drugs, bodywork, physical therapy, segmental chiropractic and osteopathic approaches and their derivatives) is to correct the alignment of the head with the neck. But then WHAT HAPPENS???

Safe Hugging (How to avoid irritating your sensitive friends)

Patients ask me how to protect their NUCCA correction when friends and family want to hug them. This Rockford Chiropractor recommends avoiding pressure on the neck. Watch this....

Sharing Times at 1st Step Chiropractic

I can't wait for the next opportunity to share our gifts with people in need! January 20, 2011, from 6-8:30 is the next event! Call your Rockford Chiropractor to find out more...815-398-4500.