  What is Chiropractic?The goal of our office is to get you feeling well and on the way to reaching your health potential as fast as we can, for you to be educated about what role Chiropractic can play in helping you reach your optimum level of wellness, and for you to tell others about what we are doing in this office so that we can reach out and help others get healthy, and stay truly healthy.
Gonstead Chiropractic - Discover the DifferenceChiropractic is not an alternative to medicine. It is a separate and distinct science, art, and philosophy of health and healing. Chiropractic is the largest natural healing art in the world. It is based on the premise that the body is a self-healing organism and that the nervous system is the master control system of the body. Minor displacements of the spinal bones, known as vertebral subluxations, can cause endangering stress to the spinal nerves, which acts as the main line of intelligence for the whole body. These displacements, or subluxations, is the cause of many of the unwanted health conditions that people suffer from every day. Although there have been many valuable techniques that have been developed in the Chiropractic professions, the Gonstead System is considered a “gold standard” for Chiropractic techniques because of its record of safety and effectiveness in correcting vertebral subluxations. The Gonstead difference: The technique of analysis and adjusting we use in our office is the Gonstead technique. This technique is a very specific hands on approach to detect and correct vertebral subluxations. Health Care: A holistic approach to your care with not merely dealing with symptoms or the sign that something underlying has gone wrong, but rather treating the root or cause of the problem, and correcting this problem to allow your body to naturally heal itself. Working to obtain optimal performance of the entire body and keeping it functioning at 100%, 100% of the time to reach a state physical, mental, and social well being. The goal of Chiropractic is to help you reach your potential. It is your body’s nervous system that controls every cell, every system, and every function within you. Through Chiropractic we turn your power on. Rather than continue functioning at 40%, 50%, 60%, we want to help you get your body function at 100% and keep it there. When you're functioning at 100%, you are better able to handle the physical, emotional, and chemical stress that surrounds us daily. The bottom line is that all of us are better off with a nerve system that is free from interference (subluxations). Chiropractors are the only professionals trained to locate, analyze, and correct subluxations. The Vertebral Subluxation ComplexHave you ever stopped to consider how miraculous your body really is? You started out as two tiny cells…a sperm and an egg. Without interference, these cells developed, in just 280 days though the miracle of creation, into a fully functioning, living, breathing human being…YOU! The inborn wisdom of your body, your Innate Intelligence, is responsible for this incredible development and also for keeping you alive, healthy and striving to reach your full potential. Your brain and nerve system, the first system to develop in your body, is the home of your Innate Intelligence. From this “home base,” your Innate Intelligence creates the miracles of life that flow over your nerve system giving you a long, healthy, vitalistic life. After the nerve system was formed, this inborn wisdom created the organs of your body, including the skull and spine to protect your fragile brain and nerve system from injury or damage. The spine is composed of 24 rings of bone called vertebrae. These spinal bones are stacked one on top of another with a hole through the center of each, forming the spinal column. The spinal cord, the main trunk of the nerve system, travels down from the brain through the skull and spinal column, branching out between each pair of vertebral bones supplying 31 pair of spinal nerves to all parts of your body. These branches are called nerve roots. Your Innate Intelligence uses these nerve roots to supply the entire body with the life force necessary to sustain you and to keep you alive and healthy. Yes, the nerve system is the communication link between the brain and body, allowing the brain to speak to the body and the body to speak back to the brain through nerve impulses in order to keep us healthy and living to our full potential. This communication system functions flawlessly throughout your life…as long as there is no interference. Science has discovered a condition that is considered to be the single most serious and dangerous form of interference to the nerve system known to exist…the Vertebral Subluxation Complex. Understanding the Vertebral Subluxation Complex As with any serious condition, the Vertebral Subluxation Complex has several parts or components: (Unfortunately, clinical observations reveal that about 95% of cases of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex cannot be felt by the patient, so how you feel has little to do with the presence of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex.) The first component of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex is Spinal Kinesiopathology. This occurs when the small joints of the spine “sprain.” When this happens, according to Dr. Jan Jirout, Medical Researcher, these injured joints heal incorrectly, either too loose (hypermobile), too tight (hypomobile), or misaligned.
Dr. Hadley states that the injured (subluxated) areas of the spine cause the spine to degenerate. This is called Subluxation Degeneration. First let us review the near normal side view of the neck before the destructive effects of subluxation degeneration. The patient is facing to he left. The normal forward curve of the spinal bones is present. All bony outlines are smooth and regular. The surfaces of the joints are smooth and regular and in alignment with each other. The black spaces between the bones are where the spinal discs are, the small circular openings at the back of the bones and discs are where the spinal nerves pass through to go to all the parts of the body. Then the first injury or subluxation occurs, a progressive condition, leading to Phase 1 of degeneration including inflammation, scar tissue, misalignment and improper motion of the vertebrae, pinched or irritated nerves, spinal muscle spasm and early degenerative changes. Uncorrected, Phase 2 of Subluxation Degeneration occurs, characterized by increased inflammation, scar tissue, pinched or irritated spinal nerves, spinal muscle spasm and local degeneration. This leads to Phase 3 of Subluxation Degeneration where all the progressive components of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex cause the beginnings of spinal fusion, a very serious condition that has developed leading to Phase 4 of Subluxation Degeneration. In Phase 4 the injured (subluxated) vertebrae fuse into one large mass of degenerative bone. Also, in the fifth component of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex, many medical researchers tell us the entire body, not only the spine, starts to degenerate and become sick. Since the brain and nerve system control and coordinate the function of the entire body, interference to the nerve system due to the Vertebral Subluxation Complex forces the entire body to get sick on every level, every time. The physical, mental, and chemical stresses of life results in abnormal spinal function in the form of back pain, spinal degeneration, injury and interference to the nerves. Abnormal spinal function with nerve interference leads to abnormal body function, tissues and joints get sick, organs get sick, body systems get sick, and eventually your entire body gets sick. The end result is that your body becomes weakened on every level and is forced to contract diseases it would not normally get. However, once correction of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex begins, the function of all the life support systems of your body can improve on every level…every time. Yes, correcting the Vertebral Subluxation Complex will produce better health every time…will reduce diseases and infirmities every time…will increase your physical, mental, and social well being every time. Elimination is the Key The elimination of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex can produce better spinal function every time. The spinal muscles, spinal ligaments, spinal joints, cartilage and spinal discs can become healthier. There can be an improvement in posture and in body balance. There is a slowing, stopping or, in some cases a reversal of Subluxation Degeneration. The elimination of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex can produce better whole body function every time. There can be better spinal health, better nerve system health and better organ, system and tissue health. Attitudes and outlook can improve. Chances are, you will not get diseases and symptoms that you would have been the victim of. The elimination of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex can produce improvement of the spine and whole body function, improving whole body health, resulting in better healing…a better expression of life…an increase in wellness and a better world. It simply makes good sense to correct the Vertebral Subluxation Complex, the interference between the brain and the cells of your body, allowing you to heal naturally, to be all the person you are capable of being, rather than waiting for symptoms and sickness to appear. Chiropractors are the only health care professional specifically trained to locate and correct the Vertebral Subluxation Complex and also to help you prevent it from occurring in the future. So don’t let the tragedy of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex devastate and destroy your life or the life of your family. Have your Chiropractor determine the degree of Vertebral Subluxation Complex and the phase of Subluxation Degeneration in your spine and your children’s spine. Then do something about it! Vigorously pursue corrective care. Don’t wait until you become a negative disease statistic. |
