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#186 BIFURCATE

5/1/2018

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            Bifurcate – “To divide into two branches or forks.”  33 years ago this was the word that my wife used to describe childbirth.  For example, it used to be a thing that two kids would take the wishbone from a turkey, each grab one end, make a silent wish, and then pull.  Whomever got the larger piece of the bone would get his/her wish.  In the process the kids have bifurcated the wishbone.  Makes me very glad I’m a guy!
           
            Imagine that you can bifurcate your life.  Live two lives at the same time.  No I’m not talking about how some politicians live a double life, one for their family and one for their constituents.  Rather I’m asking you to pretend that you can have two bodies at the same time to live within.  I know it’s ridiculous, but just buy into it for a minute.  Go back in your mind to the day you called my office to set up your exam.  After you made the call and set up the appointment imagine you downloaded what we will call the Dr. Rick Bifurcation app.  One of the tabs on the app is self-duplication.  You own a very smart smart phone and open my app and press on the self-duplication tab.  Instantly, your body is duplicated and your life is bifurcated.  Now there are two yous sitting in the room, the you-you and the duplicate-you.  Yeah, I know it’s weird.  Play along.
 
The you-you keeps the appointment with me while the duplicate-you wants nothing of this crazy chiropractic thing.  You-you buys into what I’m selling, spinal/neurological wellness, gets the adjustments, does the exercises, gets the massages, completes the Initial Intensive Care to get the spine under control, and then goes onto Reconstructive Care to maximally correct the spine of subluxation, and finally embarks on a lifetime Wellness Care plan to allow for maximum healing and spinal-neurological health.  In the meantime, duplicate-you goes forward with life like most people do, without chiropractic care, managing their pain and health issues with an ever increasing supply of prescription drugs and little more. 
 
Here’s the question:
 
Which you is going to have better posture, stand straighter, feel better, have less pain, have more flexibility and greater mobility, and generally be healthier when the two of you are in your 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, and beyond?  You-you of course. 
 
And how much would duplicate-you pay to have the health and mobility that you-you has in the second half of life?  $1,000?  $100,000?  $1,000,000?  It doesn’t matter.  Health is not for sale.  It has to be earned day by day by making good decisions at a point in life when you can still prevent the problems in the first place, at a time before the bifurcation.  I hope you’ll continue with me along that path.
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     Hello, My name is Andrew and I am a happy, healthy one year old.  But I wasn’t so happy or healthy when I first met Dr. Rick a few months ago.  I had been having problems with my ears for four months, I couldn’t sleep at night and I was miserable.  We’d been to the doctor lots of times but nothing was helping.  In fact, all the medicines the doctor had tried seemed to make me worse instead of better!  Both the regular doctor and the Ear-Nose and Throat doctor said that if the antibiotics didn’t work, then they’d just have to put tubes in.  Now my Mom and dad weren’t about to let them do surgery on me, especially since they had been reading and learned that tubes can cause more problems than they solve.  My mom and dad did a lot of praying.  Then my mom heard that sometimes babies who have a traumatic birth like mine have ear trouble.  You see when I was born they used a vacuum extractor and forceps to pull me out.  I guess all that yanking on my head, hurt my neck.  She also heard that chiropractic care can be the answer.  Now she was skeptical because she couldn’t imagine a chiropractor helping ear infections!?!  But at that point she was willing to try anything!!  Happily, a few weeks of adjustments and my ears were all cleared up.  In addition, I no longer had a stiff neck or shoulders and my whole personality was happier.  I have to tell all babies who have ear troubles, don’t let them give you tubes until you at least try chiropractic care first.  After all, it can’t hurt and if you’re like me, you could be perfectly well with no drugs and no surgery.  In my family, we thank God for Dr. Rick, because I feel better, my mom and dad are happier and sometimes, I even sleep through the night.