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#98 Chiro Intro  OR  Dr Ricks Everything Bagel

4/15/2014

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           When I named this article I thought of the bagels that you can get at Starbucks or Panera that are called “Everything Bagels.”  I guess the presumption is that these are all in one bagels that contain everything.  While they in fact do not contain everything they are full of goodies and they are still very tasty.  So in this article I will attempt to give you “everything” you need to know about your spine and fill the page full of goodies.  But of course it won’t really have everything which is why all my other articles are on the blog above.  Read on.  

            Subluxation of the spine is joint damage, stress and strain that has healed wrong.  It often begins while we are in the uterus due to constraint.  It can also begin during the birth process as we are tugged, twisted, and pulled out, either naturally or through C-Section, or even perhaps with forceps or a vacuum extractor.  Then we begin a life in gravity falling all the time while we learn to crawl, walk, run, climb, ride, slide, skate, ski, and board.  We play sports, some of which are designed specifically to hurt us such as football or wrestling or fighting.  We get in car crashes.  We sit too long, work at the computer too long, play x-box too long, stand too long, lift too much or wrong, and the list goes on and on and on.  In short, our spine is subject to damage from before we are born until the day we die by “Time, Life, and Gravity.”

            Subluxation will always exhibit five parts: 1) Abnormal motion, 2) Nerve stress, 3) Muscle Spasm/Atrophy, 4) Inflammation, 5) Degeneration of the spine.  As your chiropractor I examine you for some or all of these parts and quantify them for later comparison.  From that examination we get three important numbers to monitor your progress: 1) Range of Motion, 2) Total Subluxation Value, 3) Phase of Subluxation Degeneration.

            Subluxation will always result in the following three effects: 1) Pain – When the level of inflammation or degeneration gets to a certain threshold (different for every person), there will be pain.  This can be when you are newborn, or maybe not until you are very old, but it happens in over 90% of humans. 2) Spinal Degeneration/wear and tear/arthritis (you pick the term as they all mean the same thing).  The damaged joints will wear out faster than normal aging.  This damage is always permanent.  3) Damage to overall health/increased risk of disease/decreased quality of life.  And this health effect is due to two things, stress to the communication system of the nerves, and inflammation from subluxation spreading everywhere within your body.

            Treatment involves three tools:  1) Stretching exercises – these are to take the joints in your spine to their extreme end of motion every day to help pump nutrients from the vertebrae into the discs and cartilage.  2) Chiropractic adjustments – these are to break the scar tissue and spinal habit patterns to get the joints moving that you could not stretch into moving no matter how often or how many times you stretch.  3)  Deep tissue massage – to break scar tissue in the muscles to allow the adjustments and the stretches to work better and last longer.

            Just as there are three effects of subluxation, there are three benefits to a healthier spine:  1) You will have less pain or no pain both now and in the future.  2)  The joints of your spine will wear out more slowly or perhaps stop wearing out altogether.  3)  Your overall health will be greater since there is less nerve system stress and less inflammation throughout your body.

            It just makes sense and best of all, it works.  Thanks for reading.  I hope you enjoy and I especially hope you SHARE.
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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.