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#136 DISABILITY

7/1/2015

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The #1 cause of death in the United States is heart disease.  The #2 cause is cancer.  You wouldn’t believe the #3 cause, but that is for another article.  The #4 cause is probably diabetes.  But the #1 cause of disability is none of the above.  The #1 cause of treatment money spent is none of the above.  The cold fact is that more people are disabled by their spine and more money is spent on the treatment of back pain.  And let me tell you that the vast amount of money spent is not at the chiropractor, but in the orthopedists’ offices for injections and surgery.  In fact, studies clearly demonstrate that for every dollar spent on chiropractic, much more money is saved that is not spent at the medical doctor’s office and hospital.  In a very direct way, chiropractors do not cost, they save.  I know that may be hard to believe when you write a check to me, but statistically this is very true.  I am saving you gobs of money later.  You’re welcome.  But the money spent is not the important thing, it’s the disability.  

            Disability is the inability to do the things that you want to do.  Permanent disability is this inability for the rest of your life.  Look around you and every day you will see people who are in various levels of disability due to their spine.  This can happen to infants, children, and young adults, even though we mostly associate it with the elderly.  Why does this happen to the elderly?  It’s very simple, cartilage.  Nearly every joint in your body is made of two bones separated by a very hard tissue called cartilage.  Your cartilage has no blood supply and even if it did, the cells that originally built your cartilage have been essentially shut down in adulthood.  You don’t make cartilage anymore!  But you do continually wear it down every day.  When you hear or read the terms herniated disc, bulging disc, degenerated disc, osteoarthritis, arthritis, bone on bone, bone spur, wear and tear, you are reading about cartilage that is wearing out and will not ever be replaced.  It will never grow again.  And if someone tells you that you can take a supplement or change your diet and grow cartilage, you cannot.  There is no evidence of that.  Your cells simply just don’t do the work anymore, no matter how much good stuff you feed them. 

            You have to keep what you have, because once it’s gone it’s gone for good.  And it can happen at literally any age.  So how do we keep what we have?  How do we avoid disability?  Or in other words, how do we maintain our mobility?  It is in the word mobility that we find the key.  Mobility, “the ability to move or be moved freely and easily.”  For your body to have mobility for a lifetime, each joint has to have mobility for a lifetime.  And since it is your spine that is the set of joints that is most likely to result in your immobility, logic dictates that the way to keep your body mobile throughout your lifetime is to keep your spinal joints mobile throughout your lifetime.  It is so simple, isn’t it?  And how do we accomplish this?  Adjustments, disc pump exercises, and a regular aerobic workout, exactly the tools that I spoke with you about on day one, the tools that I use daily and weekly, and the tools that I hope you will use from now for the rest of your life.

            And of course the tools that I will hope you will tell others about!!            
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     I used to suffer severe headaches and migraines on a daily basis, usually all day.  I managed to work in an office because I had to.  When I went home at the end of the day I would often close the shades and go to bed.  I could not plan weekend events because I simply never knew how I was going to feel tomorrow.  If there were a special event such as a birthday or wedding, I would begin to medicate myself two weeks in advance to give myself the best chance of making the event.
     Friends and fellow church-goers had been trying to get me to see Dr. Rick for some time before I finally gave in.  Looking back, I don’t know why I waited.  Within a month, I was headache free.  I couldn’t remember what it was like to not feel pain.  I could do whatever I wanted and not live in fear of the headache.  This was a miracle for me, but the story does not end here.
     An opportunity came up for us to adopt a newborn baby girl not long after I began chiropractic care.  This baby was particularly important to me and my husband because her mother is a relative.  Tragically, her mother was also a drug user and did drugs during her pregnancy.  If we could not adopt the baby she would have been put into the foster system since the biological mother was incapable of raising her.
     To keep a long story short, we did adopt her and she is doing fantastically.  There is no sign of any effect of the drugs on her as of yet, and with God’s help, there never will be.  We think that is because of the vast amounts of love and attention she gets from us, her real mommy and daddy.
     What does this have to do with chiropractic?  The reality is that without chiropractic, I would still be nearly an invalid with headaches.  I COULD NOT HAVE TAKEN CARE OF AN INFANT OR RAISED A YOUNG CHILD.  THEREFORE, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE ANY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE THAT MY HUSBAND AND I WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR HER.  MY DAUGHTER’S LIFE IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE SOMEBODY MADE ME GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR. 
     You need to tell everyone you know what you know about chiropractic.  Who knows who’s life you will change too.
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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.