Statements you will probably never hear: “My grandfather clock broke so I took it to my pastor to get fixed,” “Hey, I’ve got this great barber than fixed my laptop camera,” “We had our new puppy fixed at Denny’s.” Your pastor may be able to save your soul, and your barber can fix your hair, and Denny’s may make a mean Superbird sandwich, but they do not fix clocks, repair laptops, or spay dogs. They are limited in their services. Similarly your chiropractor is not going to prescribe chemotherapy for your cancer, or beta-blockers for your high blood pressure. We don’t do chemical treatment. We use mechanical treatment to fix mechanical problems. That makes sense. You treat chemical problems with chemistry, psychological problems with psychology, and visual problems with optimetrics. Why would you ever use psychotherapy to treat near sightedness? How about using a dental drill to treat a heart attack? Then why do so many medical doctors continue to treat mechanical spine problems with chemistry, medications, drugs? The answer is simple, they do it because it is the only tool they have in their tool box. Well, that’s not exactly true. They do have a second tool with which to treat your mechanical problem, a scalpel. If the drugs don’t work, they can cut it out or fuse it. Yay! Does any of this make sense yet? The lesson here is that you have to know the limitations.
In the case of your spine you need to remember some simple facts:
1) Your joints are made of two bones separated by cartilage.
2) Cartilage has no blood supply so it relies completely upon motion to get the vital food, water, and oxygen it needs to live.
3) Time, life, and gravity cause daily inflammation in the joints of your spine either through postural stress or various degrees and forms of injury.
4) Inflammation can be measured by the TSV. If it gets high enough…PAIN!
5) Inflammation creates scar tissue, also called adhesions, or fibrous tissue, or gristle.
6) Scar tissue binds the joints of your spine reducing the motion of the joints.
7) Loss of motion causes the cartilage to begin to wear out which is OBSERVABLE IN JUST TWO WEEKS per the work of Dr. Tapio Vidamin at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Question: Where in the above equation will drugs solve the problem? Answer: Nowhere.
The solution is very simple:
1) Adjustments to break the scar tissue to restore motion.
2) Stretches to help prevent the return of the scar tissue.
3) Return to step #1 because Time, Life, and Gravity act on the spine every day!!
That’s generally it. The ONLY exceptions are those with significant complicating factors such as those in which the cartilage wear is so severe as to limit the results. The natural extension of the above is that the sooner in life one begins adjustments and the stretches, the better.
In the case of your spine you need to remember some simple facts:
1) Your joints are made of two bones separated by cartilage.
2) Cartilage has no blood supply so it relies completely upon motion to get the vital food, water, and oxygen it needs to live.
3) Time, life, and gravity cause daily inflammation in the joints of your spine either through postural stress or various degrees and forms of injury.
4) Inflammation can be measured by the TSV. If it gets high enough…PAIN!
5) Inflammation creates scar tissue, also called adhesions, or fibrous tissue, or gristle.
6) Scar tissue binds the joints of your spine reducing the motion of the joints.
7) Loss of motion causes the cartilage to begin to wear out which is OBSERVABLE IN JUST TWO WEEKS per the work of Dr. Tapio Vidamin at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Question: Where in the above equation will drugs solve the problem? Answer: Nowhere.
The solution is very simple:
1) Adjustments to break the scar tissue to restore motion.
2) Stretches to help prevent the return of the scar tissue.
3) Return to step #1 because Time, Life, and Gravity act on the spine every day!!
That’s generally it. The ONLY exceptions are those with significant complicating factors such as those in which the cartilage wear is so severe as to limit the results. The natural extension of the above is that the sooner in life one begins adjustments and the stretches, the better.