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Chiropractic FAQ

Is chiropractic effective?
Chiropractic helps to remove postural imbalances and structural misalignments that can accumulate in our bodies over time. Chiropractic works by restoring your own inborn ability to be healthy. For your body to remain healthy, your nervous system must function well. For your nervous system to function well it must be free of interference. By restoring spinal function with Chiropractic adjustments, nerve interference by misaligned vertebrae is removed, thus allowing optimal nervous system function and improved health.

Why should I see a Chiropractor?
Seeing a chiropractor is not only for back pain and neck pain. Chiropractic care is an excellent way to keep your body at its peak performance through nutrition, adjustment and overall wellness. In addition, chiropractic care has been known to help a wide range of conditions from fibromyalgia to diabetes.

What is Subluxation?
When a vertebrae becomes misaligned or moves out of its normal position, this is referred to in the chiropractic profession as a subluxation. Subluxations can be caused by a wide range of issues ranging from a minor slip or bump to a car accident or any sudden trauma. When a vertebrae is subluxated, it begins to put pressure on nerves, blood vessels and everything around it. This pressure comes with a price. The subluxation interrupts the natural pathways that the messages sent from the brain need to be clear in order to be completed properly.

How does chiropractic care work?
Chiropractic is an overall way of looking at the human body. It's based on the idea that the body is self-sustaining and self-healing. The body is in essence completely controlled by the brain through its connection via the spinal cord and the vast networks of nerves that make up the body. When this system is not functioning at its peak, the overall performance of the human body is lacking.

In the chiropractic world, drugs and medicine are not utilized as a form of treating a patient. While supplementation and nutrition are almost always a part of the bigger picture, drugs and prescriptions can be viewed as band-aids to treat symptoms rather than going to the source and treating the real problem.

While it's often perceived that the chiropractor is solely here to treat back and neck pain, this is simply a small piece of what the profession really is capable of handling. Chiropractors not only treat soft and hard tissue problems such as sciatica and joint pain, but are largely called on to deal with more significant issues. Some of these issues include fibromyalgia, allergies, insomnia, headaches and many more.

What is a chiropractic adjustment? Is it safe?
Adjustments, or manipulation as they're sometimes referred to is the minor movement of vertebrae in the spine. The objective of this movement is to realign vertebrae that have moved out of place for a number of reasons ranging from normal daily activity to trauma such as a car accident.

When these vertebrae are out of place, it has an overall systemic effect from muscular to the central nervous system. Without proper alignment and flow of all nerves and systems in the body from the brain, we can't function at our peak.

An adjustment is often a pressure from the chiropractor utilizing the hands or an instrument to move a vertebrae back into place. This happens with a quick movement and is often without discomfort. You may hear a noise that sounds like you're cracking your knuckles referred to as joint cavitation. It is the release of gases such as oxygen and nitrogen from the joint.

What can I expect from my visit to a chiropractor?
Going to the Chiropractor is a new experience for many of us. Maybe we've heard through a friend or have done some research online. It's possible that you are just fed up with living in pain and it's time to do something about it. In either case, your first visit to the chiropractor will really be about getting to know the chiropractor and discussing your history, current condition and goals.

What results can I expect from treatment?
Chiropractic is based on the idea of removing imbalances both structural and postural in an effort to allow our body to heal itself. For this to happen the network of nerves and signals from your brain, down your spinal cord, to the network of nerves must be allowed to flow freely without any interruption. Chiropractors have the ability and skill to remove these interruptions or misalignments and allow the body to perform as it was meant to.

If you've ever been in a car accident, played a sport, fell down or just bumped into something too hard, it's very possible that you are not functioning at your best due to a misalignment. While there are many potential mechanical or structural causes for misalignment, there are also chemical reasons. For instance, if you smoke or drink excessively or even just have a poor diet, the chemical issues in your body can eventually cause underlying conditions and disease to appear.

Allowing a chiropractor to get you back on track both chemically and structurally will bring your body back to the proper state it should be in to perform at its peak.

WHAT IS NUTRITIONAL THERAPY?
Simply put, Nutritional Therapy is use of whole foods and whole foods concentrated to clinical potencies to restore and maintain health.

WHAT MAKES NUTRITIONAL THERAPY DIFFERENT THAN DIETS AND VITAMINS I CAN GET JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE?
In the first place, the doctors in this office are experts in the use of whole foods and whole foods concentrated to clinical potency and in the management of your return to health. In the second place, Nutritional Therapy uses these whole foods and whole foods concentrated to clinical potency which are specially designed to enable your doctor and you to achieve your health goals.

WHAT ARE SOME CONDITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN TREATED WITH NUTRITIONAL THERAPY?
The answer to that question is just about everything. The body has a great ability to heal when given the chance to do so. Many times all the body needs to make health cells - - to build its health - - is the right ingredients, the right Nutritional Therapy!

SOME OF THE CONDITIONS THAT OFTEN RESPOND TO NUTRITIONAL THERAPY:

BALANCE = HEALTH
IMBALANCE LEADS TO DISEASE

HOW DOES DISEASE OR IMBALANCE BEGIN?
The body has to have whole nutrients to maintain health balance and functional health. Unless all of the required elements are available and able to be assimilated, body chemistry imbalance results and disease begins to set in.

HOW DO I KNOW IF I HAVE AN IMBALANCE IN MY BODY CHEMISTRY?
Symptoms are nature’s way of communicating what the body needs for health. Symptoms often occur in patterns. If you are having symptoms in recurring patterns, you may have an imbalance in your body chemistry and a disease process may be developing now.

WHEN I TAKE MEDICATIONS MY SYMPTOMS GO AWAY. DOES THAT MEAN THAT MY IMBALANCE IS GONE TOO?
Medications can alter bodily functions, but they do not build up the stores of whole nutrients necessary to maintain the body’s health. Medications usually only mask the symptoms, while the condition of bio-chemical imbalance continues and the disease process works deeper into the body’s systems.

A balanced body chemistry means that all of the bodily functions are also balanced. Healing will be rapid. Sleep will be deep and restful. Your digestion will be proper, elimination complete. Balance, hearing, vision will al function properly. A balanced body chemistry also assists in your hormone functions and helps keep you feeling young and fresh. Your appetite will be moderate and your consumption based on your needs, neither will you overeat nor under eat.

Now that kind of health may sound like a miracle. You might say, “I could never feel that good.” But try to remember the last time you felt like that. One year, five years, 10, 15, 25, 45 years ago? Did you ever feel that good? If you did, you know it is possible to be that healthy. Many adults who enjoy balanced body chemistry say they feel like that now.

SYMPTOMS versus CAUSE

WHEN I TAKE ASPIRIN MY HEADACHES GO AWAY, BUT THEY COME BACK. WHY IS THAT?
It is treating the CAUSE that corrects a problem and eliminates the symptom. If the CAUSE of headaches were a need for more aspirin, then most of the headaches in the United States would be gone because most people take aspirin for their headaches.

Obviously aspirin does not treat the cause of anything. Few drugs or over-the-counter medications do. In fact many disease conditions are caused by medications. Because medication does not treat the cause, but may reduce the symptoms, treatment for the cause is often delayed while the underlying condition worsens. Besides, when symptoms are covered up by medications, the defense mechanisms of the body (that are triggered by the symptoms) do not come into play and the problem worsens.

Symptoms have had a bad rap for many years. When “modern science” came up with “miracle drugs” to suppress symptoms, we started looking at symptom patterns as bad. The fact is symptoms can be our friend. If we understand they are the outer reflection of an inner imbalance or a need of the body, then we will be more conservative when it comes to suppressing symptoms with chemicals.

Symptom patterns throughout the history of healing have been a main indicator for treatment. A wise physician might ask hundreds of questions in a patient interview to determine, along with the help of physical signs, what caused the disease, then through training and experience arrive at a treatment plan.

But symptoms are not a reliable gauge of the underlying cause once they have been suppressed or altered with chemicals that do not treat the cause.

DIAGNOSIS OF CAUSE

There are several successful methods for determining the cause of a health problem. Here are a few:

1. Questionnaires
2. Tissue samples – Blood, Saliva, Urine, Hair
3. Imaging, X-Rays, MRI’s, etc.
4. Clinical Experience

Here are brief explanations of each of them:

1. Questionnaires
As mentioned in the symptoms section, symptom patterns have been used for thousands of years to determine the state of the body’s chemistry. Your doctor may have you answer extensive questionnaires designed to help her or him find the cause of your problem. Such questionnaires usually group symptoms by organ or glandular systems.

Often your Nutritional Therapy doctor can combine your answers with other information – including vital signs – and through clinical experience make the correct recommendation for your Nutritional Therapy.

At a later date, the patient can answer a second questionnaire, which the doctor compares with the first questionnaire’s symptom pattern. Then the doctor can make further recommendations until the desired level of health is achieved, followed by a maintenance dosage of key supplements.

2. Tissue samples – Blood, Saliva, Urine, Hair
Various tissue samples may be collected by your doctor for the purpose of analyzing the result of your body’s chemistry. Blood and other bodily fluids are made up of the products of metabolism.

If there is a dysfunction of an organ or glandular system, the normal bodily fluids will not be found upon examination. A doctor trained to evaluate these various tissues for biochemical balance will use the experience of thousands of other cases with similar laboratory findings. The Nutritional Therapy that benefited those cases will be recommended for your case. Computer analysis is often utilized to better consider all of the variables.

3. Reflex Analysis
Although now composed of billions of cells, the body was at one time just one cell in your mother’s womb. As the differentiation of the cells progressed and finally developed into a complete person, these parts of the original one cell continued to maintain relationships in their differentiated parts.

In other words that part of the one cell that became your pancreas, (for example) also became part of your arms, legs, abdomen, cranium, hands, feet and so on. That is why some highly trained doctors can touch one place on your body and know if another part is healthy or not.

The Chinese, Ayurvedic, Persian, Greek and many Aboriginal societies have highly developed reflex analysis methods. Perhaps the most well known is the Chinese acupuncture meridian system. Using such reflex analysis systems, the doctor evaluates functions of the patient’s organs and glands.

Then with this knowledge and drawing on thousands of similar cases for thousands of years back, the doctor gives a balancing substance designed to restore the patient’s health.

In the United States many reflex systems have been developed over the past 70 years. De Jarnette, Rees, Bennett, Goodheart and Versendaal are all doctors who have already moved the reflex analysis into the 21st century with their extensive research. Your doctor may use one or all of these reflex analysis systems to determine which organ or glandular system is the cause of your condition.

4. Clinical Experience
Clinical experience encompasses all of the previously mentioned methods of determining a patient’s needs. In honing a doctor’s diagnostic skills there is no substitute for clinical experience. After observing hundreds and hundreds of cases respond to Nutritional Therapy, a doctor soon gathers skills for determining what is best for most conditions. Also, today many great doctors write books, lecture, and produce videotapes so we can all gain from their experience. That way the clinical experience curve is much sharper and there are many more wise doctors than there used to be.

WHOLE FOODS CONCENTRATED TO CLINICAL POTENCY
SYNTHETIC versus WHOLE FOOD VITAMIN COMPLEXES

Dr. Royal Lee, a visionary of whole food concentrates, stated many times that there is no way a synthetic vitamin could do the same job as a whole food concentrate complex of vitamins. Synthetic vitamins can alter function but they cannot support function. This was proved many times by early researchers in the nutritional field when animal experiments showed that the test animals could not live on bleached and synthetically enriched products. Today this makes even more sense. One of the many experiments of that time was published in the “Vitamin News,” November 1940, where cells, whose growth like ours need B1 vitamins, were used to test the difference between whole food concentrates, synthetic crystal B and no support nutritionally at all.

As you can see the growth of cells supported with whole food concentrates was much greater than with the synthetic vitamin. Dr. Lee stated, “The natural vitamin complexes contain the various closely related principles that are normally found together in foods. The more we study those complexes, the more complex they appear. That is why synthetic and chemically purified ‘vitamins’ are really not vitamins at all. They are only fragments of vitamins.”

Dr. Lee goes on to say, “Vitamin deficiencies are now becoming recognized as specialized forms of starvation. Even overweight persons getting their full quota of calories, carbohydrates, fats and proteins, are very often starving to the danger point of disease from vitamin deficiencies.”

WHY TREAT A STARVATION DISEASE WITH A DRUG? WHY USE CHEMICALLY PURE CRYSTALLINE POWDERS CALLED VITAMINS TO TREAT DISEASE FROM STARVATION WHEN WE CAN USE WHOLE FOODS CONCENTRATED TO CLINICAL POTENCIES?
There is no reason if you can get quality food sources for the products.

Healing the body has a priority system. Before trying allopathic methods, first try whole foods, and then whole foods concentrated to clinical potency, then herbs, then homeopathy, and then synthetic products.

The reason is this: The body was created to receive its life force from the assimilation of nutrients both known and unknown from whole foods. So this is the first method of balancing body chemistry. After this dietary step is taken, then the remaining imbalance of the body is best treated with whole foods concentrated to clinical potency. Because so many diseases are due to those two issues alone, millions of people would be healed by just those two steps. Those people who continue to develop symptoms would then best be treated by herbs and homeopathic remedies. (See “Homeopathy and the 21st Century,” Dana Ullman). Synthetic vitamins are the last resort of the so-called alternative methods. That’s because high dosage vitamin therapy covers up symptoms and can also create imbalance in the body’s chemistry due to their action that leaches essential micronutrients out of the body’s storehouse.

ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS TO HEALTH

Chemicals in the form of pesticides, fertilizers, and food additives as well as products of internal combustion engines also have known effects negative for your health. Many people are suffering from disease due to these effects. Removal of these hazards from our external and internal environment is the answer. But until that happens, there are whole foods concentrates known to reduce hazardous buildups in your system.

ONCE YOU HAVE BEGUN YOUR NUTRITIONAL THERAPY

WHY DO I HAVE TO TAKE SO MANY SUPPLEMENTS?
Clinical experience has shown that the body requires high dosages in the beginning of treatment to replace the missing health factors.

AS I FEEL BETTER SHOULD I TAKE LESS SUPPLEMENTS?
Reducing the recommended dosage may slow down your progress. If your goal were to drive your car 100 miles and you travel at 50 miles per hour, when you got halfway there should you reduce your speed to 25 m.p.h. or go FULL SPEED AHEAD at 50 m.p.h.?

CAN I CONTINUE TO TAKE MY HEALTH FOOD OR DRUG STORE VITAMINS WHILE I AM ON THE NUTRITIONAL THERAPY?
It is best to stop taking synthetic vitamins as they often mask symptoms and do not always correct the deficiency.

NUTRITIONAL THERAPY FROM HEAD TO TOE

On the following pages you will find the results of actual cases treated with Whole Foods Concentrated to Clinical Potency. Some of the responses may surprise you. You will probably find symptom patterns similar to your own, a family member or a suffering friend. It will be your job to give that suffering person this book and to refer them to the doctor’s office where you got it.

This is how we can all join together to make this a better world. By each person getting healthier the world will be a better place to live. So here we go. Patients Speak about Nutritional Therapy from HEAD to TOE.