Why should I see a Chiropractor if I am not in Pain?

The most important thing people need to understand about health is this:

Health is not about how you feel, it is about how well your body is functioning.

By the time you feel physical diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease or arthritis, they have been manifesting for a number of years. When restricted to death less than 2 hours from the onset of symptoms, 12% of all natural deaths were classified as sudden in one study, and 88% of those were due to heart disease.1
 
People with heart disease and breast cancer may feel fine, but their bodies are not functioning properly. The same is true with your spine and nervous system. This is where chiropractic comes in. We can assess the function of your body, primarily your nervous system.
 
The nervous system heals, controls, regulates and coordinates the function of your ENTIRE body. Therefore, it is crucial that it is working properly.
 
Even though you may feel fine, a chiropractic assessment can identify areas of subluxation (spinal misalignments), or decreased brain/body connection, so we can allow these areas to function properly.
 
A great example would be the meaning behind "The Straw that Broke the Camel's back." This theory gets tested on people in daily life.  We do it to ourselves, we add on a bale or two each day, and then set it down at night.  It seems harmless enough, but then we do it again the next day, and the next, and the next.  So the overload of our straw is in repetition.  The small, repetitive movements we make over time have the same effect as the small straws placed one at a time on the camel.  Eventually, our back can't handle any more and it collapses! The "collapse" is the pain that we feel and you may stop feeling pain after we remove a few bales of straw but what about the rest?
 
Regular chiropractic care can be seen as removing the interference's (the straw) and keeping them away for your body to heal itself.
 
Remember that you were born to be healthy! When you keep your body's life energy flowing by removing any interference in your brain/body connection, you will express the health potential you were meant to.
 
1. Engelstein ED, Zipes DP. Sudden cardiac death. In: Alexander RW, Schlant RC, Fuster V, eds. The Heart, Arteries and Veins. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 1998:1081. 1112.
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