If you are like most people who visit this web site, you have a specific health concern that is interfering with your life. Whether you suffer from chronic low back pain or have had migraine headaches for the past 15 years, you are looking for the same thing. You want to be healthy so that you can enjoy your life.
To help us in our quest for health we must first define what health is. Dorland's Medical Dictionary tells us that health is a condition of optimum physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmities. It is important to understand that there is much more to being healthy than not having to take medication or not having symptoms. Let's look to Webster's Dictionary for some insight on how we can achieve this state of optimum health. Webster's Dictionary defines health as a condition of wholeness in which all the organs are functioning at 100% all of the time. Now there is some information we can really sink our teeth into. All we need to do now is figure out how to get our bodies to function at 100%. For our next clue, we will take a look in Gray's Anatomy which is the anatomy book used by all health professionals in the United States today. Gray's Anatomy states that the purpose of the brain and nerve system is to control and coordinate the function of the other tissues, organs, and systems in the body and to relate and adapt the body to its environment. Suprising as it may seem, no where does it say that the key to proper function of your body relies on drugs or surgery. Think about it. Are headaches caused by a lack of aspirin circulating in your system? The answer is no. Aspirin may cover up the symptoms but the underlying dysfunction causing the headache is still there.
The next question we need to answer is: "How do we make sure that our nervous system in functioning properly so that the rest of our body can function at 100%?" Fortunately, science has discovered the most common type of nervous system interference. This condition is called vertebral subluxation and it interferes with the ability of your nervous system to effectively communicate with the rest of your body, making it impossible for you to function at 100%. Vertebral subluxation can lead to a wide variety of health problems such as pain, asthma, headaches and fatigue just to name a few.
Simply put, a Vertebral Subluxation is a
'bone out of place that irritates a nerve'.
Chiropractors are the only health care professionals specifically trained in the art and science of locating and correcting vertebral subluxation allowing your body to function at 100%.
