Dr. Towbin, of the Harvard Medical School’s pathology department, found that ”the birth process, even under optimal conditions is potentially a traumatic, crippling event. Spinal cord and brain stem injuries occur often during the process of birth but frequently escape diagnosis.” As a chiropractor, we would much rather examine and adjust every newborn than to have to deal with a lifetime of health problems. We would rather adjust the newborn than wait 26 years and learn that the young person developed gall bladder disease in the areas where the nerve tissue was injured and compromised since birth.

At the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Arpad DeNagy determined that interference to the nervous system, due to spinal stress, resulted in serious damage within a short period of time. He recommends that stabilizing biomechanical care should begin as soon after birth as possible. Furthermore, he indicated that this spinal stress tragedy may take sixty years to develop fully! “The entire birth process, from conception and pregnancy to delivery and post-delivery, can lay the foundation for later mental and physical disease. We now know that the trauma surrounding the birth process is engraved as imprints in the developing nervous system of the fetus and newborn.” Arthur Janov, Ph.D. Has Your Birth Process  caused You An Early Demise? A Boston University pathologist demonstrated that there is severe spinal damage to the infant as a result of the “usual” birth process. “The real cause of our demise is not diseases, but the spinal stress that happens at birth.

This robs us of our innate potential for a very long, very healthy, and very happy life. “The child will have less than optimal physical, mental, and social well-being. The birth damaged child carries the seeds of premature death with him at all times.” Studies at Columbia University have shown that the average child loses seventy percent of his biological potential by the age of seventeen. Traumatic birth syndrome, whether it results in immediate symptoms or diminishes your human potential over the course of your lifetime must be dealt with immediately.  All children should be examined by a Wellness Chiropractor immediately after birth.

The study found that “chiropractic care significantly reduces labor time!”  The labor time was decreased 24%-39% (as compared to national averages).  The study also revealed a significant reduction in back pain with chiropractic care.  Each woman reported at least a 50% reduction in back pain, some as high as 100%, as a result of chiropractic care.

Chiropractic is also very effective at turning babies in utero to prevent unnecessary Cesarean sections using using simple adjustments to the lower back and pelvis.  According to the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, in the late seventies a chiropractor by the name of Dr. Larry Webster noted a connection between misalignments of the sacral and pelvic bones and abnormal positioning of babies in utero. He developed a gentle chiropractic adjusting technique to restore movement and alignment in the pelvic region and saw that babies would regularly turn to the correct birthing position on their own after the adjustment.  During his career, Dr. Webster himself had a success rate over 90% (within three adjustments), working with approximately 1,000 pregnant moms with babies in compromised positions.  This resulted in less need for invasive surgery, faster recovery times, and healthier women and children.

If you or a loved one were pregnant wouldn’t you want to experience less pain and discomfort through your pregnancy?  Wouldn’t you want to decrease your labor time by hours?  Since nearly all medications can be harmful to the health of your baby, chiropractic becomes the obvious choice for a quicker and less painful delivery.   Call or email today for a complimentary consultation to learn about how you can have the healthiest pregnancy possible!

Dr. Deepak Chopra, former chief of staff at a Massachusetts Hospital, author of many best selling health books and tapes, and founder of the Chopra Center for Healing states, “Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies…our own intelligence is far superior to any we can substitute from the outside.”  Dr. Chopra’s comments on his former medical practice, “all I was doing was seeing patients, one after another, prescribing medicine like a legalized drug pusher.”  He stated his practice “was fostering a disease system and beyond that, a diseased world with [himself] its center.”

Dr. Lewis Thomas, MD states, “(there is) a kind of super intelligence that exists in each of us, infinitely smarter and possessed of technical knowledge far beyond our present understanding.”  The medical profession is beginning to understand the power of the body’s ability to heal itself and that when we introduce outside interference with drugs and surgeries it only leads to further complications.  It’s our innate intelligence that is responsible for keeping us healed, not the doctor.

When your innate intelligence is interfered with, there is a loss of general health and a loss of one’s ability to adapt properly to the environment.  Hans Selye, one of the world’s greatest pathologists and Nobel Prize winner states, “Many common diseases are largely due to errors in our adaptive response…many nervous and emotional disturbances, high blood pressure, gastric and duodenal ulcers and certain types of sexual, allergic, cardiovascular, and renal derangements appear to be…diseases of adaptation.”

As Wellness Chiropractors, we embrace the concept of innate intelligence.  We focus on identifying interferences in the nervous system and innate intelligence.  We focus on identifying interferences in the nervous system and innate intelligence (subluxations).  Our intent is to remove this interference with a specific chiropractic wellness adjustment and allow your body to function naturally and adapt to your environment thus freeing you to heal naturally from within.

We hear a lot of advertisements about deodorants being pH balanced.  Anyone who has ever owned a pool or hot tub knows the importance of keeping the chemicals in the water pH balanced.  But did you know that your blood needs to maintain a very specific pH as well?

In the science world pH stands for potential of Hydrogen; the scale on which it is measured runs from 0 to 14.  At the low end, 0 represents complete acidity while 14 represents complete alkalinity.  Vinegar registers at about a 2.5 on the scale while bleach is about a 12.  In the middle we find pure water at a pH of 7.  Your blood must be at a slightly alkaline 7.35 to 7.45 at all times – if the pH of your blood raises or lowers the slightest bit, you cannot survive for more than a few hours.

The human body thrives the best when in a slightly alkaline state.  When our blood becomes too acidic, diseases such as cancer are more likely to develop as well as inflammatory diseases such as arthritis and fibromyalgia, and people are more likely to catch colds and flu and have allergies.  So what can you do to alkalize your body?  Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and think positive!  If you think of your body like a bank account, you want to make sure you are eating more alkalizing foods than acidifying foods.  At our clinic we use a food list that assigns a number to different foods that help people visualize this concept.  Foods are listed according to their ability to decrease the alkaline reserve of your body.  The higher the number the more depletion of the alkaline reserve and the more harmful it is to you.  Scallops are ranked a whopping -226 while spaghetti is a -50 and beef steak -24.  Fruits and vegetables are listed in order of their positive affect in replacing alkaline reserve, for example, raw spinach at 556 is approximately 100 times more effective than green peas at 5.  Your emotions can also play a key role in the alkalizing of your body.  Emotions such as anger, stress, and unforgiveness can contribute to an acidic and sick body.  So this is what YOU can do: make sure you eat your fruits and veggies and think positive for a pH for health!

Harvey Lillard

Did you know that the first chiropractic patient suffered from hearing loss and not back pain?  D.D. Palmer is lauded as being the inventor of chiropractic.  At the time of performing his first adjustment, he was working as a magnetic healer inDavenport,Iowaand recently been treated by Andrew Taylor Still the “father of osteopathy.”  One day he met an African American janitor by the name of Harvey Lillard who suffered from acute hearing loss.  According to Lillard, his hearing began to deteriorate when 17 years prior he had bent over to pick something up and heard a loud pop in his back.  Palmer offered to examine the janitor’s back and found a large lump in between his shoulders.  From Palmer’s understanding of anatomy he decided that Lillard’s hearing loss was due to a misalignment of his vertebrae that then in turn blocked the spinal nerves which control the inner ear, what would later become known as a vertebral subluxation.  Palmer pushed the vertebrae back into place and after a few days Lillard was happy to report that his hearing was not only better but was almost completely restored!  D.D. Palmer and his son B.J. went on to open several chiropractic schools that would teach this newfound science to the public and thus chiropractic was born.  This just goes to show, it never hurts to try chiropractic for everything!

Time
Many people expect to regain their health right away.  They are used to fast cars, fast foods, and fast healthcare.  Time is a key ingredient to regaining 100% health.  Many people’s health problems started in the past and finally their symptoms came to light.  If the underlying causes of problems have been with a person for months or years, it makes perfect sense that the problem won’t be gone in a few days or visits.  Time is a key ingredient to making changes.

Repetition
Repetition is the vital key to correcting vertebral subluxation and restoring the integrity of the nervous system through the healing process.  Your chiropractor is likely to work with you on a repetitive program.  Consistency of care is essential for changes to take place.  You cannot diet for two days, diet for one week, binge for three weeks and expect to lose weight.  This prospect of releasing the weight doesn’t seem logical.  The same is true of correcting your subluxations and stabilizing your nervous system.  It takes repetition to change things that have been in your body for a while.  The length of time you have had your problem will determine the amount of repetition your body needs to recover and heal.

Energy
Energy is the part of the equation that holds everything together and is mostly YOUR responsibility.  Make your appointments.  Ask questions.  Do home care that is given to you. Attend extra classes offered by the doctor to learn more about your health and take greater responsibility for your wellbeing.

With the formula of Time, Repetition and Energy it is easily seen that your chances of optimal health increase dramatically.  If you can put the discipline it takes into these three steps…

Health is within your reach!

Your emotions and thoughts play major roles in your health.  Think about something that you really hate or someone who really bothers you.  It is actually possible to increase your heart rate, tense up your shoulders, bring on a headache, or make yourself sick to your stomach by just thinking about it!  These physical manifestations of negative emotions could be behind the pain and symptoms of disease that you are feeling right now.

B.E.S.T. (Bio-energetic Synchronization Technique) is a technique used by chiropractors and alternative medicine practitioners around the world that helps the body to heal itself by allowing the body to release negative emotions and past traumas.  It brings subconscious memories and feelings to the surface allowing your body to be brought back into present time.

B.E.S.T. is a non-forceful, energy balancing hands on procedure used to help reestablish the full healing potential of the body.  Understanding the body makes no mistakes regarding health and longevity, B.E.S.T. principles acknowledge the concept of Interference we create with our conscious mind. This Interference caused imbalance in the autonomic nervous system leading to exhaustion of our organ systems over time.  Researched at major universities, taught in several Chiropractic Colleges and in professional continuing education seminars, B.E.S.T. is recognized as an effective healing science. The principles and concepts of Morter Health System and B.E.S.T. technique are available to families, therapists and health care practitioners.

B.E.S.T. utilizes advanced technology developed to update higher brain interference from expression in the physical body.  When emotional thoughts such as worry, guilt, fear, or judgment, to name a few, become the overriding factor in our memory patterns, interference with the divine plan  for our perfect health and wellness becomes the norm.  This interference, formulated by conscious thought which in turn becomes a pattern, prevents the true expression of our physical bodies healing capability.

Emotional B.E.S.T. is an advanced procedure to help identify this emotional pattern, update the interference, and then allow the body to function based on current situations rather than past experiences.  This is the core of B.E.S.T. technology.  This is the pattern for health and wellness.  The pattern unlocks the power.  This procedure can be utilized by both practitioners and patients depending on their level of expertise and usually takes between 5-15 minutes to complete.

Ask your practitioner how B.E.S.T. can help you and your loved ones achieve a healthier lifestyle and reach your wellness goals today!