What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a natural form of healthcare that
relies on the body's own ability to heal. The care
encourages the body to regain strength and heal itself.
Chiropractic can be beneficial for the whole family. Dr.
Olson has had great success in treating children and adults. It is a good
idea to start chiropractic care for your children at an early
age—the earlier they learn the concepts of wellness, the
greater health they can experience. Chiropractic can be
successful in treating common child illnesses such as:
chronic ear infections, TMJ, scoliosis, allergies, colds,
and flu. Chiropractic really is a family affair.
As an
adult, chiropractic can help with back pain, neck pain, allergies,
cold and flu, and many other conditions. But remember that you don't
have to wait until you or your child feel symptoms:
Preventative and wellness care is the best way to fight
illness. Chiropractic can help you and your family build
natural resistance to help fight off attacks on the
immune system, which in turn keeps you healthy.
Medication isn't proving to be an answer for
childhood illnesses. Try natural approaches with your
children. Many infants and children need regular
adjustments due to difficult births, frequent falls and accidents,
and roughhousing. Chiropractic care has been shown to help
children with ear, nose, and throat infections, asthma,
anxiety, hyperactivity, poor concentration, and much
more. Unlike antibiotics or other medications,
chiropractic care can help a child overcome an illness and build their
resistance to future illnesses. You take your children to
frequent eye, teeth, and ear check-ups, so add a spinal
checkup—it's just as important to their health. Make it a
vital part of your children's healthcare.
Chiropractic adjustments free the body of
subluxations, allowing the brain and nerve system to
function at peak capacity and maintain balance. With an increased
efficiency in the nerve system, the body has extra energy left over to use in other ways. Chiropractic encourages the
body to a greater resistance against disease. Even if you
don't feel bad, it is wise to come in for regular
adjustments to keep the body resistant to illness. You
not only want to be relieved of your symptoms, but to experience
health. Health is when you are in balance, and in this
condition, you are most resistant to illness and disease.
Chiropractic adjustments coupled with acupuncture
promotes freedom of nerve flow in the spine by allowing
all the body's nerves to send their messages, and balancing
the body's energy.
And chiropractic combined with acupuncture and Traditional Chinese
Medicinal herbs is a very powerful medley for helping you
reach your maximum level of health.
Why Do I Need an Adjustment?
An
adjustment is a solution to a problem known as a
subluxation. A subluxation is a term used by
chiropractors that defies easy description; there are
nearly 300 terms used to describe it. One common definition
is a displaced vertebra causing pressure on nerves, which interferes
with brain/body interaction. The subluxation leads to
body malfunction or disease, which can result in lowered
resistance to disease, pain, imbalance, fatigue, and can
pave the way to illness. Subluxations are very common—nearly everyone has them—but often they are painless. And sometimes the pain associated with a subluxation is located far from
where the subluxation occurs.
Subluxations can be caused by accidents, falls,
heavy lifting, or from more subtle wear like sitting
improperly, favoring an arm or leg too much, looking down too long while reading. These have cumulative effects and cause
the spinal bones to give. Emotional trauma like stress can cause
tension and weakness in the muscles that support the spinal column, which allows subluxations to occur as well.
Therefore, periodic spinal examinations to locate
and correct the vertebral subluxation should be a part of
every family's heath care routine.
What is an Adjustment?
An adjustment is like a realignment of the spine.
It is a correction of the subluxation. Adjustments can be
helpful in eliminating sinus pressure, headaches, pains
in the neck, back, and shoulder, and maintaining health.
Adjustments
keep the communication system open between your brain,
nerves, and spinal cord. If this communication system is
forced to reroute itself—or is being interrupted
completely—subluxations occur, and disease will follow if
the problem is not corrected. The body has the ability to
heal itself if the communication system is functioning properly.
