Is your stress level at its MAX???  Take a minute and think about your lifestyle including the 3 dimensions of life: the chemical, the emotional, and the physical.  What are you doing to satisfy these 3 areas properly?

Each Monday, I receive "The Weekly Sticky" in my email inbox and this week's note really caught my attention in regards to our educational materials used in our office to explain chiropractic relating to lifestyles.  Let me take a minute and share what I learned from this week's sticky.

How can a person protect themselves from STRESS?  In our houses, we have a circut box that controls all of the electrical outlets and the appliances that we use.  Let me ask you, what happens when you plug multiple appliances into one outlet and turn everything on at the same exact time?  YOU BLOW THE CIRCUT related to the area where the outlet is located, right?  How can relate this to chiropractic?  This same thing can happen when someone surges an unprotected nervous system with STRESS!

Picture your Nervous System as an electrical outlet with multiple stressors plugged in to it.  What happens when you turn all of these stressors on at the same time?  The nervous system is overloading, therefore causing SUBLUXATION!  Depending on what nerves or circuts are blown, a person could possibly experience symptoms including minor aches and pains to more in depth health problems including hypertension (Journal of Human Hypertension, 22,1: G Bakris, MD et al.)

While it is impossible to deplete all of the stressors in our lives, we can guard ourselves against the unexpected surges by maintaining optimal wellness through regular Chiropractic Care.  Therefore, what is a Chiropractor's role in preventing those unexpected surges?  Chiropractors perform their job much like a surge protector by checking the nervous system for overloads and ADJUSTING each circut to perform at its optimal level. 

In conclusion, when it comes to our body's job to fighting stress and dis-ease, nothing beats keeping the power turned on with CHIROPRACTIC CARE!!!!