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!!!!

My name is Alli and I started working in the field of chiropractic about 6 months ago.  My husband recently graduated from chiropractic school and we now work together at Mouw Chiropractic.  It has been fun and interesting to work with my husband, and even more interesting to learn more about the world of chiropractic!  I have learned so much in the last few months that I thought I would share with the world my favorite top ten chiropractic truths: 

 1.  The body heals itself.

2.  Chiropractic helps the body heal from the "inside-out" versus from the "outside-in".  

3.  Suppressing symptoms, such as a fever or inflammation, stops the body from healing itself.

4.  Ice is a much better form of therapy on a sore area of the spine than heat.

5.  There are 3 types of stress that can cause a subluxation (misalignment) of the spine:  Chemical, Emotional and Physical.

6.  The way you think has physical effects!  Thinking positively helps you heal. Adversely, thinking negatively can cause you harm.

7.  Pain is the last symptom of a problem with your nervous system.

8.  The Sensory nerves (which transmit pain and pressure) are only 10% of the overall nervous system.

9.  Your posture can tell you alot about what is happening on the inside of the body.

10.  The muscles on your back need to be stronger than the muscles on the front of your body.

I did, that's who.  But most people don't.  If only and that is one of the missions of our office- to help change people's belief systems from a re-active, sick-care only fix it if it hurts paradigm of health to a pro-active, true health-care, promoting lifestyle factors in order to live live long and strong.  And a part of that is to get the true purpose of a chiropractic adjustment which is to promote the body's natural self-healing and self-regulating tendencies through removing interference to the nervous system which is that system which controls and coordinates all bodily functions.  You mean it's not just if my back hurst that I need to see a chiropractor? Well, read this recent article which substantiates the effects of a chiropractic adjustment on something not related to back or neck pain and judge for yourself. 

(NaturalNews) The popularity of chiropractic care has grown dramatically since the middle of the 20th century. Although most people seek chiropractic treatment to relieve musculoskeletal pain, certain types of pain may be indicative of the patient experiencing a heart attack just before or during treatment.

Chiropractors should expect to have at least one presentation of a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, during their careers, according to chiropractor Dr. Dwain M. Daniel. Research indicates that regular chiropractic adjustments may prevent heart attacks, lower blood pressure, reduce heart rate, relieve chest pain and support the cardiovascular system, according to the Palmer Chiropractic College.

Studies at the College investigated the effects of chiropractic treatment on the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in reference to an analysis of heart rate variability. Findings indicated that chiropractic adjustments do reduce pain and lower participant's mean heart rate.

Additionally, adjustments of the atlas, or first cervical vertebra, may stop some heart attacks while they are occurring, according to chiropractor Dr. Christopher Clarke of the Vibrance Family Chiropractic Center in Nashville. If a patient experiences a heart attack during an adjustment, gentle manipulation of the atlas may be appropriate and may alter the outcome; however, other emergency measures must be performed in an attempt to save a patient's life, including transport to the nearest medical facility.

Reducing blood pressure

Recognizing signs and symptoms

                                     Our future is created on behalf of our past thoughts, words, and actions.  In order to create a beautiful future, we as humans need to make as many of our thoughts good ones, speak positive words, and make our actions based on the goodness of our hearts.  Our future depends upon this!

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”  ~Wilma Rudolph