Skip to main content

...but what?


                So, great… I just remind you of your mortality and tell you to stop smoking.  What the H kind of posts are these?
                Here’s the rub, as a chiropractor I am concerned with 3 main facets of health that all contribute to our well-being:  physical stressors, chemical stressors and emotional stressors.  DD Palmer, the inventor of chiropractic described them as Traumas, Toxins and Thoughts.  The stuff you put in your body, the tax your system experiences when your emotions overwhelm you, and the major and minor traumas we experience in our everyday life all add up.
Daniel David Palmer, the founder of Chiropractic

                So how do each impact our lives?  Well, our diet and habits fall under the chemical… you get out what you put in.  If we’re eating McDonalds and drinking a Iitre of cola a day, we are not going to be able to function at our best.  We won’t be able to heal at our best either.  Smoking dehydrates our discs, not to mention all the effects tobacco has on the rest of our system.  The rabbit hole for the toxins part of chiropractic can get incredibly deep.
                Emotionally, many of us are living a very high-strung life.  When we are emotionally stressed-out, our bodies go into Fight of Flight mode, which is survival mode.  The other side of that coin is the growth and repair mode, called rest and digest as well.  When we are always running from a tiger, we don’t have time to grow and heal.  When we get stressed at work and on the commute and at home, our systems think we are in danger the entire time.  It can play a big role in why you can’t seem to get over colds, or that you seem to always have tight shoulders.
                The physical traumas we endure, like a “thrown-out back” are what we associate chiropractic with the most.  Sitting at a desk for 6 to 10 hours a day, sitting in a car on your daily commute and sitting watching tv for hours a week causes micro-trauma to our bodies.  Flick your knee, and it doesn’t hurt.  Keep flicking your knee in the same spot over and over and over and eventually, it’s going to start to not feel good.  Another analogy related to our new life style is text neck and holding a can of corn.  Take a can of corn and hold it out from your body so your arm is parallel to the floor.  At first, it isn’t heavy; it’s a can of corn.  After a few minutes…or hours…or days, that can will start getting heavy.  These small, seemingly insignificant traumas in our daily lives not only make us more susceptible to major traumas like a herniated disc, but after years, they themselves can cause a wide variety of issues from cardiovascular disease to arthritis in the spine and others.
                So great, more bad news… and what, Tune Chiropractic can help with all of that?
                Yes.  I’ve mentioned before (ad nauseum) to my knowledge my grandfather never had chiropractic care and lived to 95, but I know personally people I sincerely believe would not be alive today without chiropractic.  So, for some, chiropractic may very well add years to one’s life, it isn’t necessarily true for everyone.  What I do firmly believe is true for most, if not all is that with chiropractic care; or at the very least, rigorous conscientiousness regarding one’s physical, and emotional health can make life much better for the amount of time we do have.  Chiropractors can help give ergonomic, nutritional, and exercise advise.  We can help your body “pump the brakes” and help you get out of the fight or flight mode.  We help your body heal from the inside out. 
                In future posts, we’ll get more specific with suggestions how you can achieve your best health, but for now, if you have any questions you can call or message me on Face Book or stop in or you can just leave a comment below.  I’m happy to give any advice or point you in the right direction for anything you may be curious about.

Labels

Labels:
Location: Elk River, MN 55330, USA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why Do I Care About Your Sleep?

If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you likely remember my droning on and on about “chiropractors look for the cause”.  I say it all the time because it’s true.  Only focusing on the obvious is like replacing your tires that are wearing too quickly rather than getting a rotation and balance to get maximum mileage from them.  Often subluxation is causing your issues and being adjusted can do amazing things for your health and wellness.  Other times, something else is causing the subluxation and until the cause is found and corrected, no amount of adjustments is going to fully fix the problem.  Sleep is often one of the examples of this circumstance.  Not getting enough sleep can cause a lot of issues and chiropractic can help with many of them, but until your sleep hygiene is addressed, issues will continue to arise.  From my concern, there are two main concerns regarding your sleep.   Quantity of sleep and quality of sleep (groundbr...
Post a Comment
Read more

Pay Attention.

Focus.   I can’t tell you how many times I say that word to my children.   Whether it’s eating, walking, homework, or just listening to what their mother or I are telling them.   The instruction to focus has been a recurrent theme in my children’s lives since my oldest was about 2 or so.   If you think about it, there is more to my favorite parenting mantra than meets the eye. There’s a saying that if you’re multi-tasking, you’re actually half-assing and studies are beginning to agree.   Trying to do multiple things at the same time results in poorer results for all of those tasks.   Here’s a link to an article suggesting as much:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010028589900169 From personal experience, I could not study or do work from home and parent at the same time.   I was short-tempered asking for near-silence and then talking and playing and not giving the attention needed to comprehend what I was reading. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

You aren't being chased by a tiger all day... stop acting like it

                Mental stress is something we all deal with.   While there are positive and negative scenarios surrounding the source of the stress, our bodies react the same way regardless.   Being chased by a tiger has the same physiological reaction as the first day of your dream job.   Our physiological reaction is a good thing, in fact.   Both from an adaptation perspective and from a biological perspective.   The problem is that we aren’t designed to be chased by a tiger from the moment we wake up to the moment we finally fall asleep.                 “What can be done though?” the reader thought aloud with rapt attention.                 I get it.   There are some stresses that are unavoidable, but there are ways to minimize...
Post a Comment
Read more