Skip to main content

Healing Yourself


                Whether you are a regular utilizer of chiropractic or not, you likely have figured out over the course of your life that your body heals itself.  If you’ve read previous blog posts, I’ve alluded to that fact a few times.  Our bodies are, in the vast majority of situations, capable of healing without outside aid.  I wanted to expand on that a little bit this week.

                First, this ability is dependent upon severity.  While a cut will heal, and a broken bone will even join back together over time, once tissue is dead, there’s not bringing it back.  The question of severity applies to all three types of stress that I’ve discussed before too.  You can be scared to death, ingest too much poison or suffer too severe a trauma and die.  No amount of self-healing will help you.  Time is also a major factor, as it may take 6 weeks for a bone to be strong enough to function again, once broken, a nerve regrows approximately 1mm a day once the trauma is corrected.
                Want to know a secret?  Your headache isn’t due to an ibuprofen deficiency… or acetaminophen…  In fact, most of your herniated discs (a chiropractor’s specialty) will heal itself over time without any intervention.  Oh, how about this… you currently have cancer cells in your body.  Yep, it’s true.  It’s just that your body is able to identify the aberrant cells and get rid of them before they proliferate and become actual cancer.  Your body is amazingly skilled at healing itself, but sometimes it’s necessary to find what is causing the issue before healing can begin.
                Your headache may be due to lack of sleep; or dehydration; or caffeine dependency; or a misalignment in the spine.  A broken bone might fuse back together but keeping it immobile and ensuring the bones are as aligned as possible is important.  Even though your herniated disc will resolve on its own, chiropractors can speed healing and ensure that the disc itself doesn’t dry up and become arthritic.

                Which brings me to why chiropractic.  We are concerned first and foremost in removing the stress on the system, allowing the body to do what it does at its best.  The other main thing with chiropractic, is we aim to find the cause.  Your headaches may need to be addressed solely with chiropractic care, but maybe not.  Maybe your diet is causing your body to react in such a way that it is causing you headaches… cutting dairy or peanuts or avoiding a certain animal may be required to rid you of your headaches.  And I’m not saying don’t ever use an over-the-counter medication to mask a symptom, I’m just saying if it’s something you’re dealing with regularly, let’s solve the issue. 
                Most Doctors of Chiropractic are great at identifying the cause and helping come up with a solution for the actual problem, rather than masking the symptoms.  It is for this reason that Minnesota recognizes chiropractors as primary care providers, additionally, more and more people are finding that their chiropractor is the best choice for their primary doctor. 

Labels:
Location: 18336 Joplin St NW #3, Elk River, MN 55330, USA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Pain and mental health

                One of the symptoms of depression is vague aches and pains.   One of the complications to chronic pain is depression.   For many it can be similar to the question regarding the chicken or the egg.   Did significant trauma at a young age (even unremembered) cause the brain to grow weary of constant pain, resulting in depressive and anxious symptoms?   Or did depression which came on in adolescence develop into physical symptoms that have grown into more severe and frequent complaints?                 Does the question even matter?   Do we really care if the person has been suffering from pain and is depressed from it, versus if the person has been depressed and is suffering from pain because of it?   There are many who would argue that it doesn’t matter.   We can be given psychotrop...
Post a Comment
Read more
How to use Chiropractic                 Have you ever heard that once you go to a chiropractor, you have to go for life?  This is a very common misconception held by the public.  While, it is true that everyone is better under chiropractic care, what that means for each individual varies.  My grandfather passed away this last summer at 95 years old.  He was a tough old farmer, carpenter and entrepreneur who never utilized chiropractic once in his 95 years.  To add to that, he was very strong and physically capable his entire life.  I cannot look you in the eyes and tell you I think his life would have been better or longer had he been under chiropractic care.  On the other hand, that statement is absolutely true for other people.  There are people who would not have been able to enjoy as healthy a life, nor live as long without chiropractic.  So how does one navig...
Post a Comment
Read more

More About Healing Yourself

                Great, so the body heals itself.   What’s that actually mean in terms of health and wellness?   Why does the fact that our bodies can heal by themselves if the injury isn’t too severe and the injury isn’t continued and why do we care that a headache isn’t from a lack of an over-the-counter medication, so long as the OTC’s give us relief? They're just so cute... I like to add their pictures.                 Well, first and foremost, if we understand that we are able to heal without intervention the vast majority of the time, it can help with our approach to many of our complaints.   Also, how the body heals is important to understand so we can make choices that speed healing.   Along those lines, if we are able to make choices that allow us to heal faster, it stands to reason making those same c...
Post a Comment
Read more