Taking The Driver's Seat

The Chiropractic adjustment is a powerful component of your daily wellness regiment, but is it a one stop, fix all, fail-proof means of acquiring abundant health? I wish it was that easy, but even though it is an absolutely critical step towards outstanding health in many ways, it's not God therefore it can't solve everything on it's own.

In looking at PHYSICAL maintenance alone (not what you eat, what you take, what you poison yourself with, or where your mind-state is) you can basically break the components that deal with movement into three categories. Your bones, ligaments, and muscles. Of course it is much more complicated than this but let's think simple. The end measure is POSTURE. The better the posture the healthier you are, period.

Now when trying to return or simply maintain your body into normal posture how are each of these zones best addressed?

• Bones (ME): This is Chiropractic. We move the bones back into their physiological position to restore FUNCTION to your nervous system.
• Ligaments (YOU): Think of these as rubber bands. If they are stretched too hard too fast, they break. Or if they are kept stretched out too long, at some point they will lose their ability to return to normal. So the bones must be kept in position long enough for the ligaments to heal and regain their strength. How do they do this?
• Muscles (YOU): Once the adjustment is made, you must actively strengthen the muscles over time in order to pull, and hold, everything in position to give the ligaments time to heal and keep the bones in place.

That's how posture restoration works. No therapy or treatment will work permanently if it does not follow this train of thought. Consistent with ALL aspects of health in general, it is mostly up to ourselves to achieve the best results. Your active and ongoing participation in care makes the difference between success and failure.