The Top 3 Chiropractic Misconceptions

1) Chiropractic is only for back and neck pain.

The first Chiropractic client was deaf and had his hearing restored after a Chiropractic adjustment. The second had a heart condition. That was almost 115 years ago. Chiropractic was never intended to be limited to any condition or type of disease, because Chiropractic doesn’t treat any specific medical condition. The Chiropractic adjustment helps improve nerve system function so the body and immune system function better.

You need not suffer from a particular condition to enjoy Chiropractic and its benefits – you simply must have the desire to be as healthy as possible.

2) Chiropractic is just for adults.

Nothing could be further from the truth! Chiropractic is great for children. Numerous case studies and reports show that Chiropractic is very safe and effective for all children of all ages. All of my children have been adjusted throughout their lives from the day they were born regardless of the symptoms they do or do not express.

I certainly would not recommend anything different for your children than I do for my own. Chiropractic care for babies and children is obviously modified compared to that for an adult and the safety statistics of a Chiropractic adjustment far exceeds that of the vaccination and medications most people don’t think twice about giving their children.

At Blue Mountain Family Chiropractic we are particularly passionate about checking all children for subluxation as soon as possible to maximise their life experience. Our goal is to empower everyone in our community to get healthy and stay healthy for a lifetime so that they can have the best life possible. Our experience is that a wellness lifestyle including Chiropractic care makes for a happy family.

3) Once you go to a Chiropractor you have to keep going back.

How far you take your Chiropractic care, the results you desire and obtain, and the advice you follow is a choice for you. Relief care (reducing symptoms), Corrective care (fixing underlying damage) and Wellness care (ongoing health maintenance) are all available to you at Blue Mountain Family Chiropractic.

Undoubtedly, going to the Chiropractor on a regular basis is a very healthy lifestyle choice. However, the healthier you live outside the Chiropractor’s office the less time you will need inside the Chiropractor’s office!

Healthier living means less stress and therefore less subluxation. Compare your Chiropractic visits to working out at the gym or seeing the dentist. Your fitness is maintained or improved with additional workouts and dental appointments can be less frequent if you take good care of your teeth.

Remember your health is your responsibility.

The Top 3 Healthcare Misconceptions

1) Drugs make you healthy.

If drugs made you healthy the healthiest people in the world would be those taking the most drugs. You don’t get headaches because there is a lack of neurofen in your blood! Depression is not caused by a prozac deficiency! The idea that these chemicals do anything other than create short term changes to your body chemistry is false.

We must also consider the so called side effects of the drugs. In fact the term “side effects” is misleading. Side effects do not exist. All drugs have an effect on the body behaviour. That is their purpose. Some are perceived as positive, some negative. None are side effects!

2) Germs make you sick.

For germs to be the sole cause of disease it would be impossible to find the disease in the absence of the germ. False! It would also be impossible for the germ to be present in the system without the disease arising. False!

Have you ever been in a house with four people and two get the flu but two do not? They were all exposed to the same germs. The difference is the immune systems ability to fight the germs.

Stresses reduce your immune function and thus limit your ability to fight the germ and disease. Chiropractic boosts immune function.

3) Traditional medical care represents healthcare.

The people that work in traditional medicine are good people. They have the best intentions and your best interests at heart. They also work extremely hard. However what they do has little relationship with health.

Traditional medicine is like the fire brigade. When your house is on fire there is little point calling a builder, carpenter or any other form of contractor. At that point you require the fire service. The firefighters will arrive with axes (surgery) to breakdown your door and water hoses (drugs) to extinguish the fire.

Following the fire though, when the damage needs to be repaired, or if you would like to protect your home against future fires, calling the fire brigade again would be of little benefit. The firefighters would return with their axes and hoses and cause more damage. At this point you require something different – the contractor.

Medical care is a vital part of society and saves many lives, but it doesn’t promote health. For health you require something different.