SOUTH SHORE FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC
Monthly News - October 2011

The Doctors Corner:

“What does a Chiropractor do?”

• What Do Chiropractors Do?  Chiropractic helps unleash your natural healing ability, your inner healer.  Chiropractic is the largest and most popular natural, drug-free healthcare system in the world.  Why? Because chiropractors perform a unique service, they locate and release stress from your body, a stress that affects your brain, spinal cord and structural system.

• The World’s Most Powerful Healer: Your body is the world’s most powerful healer—it stores more information than the most powerful mainframe computer. It is able to learn, grow and repair itself. For that you have a powerful central computer and a vast communications system.  All your many body parts and systems: cardiovascular, digestive, eliminative, immune, structural, hormonal and others must work in harmony. This will enable you to function at your optimum, full of energy, happiness, strength and joy so you are able to fulfill your hopes and dreams.  Your central computer needs a communications system with  billions of “wires” so all your parts can communicate with each other.  What is your “inner computer” made of? Not metal, silicon and plastic—it’s mostly water and fat floating in a special protective, temperature-controlled hard casing.  As you’ve probably guessed the computer is your brain, the “wires” are your nerve fibers and the protective casing is your skull, spinal column and structural system.

• Your Brain & Your Body: Nerves leave your brain and travel from your skull as a tightly knit bundle of billions of nerves—your spinal cord. Nerves in your spinal cord exit between the bones (vertebrae) of your spinal column and carry messages to and from your brain. This is how your brain stays in communication with your billions of body parts.  Sometimes your communications system develops a “bug” and information going through it may be garbled or distorted. This bug is referred to as a subluxation. The most common cause of subluxations is a tiny distortion in your spine and structural system. This distortion or misalignment creates stress on your nerves. Instead of protecting your nerves, your bones irritate and impinge them and cause physical and mental dis-ease or malfunction.

• Correcting Subluxations: Chiropractors spend years of highly specialized training learning how to locate these subluxations.  For example, you can feel when something happens to your skin (which is full of sensory nerves) but not to your liver (which has no sensory nerves).

• Improper Nerve Supply: You may live with subluxations for years, all the while feeling no pain. During that “pain-free” time your body may be weakening and actual damage to your spinal column, nerves and organs may be occurring. This process is similar to that of tooth decay where you may have dental cavities for a long time and yet feel no pain. All the while however your tooth (or teeth) continues to decay.

• The Lucky Ones: People who have neck or back pain are, in a way, lucky. They know there is a structural problem in their body and may do the smart thing: go to a chiropractor.  Others may suffer from digestive problems, headaches, colds, menstrual cramps, depression, seizures, skin conditions and many other problems and not know that they have a subluxation and that a chiropractic adjustment could make a major difference in their health.

• Millions Of Subluxations: Millions of people are walking around with many subluxations in their bodies! It’s a silent epidemic!  These people don’t feel anything wrong in their backs or necks so they think their nerves are fine and they never get checked by a chiropractor.

• Chiropractic Checkups: You get your teeth checked, your eyes checked and your hearing checked occasionally—why not your spine and structural system? It only takes a short time, it’s fun and your whole nervous system and body will thank you for it.

• True Health Assurance: Many people bring in the whole family, true health assurance, making sure they are free of “silent” subluxations now, so they won’t experience “noisy” illness later. Please join the millions of people who have made chiropractic part of their lives and your family will be happier and healthier.

CHIROPRACTIC KIDS:

My name is Jack Finnegan.  I am 6 years old and in the 1st grade.  My favorite subject in school is gym.  I have been getting adjusted since I was 3 years old.  The things I like to do besides getting my spine adjusted are play baseball and soccer.  I have noticed since getting my spine adjusted I don’t have as much trouble with food.  When I grow up I want to be a baseball manager.  

PATIENT HIGHLIGHT:

For the last 10 years I have been volunteering and serving on the board of directors for a New England based 501-c3 non-profit organization named Partners With Haiti (PWH).  PWH has many different programs in Haiti, some of which are supported by donors in the United States and some are self-sufficient, run by local Haitian employees.   One program that I am involved with is the Bethany Project. The Bethany Project is child sponsorship program where individuals financially support children and young adults to go to school for $25 a month. The majority of schools in Haiti are private and most families unable to pay for their children to receive an education.   Since the beginning of this year I have taken on the role of the Bethany Project US Coordinator; my role is to help facilitate communication between donors and children  and to find donors for children in need of sponsorship or who have lost sponsorship.

Along with the Bethany Project, Partners With Haiti also offers missions trips. My husband and I recently led a trip with a group of 12 people from Glad Tiding’s Church in Quincy. Our initial plan was to work alongside Haitian laborers and builds a Boy’s Home in a rural village, but because of a hurricane threat, our plans changed and we painted a school, fixed chalkboards and desks, moved piles of rocks for classroom construction and also helped fix broken beds, ceiling fans and desks/chairs at a local Girl’s Home. Working in Haiti has led me to change careers and become a nurse! It is truly an honor to partner with our Haitian brothers and sisters to help children receive an education! If you would like to know more about the work in Haiti, please visit our website at www.partnerswithhaiti.org
- Rachel Pitot

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