Why Do Some Get Sick?

Every grade school child learns that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Yet, few know who discovered chiropractic. But more fascinating is why chiropractic was discovered.

Take yourself back over a hundred years ago to a time when "patent medicines" flourished. These were often sold as cure alls whose active ingredients were usually alcohol, cocaine, arsenic and other dangerous substances.

In the midst of this, a healer, experimenter and freethinker by the name of Daniel David Palmer in Davenport, Iowa asked a simple question:

"I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate eating at the same table, working in the same shop was not. Why? What difference was there in the two persons that caused one to have pneumonia, catarrh, typhoid or rheumatism, while his partner, similarly situated, escaped? Why?"

At a time when germs were given the blame for virtually every disease, this was a groundbreaking way of framing the question about health. Germs alone couldn't be the cause of disease, otherwise everyone would get sick.

Chiropractic came into existence soon afterwards. D.D. Palmer discovered that it's smarter to look at the person with the disease, rather than the disease in the person. Revolutionary then - and revolutionary now!

The Art of Chiropractic

I'm often asked how we create a care plan - how many visits and how frequent should they be. This is where experience and the "art" of chiropractic come into play.

During the exam, your condition, your age, lifestyle, attitude and dozens of other factors are evaluated, recorded and compared with similar cases. Each plays a role in the recommendations I make for the first phase of your care.

A plane needs enough speed to take off.  So too with our initial recommendations: If the visits are too far apart, we won't create enough momentum to reverse the downward trend. If the visits are too frequent, the body doesn't have enough time to put the adjustments to use. There's a real skill in picking the right balance between too frequent and not frequent enough.

Sometimes I misjudge. But most of the time there are other factors - we've identified up to a dozen issues that can be involved. If you're not progressing as quickly as you'd hoped, click here to see what else might be going on.

Introducing Dr. You

Regardless of a doctor's specialty, the prestige of the school they graduated from or their years of experience, they can't cure headaches, mend broken bones or heal a wound. Only you can do that... If your healing ability isn't impaired.

Your inborn healing ability is responsible for the tremendous success that chiropractic patients enjoy. The only thing doctors can do, regardless of their discipline, is to help reduce barriers to the incredible healing ability you were born with.

Which is why all of us at First Choice Chiropractic are interested in your nervous system. It's what controls every cell, tissue, organ and system of your body. The nerves along your spine are the most vulnerable part of your nervous system. By reducing nervous system compromise from the moving bones of your spine, Dr. You takes over and does the healing!

How does it feel to be a doctor? Do you know anyone whose healing ability needs a boost? Use the link at the bottom of the page to email this article.