Des Moines Chiropractic March, 2018 Newsletter

Compass Chiropractic March, 2018 E-Newsletter

Wake, walk, hug, run, & compete without pain!

I’m sorry,

In the past, when we explained chiropractic we only talked about pain: “get out of pain” and “keep your spine healthy so you don’t end up back in pain”.   

Unfortunately, I failed to recognize that pain is a bad indicator of your health.  Really stop and think!  We could feel fine and the next day get a cancer diagnosis or have a heart attack!  How can that be?  It would be nice if pain gave us a clue about problems developing, but the truth is you only feel pain if a special nerve cell called a pain receptor gets cut or smashed.  Get a paper cut or step on a lego and you’ll experience that!  Pain receptors are mainly only located in the skin and joints.  Over 90 percent of your body has no significant amount of pain receptors: your organs, your blood vessels, and most nerve cells can all have major issues and you don’t know it! That’s how a paper cut can hurt worse than cancer :/ 

So even when you’re not having pain, problems can be developing.  When you realize this it makes sense to regularly check how your body is working and take action steps to keep it working properly.

I also didn’t help you understand what keeps you healthy and fixes your problems – your brain!  Your brain controls every single function through the nerves, truly everything: every cell, every organ, your hormones, your immune system, and your healing ability!  Think about it, if something gets injured what controls the healing?  It’s all your brain and nerves!

So even if you don’t feel pain, a problem spot in the spine can disturb the messages from your brain to body parts and eventually those body parts can stop working right or fail to heal.   Check out this University of Chicago study where chiropractic adjustments improved high blood pressure as much as a combination of two common blood pressure medicines.  That’s amazing! Did I mention that your brain and nerves control everything?  When nerve interference is removed, your body has tremendous power to heal itself.

What are the take-home messages? You might be putting up with problems and taking medications for conditions that your body can heal if we can empower your brain and nerves to do their job at 100 percent!  Also, you might have problems developing that will turn into a crisis if you wait until pain clues you in.  Think about how healthy our teeth would be if we only looked at them or did any maintenance on them when we felt pain.  We would end up with sad smiles and in a world of hurt. 

So with this note I want to invite patients who have already been in to see us in the past to come in for a thorough re-exam.  We look at the power of a healthy spine and nerves through a different lens, and we want to help our patients experience longer, more active lives with less sickness, fewer medicines, and fewer surgeries.

Through March 31, call us and let us know you’d like to do a “thorough re-exam” and we’ll do our best to find any interference to your body’s healing and maintenance ability with a free re-evaluation including any needed update x-rays!  (Sorry, patients covered by federal and state insurances are excluded)

We also invite you to share our “New Patient Web Promotion” below with your friends and family.  Along with helping those with symptoms, we would love to see more people before they are in crisis like dentists do.  Ask us about how a “Wellness Checkup” would work.  We would love to help your family members and friends live their lives to the fullest!

 
Thanks for understanding!

PS I recorded a more complete video explanation of these concepts if you’d like to watch it at youtu.be/xwn9eapMU2U

Need to refer a friend or family member to Compass Chiropractic? We currently have an offer available at our website, compasschiro.com:

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