“What Causes Your Spinal Misalignments”
Today you are going to learn what it is that causes your spinal misalignments or subluxations.
Remember that a subluxation is a partial or incomplete dislocation of a vertebra.
And contrary to what you may have been told or think or believe, we all have them.
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It is virtually impossible for all 24 of your spinal vertebrae to remain in their correct anatomical position because what causes a subluxation is stress.
And each and every one of us is affected by stress each and every single day of our lives.
The best way for me to explain stress is with the 3 T’s. The 3 T’s are traumas, thoughts and toxins.
Traumas are those physical stresses that can affect our body.
Examples are the birth process, the falls we have as toddlers as we learn to stand, walk and run, all the bumps, bruises and falls we suffer throughout our childhood, sporting injuries, car accidents, pregnancy, texting on a cell phone and prolonged sitting at a desk (computer).
Thoughts are those mental/emotional stresses that can affect our body.
Examples are job insecurity, relationship difficulties, being bullied at school and witnessing your parents go through a separation/divorce as a child.
Toxins are the chemical stresses that can affect our body.
Examples of chemical stressors are antibiotics, medications, recreational drugs, tobacco, alcohol and of course a poor diet.
As human beings we can never escape the collective effects of stress. Some people have more physical stress, others more mental/emotional and others more chemical stress.
But we all are affected by all 3 types of stress which means that we are always at risk of getting subluxations in our spine.
What I would like you to do is think what the biggest source of stress is in your life and your children’s lives. Is it traumas, thoughts or toxins?
And please be sure to visit us again next time when you are going to learn how to minimize the effects of stress on your health and in your life.
If you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your family may have, please call me.
Remember that consultations are always free of charge, family appointments are available, we have office hours on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and most Saturday mornings, and we can usually get you in the very same day that you call.
Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me by clicking directly on the link found on our home page.
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What Interferes With The Flow Of Your Innate Intelligence?
Today you are going to learn what interferes with the flow of your vital life force or innate intelligence.
Remember that this intelligence is generated in your brain and travels down the spinal cord and out the vast network of nerves to every single cell in your body. All 37.2 trillion of them.
What can interfere with this flow is when one of the 24 vertebrae that make up your spine become misaligned or ‘subluxated’.
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The definition of a subluxation is ‘a partial or incomplete dislocation of vertebra’.
When you have a subluxation, and it is usually more than one, it can compress your spinal cord or your nerve root and even start to crush them if they have been there for a long time.
Your vertebrae are made of bone tissue which is the hardest tissue in the body.
Your nerve system (brain, spinal cord and nerves) is the softest and most delicate tissue in the body.
So when the hardest tissue in the body is compressing or crushing the softest and most delicate tissue in the body ( that tissue which carries those intelligent electrical impulses), what effect do you think this will have on the flow?
Will the flow increase or decrease?
Well the answer of course is that it will decrease but the bigger question is this … what effect then would a subluxation have on the quality of your health or your life or even your longevity?
Something for you to seriously consider until next time when we will dig deep into what causes spinal misalignments or subluxations.
If you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or a family member may have, please give me a call.
Remember that consultations are always free of charge so there is no cost to sit down and talk to me so we can determine if you have a chiropractic case.
We have office hours on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and most Saturday mornings and we also offer family appointments because spinal problems do tend to run in families.
Most of the time we can get you in the very same day that you call and our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433).
Or you can email me directly by clicking on the link found right on our home page.
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“How Does Your Innate Intelligence Get To Where It Is Supposed To Go?”
Last time we talked about what principled chiropractors call ‘innate intelligence’ and how this intelligence is responsible for controlling and coordinating every single event that takes place inside your body every second of every day of your life.
And we learned how this intelligence originates form the unconscious or uneducated part of your brain.
So, how does your innate intelligence or life force get to where it is supposed to go so it can do what it is supposed to do?
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The answer to this question is it travels down your spinal cord and out the vast network of nerves to every single cell in your body.
It is estimated that the human body is composed of 37.2 trillion (37,200,000,000,000) cells and every single one of your cells has a nerve directly attached to it. Every heart cell, every liver cell, every muscle cell, every kidney cell etc. has its own nerve supply.
And it is through this nerve attachment that every single cell in your body receives the power or information or life force or the intelligence to be able to do what it is supposed to do.
So, in order for your lungs to breathe and your heart to beat and all your digestive organs to work properly along with all the other parts of your body, your innate intelligence must flow from your brain down the spinal cord and out the nerves to every single part of your body without any interference.
We are going to leave this here for now but please be sure to join us again next time because we are going to discuss what chiropractors define as ‘interference’.
If you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your family may have, please give me a call.
Remember that consultations are always ‘free of charge’ in our office and family appointments are always available.
Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me by clicking directly on the link found on our home page.
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“Who Heals Better? A Two Month Old Or A 50 Year Old?”
Today we are going to start with the following question … if a 2 month old baby and a 50 year old adult who has a PhD in nuclear physics get a paper cut on their finger, which one would heal?
Of course they would, under normal circumstances both heal and my point here is that it is not the educated or intellectual part of your brain that heals your body.
Because if this were the case, a 2 month old baby would not be able to heal itself of anything.
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Another question … do you know how many things are going on inside your body on a daily basis?
Well, the answer to this question is an astronomical number. Ten thousand trillion (10,000 + 12 zero’s) electrical and chemical events take place inside your body not every day, or every hour, or every minute but every second of every day of your life!
Do you suppose that the educated or intellectual part of your brain has the capacity to control and coordinate ten thousand trillion events every second.
No – it is impossible!!
If this were the case it would mean that it would take your conscious thought and effort to do so. Nobody can think of ten thousand trillion things every second!!
So, when we think about this logically there must be an unconscious power or force or intelligence inside your body that has the capacity to heal your body, and control and coordinate ten thousand trillion events every second. And this power is what principled chiropractors call your ‘life force’ or your ‘innate intelligence’.
Now, I really want you to think about this and digest what you have just learned today because over the next few weeks we are going to dive deeper into this thing called ‘innate intelligence’.
And I promise what you are about to learn has the potential to change your life and your health forever!
In the meantime, if you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your family may have, please give me a call.
Remember that consultations are always free of charge and we also offer family appointments.
Our phone number here in Burlington is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me directly by clicking on the link found on our home page.
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“C’Mon Man! French Fries And Root Beer For Breakfast?”
For those of you who don’t know, there is a segment on Monday Night Football called “C’mon man!” which is about bloopers and blunders in the world of American football and sometimes Canadian football.
And this is about a blooper and blunder I recently witnessed in the world of nutrition and food choices.
The other day I was at A & W getting some breakfast.
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Now let me explain this so you don’t think I am being hypocritical.
A & W serve healthy eggs from healthy hens and I had 2 boiled eggs on a dry toasted whole wheat bun which I only ate half the bun.
So, in my view this isn’t such a bad food choice.
While I was there however, I noticed a young couple getting breakfast for their 2 young children. 5 and 3 years old I am guessing.
This was about 9 to 930 in the morning.
The kid’s breakfast was a hamburger, French fries and a mug of root beer.
Now I will let the hamburger slide because AandW do make an effort to serve up healthy beef, but the French fries and root beer?!
C’mon man!!
What a way to start to clog the arteries and mess with the blood sugar first thing in the morning!
It is no wonder that obesity is becoming a problem in kids UNDER 10 years of age in this country.
And these types of food choices have been proven time and time again to be the building blocks for heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Feed your children what you want, but there are far better food choices than French fries and root beer for breakfast!
I am going to give you something to think about for next time.
Do you know what it is you can do to make sure that your brain (the most amazing thing inside your body) is fully connected with every cell, every tissue, every gland and every organ inside your body?
Please join us again next time to find out how to make this happen and more importantly, why you need to make this happen.
If you need to talk to me about a health problem you may be having or your child may be having, please give me a call.
Remember that consultations are always free of charge.
We have office hours on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and most Saturday mornings.
And we can usually get you in the same day that you call.
Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433).
Or, you can email me by clicking directly on the link found on our home page.
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Can You Get Addicted To Your Chiropractic Adjustments”?
Today I am going to discuss chiropractic and addiction.
You may be thinking that I am going to tell you that chiropractic can help people with substance abuse problems and it most certainly can, but what I actually want to discuss is the unfounded statement that “once you start going to a chiropractor, you will have to keep going for the rest of your life because you will become addicted to the treatments.”
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This needs clarification because these kinds of claims could prevent people from seeking chiropractic care which could be the answer to all or some of their health problems. And this would be very unfortunate.
When you get a chiropractic adjustment there are many positive physiological changes that happen inside your body.
And one of them is the release of ‘endorphins’.
Endorphins are a chemical (drug) produced inside your very own body and they do 2 things.
One thing they do is relieve pain.
The second thing they do is produce a feeling of euphoria (an intense feeling of wellbeing).
So if this addiction claim were indeed true, I ask you to consider this.
Would you rather be addicted to a substance that is produced in your very own body in the exact formulation and released at exactly the right time and place when you need it, or would you rather be addicted to over-the-counter or prescription pain pills which always have more side-effects than benefits?
I have been practising chiropractic for 30 years.
I don’t think any of my patients have ever become addicted to their adjustments.
They need them, they want them, they benefit from them – but in my opinion they do not get addicted to them.
And even if they did, I can think of a lot of far worse things people can become addicted to!
If you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you or your family may have, please give me a call.
Remember that consultations in our office are always free of charge and family appointments are also available.
Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me directly by clicking on the link right on our home page.
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“Here’s How Chiropractic Care Can Help Relieve Facial Pain Caused By
Trigeminal Neuralgia”
Last time we learned about trigeminal neuralgia … the symptoms, the triggers and the most popular current forms of treatment.
And today I am going to explain to you how and why chiropractic care gets such great results with trigeminal neuralgia.
The trigeminal nerve which is one of your 12 cranial nerves originates from your brainstem.
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Remember that your brainstem is an extension of your brain that resides inside the 3 vertebrae right at the very top of your neck (C1,2,3).
When you look at the Chart of Effects of Spinal Misalignments found right on our home page you will see that one of the effects of a spinal misalignment (subluxation) in this area of the neck is neuralgia (nerve pain).
And when neuralgia affects the trigeminal nerve specifically, the end result is facial pain.
We have had many patients over the years get significant relief from their facial pain with chiropractic care and some of them have never had a trigeminal nerve attack ever again.
And the reason why is because with careful analysis and realignment (adjustment) of the upper part of the neck, we were able to remove the irritation from the brainstem and the trigeminal nerve which resulted in facial pain relief.
So if you or someone you know is suffering from trigeminal neuralgia, please give me a call.
Remember that consultations in our office are always ‘free of charge’, we have office hours on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and most Saturday mornings.
Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me directly by clicking on the link right on our home page.
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“Getting Rid Of Arm And Leg Pain Through Chiropractic Care”
If you are suffering from arm or leg pain, I have some very important information that you absolutely need to know.
Often times when we are dealing with shoulder, elbow, wrist, back of leg, knee or foot pain etc., we get all caught up focusing our treatment on the problem area only.
And this may be acupuncture treatments, some form of physiotherapy treatment, or even worse pain-relieving drugs.
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But when we take this approach to treating arm pain or leg pain, we are overlooking one very important aspect.
And that is the neurological component to arm pain or leg pain.
Now, let me explain this for you.
The nerves from the C5, 6 and 7 levels in the lower part of your neck go down into your arms.
And similarly, the nerves from the L3, 4 and 5 levels in your lower back go down into your legs.
When you have a spinal misalignment (subluxation) in your lower neck, this can cause pain down into your arms.
And when you have a spinal misalignment (subluxation) in your lower back, this can cause pain down into your legs.
And these 2 areas of the spine are frequently misaligned.
So, if you are struggling with painful arms or legs, you need a chiropractic examination right away to determine if there is a neurological component to your arm or leg pain.
And if there is, I will be able to help.
All you need to do is schedule an appointment for your free initial consultation.
The consultation is when we can determine if you have a chiropractic case and if you do, you have taken the first step on your road to recovery.
Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can click directly on the link right on our home page to request an appointment.
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“What Is Trigeminal Neuralgia?”
Over the next 2 weeks we are going to learn about a condition called trigeminal neuralgia. We are going to learn about signs and symptoms, causes and what treatments work and which do not work.
Trigeminal neuralgia is characterized by intense pain in the face and has been described by many as “one of the most painful conditions anyone could ever have.”
The location of trigeminal nerve pain can be the ear, eye, nose, lips, scalp, forehead, cheek, teeth, tongue or even the entire side of the face.
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It can also cause uncontrollable tearing of the eye and most of the time only affects one side of the face but in 10-12% of sufferers, it will affect both sides of the face.
Trigeminal nerve pain has been described as intense, stabbing electric shocks or burning-type shooting pains that can last seconds, minutes or even hours.
The short interval attacks can repeat up to 100 times per day.
Attacks can be triggered by light touch on the face or even air currents but most attacks occur spontaneously without any stimulation.
The pain usually occurs in cycles and periods of remission (no pain) can last months or even years.
This condition can affect people of any age but typically affects adults and females more so than males.
Currently, the most popular forms of treatment are medication, Botox injections and surgery all with equivocal results at best.
Next time we are going to learn about causes of trigeminal nerve pain and effective alternative forms of treatment.
In the meantime, if you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your family may have, please give me a call.
Remember that consultations in our office are always free of charge and family appointments are always available.
Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email us by clicking on the link found on our home page.
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“Research Study Provides Proof That Chiropractic Care Improves Your Health”
Today I would like to tell you about a particular research study because the findings of this study are something everyone should know about.
Especially those who are keen about looking after their health and their children’s health.
This was a 7 year study that followed a group of people whose primary health-care physician was a chiropractor.
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The results of this study showed that these people had 60% less hospital admissions, 59% less days spent in a hospital, 62% less out-patient surgeries and 85% less drug usage.
In light of these findings, I think it is important that we remind ourselves why chiropractic care has such a profound effect on your health.
First of all, every other health care profession is all about treating symptoms either through the application of electrical stimulation, drugs/medications, or surgery.
Remember that symptoms are the way your body alerts you that there is a problem.
And when you focus on the symptoms, you are ignoring the cause of the problem.
The unique thing about chiropractic care is that we focus on the cause of your problem, not merely the effect (symptom).
Secondly, there is no other health-care profession whose main objective is to optimize the performance of your central nerve system.
The central nerve system controls all the other 10 vital systems inside your body.
So, when you understand that symptoms are your friend and not your enemy, and you take excellent care of your spine and central nerve system (because the 2 go hand in hand), and of course exercise and a healthy diet are important too, the statistics prove that you will have better levels of health. Because healthy people under normal circumstances do not go to hospitals, have surgeries and take handfuls of medication.
If you have any questions on this topic or any other health concerns you may have or your family may have, please give me a call.
Remember that consultations in our office are always free of charge and family appointments are also available.
Our phone number is 905 335 LIFE (5433) or you can email me directly by clicking on the link right on our home page.
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