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What Is The Difference Between Medicine and Chiropractic?
The healer's job has always been to remove obstructions between the sick patient and the force of life driving obscurely towards wholeness...All worthwhile medical research and every medicine man's intuition is part of the same quest for knowledge of the same elusive healing energy.
-Robert O. Becker, M.D. and Gary Seldon, The Body Electric
The medical and chiropractic approaches to healing are very different.
Chiropractic's goal is to remove a severe form of spine and nerve stress (the vertebral subluxation) from your body. Subluxations interfere with the proper function of your nervous system, including your brain, and can affect your physical and mental health. When your chiropractor corrects your subluxation, your natural healing ability or inner healer can function at greater efficiency. Your body/mind functions better and heals better.
The medical approach often takes the form of prescribing drugs to alter or suppress your symptoms. Thats why when you stop taking the drugs, your symptoms often come back. If drugs really made you healthy, people taking the most drugs should be the healthiest. Is that true?
Does an antibiotic correct the body weakness that caused the bacteria to grow in the first place? Does cutting off the cancerous breast correct the metabolism or toxicity that caused the cancer to grow in the first place? Does lowering blood pressure with drugs correct the body malfunction that is raising the blood pressure? The answer to all these questions is no!
Drugs may be necessary, especially during a crisis situation, but they are not healing you. Medicine is a powerful form of health care and should only be used after safer, more natural healing methods have been tried. HEALTH CARE and DISEASE CARE are considerably different. People may need Disease care for a period of time before the will lend an ear to Health care.
Words of Wisdom
If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. Chinese proverb
Who is rich? He who is satisfied with his lot. Ethics of the Fathers 4:1
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin.....But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. Alfred Souza
Father's role at bath time can be crucial:
Sometimes little things done in childhood have powerful effects later on. In a recent study it was found that babies deprived of quality time with their fathers in the first year of life often go on to develop problems forming stable relationships. The study reviewed whether or not fathers bathed their babies. It seems that not bathing increases the risk of having anti-social teenagers.
Dr. Howard Steele, of University College London, published the findings after studying 300 children and adults over 11 years. Almost a third of children not bathed by their fathers three times a week did not mix well, were bullied or had low self-esteem. This compared with three per cent of children whose fathers bathed them regularly. He said: "Dads unable to be there at bath time or bedtime should be sure to phone to say goodnight and make up for it the next morning at breakfast." (1)
Exercise Decreases Death
This is the time of the year we start thinking about how well look in a bathing suit. But being fit may be more related to how long well wear a bathing suit. Its often thought that exercise helps the heart most of all but in a recent study the benefits of staying in shape appeared to be much more powerful. The researchers dont know why, but being in shape protects not only from heart disease, but cancer and many other causes of death as well. Its been theorized that this might have something to do with oxygen uptake.
Middle-aged men who were not physically fit (and had a low oxygen uptake) were almost three times more likely to die from any cause, even after the researchers accounted for factors that could have influenced the results, such as age, smoking and alcohol use. (2)
Humor
To regain my youth I would do anything in the world, except exercise, get up early, or become respectable. Oscar Wilde
PARENTS' DICTIONARY
DUMBWAITER: one who asks if the kids would care to order dessert.
FAMILY PLANNING: the art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster.
FEEDBACK: the inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots.
FULL NAME: what you call your child when you're mad at him.
GRANDPARENTS: the people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.
HEARSAY: what toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.
IMPREGNABLE: a woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.
INDEPENDENT: how we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say.
OW: the first word spoken by children with older siblings.
PRENATAL: when your life was still somewhat your own.
PUDDLE: a small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes into it.
AMNESIA: condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again.
STERILIZE: what you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it.
TOP BUNK: where you should never put a child wearing Superman jammies.
TWO-MINUTE WARNING: when the baby's face turns red and she begins to make those familiar grunting noises.
VERBAL: able to whine in words.
WHODUNIT: none of the kids that live in your house.
References
This newsletter brought to you by Dr. Steven L. Robertson &
Dr. Ted Koren (Chiropractic researcher)
References
1. news.telegraph.co.uk
2. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2001;161:825-831.
