Your body performs trillions of tasks each day, without any conscious input from you. One such task is replacing old cells with brand new ones.
 
You get a new stomach lining every 5 days, new skin every 28 days, a new liver every 6 weeks–your body is in a state of constant renewal.
In the course of every hour, your body produces one trillion new cells. This process allows your body to repair itself, constructing a whole new you.

It’s in this renewal that the power of chiropractic care is magnified.

How?

Your body looks to its current pattern and structure to guide the placement of new cells. Regular chiropractic helps reduce unhealthy structures.

As new cells replace old cells they do so using the healthier pattern. This is the nature of healing.
That’s exactly what “wellness” is all about: working with your body to achieve the best “you” possible!
 
~Dr. Boerger

You may have heard this concern from folks who don’t understand chiropractic.

Most spinal problems come in pairs. Usually there’s an area of the spine that is not moving adequately, accompanied by another area that compensates by moving too much.

These areas can even be at opposite ends of the spine! They’re called compensation reactions.

Your body is constantly dealing with the force of gravity. When one area of your spine malfunctions, a reaction can appear elsewhere. This is why practice members are often surprised that we examine their upper back when their complaint is in their lower back.

Our goal is to avoid the compensations and focus on the primary subluxations. The spinal joints that move too much are avoided so muscles and ligaments can stabilize and heal. When we add motion to stuck spinal joints, areas that are too loose can properly heal.

A report funded by the Australian Spinal Research Foundation suggests that there may be a link between chiropractic and the reduction of asthma symptoms.

According to Macquarie University researcher Dr. Ray Hayek, the study involved hundreds of people suffering with asthma symptoms.
“When an asthma sufferer is under the anxiety of a looming asthma attack, the levels of the hormone cortisol increase. This acute increase in cortisol through a number of mechanisms can bring on an asthma attack,” says Dr. Hayek. “Levels of the stress hormone cortisol steadily decreased during the trial, and levels of immunological markers (immunoglobulin A) steadily rose.”

Which is a scientific way of suggesting that reducing nervous system stress with chiropractic adjustments may have a positive effect on those susceptible of having an asthma attack.

While chiropractic isn’t a treatment for asthma, it appears that by reducing tension to the nervous system, the symptom called asthma may be reduced. Fascinating!
 

One distinction we try to make is the difference between health care and sick care. Our culture has so abused the term “health” that it’s lost its meaning.

The mainstay of many television dramas is the heroic lifesaving that takes place in hospitals, with the message that medicine saves lives.
And it does. But it isn’t health care.
What’s missing from these fantasies is the fact that our so-called health care system is burdened by expensive, heroic measures often used to treat disease states caused by neglect or poor lifestyle choices.

I mention this because true health care isn’t heroic. Unless you consider getting adjusted on a regular basis heroic! Or eating a salad instead of a burger. Or climbing the stairs rather than pressing a button. Or drinking pure water instead of a sugary drink. But if you do, you’re a hero to me!