Tools in a Tool Belt: Chiropractic is Separate and Distinct

In the world of healthcare, we often hear the saying, "There's a tool for every job." And it's true! Think of a craftsman's tool belt – it holds varied instruments, each designed for a specific task. Most wouldn't use a wrench to hammer a nail, nor would you try to turn a screw with a pair of pliers. Each tool has its time and place.

The same principle applies to your body’s function and organization. When faced with a life-threatening infection, medical doctors often rely on antibiotics. For a broken bone, an orthopedic surgeon is the expert, wielding specialized instruments to set and repair. For a complex heart condition, a cardiac surgeon performs intricate procedures. These are highly specialized tasks that require their own specific training and tools, and we recognize the immense value they bring.

Likewise, we respect the importance of wise life and health habits besides regular spinal checks. For instance, my family and I raise grass fed lamb, dairy goats, an organic garden, and egg laying chickens for healthy food source. (Watch for my wife’s soon coming website featuring our farm efforts!) We use whole food supplements through Standard Process that have a higher value than drug store multi-vitamins. Also, I use regularly near infrared lights to help offset the wear and tear of adjusting several hundred people per week as well as working on our small farm. The kids and I work out daily in our basement.

However, amidst this diverse array of tools and expertise, there's a profound truth that often gets overlooked: your body is always the best doctor you will ever have. And that is why the whole family, including myself, get spinal checks on the same regular basis we recommend for our office members.

Right tools for the right job

The Nervous System: The Master Tool of Your Inner Doctor

From the moment of conception, your body has been orchestrating a symphony of complex processes with incredible precision. How does this innate intelligence communicate and coordinate all these vital functions?

Through the nervous system. Your nervous system is the ultimate information highway, relaying messages back-and-forth between your brain and every cell, tissue, and organ in your body. It's the main tool your innate intelligence uses to control, organize, and re-order itself.

When this communication highway is clear and unobstructed, your body's innate order and harmony can be at its peak. However, if there is interference, particularly in the spine where the nervous system is housed, these vital messages can be disrupted. This is where chiropractic care plays its unique and crucial role.

Chiropractic: A Unique & Irreplaceable Tool

Just as different tools cannot replace each other, no matter what other treatment you may be utilizing, you cannot solve a neuro-spinal deficit with Vitamin C, or a medication.

While nerve supply is irreplaceable by other wise practices, in turn it is a force multiplier for all other wise practices. The central nervous system orders utilization of all your nutrients, balances recovery and response to exercise, coordinates the function of detoxification organs like your kidneys and liver, and even controls your body's response to pharmaceutical drugs when they are necessary.

As chiropractors, our primary focus is to identify and correct interference to this vital nerve supply, known as vertebral mal-positions (aka subluxations). By ensuring a well-maintained and well-positioned spine, we maximize optimal neuro-spinal connections. This isn't about adding something to or even taking something away from your body. It's about restoring the normal, bright neuro-spinal flow of information through a well-positioned spine. This allows the body to do what it does best--order itself!

Keep the the Best Physician on Earth

There are many distinct and valuable tools in the health toolkit, and often, our members make wise use of multiple tools. We frequently see our members consulting with other healthcare professionals while under our care, recognizing the wisdom of appropriate application of their healthcare “tools.”

However, ultimately, no matter how many tools man, science, and medical technology devise, the very best tools are those already inside your own body. Whether it's your immune system responding to pathogens or cancer cells, your neuro-endocrine system regulating hormones, or your body's own cellular and tissue repair mechanisms, your body truly is its own best physician.

So, no matter what combination of health habits and healthcare practitioners you assemble that is right for you, why wouldn't you want the active collaboration of the best physician on Earth: the physician crafted and created and designed within your own body – your innate intelligence?

To enable your body to use its own tools optimally from the inside out, it's essential to keep regular, consistent spinal checks for optimal neuro-spinal connections. Invest in the master controller, and unleash your body's incredible capacity to order itself for a brighter life!