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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Have a safe and healthy holiday from your friends here at Aspire Chiropractic! Make healthy choices when eating and make sure you get your SURGE training in as well to work off those excess calories.
Happy Thanksgiving from Dr. Brenda, Dr. Matt and Andrea
Monday, November 21, 2011
Testimony of the Week and Thought for the Day
Grace, a 6 year-old female came to our office with bilateral earaches, pressure in both ears and a mild fever. She told us that her ears "feel funny" and it was hard to hear. She received one adjustment and her symptoms cleared up within one day!
Grace was exhibiting early symptoms of an ear infection, and had she visited her pediatrician, she would have likely received a course of antibiotics that may or may not have killed the bacteria causing her body to exhibit symptoms. She also would have most likely been prescribed a fever reducing medication, when fever is the exact thing your body should go through when fighting off an infection. So why in the world would you want to do these things to your child when a simple adjustment is enough to clear the infection? Because it's what we've been brainwashed to believe is the "only way". What's wrong with letting the body do what it is designed to do? Fight off the infection. Remember, your body needs no help, just NO INTERFERENCE!
Grace was exhibiting early symptoms of an ear infection, and had she visited her pediatrician, she would have likely received a course of antibiotics that may or may not have killed the bacteria causing her body to exhibit symptoms. She also would have most likely been prescribed a fever reducing medication, when fever is the exact thing your body should go through when fighting off an infection. So why in the world would you want to do these things to your child when a simple adjustment is enough to clear the infection? Because it's what we've been brainwashed to believe is the "only way". What's wrong with letting the body do what it is designed to do? Fight off the infection. Remember, your body needs no help, just NO INTERFERENCE!
THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
Monday, November 14, 2011
Kids and Chiropractic (One DC's Opinion)
Kids and Chiropractic: Why Every Child Needs Adjustments
As you have probably heard in our office numerous times, we love adjusting kids and turning on their nervous systems, but many of you still wonder whether or not chiropractic care is beneficial for your kids. So let’s put this one to bed right now, IT IS! Just like you, your child needs no interference in their nervous system in order to promote optimum functioning of their nervous system and all associated organs (read: EVERYTHING ELSE IN THEIR BODY!) So how does a child get misalignment in their spine? Just like you, the everyday trauma of being a child can take quite a toll on a child’s body, and the constant tumbles and head bumps can lead to numerous misalignments and cause nerve damage. Left uncorrected, this nerve damage will cause the organs to function poorly and the body to develop disease. Just because your child “looks fine” or is not currently expressing symptoms is no measure of their true health. It’s how they are healing and functioning on the inside that counts, and the ONLY way to ensure that their body operates the correct way is to make sure their nervous system is free and clear of interference.
From birth to death, the power of the nervous system is the most vital component in keeping us healthy, so get yours “turned on” with Aspire Chiropractic today!
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Monday, November 7, 2011
The Skinny on The Flu Shot
A lot of information is floating around out there about whether or not you should get a flu shot, hopefully we can shed some light on what is the best choice for you to make. Today we're going to take a look at some of the research that's out there and hopefully provide you with a fair look at the flu shot debate!
As a chiropractic office, we tend to push people towards more natural care. That is, we would like to give the body a chance to do what it has evolved to do, which is use its own innate ability to fight off infection and build immunity as a defense against intruding pathogens. One of the ways the body does this is by exposure to offending viruses in a natural manner. We need to trust that our body has this ability and provide it with all the tools we can to make that battle as easy as possible. As you know the immune system, like every system in the body, is controlled by the nervous system (here is a basic article on the interaction of the two, from a neuroimmunological point of view), and any impact on it will have an effect on the body's ability to handle and fight off disease. So keeping the spine and nervous system free of interference and misalignment while reducing stress should be paramount in your seasonal battle with the flu.
But why should you avoid the flu shot? Doesn't it help your body fight off the flu?
The short answer is yes, the flu shot injects inactive (dead) viruses into your system, which your body will react to and produce antibodies towards. The long answer is much more complicated, as these things often tend to be. While they are injecting you with a virus, there is no clear indication that the virus you are receiving will be the major strain of virus during that year's flu season. The CDC bases their projections for that year's flu season on their best educated guesses by looking at prevalent strains in different areas of the world that have their flu season before the USA. So at best, it's a guess, and at worst, you're protected against a strain that won't be around that year. On top of that, the flu virus mutates so rapidly, and there are so many different varieties of it that any immunity you happen to build will be useless come the next flu season, which is why doctors insist on you receiving a flu shot every year. The only way to get natural AND PERMANENT immunity is to recover naturally from the flu. Also, to inactivate the virus, the manufacturers kill it with formaldehyde and preserve it with a mercury-based preservative known as thimerosal (although you can request thimerosal-free vaccines now).
Here is a link to a study on vaccination and pregnancy.
Here are the CDC guidelines and a Q & A on the flu shot
So what about the medical model? For those of you that choose to go this route, I encourage you to do all the research you can and not just blindly go with whatever your family doctor tells you to do, which applies to all people that choose to follow the natural route too! You have to make the best decision for your family and your body, and if that means you wish to have a vaccine then by all means do what you feel is right, just make the best decision you can and I'm sure it will be the right one for you.
As a chiropractic office, we tend to push people towards more natural care. That is, we would like to give the body a chance to do what it has evolved to do, which is use its own innate ability to fight off infection and build immunity as a defense against intruding pathogens. One of the ways the body does this is by exposure to offending viruses in a natural manner. We need to trust that our body has this ability and provide it with all the tools we can to make that battle as easy as possible. As you know the immune system, like every system in the body, is controlled by the nervous system (here is a basic article on the interaction of the two, from a neuroimmunological point of view), and any impact on it will have an effect on the body's ability to handle and fight off disease. So keeping the spine and nervous system free of interference and misalignment while reducing stress should be paramount in your seasonal battle with the flu.
But why should you avoid the flu shot? Doesn't it help your body fight off the flu?
The short answer is yes, the flu shot injects inactive (dead) viruses into your system, which your body will react to and produce antibodies towards. The long answer is much more complicated, as these things often tend to be. While they are injecting you with a virus, there is no clear indication that the virus you are receiving will be the major strain of virus during that year's flu season. The CDC bases their projections for that year's flu season on their best educated guesses by looking at prevalent strains in different areas of the world that have their flu season before the USA. So at best, it's a guess, and at worst, you're protected against a strain that won't be around that year. On top of that, the flu virus mutates so rapidly, and there are so many different varieties of it that any immunity you happen to build will be useless come the next flu season, which is why doctors insist on you receiving a flu shot every year. The only way to get natural AND PERMANENT immunity is to recover naturally from the flu. Also, to inactivate the virus, the manufacturers kill it with formaldehyde and preserve it with a mercury-based preservative known as thimerosal (although you can request thimerosal-free vaccines now).
Here is a link to a study on vaccination and pregnancy.
Here are the CDC guidelines and a Q & A on the flu shot
So what about the medical model? For those of you that choose to go this route, I encourage you to do all the research you can and not just blindly go with whatever your family doctor tells you to do, which applies to all people that choose to follow the natural route too! You have to make the best decision for your family and your body, and if that means you wish to have a vaccine then by all means do what you feel is right, just make the best decision you can and I'm sure it will be the right one for you.
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