First - HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL
from Dr. Lynn Christine and Ken!

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

- Mother Teresa

A visit to the chiropractor

People sometimes ask us to review some of the basics of what a visit to a chiropractor entails.

Actually a visit has two broad components: analysis and adjustment.

During the analysis we determine where your nerve pressure, your vertebral subluxation complex (VSC), is located. Based on over a century of research, the chiropractic profession has developed many unique procedures for this purpose: muscle, bone and motion studies; X-ray and imaging studies; leg and posture measurements and many others.

Next we perform an adjustment to eliminate your VSC. An adjustment introduces force/energy/information into your body, which helps to release pressure from your nerves, muscles, joints and discs and to realign or balance your body structure. The force must be introduced at the proper angle or direction, at the right time, and with the right pressure. The chiropractic profession has developed a sophisticated array of adjustment techniques. Ask us about the ones we use.

You can even have fun speaking and lecturing to people of all ages and presenting information they generally can't get anywhere else.

As a chiropractor you have the freedom to "set up shop" nearly anywhere in the world and the excitement of knowing that you are in a unique profession that goes back thousands of years but is still new to millions of people.

For more information on chiropractic as a profession,
please call our office.

Accidents, injuries and chiropractic

Too many people who have been in an accident or suffered trauma don't receive chiropractic care. That's a big reason why over half of all accident victims never completely recover from their injuries and may live on painkillers, muscle relaxants and physical therapy or even

endure repeated surgeries over the years. Sometimes they're told that they'll have to live in pain for the rest of their lives. In fact, even a "minor" trip or fall from childhood may cause severe health problems later in life.

Why? Because nearly any physical force radiates to your skeletal system and can cause subluxations. For that reason a chiropractic spinal checkup is essential after an accident. Chiropractic care may make the difference between true recovery, healing and strength or lingering pain, sickness and disability.

Chiropractic care frees you from a severe form of dis-ease known as the vertebral subluxation complex (VSC). This is a distortion in your structural system that can affect the health of your bones, nerves, muscles, glands, brain, organs - and lots more.

Chiropractic is needed no matter what condition a person may have - it may make the difference between a life of suffering and illness and a life of ease and health.

Disabling low back pain. This is a study of 171 patients who had been totally disabled by chronic low-back pain ("constant severe pain") for an average of 7.6 years. They were not helped by medical care and were considering back surgery.

They were referred for chiropractic care. After 2-3 weeks of chiropractic, 87% returned to full function with no restrictions for work or other activities. One year later they were still doing fine.(2)

Learning disabilities and dyslexia. Eight studies were reviewed containing 25 case reports. All studies showed beneficial effects of chiropractic care in individuals suffering from learning disabilities and dyslexia.(3)

Neck pain. Seventy patients with neck pain (25 males and 45 females, ages 20-55 years) were randomly divided into either a chiropractic group or a control group. The chiropractic group showed a significant improvement in neck pain after only one adjustment.(4)

Breastfeeding creates emotionally
healthier children

Babies have an intense need to be held and one of the most comforting things for a newborn is the physical act of nursing. Leaving a baby alone with a bottle is not emotionally satisfying to the child and does not make them feel safe or secure.
Breastfeeding also promotes bonding between mother and baby in a way that bottle-feeding cannot.

Most women naturally feel a strong desire to hold their baby and there are physical and emotional reasons for this. Breastfeeding ensures that mother and baby have some intimate time together and actually stimulates the mother's release of the oxytocin hormone, which is known to promote maternal behavior.

General rule - avoid bizarre operations

Hysterectomies have serious after effects. The surgical removal of the female reproductive sex organs is a primitive practice, yet an average of 622,000 per year have taken place over the last decade. Doctors tell women sex will be the same, or better than ever. Women say their sex lives are over - they're "dead in bed." Find out more at http://hersfoundation.org/effects.html.

Vasectomy and brain damage
The damaging effects of vasectomy on immune and nervous systems have been observed for four decades. Primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a form of dementia due to brain cell degeneration, has been observed after vasectomy. It can occur in individuals under the age of 65 (and sometimes as early as in the 40's), and involves a decline in one or more language functions.(6)

Removing tonsils? Try chiropractic first.
Removing the tonsils of children with mild or moderate throat infections is more expensive and has fewer health benefits than simply watching and waiting, say researchers. In a study of 300 children aged 2 to 8 who had been advised to have their tonsils out, those who avoided surgery had fewer annual visits to doctors and lower resulting medical costs. The children who avoided surgery also had fewer fevers, throat infections and respiratory illnesses.(7)

Is there another word for synonym?

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

Would a fly without wings be called a walk?

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?

If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?