Answering a few questions about Chiropractic

This is an excerpt from an email I received from a friend I have not talked to in a long time. Here is my response as well.

so what made you become a chiropractor? i’ve always been afraid of them. since youre an expert, is it true, once you go to be adjusted, its a lifetime commitment?

I first wanted to be a Chiropractor during my time in undergrad as a personal trainer. What it stood for made sense in we believe the power that made the body can heal the body and by removing blockages in the body we can help it heal naturally without drugs or surgery. It is how the body is intended to heal.

Good health is a lifetime commitment. Most people do not realize there are certain dis-ease processes going on without our knowledge until they show up in the body as symptoms. In fact, certain diseases do not present sometimes until they are either terminal (cancer) or the person dies (heart attack). Our bodies break down due to excessive stress to our systems. We are built to handle stress and even thrive off of certain types of stress to make our bodies stronger. However in this age, we no longer have healthy diets, we eat processed and refined foods that make our digestive systems work overtime, we work too much, we don’t exercise enough, and we don’t sleep enough. Sometimes we even throw in a little bit of physical trauma. We constantly run our bodies in overdrive 24/7. After some time, our bodies begin to break down and we get sick, put undue strain on our relationships in our lives, and simply put, no longer function normally.

Getting adjusted is only the tip of the iceberg when you go to a GOOD Chiropractor. I emphasize good because I feel there are a lot out there that only want to adjust you and send you on your way. To be a true holistic Doctor, they must actually take into consideration all these other factors.

The reason that the perception of once you go, you have to keep going sticks is that the reasons are not explained why. What I mentioned before states that we are over stressed all the time. When you overload the system constantly without change, you have to be treated more often. If you start eating healthier, exercising, reducing your stress, you don’t need to be treated as often.