Why do I adjust stuffed animals in my practice?

Because when a 4-year-old asks if you can adjust her favorite stuffed animal before her adjustment you just do it!

Kids understand the importance of regular chiropractic care. It’s only us adults that muck it up sometimes.

As I finished reviewing her assessment findings with her, she began to cry.

“Why did nobody tell me this before?” she asked.

“Why didn’t anyone tell me that the lower back pain could effect the nerves to my intestine?” she sobbed.

If you are reading this you have most likely been stuck behind one of these buses already this year.

School is back in session and to me that always reminds me of a fresh start!

It doesn’t matter what grades you got last year.

It doesn’t matter if you didn’t reach all your goals.

This year - is your year!

“As a chiropractor do you do anything else or do you just adjust?”

I get asked this question more often that one might think.

To be honest with you - it kind of bothers me.

just adjust

“Every organ in your body is connected to the one under your hat.” - BJ Palmer.

Simple and true - yet how many of us take the time to realize this truth.

Your brain controls the functioning and healing of every part of your body.

You lungs? Yes!

I had a practice member that recently just started care.

At the age of 43 she had never been adjusted.

It was an honor to deliver her first chiropractic adjustment but I knew it would be a long road.

Over four decades of damage and degeneration to the spine with little to no correction or maintenance.

We are on our phones all the time now.

You are most likely reading this blog post on your phone right now.

What percentage of battery do you have left?

Have you ever had one of those days where you wake up and realize your phone didn’t charge all night?

Last week I was at an after hours networking event and I told someone I was a chiropractor.

They told me that they had tried chiropractic care in the past and it didn’t help them.

I was shocked to learn this because in my experience - chiropractic care provides fantastic results.

I asked if they could walk me through their chiropractic care experience and it went something like this…

Do you take better care of your car or your body?

Most people would like to say they take better care of their bodies but that is rarely the case.

But our cars are important, right?

They take us to work.

They take our kids to school.

"Dr. Ben doesn't believe in cortisone injections."

One of my practice members said this last week and I had to clarify. Let me state for the record that I believe in cortisone injections as much as I believe in gravity and chiropractic. Cortisone injections work for a lot of people. By "work" I mean they are great at reducing inflammation which is causing pain. However, at the end of the day they are still a "treatment" for pain - and that I have issue with.

What if I told you that no chiropractor ever cured anything in this history of chiropractic?

Would you believe me?

What if I took it a step further and told you that no doctor anywhere ever cured anyone of anything?

Anytime healing takes place it does so through a healthy and optimal functioning body.

When you were a kid and you fell and cut your knee what would your mother or father do?

They would probably clean the cut and place a band-aid on it, right?

Power lines help bring much needed electrical energy to our houses and our businesses.

We often take this modern marvel for granted.

We flip a switch and we have light!

It's kind of crazy to think that there is electrical energy running through our nervous system keeping us alive and healthy.

Instead of power lines we have nerves.