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“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to work.” — Albert Schweitzer, MD |
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Chiropractic: philosophy
You were born with a remarkable innate intelligence that allows your heart
to beat over 100,000 times a day without you having to think about it, that
signals you to seek food when your energy stores are low, and that knows
exactly how to mend a cut on your finger. When faced with a health problem,
it is important to remember that you have an incredible self-regulating
wisdom and the most fantastic healing power inside you.Your symptoms are just a part of the billions of intricate reactions your body is going through in its desire to get back to a balanced state. Pain, for example, is the body’s brilliant way of alerting you of a problem, but this warning signal is not the problem itself. Popping pills to “treat” pain is like removing the batteries from a screeching smoke alarm in the midst of a fire. It is also interesting to note that the most common causes of death, vascular disease and cancer, are considered “silent killers” because their symptoms only arise very late in the disease process. What is the third most common cause of death? According to the Journal of the American Medical Association [1-3], it is actually adverse reactions to medication! As you can see, relying on symptoms and drugs is an ineffective and potentially dangerous way of approaching your health. The World Health Organization (WHO) agrees. It describes health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Chiropractic’s governing principle is to optimize health by facilitating the body’s efforts of regulating and healing itself. This holistic approach works not by treating the symptoms a person has, but by treating the person who has the symptoms. |
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2 Reference: Starfield, B. “Is US health
really the best in the world?”; JAMA July 26, 2000; 284(4):483-5 |
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