Some insightful information to help you convey the Chiropractic message to your patients and team…“I’m broken, fix me…”

Oh I wish I could but  I can’t cure anything. 

“But surely you take pain away and fix people… you took my pain away last time…” 

If only this was true. Drs do not possess messiah-like gifts of healing, and indeed do not know how to treat or heal back pain even when that is what they are most often attributed with. 

You see all that healing is done by the patient! Try to stop a cut for healing and you’ll be surprised how hard your body fights back.

We are designed to heal; it’s an innate function for us all. 

Why then do we sometimes not heal? Honestly, sometimes that innate healing ability is totally overwhelmed. But other times, the path towards symptoms is so long and insidious because all the while our body is doing its best. It’s only when it loses the unequal struggle that we “feel” the symptom. The brain’s ability to understand and improve the situation is slowly eroded as the nervous system becomes so adapted and compensated. 

What role does the brain play in preventing us from becoming symptomatic? Well if the brain is able to marshal all of the proper functions of repair and regulation, then we generally operate pretty well. As we go through life we constantly cope with multiple stressors from gravity to sugar, and alcohol, to poor posture, mental stress, to drugs and more… all of these cause our body (in particular our nervous system) to adapt and compensate until we cannot adapt or compensate any more… it is then that we feel the pain or symptoms. 

Who does the healing? Well the patient of course. What use is the Dr then? To facilitate the process… 

Drs don’t fix broken people and never will… Chiropractors only help the body work better and when that happens; well we’re innately designed to work better and hopefully to heal…