Welcome to Our Newsletter
This newsletter is brought to you by the staff of the Clarington Chiropractic Clinic
in its desire to improve the quality of your care. We wish to bring you up to date of
new developments in chiropractic and to inspire you to learn about your health care,
because if you knew what we know, you would do what we do.
The secret of health for both mind and body
is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future,
or not to anticipate troubles,
but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~ Buddha ~
The Chiropractic Savings "Work-Out"
Quite often, the expense of chiropractic treatments keep patients away until they experience pain and suffering. Would you like to keep your money in your wallet AND keep your back and nervous system healthy? We'd like to work with you at keeping your chiropractic bills as low as possible, and have come up with the following suggestions.
Book an Appointment
Back and neck pain does not get better on its own. If you think you have a problem, then you probably do. Delaying your visit will only allow the situation worsen, increasing the expense or repair and recovery.
Practice at Home
Taking proper care of your back has great impact on the amount of chiropractic work you may need. Practice the stretches that the doctor gives you, and avoid injuring your back by staying away from activities that you know irritate your condition.
An Ounce of Prevention
We work with you to ensure your recall periods allow you to wait the maximum amount of time before a maintenance adjustment and check-up are necessary. Unfortunately, waiting until "next-time" to have a scan can be more detrimental and costly in the long run. As a tool, the sEMG and thermography scan can help detect problems before they become chronic and painful.
Referrals
Your referrals demonstrate your continued confidence in the chiropractic treatment we provide and your support is greatly appreciated. To those who continue to send friends, family and neighbours, we extend a warm thank you.
Benefit Yourself
By taking advantage of your allocated chiropractic insurance coverage, you will maximize your insurance benefits, and provide yourself with an extra ounce of prevention. Remember, what you fail to use during your benefit period is lost, the amount will not be carried forward into the next benefit year.
Chiropractic Philosophy
Chiropractic, in its traditional sense, has never proclaimed to provide a form of treatment, remedy or therapy for any disease. Chiropractic recognizes that only nature, the "innate intelligence" of the human body, cures; and a doctor of chiropractic can do
no more than facilitate this self-healing process.
"One question was always uppermost in my mind in my search for the cause of disease. I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench, was not. Why? What difference, was there in the two persons that caused one to have pneumonia, diabetes, typhoid or rheumatism, while his partner, similarly situated, escaped? Why? "
These are the words of D. D. Palmer, the founder of chiropractic. Mankind never likes to look to himself for the cause of his problems; he likes to blame others such as circumstance, luck, demons, fate, heredity, germs, viruses, etc. Yet the cause is clearly within man himself; and if the cause is within man himself, then the cure too, lies inside.
The spinal adjustment, performed by a chiropractor, corrects vertebral subluxation, removes obstacles to the expression of health, allowing the "doctor within" to go to work. The body itself provides the cure .
The job of all doctors is to remove the obstacles to healing: the allopath with his antibiotics, the surgeon with the knife, the psychologist and psychiatrist with mental mechanisms, and the chiropractor by the reduction and correction of vertebral subluxations.
Symptoms are nature's warning signal, our burglar alarm. They are there to tell us something is wrong, but with today's penchant for a pain free existence the use of pain killing drugs is in vogue. This quest for pain relief, fostered by medicine, has led to a masking of symptoms that leads to further advancement of malfunction and pathology.
No one would put cotton on the speaker of a burglar alarm so as not to hear the warning and thus allow the burglar to go to work. One wouldn't put a sponge under a dripping faucet so you couldn't hear the drip. Taking aspirin to dull the pain of an aching back before a shopping trip, is like taking aspirin to ease the pain of a bruise on your arm and then beating the bruise.
Most all authorities today recognize the supremacy of the nervous system in its role as the master system over all body function. The nervous system has two main components: the brain, which gives the orders, and the spinal cord and peripheral nerves, which deliver the orders from the brain to the remainder of the body. When there is an interference with this message (as a result of vertebral subluxations) the body is unable to function in optimal form. It is when the body is in this weakened state that our immune systems are unable to fight off viruses and bacterial infections.
Chiropractic care, keeping the body free of nerve interference along the spine, plays an important role in health maintenance. This is the answer to the question D. D. Palmer had asked. It is for this reason that you, a chiropractic patient are able to remain well when friends and family bend to sickness.
Brought to you by the unsubluxated minds of the Clarington Chiropractic Clinic staff.
