I FEEL GREAT!!
Why Should I Return?

 

You entered your chiropractor's office feeling terrible and now your problems are a thing of the past. You'd probably be happy to return if your health deteriorates to the point where you have similar problems. But your chiropractor suggests you return even if you feel fine. "Why can't I return only when I'm feeling bad?" you may ask.

 

How you feel is not always a good indication of how healthy you are; in fact you may feel fine while life-threatening vertebral subluxations (spinal distortions) are damaging your body. We've all seen people looking like death warmed over who "feel fine." They are walking targets, waiting for disease to strike before they decide to do anything about their health. They "feel fine" but have no energy; they "feel fine" but sleep poorly; they "feel fine" but are tired, have aches and pains, headaches or backaches. Too many people who "feel fine" have a sudden heart attack, stroke, debilitating pain or are diagnosed with a serious disease such as cancer.

 
 

They've lost touch with how they really feel. They'll return for chiropractic care when they "feel like it and not a minute sooner". They've stopped listening to their body's subtle signs of sickness, and they won't listen to their chiropractor either.

 

Pain Is Deceptive, it does not necessarily give you a true indication of your health!

 

What Is Health?

  
 

True health does not mean merely being symptom free, it's having your body working right, having good spinal alignment, restful sleep, strength and energy. If simply being free of symptoms were the only sign of good health, then aspirin, drugs and other medicines would make you healthy, and the people taking the most drugs would be the healthiest. But are they?

 

Drugs don't make you healthy. They may reduce or alter your symptoms, but that does not make you healthy. What makes you healthy? Life makes you healthy. Having 100% life flowing through you, having a body free of the vertebral subluxation complex so the messages from your brain can travel freely to every part of your body is one of the vital keys to better health. That's the goal of the doctor of chiropractic.

 

Consider This:

 

Do you drive your car day after day, month after month and year after year and never bother to change the oil or give it a tune-up? Do you run your car to the point where it will go no further and then take it in to the garage for repair? If you are like most people, you probably maintain your car on a regular basis. You know that if you take care of your car regularly, it will give you better performance now and serve you well for many years to come.

 

Do you wait until your teeth are deteriorating and giving you a terrible toothache before you go to the dentist? No, you probably started going to the dentist when you were a young child and will continue to go to the dentist for the rest of you life, whether you have pain or not. You know that if you take care of your teeth now, they will last you for many years to come.

 
 

Your spine also needs regular maintenance care for better performance today and in the future. The benefits of chiropractic care are best experienced over the span of your lifetime.

Though your symptoms may disappear after a few spinal adjustments, the spinal degeneration will usually remain. The chances are that you'll be back in the chiropractor's office in the not-too-distant future with symptoms that take longer to go away ("I don't understand it doctor, the last time I felt better after a couple of visits..").

 

  Many people visit their doctor of chiropractic only when they're sick or in pain. That's a lot better than resorting to drugs or surgery, but chiropractic has so much more to offer. Keep your spine free of vertebral subluxations so it may continue healing; so that it may promote a healthier body, with less stresses, more energy and greater resistance to disease.  
 
If you want to have greater strength and mobility and less pain as you get older, make chiropractic care a regular part of you life.

 

References

 

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