What Is Health?

Throughout the years, the interpretations and definitions of health have changed or been distorted and confused. Today, instead of having a health care model, most of our healing professions work from a "Sick Care System".

This Sick Care System looks at the body from a symptomatic point of view. When no symptoms are present it thinks the body is healthy and needs no work. For years most people have been taught to see their doctors when they are sick, have one or more symptoms or when they are uncomfortable. Fast, quick, temporary pain relief has become the order of the day. Conversely, when their body is feeling good, they are taught to leave their body alone.

Chiropractic Listens to the Body

Chiropractic looks at health in a much different light. Chiropractic realizes that a symptom, ache or pain is the body's way of telling us that something is happening. Much like a car, with its indicator lights that tell the driver if the oil is low or the temperature is too high, your body reacts in the same manner through symptoms.

Chiropractic listens to these signals and works with the body, not to turn them off, but rather to find their cause and to correct any interference to the body's own healing process. Chiropractic also recognizes that the body's different signs and symptoms do not mean the body is in ill health.

For example, when the body is fighting a virus, the innate response of the body is to create a fever to "burn out" the virus. Though the person with the fever does not feel good because of the aches, pains, chills and headaches, the fever is a sign of health within the body and shows that the body is trying to normalize itself.

The Body Is Self-Healing

Chiropractic looks at health from from a symptomatic viewpoint, but from a position that the body will express itself in many different ways to create a healthy posture. Chiropractic knows that the intelligence with your body understands how to heal you. thus, when given the proper internal environment, your body will do the best job it can to create a healthy state of being.