Are You One Surge Away From Sickness?

Adapted from "Surging Your Way to Sickness" by the Weekly Sticky

What would happen if you plugged 10 appliances in one outlet and turned them all on at the same time?  You'd blow a circuit, right! Well, the same thing could happen if you surge your 'nerve circuits' with too much STRESS...

Picture your nerve system as an electrical outlet with multiple stresses plugged in. Turn on all those stresses at the same time and POW, you'll quickly overload your system, blow a circuit and fry your state of health! Upper Cervical Chiropractors call this head/neck misalignment. Depending on what nerves (circuits) are involved, you can experience symptoms from mild aches and pains to more significant health problems like High Blood Pressure (Journal of Human Hypertension 22,1 G Bakris, MD et al). So how can you avoid the dangers of stress surge?

Although it's impossible to eliminate all stress from your life, you can increase your odds of  staying ahead of their negative, accumulative effects with regular upper cervical care.  Your Upper Cervical Chiropractor performs his or her job much like an electrician... skillfully checking your nerve system for overloaded circuits and turning them back on so you won't experience an interruption in your state of health and wellness. When it comes to basic, preventative care, nothing beats 'keeping your Power on.'

Does Upper Cervical Care Prevent Disease?

The prevention of disease seems to be of major concern to many people these days. The public is beginning to exercise to prevent heart problems and cut down on cholesterol to prevent cardiovascular disease. They are quitting their smoking habits to prevent cancer, and on and on. Prevention of disease, however, perpetuates a very serious misconception concerning disease, that is that it has a single cause. If a lack of vitamin C were the cause of the common cold, taking vitamin C would prevent it. While resistance is dependent upon vitamin C, it also depends upon a number of other factors. That is why three children in a family can all drink their orange juice and two will get a cold and one will not. Resistance depends upon how well the body is working, how well it can utilize vitamin C, the amount of rest a person gets and, of course, the frequency of coming in contact with the virus. There are probably a dozen other factors as well, many of which we do not even know and some we cannot control.

If exercise prevented heart attacks, Jim Fixx, the guru of running, would not have had a fatal heart attack on one of his daily runs. There are people who smoke two packs of cigarettes a day for thirty years and do not get lung cancer. Conversely, there are people who never smoke a cigarette and die of lung cancer.

Here is the point. There is only one thing that is truly effective in preventing disease, that is staying healthy! The more things you do to promote your good health, the greater the likelihood of not ending up with a disease. Exercise is important, but it is only one piece of the health picture. Vitamin C and all the other aspects of good nutrition are another piece. Avoiding poisons like cigarette smoke is another. The more aspects of health that you address, the greater your probability of being healthy and the greater your chances of preventing disease.

Of course, maintaining the integrity of your nervous system is a vital part of health. That is where upper cervical care comes in. You should correct head/neck misalignment because it can interfere with the proper function of the nerve system. Besides directly improving the nerve supply, maintaining head/neck alignment also indirectly affects the other aspects of good health. If there is interference in your nervous system, you may not be able to properly utilize good nutrition or get the maximum benefits from exercise and rest. Your body will be less resistant to the poisons you cannot help but be exposed to, like second-hand cigarette smoke.

If you want to prevent disease, the proper attitude is not just doing certain things to prevent certain diseases. That is a futile approach. There are just too many diseases. The proper approach is to do those things necessary to be healthy. Perhaps if everybody were doing everything necessary to promote and maintain health, we would not have to worry about preventing disease. That seems to be the most intelligent idea.

Periodic Upper Cervical Check-ups?

People hire professionals to check over things that are beyond their capabilities.

For example, they hire:

• Mechanics to check their automobiles;
• Accountants to check their taxes;
• Dentists to check their teeth; and
• Optometrists to check their eyes.


Why don’t they go Upper Cervical doctors to check their spines, nervous systems and postures?

People should know that we subject our bodies, and spines in particular, to gravity and other stressors everyday and that small problems if not checked for regularly and addressed could turn into big problems later on. They also should know that Upper Cervical doctors, while often times helping us get through those aches and pains, are experts at regularly analyzing the function and structure of the spine and nervous system to help prevent problems, promote wellness and enhance quality of life.

If people see Upper Cervical Care as only a means of taking care of symptoms or pain, then there are truly dozens of options available for the patient. However, if people see Upper Cervical Care as the specialty of focusing on the structure of the spine and the function of the nervous system, then maybe we all would invest more in our health by having periodic checkups to help us stay well.

Keeping Upper Cervical Care Easy To Understand

By Dr. Daniel Clark

We make a practice of keeping our explanation simple, logical and easy to understand.

Most health problems will respond to the Upper Cervical Corrective Procedure when there is restricted flow of brain healing messages to the body.

Brain messages leave the brain by way of the brain stem, pass through the neck, down the spinal cord and out over the entire nervous system to all parts of the body.

We are not consciously aware that these messages exist but the heart keeps pumping blood, the lungs keep breathing air, the stomach keeps digesting food and the thousands of other chemical changes going on in the body continuously are all a result of messages sent by the brain.

We take precision x-rays to determine if there is interference at the top of the neck that could restrict the flow of brain healing messages to the body, allowing health problems to develop.

If the x-rays indicate misalignment interference, we analyze the x-rays to develop a corrective formula.

Our First Objective:

We use your x-ray formula to correct the misalignment and restore the brain’s ability to send its healing messages to the body, so it can begin its natural self-healing process.

The Corrective Procedure is painless and requires no pulling, twisting or jerking motion of the head and neck.

Our Second Objective:

On follow-up visits during the body’s stabilization and healing period, we monitor your ability to maintain the alignment correction to prevent any interruption in the healing process until it is complete.

Very Important:

After your healing is complete, we recommend periodic check ups to monitor your ability to maintain the alignment correction, so the brain can continue sending unrestricted health and healing messages to the body and provide optimal health and a better quality of life.

Upper Cervical Corrective Health Care is both a Crisis and a Preventive health care service for children and adults of all ages ….. Because

When the brain can send its health and healing messages to the body without any interference, we improve our odds of enjoying good health.

When the brain cannot send its health and healing messages to some part of the body because of interference at the top of the neck, we can expect health problems will begin to develop.