Understanding What UC Doctors Do.

One of the major differences between the practice of Upper Cervical Care (UCC) and that of a therapeutic approach is the desire to have knowledgeable, understanding patients. The therapeutic providers often neither want nor care for the patient to know everything that they are doing. This is not a criticism, it just reflects the two different approaches. It is not necessary for the patient to understand the therapeutic approach. They are totally uninvolved with the process. The patient does not participate in the surgery, he or she just lies there. The patient merely swallows the medication. Everything is done by the doctor. The therapeutic approach is performed on the patient or done for the patient. UCC is different.

UCC is based upon the principle that the patient’s body does the healing. It maintains health and it actually makes the correction, using the force introduced into the upper neck by the upper cervical doctor. Second, UCC is directed toward health and increasing one’s potential for an improved quality of life in all areas. Obviously, this takes cooperation on the part of the patient. We will make corrections when indicated so that you can get the maximum benefit from your exercise. But you still must do the exercise. We correct your head/neck misalignment and so that your body, free of nerve interference, can get the maximum benefit from the food you eat. But we cannot eat the food for you. UCC is a cooperative effort, from the actual correction to the patient taking responsibility for being regular/periodic in his or her care.

The outside-in thinkers think they are smarter than their patients so the patients should just do as they are told. The upper cervical doctor works with your body’s innate intelligence, which is smarter than all the doctors in the world, put together. As a result, it is the upper cervical doctor's desire that you, the patient, learn more and more about the inside-out way of life so that you can take a more active role in maintaining your health and directing your life and the upper cervical doctor can step back and do the one thing he or she does best, which is correcting head/neck misalignment and the resulting nerve interference whenever it occurs.

To be a participant in UCC, it is imperative that you, the patient, understand as much as you can about UCC and the “above-down, inside-out” approach to health care. If this term is unfamiliar to you, please ask an upper cervical doctor to explain its meaning. This blog is also full of material for you to utilize. We hope that you will avail yourself of these materials. You see, we believe that people truly want to be knowledgeable about their life and health and not just be a bystander to what’s being done to them. We believe that you can see by now that the therapeutic approach has made us a drug-dependent, disease-fearful society and while it may have some success in the treatment of disease, it has very little to do with health. We hope you will read through this blog visit the links and ask us questions. Health comes from first knowing and understanding both your body and certain principles and then making the effort to apply those principles.

The View From The Other Side

Your frame of reference is important. How you view life, the world, your fellow man and the human body will often determine the outcome of your life. It has been demonstrated that doctors diagnose and treat based upon their frame of reference. Dr. Lawrence Horowitz, former director of the US Senate Subcommittee on Health, states “Women have a 70% chance of having their uterus removed by age 75 in a certain city in Maine. Women living in other cities in Maine have a 25% chance.” Was the first group of medical doctors bad physicians? No, they just had a hysterectomy mindset. Their frame of reference said, “Do surgery.” The point of the article was to get a second opinion. However, that would be of little value if you were to go to a physician in the same town. It could even get quite confusing. Suppose you went to a town where the doctor had a “no surgery under any circumstances” mindset and you really needed the surgery! Perhaps that is why some people prefer the philosophy extolled in the Chinese proverb that says, “Man with one watch always knows what time it is. Man with two watches never knows.” It seems easy enough, pick out an authority and do whatever he says. Unfortunately, whatever the authority says will be based on their frame of reference. Should not your decisions be based on your frame of reference or, at worst, on the advice of someone who has the same frame of reference as you?

Your frame of reference is really your outlook on life. The Upper Cervical Care frame of reference says the human body is designed by an Intelligence far greater than the mind of man. It maintains that the body was meant to run and heal itself from above-down, inside-out. This frame of reference also says the body was meant to be healthy and that being ill is not normal. Medicine, on the other hand, views the body as greatly limited. Upper Cervical Care views the body as having great ability. Medicine views the body from a negative viewpoint (i.e., disease) and Upper Cervical Care from a positive viewpoint (i.e., health). Medicine sees the signs and symptoms of disease as the body breaking down, Upper Cervical Care sees them more often as a means of adaptation. Medicine views life as an overwhelming obstacle that cannot be overcome without the use of chemicals. Upper Cervical Care views life as a challenge that can be met with great joy and result in a better, stronger individual.

How you look at life is important. In fact, many authorities in the health field maintain that a person’s outlook directly affects their health. People with a positive attitude generally have longer, healthier lives. It obviously affects your enjoyment of life. Your frame of reference will affect your outlook, but most important, your frame of reference will affect your decision-making process. If you have a health frame of reference, you will address your attention to health. If your frame of reference is proactive rather than reactive, you will go out and search for health rather than sit back and wait for sickness to occur and then run off to a man who has a sickness frame of reference and a remove-the-organ attitude and do whatever he says.

Upper Cervical Care is a positive, proactive approach to life. It doesn’t tell you to do this and to not do that. It tells you that your body is always better off without interference in the nervous system. It just makes sense to have your spine checked periodically. It is also important to educate yourself in matters of health, use common sense and listen to your body to determine what you need relative to matters of health.