The Basis of Health

Every time you turn around you hear more and more about “National Healthcare” but what does health really mean to you? Is taking a pill for high blood pressure health to you? How about a pill for cholesterol, indigestion, constipation or headaches? Before too long you will be taking fifty pills a day for what ails you, but will that be healthy? If you’re like me you’re probably thinking no. Your body doesn’t feel symptoms because it is short of medication. You don’t have a headache, because your body doesn’t have enough painkillers in it. It is feeling symptoms because there is likely something not right with how you’re treating your body. When we get all wrapped up with the daily rigors and stresses in life we forget to take care of our bodies. So my article this month is about the basics of health. Write them down in big letters and post them on your fridge.

1) Drink plenty of water (64 Oz a day for an adult)
2) Eat Whole Foods (Concentrate on shopping on the outsides of the grocery store. The stuff that grows in the ground)
3) Exercise every day. (Even a small walk around the block is better than nothing)
4) Get your body checked for Subluxation

These three basics will put you on the right track to enjoying health. When you get right down to it, having insurance and “National Healthcare” will do significantly less for you on a daily basis than taking care of your own body and your own health. You can make the changes you need from wherever you are one day at a time. So start improving your health today.

On The Topic of X-rays

Every day I find interesting information across my desk and today found something that I thought I would share. it is the text of an article from the British Medical Journal. it's an article from 2001, but is still very relivent today. Many practitioners feel taking an x-ray is almost mandatory, but quite the contrary is true. I only take x-rays when I feel there are clinical symptoms that point to a possible tumor or fracture that I would like to diagnose. read the text below it's not that long.


Do You Have Low Back Pain? Forget the X-rays

Getting an x-ray to uncover the source of lower back pain does not reduce suffering. In fact, in a new study, patients who had an x-ray, or radiography, reported more pain 3 months later than those who did not have an x-ray.

There is no evidence that having radiography helps doctors to care for people with simple back pain.

There is even evidence that the very act of having an x-ray can, perhaps by appearing to increase the perception of severity, delay recovery.

Low back pain is a common medical problem, and doctors often x-ray the lower spine to diagnose the cause of the pain. In most cases, however, x-ray results do little to change the treatment of back pain.

Most of the time, x-rays are performed to reassure patients or doctors.

Interestingly, even though x-rays did not appear to help relieve back pain, more than 80% of patients in both groups said they would choose to have an x-ray if they could.

By 9 months, most of the differences between the groups diminished, although having an x-ray still did not appear to provide any benefits, the report indicates. Patients in the x-ray group tended to be more satisfied with their care, however.

The findings highlight the need to let people know that x-rays are of little use to most people with low back pain.

Since so many people believe that radiography is an essential feature of the management of back pain, there is a need for a campaign to inform the public.

When doctors order an x-ray to investigate low back pain, patients may interpret the move as a sign that they really are unwell, so they may be more likely to report pain and to think that the pain interferes with their activities.

British Medical Journal February 17, 2001; 322: 400-405

Chiropractic and ADHD on The CBS Early Show

This segment was shown on June 15 talking about the risk of sudden death associated with drugs used to treat children and teenagers with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. in the clip the Dr. mentions Chiropractic as an advised safe therapeutic choice.


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So why would that be? Chiropractic relieves stress on the nervous system that can make it difficult to focus or cause additional firing that makes it difficult to relax. When your brain is able to accurately determine what the body needs the body functions better.

So give chiropractic a chance to change your life today.
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Dr. Eric

Chiropractic is different

Often times people become introduced to chiropractic through a specific traumatic event. Back pain, neck pain, migraine headaches are some standard culprits. They want immediate relief and once they have achieved that goal they generally move on. This is a standard Western medicine mindset for Health care, and unfortunately this is the pervasive mindset in America today which has landed us in the current “Health Care Crisis” but Chiropractic is different, and this is why.

Imagine that inside your body is an energy who's only purpose is to help your body to be healthy. You don't control this energy it's just there and every one of its actions are for your best benefit and good. When this energy can be expressed completely your body functions the way it should and is healthy. When this energy can not be expressed completely your body starts to not feel good it begins to break down. Chiropractors call this energy Innate Intelligence and it's found in every living organism. We call the disruption of the perfect expression of this energy Subluxation and that is what we remove when we give a chiropractic adjustment.

Simply stated, we remove Subluxation so that Innate Intelligence can heal your body. So when a patient comes into my office because they are experiencing pain I will examine the body and locate Subluxation to be removed. Once those Subluxations are removed the body itself starts to heal. It does this through all the standard physiological processes of the human body.

And this is how we're different. When Chiropractors remove subluxation the body then decides what processes are changed in order to make the person healthy. You may come in originally for back pain or headaches and find that all of a sudden you are sleeping better, or not having diarrhea or are able to exercises longer or harder or any number of physical improvements. That's the marvel of the human body at work. It wants to be healthy, and sometimes needs a little assist to get there. Chiropractic gives your body that assist, and once your body starts to heal you feel better and you have wellness.

Chiropractors don't just “fix” what's wrong with the body and send you on your way. They release your Innate Potential for total body wellness and change the way you perceive health. And that's a little different from what people expect from health care.

$20 Oil Change or $1200 Motor

We are all familiar with the importance of taking care of our cars. It's all sorts of little things; filling the gas tank; changing the wiper blades; putting air in the tires, or even changing the oil. A little bit here and a little bit there prevents major catastrophic things from going wrong. At least that's what my father taught me, but somehow my brother didn't pick up the same lesson.

When I was 20 my older brother wanted to borrow my car to go camping. He owned a fancy Chevy Beretta, it was a V6 with all sorts of get up and go, and I drove a Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra. The reason he wanted to borrow it was because it was a bigger four door car and he could get all the people and stuff in it easier than in his sporty car. This sounded like a good idea to me, because then I could take the much sportier Beretta out for a spin. And that's where things took a strange turn. Apparently the indicator light cluster on his car had stopped working, and he never did anything about it. so around 1 in the morning on a back country road while accelerating aggressively from a stop I suddenly found the car without power. This was in the time before cell phones, and out in the country you never know what you're going to find, but up the road a way there was a light on in a house and a wonderful lady with four good teeth was kind enough to let me in to call my dad. The verdict, after towing the car to the shop it turns out that my brother hadn’t changed the oil in over a year and the engine was completely seized.

What does that have to do with Chiropractic? Quite a lot actually. Most people wait until something dramatic happens to them before they seek Chiropractic care, kind of like me wandering down the dark country road because of a seized engine, when their body is already telling them that they're past due for some maintenance. Sometimes we see the signals, and sometimes we don't, but either way, a regular maintenance schedule of care which is generally a basic $45 service every month or so can prevent your body from having a major break down in function. To put it in perspective compare that $45 visit to three days off work unpaid and 6 visits over the course of the first two weeks at your $50 insurance co pay. It adds up quickly.

So pay attention to what your body is telling you and call today to schedule a wellness visit. Your body will thank you.

Chiropractic Thanks

I got the following message today from a patient and it really touched my heart. These are the reasons I became a chiropractor. It's difficult right now with the economy with just having started a practice, but it will continue to blossom especially when people share experiences like this.

"Dr. Hahn. I was just doing my exercises before watching a movie with my daughter who's now home from college. Wanted to thank you again for your work. I feel great. Making a living is somewhat impersonal, but for me, the patient, I haven't been this pain free for over 14 years. You can't pay bills with that but there must be a special place in heaven for those that heal." --B

Here is a patient that came to the office on the off chance that Chiropractic had a different explanation of why he had been in so much pain for so long, and found out that indeed it does, and now he feels better than he has since is daughter was a little girl.

Give Chiropractic a chance in your life. Call Hahn Family Chiropractic today!!

Consumer Reports and Chiropractic

Check out this video from CBS News (I know you have to wait through a commercial first, but you'll survive) I love that Chiropractic is finally beginning to get the proper attention it deserves.


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