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Arnold E. Forester, D.C.
Chiropractic
has achieved its well deserved recognition in recent
years. We have arrived and are now part of the healing
arts scene. A question in my mind is “What status
will our profession acquire?” Will Chiropractic
be just another cog in the wheel of therapies designed
to treat people when they are sick, or will the chiropractic
profession do what it was designed to do — get
and keep people well — not only get sick people
well, but keep people well.
If
— the big word if — if only more D.C.’s
would learn how to prevent subluxations instead of
waiting for them to occur, we would truly be taking
care of the cause of disease.
The
subluxation can occur from a fall or accident. If
a person falls, and the force of landing cannot be
overcome by the muscles, bones or other mechanisms
designed to cushion a fall, he will become subluxated,
which causes disease. Now let’s consider another
even more common cause of the subluxation —
the abuse people put their bodies through. For example,
when a person eats a food that irritates his stomach.
If he does this often enough, a subluxation will occur,
and that will also cause disease. In short, the subluxation
can occur due to any environmental force that is strong
enough to overcome our internal resistive forces.
In
the example of a fall, we can successfully adjust
the patient and send him on his way once spinal balance
has been maintained, and prevent what would have become
a disease process. In the instance of an environmental
abuse, the patient must be guided on what not to eat
— or in the case of dietary deficiency, what
to eat, or in the case of poor muscle tone, what exercise
to do, or in the case of emotional tension, how to
relax. Whatever the patient is doing that is wrong
for his body, or what he is not doing for his body
must be recognized, then we must guide the patient
in the maintenance of health. This guidance will help
prevent subluxations by correcting the cause.
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