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Dr. Shana McLaughlin | Chiropractor Grand Rapids MI | Healthcare or Sick Care? You be the judge.
Dr. Shana McLaughlin and Upper Cervical Chiropractic of Michigan provides specific, upper cervical chiropractic care to the Grand Rapids, MI area, as well as Rockford, Cedar Springs and the surrounding towns.
Chiropractor in Grand Rapids, MI – Healthcare or Sick Care? You be the judge.
Look around everyone, because there is a serious problem growing right under our very noses. If you’re in the healthcare field, you should really take a look in the mirror and see if you’re helping create this problem. The problem, as some of you might be thinking, isn’t the shortcomings of medicine. No, it’s actually quite the opposite in fact. The medical practices are becoming more and more effective every year. Okay, wait, wait… I’m not crazy, alright? You’re probably wondering how that could possibly be a problem. If you think about it deeply, and the fact that drugs are becoming more effective and less harmful, you’ve got to think… that may be good, right? I mean, if the side-effects of drugs are being diminished, isn’t that a wonderful thing for everyone? If surgical procedures are safer today than they were 10 or 15 years ago, isn’t that amazing? Less than 20 years ago, a heart by-pass was a serious, life threatening procedure to undertake. The same goes for hip replacements, lasik, etc. Now they’re almost as common place as tonsilectomy’s and appendectomy’s.
If scientific medicine is able to develop new drugs that can relieve people’s dis-ease for longer and longer periods of time, isn’t medicine progressing and evolving? Shouldn’t we be thankful? Well, in a sense it is helpful for short term, but not in the long run. If all we are doing is relieving and managing the symptoms of diseases and disorders, but not making them healthier, are we really making a difference? To feel more comfortable until you die may be a benefit to some but not for the many who are still years from their deaths. Let’s not mistake comfortable deaths with the full expression of health. If we have virtually wiped out smallpox and developed a new vaccine for chicken pox but AIDS is growing every year, have we really made any progress? Here is an unbelievable fact that will really make you second guess where we’re at as a society. A recent study has shown that if cancer was completely eliminated today (which is highly unlikely inasmuch as the incidence of the disease is increasing), the average life span would only be increased by less than 1.5 years.
Here is the danger–medical advances may lull us into believing either that we are healthier or that being healthy is not important as long as we are disease-free. Yet, ridding the world of a disease like cancer will only increase the life span at best by 1 1/2 years and perhaps not that much if other diseases take its place as the killers. Medicine’s progress is like the individual who cannot seem to live within a budget and is constantly using his credit card until it is “maxed out.” Then the credit card company tells him not to worry because his limit has been increased by $2,000. That is the worse thing that could happen to him. It will treat the symptom for a while longer, delaying the ultimate which will be worse, he will have $2,000 more debt! But saddest of all, it will prevent him from addressing the real problem. Ultimately, he needs to look at his financial situation, make changes to his life style to address the problem and slowly work his way out of his debt until he is happy and financially healthy.
Similarly, the greatest danger of medicine is that it works. It relieves symptoms, treats disease and makes you feel better to the point that you think you are better. Unfortunately, it has little to do with health. Mastering bypass surgery will not encourage us to live healthier lives which may lead to healthier hearts and thus prevent the very need for the surgery. Health is the real need. People need to know that true health comes from within. It consists of doing those things necessary to be healthy including eating right, getting the proper rest, exercising, keeping the body from pollutants and maintaining a positive mental attitude. Most importantly, it includes visiting the chiropractor on a regular basis so that nerve interference at the spinal level is removed and the body’s self-healing, self-regulating principle, the innate intelligence, is free to be expressed to ensure that all of the above aspects of health care can be maximized. People need to know that.
Visit http://www.michiganuppercervical.com for more information– Dr. Shana McLaughlin is an upper cervical chiropractor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Correcting the upper cervical spine has been clinically proven to provide long lasting health benefits.
Looking for a solution to your problems that doesn’t involve drugs or surgery? Make an appointment today for a consultation to see how you can change your life with Upper Cervical Care.
Upper Cervical Chiropractic of Michigan
831 Fuller Ave NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
616-458-8063
Chiropractor Grand Rapids MI | Dr. Shana McLaughlin | Chiropractic
Dr. Shana McLaughlin and Upper Cervical Chiropractic of Michigan provides specific, upper cervical chiropractic care to the Grand Rapids MI area, as well as Rockford, Cedar Springs and the surrounding towns.
Chiropractor Grand Rapids MI | Dr. Shana McLaughlin | CHIROPRACTIC: It’s Not About Your Back, It’s About Your Life!
Too often we just do not take advantage of good things that are available to us. We may stay at a hotel and never use the pool or exercise room because we do not have time. We may never use the cruise control on our car because we only ever drive around town and if we lived in the desert, we’d never need to use the heated seats. We may feel like we have wasted money staying at a hotel with those features or buying a car with extras that we may never use. But the real tragedy is not taking advantage of something because we just do not know about its advantages. Imagine having a television set that you could turn on and off but you never had any idea that you could change the channel. The television would sit on the same channel and you would never realize the full potential that the television had to bring you different forms of entertainment. Imagine if it was stuck on C-Span. Yuck! I don’t watch television much, but if I did, C-Span would definitely not be my channel of choice.
Not utilizing its full potential is exactly what some chiropractic patients do. They go to a chiropractor for a back problem and never realize that chiropractic is so much more than a mere treatment for a musculoskeletal problem. When a vertebra becomes subluxated, probably the least important thing that happens is that back pain may result. It may be important to the person with pain, just as C-Span is important to someone who enjoys that type of programming, but there is a whole lot more to television than that one channel. Likewise there is a lot more to chiropractic than problems with the back. Chiropractic addresses the vertebral subluxation which interferes with the vital messages that travel over the nervous system between the brain and every organ, tissue and cell in the body. This interference seriously impairs the body’s ability to carry on all its normal and natural functions. The body’s chemistry is upset, organ function is affected, resistance is lowered and all coordinated activity is decreased. The digestive system does not work 100%. You cannot think clearly and you can not get all the benefit from your rest and exercise that you should. Even the food that you eat will not be utilized properly by the body if there is nerve interference. When a vertebral subluxation occurs, the body begins to function in an abnormal manner. The individual in this state may be totally unaware of what is happening in his or her body. Unless someone tells them about the benefits of regular chiropractic care, they may never know until it’s too late to regain their health. If all you could ever watch on television was C-Span, you could just find other forms of entertainment, like reading a good book. Unfortunately, there are no alternatives to correcting vertebral subluxations and keeping the life channels open so your body’s nerve system works at its maximum. Consequently, it makes sense to have your spine checked on a regular basis and to have vertebral subluxations adjusted whenever and wherever they are found.
Visit http://www.michiganuppercervical.com for more information– Dr. Shana McLaughlin is an upper cervical chiropractor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Correcting the upper cervical spine has been clinically proven to provide long lasting health benefits.
Looking for a solution to your problems that doesn’t involve drugs or surgery? Make an appointment today for a consultation to see how you can change your life with Upper Cervical Care.
Upper Cervical Chiropractic of Michigan
831 Fuller Ave NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
616-458-8063
Back Pain | Dr. Shana McLaughlin | Chiropractor Grand Rapids, MI
Dr. Shana McLaughlin and Upper Cervical Chiropractic of Michigan provides specific, upper cervical chiropractic care to the Grand Rapids, MI MI area, as well as Rockford, Cedar Springs and the surrounding towns.
Chiropractor in Grand Rapids MI - Back Pain
At least 80 % of the American public will at some point suffer from back pain. Anywhere between $16 and $50 billion is wasted on medical expenses and lost work time annually due to back pain.
While it is true that thousands of people go to chiropractors across the country everyday for back pain, many of whom find relatively quick, affordable relief, IT IS NOT TRUE THAT CHIROPRACTIC IS AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR BACK PAIN.
The fact is, some of those people would have experienced relief whether they received chiropractic care or not. For some, massage, acupuncture, hot/cold therapy or exercise might have been equally effective. Others would probably have felt better in time with no treatment at all. Unfortunately, what seems to work today may not work tomorrow. For many years the medical community suggested two weeks in bed for back pain. Today it is commonly understood that more than two days of bed rest can often make back pain worse. We realize now that as the muscles that support the spine are not used, they become weaker and less able to do their job. The variety in what constitutes effective treatment can partially be explained by the fact that the causes of back pain are as varied as the sufferers themselves.
Eighty percent of all low-back pain originates in the muscles, ligaments or disks. Some pain is caused by sheer overuse of muscles, whether it be by repeated use or by asking a muscle to do more than it is capable of in a single situation. Some back pain is caused by joint conditions–inflammation, arthritis or degeneration. Another leading cause of back pain is the herniated disk. However, interestingly enough, 20-30% of people with herniated disks and back pain actually have discomfort for a reason other than the disk condition. This is noteworthy inasmuch as many of these people go on to have surgery for the disk which is not the cause of their pain. Still, other pain is caused by unrelated disease in the back area such as kidney or digestive problems or even cancer.
So with the variety of causes of back pain, you may be wondering how any one thing can be effective. For example, how aspirin works to relieve pain is yet unknown. If we don’t know that, how can we know that there is not a less toxic or even cheaper means by which we can do the same thing? Or for that matter, how can we know that this unknown mechanism is not harmful to the body in some significant way?
While chiropractic is not a treatment for bad backs, it is good for the overall health of the body. Whenever you do anything that is good for your overall health, your whole body benefits. When you get a good night’s sleep, you are more energetic, more coordinated and more clear minded. Exercise, diet and rest obviously play a significant role in lessening back pain, not because they are effective treatments, but because they are good for the body. They promote health. Likewise, while back pain may improve under chiropractic care, it is not because chiropractic is good for bad backs. Chiropractic is good for your whole body. So have your spine checked regularly whether you have back pain or not. You’ll love the results!
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Chiropractic is good for your whole body. So have your spine checked regularly whether you have back pain or not. You’ll love the results!
Visit http://www.michiganuppercervical.com for more information– Dr. Shana McLaughlin is an upper cervical chiropractor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Correcting the upper cervical spine has been clinically proven to provide long lasting health benefits.
Looking for a solution to your problems that doesn’t involve drugs or surgery? Make an appointment today for a consultation to see how you can change your life with Upper Cervical Care.
Upper Cervical Chiropractic of Michigan
831 Fuller Ave NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
The Importance of Regular Chiropractic Care | Dr. Shana McLaughlin | Chiropractor Grand Rapids, MI
Dr. Shana McLaughlin and Upper Cervical Chiropractic of Michigan provides specific, upper cervical chiropractic care to the Grand Rapids MI area, as well as Rockford, Cedar Springs and the surrounding towns.
Dr. Shana McLaughlin – Chiropractor in Grand Rapids MI – Regular Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic patients are divided into two general categories. The first category includes a large number of patients who utilize chiropractic to enable their bodies to work better so that they might heal themselves of some condition or symptom. They understand that the chiropractor is not treating the condition or attempting to alleviate the symptom but that if he or she can correct the vertebral subluxation, the body will have greater capacity to heal itself. They come in to have their subluxations corrected and find that their bodies work at a higher level, quite often high enough to get well of the physical problems they had when they arrived. Thousands of people have had their health restored because when nerve interference is removed at the vertebral level, the principle that heals and run the billions upon billions of cells in the body is free to work a little better. Sadly though, many of these people do not fully utilize chiropractic care.
The second group of people realize that the same principle that enables the body to get well can also keep it well. They do not use chiropractic care as merely a way of regaining their health but as part of an overall, health-maintenance program. They come regularly whether they feel good or not. They know that being adjusted will enable them to express more life in numerous ways, some we cannot even imagine. We do know that you can have more energy, better coordination, more flexibility, a greater ability to handle stress, and a greater benefit from the food, exercise and sleep that you get. All of this from regular adjustments? Absolutely! Which of the above is not affected by your nervous system? Logically, a better nervous system, one free of interference, has to help accomplish all the above. How much benefit depends upon you, but everyone will have a better functioning body with a good nerve supply. Not only do these people come regularly but they also bring their families in and refer friends and relatives for chiropractic care. They know that it is far better to get someone under care while they are still healthy than to wait until they manifest the symptoms of a lack of health. They want everyone to experience some of the benefits listed above.
As a health care facility, our desire is to see primarily the second category of patients. We obviously would not turn away a patient with a medical condition who wanted his or her subluxations corrected so that their body had a greater potential for healing. Everyone needs chiropractic care, people with medical conditions of any kind need regular adjustments as much as people with no medical problems, even if they need medical care at the same time. What we really desire is to see hundreds of people who are concerned enough about their health to come in regularly with their families to receive adjustments and stay healthy. We hope that it is your desire to be one of these type of people. If there is ever something about chiropractic health care that you do not understand, please ask us. It is our desire and pleasure to make you aware of all the benefits of being subluxation free.
Visit http://www.michiganuppercervical.com for more information– Dr. Shana McLaughlin is an upper cervical chiropractor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Correcting the upper cervical spine has been clinically proven to provide long lasting health benefits.
Looking for a solution to your problems that doesn’t involve drugs or surgery? Make an appointment today for a consultation to see how you can change your life with Upper Cervical Care.
Upper Cervical Chiropractic of Michigan
831 Fuller Ave NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
5 Ways to Feel Young Again! | Dr. Shana McLaughlin | Chiropractor Grand Rapids MI
Aging is a part of life. That being said, just because you’re getting older in years it doesn’t mean you have to have saggy skin, be tired, sick, and stress all the time. Life is a gift, enjoy it! Here’s a list of the top 5 things you need in order to feel young again!
Brain Fact! Dr. Shana McLaughlin | Chiropractor in Grand Rapids MI
Health comes from Within| Dr. Shana McLaughlin | Chiropractor Grand Rapids MI
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Fun Fact: Sick…stressed? Or sick of being stressed? Have a good laugh! | Dr. Shana McLaughlin | Chiropractor in Grand Rapids MI
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Health in a Nut Shell | Dr. Shana McLaughlin | Chiropractor in Grand Rapids MI
We were all born with the innate ability to heal ourselves. When this ability becomes diminished a state of dis-ease occurs. This is known as interference. Interference can come from physical, chemical, and emotional stress. In order for healing to occur the body needs no help. Just no interference. Continue reading