You Can’t Treat Health

It’s easy in today’s society of “sick care” to hear the word “treatment” used excessively. Whether it be the treatment of your child’s recurring ear infections, the treatment of minor injuries and infections at your local urgent care clinic, or a chronic health condition that requires lifelong treatment. Treating conditions,injuries, and disease are not bad things. Treatments can and do save lives every day, however, I and other other holistic providers alike have noticed an emotional “conditioning” if you will with regards to this word. “Treatments” are inherently allopathic as they are most commonly used to describe a condition, disease, or ailment that they (treatments) aim to remedy.

Sick care has become so common in our healthcare infrastructure that most people only give themselves healthcare attention when they already feel the symptom, condition, or injury present.

What should healthy, asymptomatic individuals do? Wait for symptoms to develop? That is exactly what corporations bet on. You can treat a condition or disease but promoting g and preserving health requires a different approach. Take chiropractic care for example.

The large majority of Americans use chiropractic care as an effective treatment for common musculoskeletal conditions. Chronic lower back pain, headaches, you name it. This by the way, is a fantastic and effective way to address these conditions as chiropractic care is natural and in no way poses threat to gastric health like the regular use of NSAIDs do.

Even with significant research illustrating the effectiveness of chiropractic care on your lower back or headaches, this is still using chiropractic care as a “treatment” of a condition or symptom. Why do newborn babies receive gentle chiropractic care? Why do individuals with absolutely no back pain or joint pain receive care? It is because th chiropractic adjustment has one intention and one purpose. To correct the presence of vertebral subluxation, improving the brain’s afferent (sensory) input and improving it’s efferent (motor) output to the body.

This explains why millions of people experience such varying changes under chiropractic care. From relief from sciatica, resolutions to headaches, improved digestive health, improved sensorimotor integration and balance, individuals under chiropractic care experience many different healing benefits. Chiropractic does not treat or cure a single condition. However, the chiropractic principles and philosophy teach us how powerfull the body’s ability to heal is, and when subluxation is corrected, the body is able to return to normal self-healing, self-regulating abilities. Rather than treating a condition, chiropractic care promotes health from within.

Does this mean you cannot receive chiropractic adjustments to relieve pain or health problems? Of course not! We live in a toxic and sedentary society, most people have symptoms! But only giving yourself healthcare attention when your symptoms resurface is a sure fire way to keep yourself stuck in the medical model of health, and if you read Root Causes, you’ll know how poor the standard of health the medical system has. We can do better.

Our journey towards a healthier and safer society starts with breaking free from the mental conditioning corporations have on our health beliefs. By putting your health in the hands of salutogenic providers you are breaking the corporate stronghold for yourself and your family.