Today, health care is entering a new and fortunately better era. People are now moving away from what we can call as the “sickness care” system, wherein we wait for illness to strike before treating accordingly. Instead, more and more are now moving towards the much better “wellness care” system which is based on enhancing the power of the body to heal itself before looking for solutions elsewhere. It does not take much thinking to decide whether you should do the same.
Since time immemorial, we have been led to believe that out health can be measured by how well we feel. This is probably one of the most dangerous, even life-threatening ideas there are. Know that symptoms, pain or ache are not always indications of illness. In the same way, lack of symptoms is never an indication that you are disease-free. To cite some examples, cancer, internal organ malfunction, heart disease – while they are mostly accompanied by symptoms, they sometimes progress to advanced, critical stages without you knowing. Symptoms are never reliable at verifying whether your body is functioning as it should.
Instead, you should be aware that our over-all wellness depends highly on the communication pathways and the nerve flow which controls the vital functioning of all the organs and processes in the body. This proper functioning, on the other hand, depends on the proper alignment of the spine, which houses the cord where all nerves stem from. This is the central basis of chiropractic medicine.
Along with changing your system of health from sickness care to wellness care, it is also about time for you to pay attention to your spine as the major determining factor for optimal health. Remember that all aspects of your body function through nerves which carry the message from the brain to carry out each tissue, muscle, gland and organ function. Thus, your must enhance and re-establish the ability of the brain and the nerves to perform its function. This is ultimately the key to a pain-free and disease-free life.