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The body is made to heal

| August 25, 2010 9:00 PM

Our bodies are amazing. Think about that statement. As you do, also think about the fact that you probably took a breath, blinked your eyes, used your intellect, moved a limb, moved your head, focused your eyes, digested food, healed a cut, wiggled a toe, salivated and a million other internal operations. Although you were not readily thinking about all of these processes, they were going on without the need for your input.

One of these functions is healing. If you get a cut, a bruise, a wound or any other types of injuries, your body works day and night to fix them for you.

What happens when the body is not able to fix these injuries at full capacity? This can happen when the bones of your spine are shifted out of place (a subluxation) and put pressure on the nerves that are exiting out between the bones of the spine. Those nerves go to every tissue, organ and cell in your body. Without the full supply of messages, healing might be slower or non-existent.

Keeping that fact in mind, I would like for you to read the study below. Often times, people associated chiropractic with back pain alone, but it is important to realize the full spectrum of its uses:

A study in the June 1994 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics finds that patients with ulcers experienced remissions of their problem quicker under chiropractic care than those under standard medical care.

Using an endoscope to see the inside of the stomach, 35 patients, ranging in age from 18-44, were diagnosed with ulcers. While both groups were put on the same diet, 11 of the patients were given chiropractic care from 5-22 days and the other 24 patients received traditional medical drug therapy. The effectiveness of each approach was evaluated every week with another endoscopic test.

Those patients who received the chiropractic care experienced pain relief in an average of 3.8 days and clinical remission of their ulcers an average of 10 days earlier than those patients treated by drugs.

By removing interference to the nerve supply to the stomach, chiropractic care improved function to the point that the patients' bodies were in a better position to heal the ulcers themselves. Can restoring health and function in the body allow it to heal itself better than drugs? Apparently so, and in the case of ulcers, at least 10 days faster and without the toxicity and danger involved with the use of drugs.

A body that is allowed to heal itself at full capacity, free of spinal misalignments, is a happy and healthy body. Chiropractic is preventative care aimed at supplying your body with the necessary tools to do what it does best.

If you would like more information about chiropractic, please give us a call at (208) 762-1414. You can also find us at CDAHealth.com, or on Facebook and Twitter by searching "Spoelstra Family Chiropractic."