Here’s a little update on the topic of the many ways to get subluxated.
Dental work. It’s great isn’t it? I know it may sound like I must be being sarcastic but, really, it is wonderful. Many, many years ago you’d have had to put up with pain and disease or had some butcher wrench your bad tooth out (no anaesthetic other than rum) with pliers! Now it’s all calming music, fishtanks and really effective painkillers – we are soooo lucky.
However it’s still a stress. No matter how good your dentist is, and mine is very good ( just in case he’s reading), you do experience some physical stress at times.
Take the other day. Sat in the chair for an hour or so having a couple of fillings done. I was thinking about all the pushing and pulling that goes on has to be met by resistance from you in order to hold your head still. That’s quite a lot of strain on your neck muscles (and you might be a bit stressed on top of that) plus all that work can put a great load on your cranial bones and the joints in your skull.

You probably come away feeling ok but… it can be one of the factors that accumulate to lead up to that time where your neck “goes” for no apparent reason. It’s just one of the little stresses that affect us and build up over time. Doesn’t it make sense to deal with those as you get them? One of the reasons we recommend regular checks. Just like getting your fillings done before they become painful, deal with the subluxations before they cause problems for you and your health.

Hello again and welcome. From here on, our site will be discussing some of the myriad health topics that crop up in the course of our daily practice. Besides talking about Chiropractic, we explore many other areas of natural health and wellbeing such as how to eat, think and move healthily so you perform at your best. I will include some of the latest thinking and news releases relating to our health. Some of this informatoion will be cutting edge and controversial (ooooh!). I think this is a good thing as it challenges our preconceptions and helps to stimulate beneficial changes – without which we would still be hunter/gatherers living in caves and moaning about this new-fangled “wheel” thing!

Back to my topic for today.

One of the most common things I hear from my patients early on in their care (and I know my colleagues hear this too) is this exact phrase:- “I feel better in myself”. Sometimes, people preface that with “I’m still in pain but…” or sometimes “Not only has the pain gone but…”. It’s the ‘in myself’ that intrigues me. Why that exactly? I have a theory.
It seems to coincide with when the person’s nervous system starts to become free of interference. So, it could be that this is the best phrase we can come up with when we do literally feel better in our “selves”. We start to feel more of what’s going on in our bodies, even if that means we’re more aware of the bits that aren’t working that well! It still feels better somehow. We don’t (and indeed can’t ) know for certain – it is just a theory (I think it’s a sound one though!)

So, who do you know who’s not “feeling good in themselves”? Who needs to get their spine checked? An older relative who’s putting up with twinges that could be helped, a stressed-out teenager or a child struggling with a poor immune system who’s constantly suffering from colds and bugs?

Get your body reconnected and you will actually feel better. So, you see, you don’t have to be in pain… just not properly connected.

Yours connectedly

Dr Neil