“I have been working with Dr. Ellwanger for treatment of neck/back pain and stiffness and I can highly recommend him as a very effective practitioner in atlas orthogonal chiropractic. He is attentive to my concerns as his patient and provides the highest quality of care. As my condition has changed over time, he has adjusted my appointment frequency accordingly so I’m not paying for treatments that I don’t need. I have been very impressed w/ atlas orthogonal as a treatment and with Dr Ellwanger as a provider.”
It is well known that every cell in your body is controlled by your nervous system. It is also well known that stress on the spinal joints or structures results in interference in the functioning of the spinal nerves that run through them. So when your spine is subluxated the nerves will suffer and ultimately the organs or tissues that the nerves supply will also suffer.
With ideal 100% spinal function, the nerves fire at a normal, controlled and calm rate. In this state the brain is able to get clear, concise, accurate signals from the end organs. And it is equally capable of responding appropriately to ensure that the body is working as closely to optimal as possible.
In a ‘sub-optimal state’ the spine isn’t quite 100%, it is operating with a deficit and so are the nerves. Often you may not be in pain any longer, but since only 10% of your nerves carry pain, you are often not aware that the organs are also not functioning at 100%.
In this subluxated state, there is so much chaos in your spine and nerve system that the nerves are unable to send or receive accurate information to and from the brain. The end organs, whether they are muscles and joints or the liver and duodenum are sending and receiving garbled messages. As a result you will experience dysfunction, pain, discomfort, headaches, back pain and other obvious symptoms.
Chiropractors do not consider a lack of pain to be a key marker in your state of health. Chiropractors look at how well you function as an indicator of your state of health. For example, top athletes usually don’t have pain. But they demand more from their bodies, so they seek Chiropractic care to ensure that their spines and nervous systems are functioning optimally. They want their fine tuned machines (their bodies) to fire on all cylinders at a moments notice.
Most of us are completely unaware that there are millions of processes occurring in our bodies every day. For instance your heart beats and your stomach works to digest food. You didn’t have to think about it. Your body takes care of all that for you. So wouldn’t you want to make sure that the communication lines from your organs to your brain and vice versa are functioning at 100%?
Now consider what you do all day. You may not use your body like the pro athlete, but it does require much from you, at work or at play. Wouldn’t you rather give 100% at work or in taking care of your children? Or would you rather give only 80% or less and see what happens; let the chips fall where they may? Would you rather your body make the same decisions for you about your digestion, your healing, your reproductive life, (you get the picture)?
You can make the decision for your body, so that it can perform all those things that you don’t think about, at 100%. You make the call.
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