Health and Fitness Corner

Did you ever stop to think about what Chiropractic and the care you receive in this office says about you and the way you live your life? If you stop and take a long, hard look at the society around you, you will realize that you are on the outside of the "norm" looking in. The most current studies have shown that only about 10 - 20% of Americans get their spines checked regularly. Does this mean you are wrong? We'll come back to that one later.

Health care in America is very simple. If you feel good or have no overt signs of disease you're doing ok. If by chance you do end up with signs or symptoms don't worry, your television can and will guide you to the drug most appropriate for you. Don't believe me? Watch an hour of TV when you get home and count the drug commercials. While you're at it, pay careful attention to the side effects at the end of the commercial. You know - the ones they sneak in very nonchalantly and quickly at the end. Most people don't even pay attention. That is the whole idea.

Believe it or not, the people with the symptoms are the lucky ones. Yes, you heard right. They are getting advanced warning that their bodies are in trouble. For whatever reason! What about the poor people that all of a sudden suffer a massive heart attack or stroke and never knew it was coming. They "felt fine" up until that moment. Some are fortunate enough to live through it and get a second chance. Some aren't! What about the people that go in for a routine physical

after a few years and the doctor tells them they have cancer? They felt fine up until that point!

Back to the original question. Does the fact that you get your spines checked regularly make you wrong? Does it make you someone that thinks "outside the box"? Maybe yes to a degree on the second question. Is that a problem? Depends how you look at it. Society and public opinion is a funny thing. Even things that we take for granted today as concrete, set in stone laws were at one time or another not believed, ridiculed, persecuted for, or even killed for. How about some examples? The sun revolves around the earth, right? Wrong! Galileo was the first to prove that the earth revolved around the sun. At first he was not believed, and eventually was jailed by the Church for his theories. Today we know the truth! The earth is flat, right? Tell that to Christopher Columbus. Man can't fly! The Wright brothers. Society and medicine used to believe that illness was caused by everything from evil spirits to "bad air". Today we know that there is no one single cause for disease. It is a combination of susceptibility, genetics, exposure, and most importantly how your body resists and fights off the disease. Chiropractic helps with reducing the body's susceptibility to illness and disease by improving your Nervous and Immune systems. For the first fifty years of our profession we were called unscientific and even thrown in jail for "practicing medicine without a medical license because people got well under Chiropractic care." See how things change!

As far as not being in the majority or doing something different goes - good for you. There are always people who have vision and can see beyond the current "wisdom" and prejudices of society and what is popular. Unfortunately, people's gut response to anything new or different is usually negative. Really think about that one and how most people respond to change. If people choose to neglect their health through poor diet, lack of exercise, ignoring Chiropractic care, and poor choices like smoking that is their choice as well. Unfortunately they are the ones that usually end up with Dr. TV telling them what to do next. Congratulations on taking a step towards a healthier you.

Fleischer Chiropractic has been voted the favorite chiropractic facility in 2008 and 2009 by the Culver City News Readers poll. Dr. Howard Fleisher graduated from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los Angeles Magna Cum Laude in 1995 and has been a practicing chiropractor ever since.

Dr. Howard is a passionate chiropractor that cares for his patients and sees that they receive the best chiropractic care possible. Fleischer Chiropractic offers top quality service to all ages from infants to adulthood. Dr. Howard gives healthy living tips and chiropractic advice to his patients so they can live healthier, pain free lives.

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