Fielder Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care in Santa Monica, California
Health Rests Only Upon a Normal Spine
If it were not for pain, our bodies could be destroyed without our knowledge.
Chiropractic may be new to you. You and chiropractic are strangers. On this web site, we cannot give a complete picture of Chiropractic, but we will introduce you to Chiropractic and tell you why we do what we do. We will tell why and how Chiropractic restored health to millions of patients who lost faith in doctors, clinics, and hospitals all over the world.
WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC?
Chiropractic is a science by which the doctor locates and removes the cause of dis-ease. For every dis-ease, ache or pain, there is a cause. As long as you have a cause, you will have dis-ease. That sounds reasonable, doesn't it? You use the same principal every day in your home, at work, or at play, and it works. For example: you are in the yard watering your lawn with a water hose and a rock falls across the hose. It may interfere with the flow of water such that there is half of the original amount coming out at the nozzle. Do you work on the nozzle? No, you go back down the hose and remove the cause, the rock. That seems to be the simple, ordinary thing to do in this case, and it will also work in your health problem. That is what Chiropractic is about, locating and removing the cause. What follows - Health.
DOES CHIROPRACTIC ALWAYS WORK?
No, Chiropractic doesn't always work. In the example of the water hose situation, if the rock caused too much damage to the hose, then the removal of the rock is not going to make the water flow freely. Or, if you keep twisting or pulling on the hose, it may interfere with the flow. The same holds true in your own body. The Chiropractor may remove the cause, but there can still be too much damage done to restore that body to perfect health. Also, the same as twisting or pulling the water hose, if you don't cooperate with the Chiropractor and allow correction to take place, then you shouldn't expect complete health.
Chiropractic will work, does work, and has worked. It will restore health if there hasn't been too much damage and you cooperate.
WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF MY DISORDER?
Suddenly, you find yourself ill. Why? Some part of your mechanism has failed to function normally. Let us see what is causing this function to fail.
Function fails because current fails. That is the reason the light bulb doesn't burn if the wall switch is off. The normal flow of current is interfered with. The current fails because something has interfered with its transmission.
The only place one can find this interference is at the spine in the upper neck region. Here we find two vulnerable bones called ATLAS and AXIS, either one or both pressing on nerve fibers, stopping normal flow of nerve impulses which you call LIFE. This changes electrical frequency which causes function to fail in organs or tissues receiving it.
When this interference is found in you, cause of your illness is definitely established. Our job now is to correct the cause. We again reason: release interference so current does not fail, and function will not fail when current is normal.
HOW DOES CHIROPRACTIC FIND THE CAUSE?
The Chiropractor has to find the cause before he can correct it. Knowing that the cause is an interference to normal flow of impulses from brain to tissue, then it is the job of the Chiropractor to find this interference. The Chiropractor has an instrument called the Neurocalometer to ascertain the pattern of interference. When this is established, spinographic X-rays are taken which virtually act as blueprint negatives. These confirm the Neurocalometer findings by revealing exact Malposition of Atlas or Axis and recommend to the Chiropractor the correct manner in which to reposition vertebra.
If a watch maker didn't know what was inside of a watch, would you care for him to work on your watch? For that same reason, we take spinographs. We have to know what exists inside that body in order to do our job right. We are in business for your health, so we want to do the right thing in the right way and at the right time.
DO I GET ADJUSTED EACH VISIT?
It is impossible to predict in advance the number of adjustments any given case requires. No two people in this world are alike. Not one individual can be compared with another. The speed with which people recover depends on several factors:
- Amount of damage done.
- Age of patient.
- Duration of patient's disorder.
- Continued removal of interference.
- Patient's cooperation with Chiropractor.
No two spines are alike, and the neurocalometer predetermines whether a nerve pressure or interference exists. If it does, you receive an adjustment. If the instrument indicates no pressure, nothing will be done, because that is exactly what the previous adjustment accomplished. If you have to be adjusted again, that means that pressure returned. Pressure has to stay out if health is to be the result. It is not how much we do, but how right the little is that we do.
WHY MUST I KEEP CHECKED?
People lose sight of the objective they are trying to reach when they ask this question. They think they are not getting enough for their money if they are not adjusted each visit.
People are adjustment conscious instead of health conscious. Health is the objective. Results are what you want. As Chiropractors, we look farther than just today or tomorrow. In order to get you well and keep you well, we know just when you should be adjusted and when you should not. Furthermore, adjustments are not what you are paying for. You are paying for the prospective of getting well.
IS THE ADJUSTMENT ALL I RECEIVE?
Yes, Chiropractic is an exclusive process. It is not necessary to diet, to take medicine, or to indulge in rigorous exercise, massage, sun baths, or physics. You did all these things, and they failed. Why repeat failure methods? Why employ them all over again, for they are doing just the opposite of what we are doing. The aspirin blocks nerve flow, whereas we are restoring nerve flow. Do you prefer a blocked nerve flow and still have your trouble, or would you rather restore nerve flow and have health? Health, or course, is what you are seeking, or you wouldn't be reading this web site.
IF READINGS ARE GOOD, WILL PAIN LEAVE?
You may not be restored to health immediately following removal of the nerve pressure. It sometimes takes nature weeks or months to rejuvenate worn out cells and tissues after an adjustment. Although there is correction taking place and damaged parts being repaired, you may still have some pain. Nature works in man as she does in plants. If a plant is withering and dying from the want of water, it does not immediately blossom forth in all its splendor following administration of water. Water is what the plant needed, just as your body needs nerve force. Time factor is an important element in the plant growing back to normal as it is also an important factor to the body in its process of getting back to normal.
One vertebra may be causing an interference to several nerves. Maybe one nerve leads to kidney, another to stomach, and still another to heart. From this situation, you may have kidney trouble, stomach trouble and heart trouble, all at the same time. You now probably wonder how one adjustment in the neck would possibly help all of your symptoms in different parts of the body. By this time, you know interference to normal flow of nerve impulses causes these symptoms, no matter where they are in the body. You also know when this vertebra is in its proper position, 100 percent nerve force will travel to all parts of the body, and normal function will result. Therefore, all of the symptoms can leave from one adjustment. Dr. B. J. Palmer, developer of Chiropractic, often stated, "Get the idea, and all else follows."
You have read the story. It is simple, but it means a change in reasoning. It is something you did not know before, because you never regarded health and disease in this light. Restoration of life into diseased organisms must come from within the individual. Cause of disease is in you, and so is it's cure. All we do as Chiropractors is release interference that exists between brain cell and tissue cell, and health follows.
Fielder Upper Cervical
2817 Ocean Park Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 450-5848
