As I was researching tonight I came across something VERY disturbing I have NEVER seen before. You see, over the years I have grown accustomed to allowing patients to choose when they come in for their adjustments after they correct their spinal curves. In many other cases, I just accept when many of you say "I want to just come in once a month" (usually for financial reasons) even if the problem is NOT yet corrected. And that's the "good" patients, right? All of us from time to time have gone for long "breaks" before getting back in for their much needed adjustment. In fact MOST of the patients I have seen over the years have taken PERMANENT breaks, or else we would be seeing thousands of people each week.

So here's the find. This study by Tapio Videman MD, a researcher in Finland who has been studying the spine for many years http://bit.ly/56UIKR. He found that subluxation left for just 7-14 days will cause irreversible degeneration due to the irritated nerves causing muscle spasms which attract scar tissue. Scar tissue built up in the muscles surrounding the spine and on the spine itself is permanent. This leads to PERMANENT SUBLUXATION which is every increasingly more difficult AND more costly to deal with.

Ironic isn't it? You think you're saving money by coming in less often, and I think I'm helping you out by letting you drop down. When really we're letting permanent damage set in over time which will eventually cost you twice as much, not to mention loss of the priceless....HEALTH.

What about kids was my next thought. In digging a little deeper I found this:

“……….In the child, neuromuscular and functional adaptive reflex development represents a critical period of time when the young developing nervous system assimilates, differentiates, and adapts to external and internal stimuli. By means of these processes, the nervous system learns proprioceptive patterns and acquires future habits and reactions by responding to repetitive stimuli.

However, such a developing nervous system is not always able to distinguish between proper and improper stimuli; therefore it responds to both. This is the conundrum - the response in neither
“good” nor “bad”, but rather adaptive to the presenting stimulus. These adaptive responses are remembered and patterned and thus the young nervous system is conditioned for future response.

This process of neurological “learning” or “programming” of the central nervous system with respect to locomotion, posture, proprioception, and body kinetics begins within a few short months after birth……..”

Ressel, O,, Rudy R, Vertebral Subluxation Correlated with Somatic, Visceral and Immune Complaints: An Analysis of 650 Children Under Chiropractic Care, J. Vertebral Subluxation Res.

• JVSR.Com, October 18, 2004 19

What does all that "technical" jargon mean? That when kids have subluxation that goes uncorrected, it sets a PATTERN for subluxation THE REST OF THEIR LIFE.

I am stunned. But more importantly, I'M SORRY. I have let many of you go a month, and often longer in between adjustments and made no big deal about it because even though I knew it IN MY HEART, I act out of MY HEAD most of the day.

As this is the best way to get to everyone, if you want what's best for YOU and YOUR FAMILY, do NOT go more than 2 weeks between adjustments ever again. This IS NOT a cheap trick to get you in the office so I can "take your money". If you think that's the case, then leave, and go to another Chiropractor so long as YOU DON'T MISS MORE THAN TWO WEEKS! If I truly charged for the VALUE of Chiropractic and what it has PERSONALLY done for ME and MY FAMILY, you would not be able to afford it! I only want to see you at your best, with success, for a long and healthy life.

Once again, PLEASE accept my apology for not seeing this research sooner.

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