"I'm doing okay.
" "I feel good.
" "I don't have any pain.
" "I woke up breathing today, so I must be healthy.
" The absence of symtpoms is often mistaken for good health in our allopathic society.
Having a positive mental attitude is very important and has been shown time after time to being extremely important.
Placebo pills prove that in numerous prescription drug studies.
However, feeling good has its limitations.
You can feel good and never know you have heart disease until you keel over, dead from your first symptom: a heart attack.
I am a firm believer that 100% of people, meaning everyone, have had an upper cervical vertebral subluxation, currently have an upper cervical subluxation, or will have an upper cervical subluxation at some point in their life.
A vertebral subluxation is a bony misalignment that can affect tension or pressure at or near the top of the spinal cord, close to the brain stem.
The upper cervical spine is the most unstable part of the spine.
With the atlas (top vertebra) able to freely rock over the occipital condyles (base of the skull), held together by only tendons and ligaments, a very minor trauma could induce a misalignment, leading to a worse condition in the form of an upper cervical subluxation.
Left alone for a long period of time and the body's degeneration process will speed up.
Which leads me to my main point.
Having a vertebral subluxation in the upper cervical spine is not something you can always be aware of.
Not everyone has learned their body's subluxation pattern.
In other words, your body adapts to this misalignment by compensating for imbalances throughout the body.
This puts undue stress in numerous joints, eventually leading to arthritis.
The Opposite is Also True When your body is going through the healing process, there are times when your symptoms might become magnified.
This does not mean you are sick or unhealthy.
It just means you might need to get checked by your Upper Cervical Chiropractor to make sure you are still holding.
The perfect example of symptoms not being a true indicator of sickness is a fever.
True, when you develop a fever, you are not feeling that great.
But, what people do not understand is that the fever is the body's defense mechanism to a foreign, unwanted bacteria.
Your immune system is reacting to the unwanted visitor by raising your body's temperature.
In a hotter environment, most pathogens cannot survive.
Worried parents that give their young ones a children's Tylenol are actually doing more harm than good.
Suppressing a fever will actually prolong the sickness, which is exactly what you do not want.
Getting under upper cervical care is not just a "getting out of pain or sickness" thing.
It is also a way for you to learn how your body responds and reacts to the good and the bad.
Learn your body's different messages and you will truly learn how to tell if you are truly healthy or not.
Your Upper Cervical Chiropractor will most definitely help you with that.