When Our Brain and Body Synapses Are Firing “Right”, The Creativity Flows and We are in The Zone, the Right Brain is Humming, The Left Brain is Humming, The Brainwaves Can Traverse The Whole Spectrum from Delta to Gamma and Beyond What Science Yet Measure. Every organ is connected to nerves housed in the spinal column, so when the column is flexible and in it’s intended optimal place, the more optimal the entire body is, also. The greatest news is that Chiropractic is showing to have long term positive effects even after discontinuing visits to the chiropractor. So, for some of us, the very best is yet to come. Many people believe they are destined to only deteriorate with age, but new science is revealing that quite the opposite can be true.
Chiropractic is not just for athletes or for the injured, it is for the any human body to function at a higher or more recovered level and to keep the alignment in place through exercise, yoga, diet and other practices at home and in our lives; where chiropractic is a tool along the path that is locally at hand and it is allot more affordable than you might have come to experience, hear or believe, and can help presently and long term with structural integrity: and that is fundamental, the bones of us all.
For some, one visit will be enough, every few years. For others on a longer journey from an injury, or if experiencing consistent impacts from sports, it might be appropriate to commit to a more frequent succession of visits, and everything in between.
Out from between every vertebrae there are nerves signaling out to each their respective organs. Our complexity is phenomenal and being aware of how our whole body and our whole selves interrelate and keep recreating new cells from all the foods and beverages we consume becomes us as transferred and transformed all beginning with signals being interpreted by our nervous system. The body is created to continuously heal itself and we enable it to heal itself even faster with consistent healthy practices.
In a 24 month study the US National Library of Medicine shows a study where acute pain in patients with scoliosis is reduced with Chiropractic care, even several months past the chiropractic care given. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259989/
And the same institution reports about 30% of NFL teams have a chiropractor on staff, while 77% refer their athletes to use a chiropractor regularly, this goes to show whether one is structurally compromised or “at the top of their game,” per se, there is an application for chiropractic care in keeping the spinal structure in a better place. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11986584
And most American’s report lower back pain as the number one medical complaint on the books, and the most frequent answer to those ails can be addictive pain medications with serious side effects. Always, prevention, if possible, is the key. If you decide to at least visit the chiropractor once a year or once a month, you can get an idea of where things stand in your own backbone, even if currently, you have no big complaints, you might just head off the most frequent complaints from entering your life in the future. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/11/523388406/spinal-manipulation-can-alleviate-back-pain-study-concludes. If you nervous system is free and clear to communicate more optimally with your organs, your whole human experience is elevated and the positive consequences can be far reaching.
How does our structural health effect our current and future lifestyle choices. That is the trouble with many studies, is how can some of these subjective variances of quality even be measured? Because your own personal life is in the realm of your own personal power and your own personal agency to make subjective and qualitative observations, it is in largest part, up to you to decide what makes the most sense in getting you to how how you want to be now, and what measures you care to take to hedge the best outcomes for your own best self interest in the future.
Who do you want to be as an example to your friends, children, grandchildren? Strategically, are you in the sport of living your own life? Maybe you are not an NFL player, but you are playing in the game of life! Are you on the beach surfing, on the lake, canoeing, on the river kayaking, on the slopes skiing? Are you on the sidewalks and hallways clicking your heals or doing yoga and calisthenics? Are you in your garden pulling weeds and planting for the fall? All of these activities have so many objective and subjective benefits, and the main benefit is that it keeps us moving! The more we engage the world the more vibrant we are and the more vibrant we become.
If you find yourself hearing of how others are suffering the limitations of average aging complaints, it might be that taking that extra small step and finding yourself a slice of your daily or weekly routine conditioning your structural body, bones and musculature, for long term success, that then you yourself will have few complaints than the average people in your peer-group.
Be the one with a pep in your step, with more options of life choices before you.
Usually, my motivation is for overall longevity so that I might keep growing more own interior experiences to be richer with more optimal brainwaves and to observe the more subtle benefits within, while I am in stillness. People might see me with a pep in in my step, but my greatest priority is what nobody can see: my feelings, nuances of inner experience, the interior dreaming world that is 1/3 of our lifetimes that are beyond the reach of the consensus consumer driven world’s reach!
Interior realms achievable with Theta and Delta Brainwave activity and lucid dreaming, is a rich place also made more possible by the brain synapses firing properly. Even the interior dreaming world can be a personal solitary sport, or a venue for community social artistry of the play of dream nuances and sophisticated applications to reading the signals of the body and psyche in how they interplay.
Whatever our motivation, whether to live our best lives or better lives, including the consideration of the alignment of our spines and how this affects our brainwaves, pain levels, curvature, reversing the computer slouch back to a conductors broad chested posture, and all synaptic nerve communications within our body: when in better alignment and free flow, simply the better of all of our activities.
On a personal note: anecdotally I can share that my son and I are on opposite sides of the spectrum in terms of needing chiropractic visits. My son had some vertebrae visibly out of place, just below his neck, on his spine, and he was having a terrible time with his temper, his vision and just uncomfortable on many levels. After one visit he noticed his eyesight improve instantly and he no longer felt he needed a new prescription for his glasses. He was good to go and felt great and keeps feeling great for months on end. After the winter season of snowboarding and wiping out on the slopes numerous times, I am sure he will find himself due at the chiropractor again. He eats well, has a great physical discipline, is motivated to meditate an hour a day, journal his dreams, he paying great attention to many aspects of his human experience toolchest, and occassional chiropractor visits give to him what he considers a meaningful assistance and support in keeping his body aligned and therefore his life is richer with more joyful options. He still sees well with his original vision prescription that unsuspectingly when awry after stress or perhaps after too many snowboard crashes. He goes for several months to a year for chiropractic and that keeps his 22 year old life humming along.
Anecdotally, my story is about needing more consistent visits to keep me optimal, and I feel it. After being t-boned in 2008 my journey to well being has been ongoing. In a way, that accident has been my ally in that ever since, I have had to keep on my toes and incorporate, along with some humility, so many healthy practices to the point where I have no choice but to keep my toes in line or I feel hampered almost instantly. Tango, skiing, meditation, chiropractic, have all become a part of my life routine, to ensure the best prospects for a vibrant long life, rather than a miserable long life. I was able to do this by navigating the affordability of chiropractic care. While I no longer have to visit the chiropractor weekly, for a number of years, after the insurance ran out, I had to pay out of pocket. I realize it is a commitment to my health and this is one of the most efficient ways to bring an overall structural harmony of my body, and also a commitment to affordability to have it be a sustainable part of my personal lifestyle, where I have realized, due to that t-bone accident, while I keep improving progressively and permanently, I get the idea that keeping as active as I am and enjoy being, it is likely that chiropractic is in my long term strategic corner. Where most chiropractors I have visited have been easily over $100 per session, I found that traveling a little further out to the suburbs can yield a more reasonable ask! For $29 per session and even better, $69 monthly with an annual commitment and I can come as frequently as I am able and feel it is needed. https://www.wowchiropracticmn.com/office-information.html When I realized a very skilled chiropractic doctor can be affordable even after the insurance runs out, my life became better and continues becoming better and the vision for my future also stays brighter. As I hear stories of 95 year olds still cross country skiing, being active even moreso than their kids in their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s, I get much more inspired for my future too!
What also inspires me the most, is that over the years, I do hold my own adjustments better and now I can have weeks and months of a break from chiropractic care and still be ahead, for when I come back to weekly and bi-monthly visits, depending on my flow of objectives and needs.
This is how my bones will align at any and every age
With effort and commitment that saves my time, in the long game!
The joy resulting is worth it!
Dancing, dreaming, meditating, working, playing, skiing, skydiving, organic eating and gardening, and joining my active peers and keeping up with them as they are keeping up with me: that’s the team I am on and that is team you and me! We are worth it and the payoff is individual or community elevation of the activity of joy and well-being!
If you are in the Minneapolis area I do recommend visiting Dr. Dan Delf https://www.wowchiropracticmn.com as what is unique is that ongoing care is made accessible by being made more affordable and numerous therapies are available. For example, special equipment is available to help more quickly return the curvature of the neck that can often be lost to either trauma or repetitive tasks such as sitting at a desk and computer over long periods of time. The curvature of the neck can begin recovering in a matter of just a few months. Other tools such as ultrasound therapies can help the muscles attached to the vertebrae relax more deeply and for a greater duration of time after the adjustment and helps the body hold the alignments for longer periods of time and bring the body towards it’s own natural structural integrity progressively sooner.
If you need help in finding a great chiropractor in your area that is more affordable, you can look for membership based chiropractors where the costs are reduced for a treatment plan that can span over a few months, several months or a year: whatever commitment makes the most sense to you once you have had an adjustment or two and evaluated whether just a visit or two is enough or if ongoing treatments will help you attain the deeper progress and prevention you seek. When there is a membership program, also look for offices that accept both insurance, personal payments and memberships as these practices serve a wider variety of the community and are more likely to be aptly responsive to your own changing needs. Some offer more personalized therapies and the more therapies that the office offers the more their practice caters around patient needs (so not an in and out chiropractic mill where there is little to no privacy and not really geared to encourage relevant questions or self aware observances & changing needs patients might have and are not just utilizing rote treatments, but rather, treating the more subtle subluxations).