“THE DOCTOR’S REPORT”

 TOP THREE LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE U.S.

            Cardio-Vascular Disease          750,000/Yr.     1 every 2 minutes

            Cancer                                     400,000/Yr.     1 every 5 minutes

            Medicine                                  300,000/Yr.     1 every 7 minutes*

            Harvard University*

 

We spend more money and have greater technology on health than any other country in the world, yet many other countries (at least 26) are healthier than we are.

 

More money and more technology are obviously not working out.  They’re not working out at all.  Health care has become the 3^rd leading cause of death??

 

The fact is, even if we all cured all the diseases in the world, we would still not be healthy!

 

THE PROBLEM IS OUR PHILOSOPHY ON HEALTH

MONEY/MEDICAL/MATERIAL POINT OF VIEW:

 

We are simply a lot of complicated parts (materials) that are prone to breaking down.  As each part breaks down we tinker with it and then tinker with it some more until it can no longer be fixed.  Health is the absence of illness.

 

WHOLISTIC/WELLNESS/GOD/NATURAL/CHIROPRACTIC POINT OF VIEW:

 

If the body is kept whole and functioning normally, then it has a tendency to stay well.  The building of health is the best way to get well.  The maintenance of health is the best way to prevent sickness and stay well.  In this manner, you are not forced to meet the costs of failure of having to treat or cure an illness.

 

Health is not only the absence of illness.  Health is when your body works right and it functions at optimal potential, at its God given potential.

 

“The problem with our Health Care System is that you have to lose your health to enter it”

 THE WINSOR AUTOPSIES- Can Chiropractic help make your organs function better?

ARE YOUR NERVES KILLING YOU?  Henry Winsor, a medical doctor in Haverford, Pennsylvania began to wonder.  “Chiropractors claim that by “adjusting” one vertebra, they can relieve stomach troubles and ulcers; by “adjusting” another, menstrual cramps; and another, thyroid conditions, kidney disease, constipation, heart disease, lung disease-but how?”  He decided to investigate this new science and art of healing-chiropractic.

 

DISSECTIONS

 

After graduating from medical school, Dr. Winsor was inspired by chiropractic and osteopathic literature to experiment.  He planned to dissect human and animal cadavers to see if there was a relationship between any diseased internal organs discovered on autopsy and the vertebrae associated with the nerves that went to the organs.  As he wrote:

 

            The object of these necropsies (dissections) was to determine whether

            any connection existed between minor curvatures of the spine, on the

            one hand, and diseased organs on the other; or whether the two were

            entirely independent of each other.

 

UNIVERSITY PERMISSION

 

The University of Pennsylvania gave Dr. Winsor permission to carry out his experiments.  In a series of three studies, he dissected a total of seventy-five human and twenty-two cat cadavers.  The following are Dr. Winsor’s results:

 

            221 structures other than the spine were found diseased.  Of these,

212 were observed to belong to the same sympathetic (nerve) segments

as the vertebrae in the curvature.  Nine diseased organs belonged to

            different sympathetic segments from the vertebrae out of line.  These

            figures cannot be expected to exactly coincide…for an organ may

            receive sympathetic filaments from several spinal segments and several

            organs may be supplied with sympathetic (nerve) filaments from the

            same spinal segments.

 

In other words, there was nearly a 100% correlation between “minor curvatures” of the spine and diseases of the internal organs.  Let us examine some of these disease categories:

 

Heart Disease: All twenty cases with heart and pericardium conditions had the upper five thoracic vertebrae (T1-5) misaligned.

 

Lung Disease: All twenty-six cases of lung disease had spinal misalignments in the upper thoracic.

 

Stomach Diseases: All nine cases of spinal misalignment in the mid-thoracic (T5-9) area had stomach disease.

 

Liver Disease: All thirteen cases of liver disease had misalignments in the mid-thoracic (T5-9).

 

Gallstones: All five cases with gallstone disease had spinal misalignments in the mid-thoracic (T5-9).

 

Pancreas: All the three cases with pancreas disease had spinal misalignments in the mid-thoracic (T5-9).

 

Spleen: All eleven cases with spleen disease had spinal misalignments in the mid-thoracic (T5-9).

 

Kidney: All seventeen cases with kidney disease were out of alignments in the lower thoracic (T10-12) area.

 

Prostate and Bladder Disease: All eight cases with prostate and bladder disease had the lumbar (L1-3) vertebrae misaligned.

 

Uterus: The two cases with uterine conditions had the second lumbar misaligned.

 

PUBLISHED RESEARCH

 

Dr. Winsor’s results were published in The Medical Times and can be found in any medical library.  Winsor was not alone in his findings for similar studies by other researchers have confirmed his conclusion that a well-aligned spinal column is essential for a healthy body.

 

Although many medical doctors are ignorant of the relationship of the spinal column to disease, medical literature is chock full of many experiments proving chiropractic’s theory and effectiveness.  An unhealthy spine can cause disease in many parts of the body and a chiropractic spinal checkup and adjustment can help in the care and prevention of sickness and disease.

 

WINSOR’S LEGACY

 

Dr. Henry Winsor’s insights and research were prophetic indeed.  His studies have been expanded upon by scientists from many parts of the world who continued to research the relationship between spinal misalignments (vertebral subluxation complex) and internal organ diseases.  This field or somato-visceral disease relationships (its scientific term) is one of the fastest growing and most exciting areas of research in the health care sciences-and chiropractic thrives as its leading advocate.

 

THE CHIROPRACTIC APPROACH

 

No matter what disease or condition you have, you can benefit from a healthy spine.  Spinal health can be as important for your overall healing as proper nutrition.  Are you and your family carrying the silent killer, the vertebral subluxation complex, in your spine?  Only a chiropractic spinal checkup can tell.

 

Among the many things contributing to your health: the quality of the air, food and water you take in; how you handle emotional stress; your inherited weaknesses and strengths; your use of drugs; exercise; and relaxation-a healthy spine is absolutely essential.  In some people it is a major factor and can make the difference between a life of health, strength and vitality of a life of disease, weakness and disability.

 

A healthy spine can improve your life-see your doctor of chiropractic for periodic spinal checkups.