West Valley Family Clinic Blog

Often I find people who have no complaint of symptoms, but have broblems in their spine. It is not uncommon to find moderate to severe degeneration in the spine of someone who has no history of symptoms. It is interesting how these people seem surprised to find out that they are so bad off and yet have no symptoms. How often have we gone to a dentist for a routine check up and found out that we had cavities even though we didn’t have a tooth ache?

Even more surprising to me is how often people will put off taking care of a problem because there are no symptoms. We tend to think that if there are no symptoms, then there is no problem.

The leeding cause of death in the United States is heart disease. 47% of the time, the first sign of heart disease is death. How many of us would put off taking care of a heart problem, which was detected in a routine examination prior to the developement of symptoms?

Some might say, “well, that’s different, that’s the heart we’re talking about.” It really is not any different, and here is why. If you took your car in for it’s routine maintenance, and where told that the transmision had a problem and needed to be fixed before it left you stranded, you would probably get it fixed. But, what if you were told that there was an electrical problem which was causing a short in the communication between the computer and your transmission. If not fixed, then eventually it would also ruin your transmission. Would you get it fixed? Well, when there is misalignment of the spine, which interferes with the nerves carying information from the brain to the body, it will eventually leed to the breakdown of one or more organs.

Don’t rely on symptoms to determine your health, get checked by a chiropractor, and if there is a problem, get it fixed. The problem with waiting until there are symptoms, is that while you are waiting the degeneration continues to get worse. When you do go to get it fixed, it will take longer, cost more, and may not be able to be completely corrected.

Here we are in the cold and flu season, and we are hearing all the hype about the late coming flu vaccine. Well, we would all be a lot better off if it never got here in the first place. What they do not tell you about the flu shot, is that they started making it last year. The flu virus mutates every year and they do not know what the flu virus is or how it looks until it gets here from asia. So the vaccine this year that they sarted making last year is most likely not effective against the strain that we will see. More over, getting a flu shot is allowing all kinds of toxic chemicals to be injected directly into your body causing the body to react in various ways. The side effects of which can include autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Take your chance with the flu. Take good vitamin supplements to build your immune system, and wash your hands frequently. If you get it, you will be sick for a while and then you will be truly immune to that strain. You can email me at drmarksnow@westvalleyfamilyclinic.com to ask any questions that you may have.

I am shocked at the continued efforts of neolithic medical doctors to tarnish the reputation of the chiropractic profession.

Recently, a patient that I have been seeing for injuries she received in a car accident told me of an experience she had at a local medical doctors office. She went there to appease her parents who have been deluded by the medical profession. This “spine specialist” told my patient after a perfunctory examination, that nothing was wrong, and that all her pain was just in her head. This “doctor” performed one X-ray, a frontal view of her spine, and said that it was perfect.

What this “specialist” failed to do was a side view of the spine (this is the basic standard of care to see the structure from two views at 90 degrees of eachother). If he had performed the basic standard of care, he would have seen what I saw, which is that this patient’s cervical spine was curved backwards of what it should be.

To make matters worse, he went on to tell my patient that she should not see a chiropractor because thay are not “real doctors” but just go to a few classes and get a piece of paper. Let’s examine the facts.

This medical doctor has not copleted an orthopedic residency, and is not a board certified orthopedist. He is a basic medical doctor who took some weekend courses in orthopedics. The fact of the matter is that the brand new chiropractor coming out of chiropractic college has over 400 hours more schooling than this nescient “specialist”.

It is not my intent to undermine the medical profession as a whole, but it is my intent to undermine the attempts of some unscrupulous medical doctors to harm the chiropractic profession.

Face it, chiropractic has been around for over 100 years, and despite the well funded and organized attempts of the American Medical Association, it has grown to the point where more than 20% of the population have at one time or another visited a chiropractor. Why has it grown? Because it works.

It is not the panacea to all health problems, but when a health problem is caused by a mis-alignment in the spine, then a chiropracor is the only one trained to find and treat that condition. If you are going from drug to drug, and the condition is not improving then chiropractic may be the thing that you need.

It is easy to find out, and will not cost much to know if chiropractic can help you. Make sure you find a chiropracor who will do a proper examination and X-rays, and give you a proper diagnosis before treating you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me drmarksnow@westvalleyfamilyclinic.com, or you can check out my website. http://www.westvalleyfamilyclinic.com.