Time to Crawl

There are certain events in our lives that are considered miles stones. Graduating from High School and College, Getting married and your first job. But long before that, we all had several big milestones that most of us will never remember, our developmental milestones.

Early on infants need to smile, hold their head up and track object move in front of them. As the grow they will start moving more and then we look for them to roll over,stand and of course crawl. Crawling is arguably the most important milestone because of its tremendous effect on brain development. Some studies have shown that babies who crawl longer become more coordinated and score higher on aptitude tests.

It is always frustrating for parent when their children don't reach these milestones on time. Well Tuesday in the office I was blessed to help a child reach one. Sadie is a beautiful young girl who first came to see me because she was crabby and not feeding well. She also had a misshapen head from the delivery process. I helped her with the crabbiness and the feeding and my wife helped reform her head with CST (Cranio Sacral Therapy) and she seemed to be doing pretty well. But, she didn't want to crawl. On Tuesday I adjusted her sacrum and set her on the floor so I could check her mom, and as I was checking her mom for subluxation, Sadie started to crawl!

I will never lose the excitement I feel when someone experiences the full expression of life they get from getting adjusted and thank God he made me a Chiropractor!

As intriguing as this video is it fails to point out two important facts, one financial and one physiological.

The financial fact is simple. When you buy a drug, you are paying for all those perks they mention. The average MD is "gifted" approximately $12,000 a year by the drug industry. Multiply that by the number of physicians in the US (800,000) and you arrive at the astonishing sum of $9,600,000,000! Yes that is nine BILLION DOLLARS! Whatever happened to letting a product stand on it's own merits? Just think how inexpensive these things could be if you didn't have to pay for all that advertising! Which brings us to my second point; you probably don't need the drug.

If a drug works, it is because there is a receptor for it in your body. When the drug connects with the proper receptor, the body responds with an action, it is very much like a lock and a key. So if there is a receptor for the drug, it stands to reason that the body can make that drug doesn't it? I don't think God forgot to give some of us a Prozac gland or a Ritalin gland. Our bodies are just malfunctioning and we need to fix the malfunction.

Note: for those of you who do not believe in God try this. 2000 years ago there was no Prozac or Ritalin, and the body hasn't changed that much in the past 2000 years so it still stands to reason that the body should be making those drugs if it needs it otherwise there would be no reason for the body to have those receptors.

But back to my point, anything with more than one part can malfunction. Our bodies are amazingly complex and they too malfunction. Very often it is because the control system, the nervous system is being interfered with. This is usually caused by a subluxation which is what we Chiropractors fix. Getting adjusted by a Chiropractor restores control to your body while taking a drug covers a symptom.

Get your nervous system checked for subluxation and take back control of your life!

Dr. Dan