Shaw Family Chiropractic

By Dr. Kevin Donka

The following true story occurred many years ago when I was very young in practice.  It represented a turning point for me where I realized completely for the very first time, just how incredibly far reaching having a functioning spine and a clear brain-body connection can be, and how crucial the full expression of health is to having a peaceful, loving, joyous and harmonious life.

There were roughly 20 people attending my workshop including a little girl 4 or 5 years old who was busy coloring in the corner.  At the end of the talk, a woman stood up and shared that she had been ready to divorce her husband (seated next to her) before he began his chiropractic care because of how short-tempered and nasty he had become over the past few years.  She said he was no longer the man she had known and loved for so long.  But, she continued, since he had started getting adjusted and began feeling better, she had seen the return of the man she had been attracted to and married so many years before.

She explained that he had stopped complaining and yelling all the time and had begun working in the garden again and taking walks with her.  He was smiling a lot more and he had even begun singing around the house again.  Plus, she added, he was playing with their little daughter in a whole new way.  She was so happy and she just wanted everyone to know how much chiropractic had helped them.  She then turned and addressed the little girl coloring in the corner; “Isn’t that right Caitlyn, sweetie pie?  Isn’t Daddy more fun now?”  The little girl looked up and said, “He doesn’t BEAT me anymore…”

Suddenly the room went deadly quiet.  Nobody knew what to say or do after hearing this… and then the man began to sob.  After a few moments, he told us how horrible his headaches had been, and that he had never wanted to be so mean to his wife and his precious daughter, but he had felt so bad himself he just couldn’t help it.  As he put it, “I was pissed off at the world, and they just kept getting in my way.”  He thanked me again and told me the care he had received in our center had saved his life for sure, and probably his daughter’s life too.  Not that he would have actually ever harmed her severely physically; but the damage he had been doing to her mentally made him feel utterly ashamed and sick to his stomach.  Then he took a deep breath and said with determination, “BUT NO MORE!  He shook his head and after a pause he repeated in a whisper, “No more.”

How many people are treating themselves and others poorly because of how badly they feel physically?  We’re not just talking about health here; we’re talking about LIFE!  The truth is this;

NO part of your life will work as well as it is meant to without your health!

NEVER FORGET how powerful your adjustments are, and never always remember the perfection that has been placed inside of you…the perfection that gives you the opportunity to live a happy, healthy and vital life, as long as it is allowed to flow freely and normally through your nerve system.

Chiropractic care makes sure your spine is aligned and functioning properly, so that your brain-body connection is clear and your Intelligent Life Energy can flow freely and normally and keep you moving steadily toward the full expression of health and life!  This is a crucial idea to understand, for we never know how far reaching something we may think say or do today will affect millions of lives tomorrow.

By Dr. Peter Amlinger

Many years ago a Medical Historian named Sir Charles Singer wrote about the stages of ill health, among other things.  This noted author’s writings are as accurate today as they were when he first wrote them.  He asserts that:

• The first stage is a functional impairment.  He states that this may not be noticeable by the patient or the physician.  We call this ACLINICAL ILLNESS.  There are no symptoms or signs in this stage and no diagnostic tests are positive.
• The second stage brings signs and symptoms.
• The third stage brings structural and/or cellular changes.

Sir Charles goes on to state that people are rarely seen before the second stage and more often than not are first seen when they are in the third stage.

He then makes the astonishingly accurate comparison that “to try and learn about an ailment under such circumstances, (i.e.. in the 2nd or 3rd stage), is something like trying to learn about chess by watching THE LAST MOVES of a game between two experts, unaware that the outcome is frequently decided IN THE FIRST MOVES.

Subluxations are functional impairments; misalignments between the spinal bones which IMPAIR proper nerve function.  Altered nerve function causes abnormal function within cells.  Abnormal cell function causes symptoms and signs and if they persist long enough they cause structural changes in both the spine and in the tissues receiving the subnormal nerve flow.

There is a doctor who can find the functional impairment of the first stage of disease; it is the CHIROPRACTOR.

Think about it, when would be the best time to have a developing health problem taken care of?  In its early “aclinical stages” or in its end stage?

BJ Palmer discussed the importance of finding and correcting ACUTE SUBLUXATIONS; correcting them before they became chronic and cause structural disease.  GET THIS – OVER 80% OF BABIES ARE BORN SUBLUXATED!

When is the best/only opportunity to have the acute subluxation corrected? Do you have loved ones at home who have never been checked for subluxation?  Are you/they waiting for 2nd or 3rd stage illness?  Why?

If this article makes as much sense to you as it does to me; I would think that you will be arranging for your family to get checked for subluxations NOW.

We would welcome the opportunity to check them; the earlier in life, the better.