Myths
True or False.
Chiropractic care is only for people with back problems.
What is FALSE?
Chiropractors are most well-known for caring for patients with back pain, neck pain and headaches. They also care for patients with symptoms involving muscles, ligaments and joints. All misalignment has an impact on the nervous system. Chiropractors also provide wellness care. DCs can also counsel patients on diet, nutrition, exercise, healthy habits, and occupational and lifestyle modification.
This assessment ensures that a worker's workstation is designed to minimize the risk of injury and maximize productivity.
What is an Ergonomic Assessment?
Exposing one square inch of your skin for 15 minutes to the sun will do this.
What is give you your daily minimum dose of vitamin D?
This is a top causes of pain, joint issues, and tension. When this becomes chronic it has been linked to a number of diseases like heart disease, chronic pain, and cancer.
What is INFLAMMATION?
This doctor has more years of required medical training.
What is both?
Trick question -- both require 8 years of medical training.
True or False:
The popping noise sometimes heard during an adjustment the bone cracking.
What is False?
The noise is actually a release of trapped gasses from around joints.
Misalignment in the spine are called___________. Latin means “minor dislocation”.
What are Subluxations?
Very common and are caused by a number of factors. In the workplace poor posture, stress, repetitive movements, heavy lifting, being sedentary contribute to misalignments.
This common food in our diet causes inflammation and is also legally patented as a pesticide.
What is CORN?
Good nutrition or physical play increases brain growth in a baby.
What is physical play?
Nerve tissue grows best when the mechanoreceptors in the spine and joints are stimulated by bouncing, running, crawling, getting chiropractic adjustments and moving.
More motion = a bigger brain!
This profession is concerned with treating disease.
What is MD?
True or False.
Chiropractors are not real doctors.
What is FALSE?
The biggest difference between chiropractors and medical doctors lies not in their level of education, but in their preferred method of caring for people. Chiro focus is on whole body wellness vs medical doctors are trained in the use of medicines (chemicals that affect your internal biochemistry) and surgery to treat illness.
A. Increased Circulation
B. Increased Flexibility
C. Increased Range of Motion
D. Reduction of Stress
E. Alleviate/Reduced Lower Back Pain
What is all of the above?
Consuming large amounts of this can cause digestive problems such as gas, bloating, diarrhea, or constipation. A L1 adjustment can relieve these digestion discomforts.
What is DAIRY?
Which is the most important system?
Digestion.
Cardiovascular.
Nervous.
What is the Nervous System?
The systems of nerves in your body that sends messages for controlling movement and feeling between the brain and other parts of the body.
This profession has more hours of classroom education.
What is DC?
True or False.
Once you start going to a chiropractor, you have to keep going for the rest of your life.
What is True? It is only partially true.
You only have to continue going to the chiropractor as long as you wish to maintain the health of your neuromusculoskeletal system. Going to a chiropractor is much like going to the dentist, exercising at a gym, or eating a healthy diet: As long as you keep it up, you continue to enjoy the benefits.
This is the Lifeline of your Body.
What is the SPINE?
Carrying more than one million electrical nerve messages between your brain and your body everyday.
A major cause of illness in modern times, this can be of the metal or chemical variety.
What are TOXINS?
We are overloaded with toxins daily, the food we eat, the air we breathe, the beauty products we use, the list is long! Through past challenges we learned that toxins cause fatigue, sluggishness, aches, pains, and much more.
Toxins in your body are being released by the manipulations. Many people find that after an adjustment, they feel a bit sick however, it may be the result of detoxification.
Chiropractic helps the body to do this.
What is HEAL ITSELF?
Chiropractic treatment isn’t so much a way of fixing physical problems as it is a way of allowing your body to perform the healing it already knows how to do if it’s given the care and respect it needs.
Graduates of this profession have to pass four sets of national board exams as well as state board exams in the states where they want to practice.
What is DC?
The age that you can begin chiropractic care.
What is infancy?
The birth process is often the cause of your child's first subluxation. A very soft and undeveloped spine of an infant can suffer trauma during delivery. Then, as children grow up and become more adventurous, the number of injuries to their spines become countless.
What do United Airlines pilots do to improve their vision before taking their re-licensing flight exams?
What is get an upper cervical (neck) adjustment?
Dr Bryan's favorite food.
What is PANCAKES?
Increased energy. Immunity boost. Lower blood pressure. Clearer breathing. Healthier pregnancy.
What are unexpected benefits of Chiropractic Care?
Not a DC or MD this WC is instrumental in education, motivation, and support to help individuals achieve their health goals through lifestyle and behavior adjustments.
What is a WELLNESS COACH?