Coming home from a chiropractic conference in San Diego last year, I was going through security and my carry-on bag was on the conveyor belt in the x-ray machine. The belt stopped and I stood, shoeless, watching an inspector look quizzically at the screen. He called over another inspector and the two of them stood there, shrugging their shoulders and pointing at the image.
“I don’t know, it looks like some kind of medical device,” one said. “Yeah, like an injection-thing,” the other replied. At this point, I realized they were talking about my activator adjusting instrument! I always bring it along - you never know who you’re going to meet with a subluxation - and I wanted to be prepared!
“I’m a chiropractor!!”, I shouted over the x-ray machine. “That’s an activator, an adjusting instrument!” One of the guys gave me the thumbs up and said to me, “So it’s like a back injection-thing?” “Oh no,” I replied with a smile. “It’s just the opposite. Adjustments keep your body healthy so you don’t need injections!”
Most people see chiropractic as a “back thing” or a “medical treatment thing”. In some chiropractic offices it may be. In my office, chiropractic is a “Life-thing.” The back is part of the body where we can easily access the nerve system (the spinal cord goes through the vertebral column). Our life runs on energy that flows through us, from the brain to the spinal cord to our cells and tissues and then back to the brain. When that energy is flowing well, we are growing and changing and healing. When that energy is blocked, we are stagnated and healing is slower or goes in the opposite direction! Clearing the connection from the brain to the cells of the body is the very essence of chiropractic and the essence of being healthy.
Chiropractic, when seen from this perspective, is totally different from conventional medicine. Medicine looks to fix what’s broken. Medicine looks to take away things: disease, pain, dysfunction. Chiropractic is about freeing up blocked energy in the body, adding life! When you have the right amount of energy flow, the body can take care of itself in the way it was designed to. This is healing from the INSIDE OUT!
...and I promise you, you don’t get that from any injection.
