Dr. Roundy - The Spinal Column

What Is Chiropractic?

Chiropractic is a system of health care that releases a most serious form of stress from your body...spinal nerve stress, which is also known as the vertebral subluxation complex. Spinal nerve stress can affect your nerves, muscles, internal organs, discs, bones, brain and weaken your overall health.

A doctor of chiropractic is specially trained to determine if you have spinal nerve stress and can release this stress using a simple, painless procedure known as a chiropractic adjustment.
Chiropractic has become the largest drugless health care profession in the world because it has helped millions of people recover from sickness, disease, disability and minimize the use of drugs and surgery in their lives.

What is an Adjustment?

What exactly am I doing when I use the Atlas Orthogonal Instrument, or place my hands on your spine and give you a spinal adjustment? I am freeing your nerves from severe stress, balancing your spine, relaxing muscles, ligaments, discs and tendons and permitting your body to heal - essentially, I am helping awaken your "inner doctor."

Chiropractors spend years mastering the art and skill required to give a specific chiropractic adjustment. I ask myself the following questions (among others) before giving anyone an adjustment:

In which direction are the vertebrae out of alignment?
What is the minimal amount of force necessary for realignment?
Which is the best technique to use?
Are there any factors that would prevent the adjustment?
Are you relaxed and at ease?

Your Body is Always Trying
Your body is always trying to realign or adjust your spine. The back muscles are continuously working to pull misaligned vertebrae back to where they belong. I don't actually put the vertebra back in place - I supply just the little bit of energy needed to free the vertebra so your body will realign it.

Want to live to be over a hundred?

With more people living past 100, researchers are now able to study them in greater numbers and they're finding interesting things.

"Those who make it close to the 100-mark and beyond are the type who avoid hospitals and doctors whenever possible. When ill, they tend to be optimistic about recovery�[they have generally] good health habits. Most avoid smoking, watch their weight and exercise�.their most common characteristic is a feisty spirit and a sense of independence."

According to researcher Belle Boone Beard, author of Centenarians, they have, "a tried and true individuality, tempered like steel under the heat and pressure of life over time."

Centenarians also have been practicing preventive medicine all of their lives. Amazing as it sounds the majority studied by Beard had never seen a doctor. Thus, they avoided the iatrogenic (doctor-induced) diseases, accidents and overmedication that plague so many of the elderly.
Letter from the publisher. Journal of Longevity, Vol. 6, No. 3, p. 3.

Breast Feeding
"Study after study shows, for example, that babies who are not breastfed have higher rates of death, meningitis, childhood leukemia and other cancers, diabetes, respiratory illnesses, bacterial and viral infections, diarrheal diseases, otitis media, allergies, obesity and developmental delays. Women who do not breastfeed demonstrate a higher risk for breast and ovarian cancers."
Grant, JT. Former Director of UNICEF. July/August 1994. Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Newsletter.

"Breastfed children are half as likely to have any illness during the first year of life."
Baldwin EN and Friedman KA New Beginnings Jan-Feb 1996.

Words of Wisdom
"The true nature of anything is the highest it can become." Aristotle

"The arrival of a good clown exercises more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs." Thomas Sydenham, 17th century physician

"It is impossible to separate between physical needs and spiritual needs. The spiritual transforms into physicality and the physical rises to become spiritual in a perpetual chemistry of exchange. Heal the soul and the body is renewed. Heal the body and the soul is empowered." Lubavitcher Rebbe

Chiropractic and Spinal Research

Did you know there are thousands of papers on the wonders of chiropractic? Please tell others about the power of chiropractic care - health without drugs or surgery.

Asthma and Chiropractic
47-asthma sufferers ages 7 to 42 received chiropractic care for 4 to 8-weeks. All 47 showed significant improvements in symptoms (from 87 to 100 percent). Many of the patients were able to completely stop the use of asthma medication.

At a two-year follow-up, all 47 of the patients also reported that they maintained the improvements they made at the beginning of the study.

Amalu WC. Chiropractic management of 47 asthma cases. Today's Chiropractic, Vol. 29, No. 6, November/December 2000.

Lumbar Discs and Spinal Care
Know anyone contemplating back surgery for a disc problem? Chiropractors have helped countless people avoid spinal surgery for over a century. Even medical journals are describing the success of spinal care. In one study, of 517-patients with protruded lumbar discs, 76.8% had satisfactory results after they received chiropractic spinal care.

Treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc protrusions by manipulation. Pang-Fu Kuo P, Loh Z. Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research, Feb. 1987; 215:47-55.

Anorexia Nervosa and Chiropractic
A.S., a 23-year-old, had been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa; chiropractic spinal analysis revealed vertebral subluxations in her upper and mid neck. She received a single chiropractic adjustment, which resulted in complete resolution of her condition. A follow-up two years later showed that the condition never returned.

Burnier, A. The side-effects of the chiropractic adjustment. Chiropractic Pediatrics, Vol. 1, No. 4, May 1995.

Enuresis (bedwetting) & Toe Walking
A 6-year-old boy who toe-walked and had nightly nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting) was taken in for chiropractic care. Previous to the chiropractic care, a medical specialist who evaluated the child recommended that both Achilles' tendons be cut and both ankles be broken to achieve normal posture and gait.

Chiropractic findings included subluxation of atlas, occiput, sacrum and pelvis. After 4 weeks of care, toe walking decreased 50% and bedwetting decreased to 2-3 times/week. His MD could not believe how chiropractic had helped so much.

Crystal, R. International Chiropractic Pediatric Association Newsletter, May/June 1997.

Humor
A little boy wanted $100 badly and prayed for two weeks but nothing happened.
Then he decided to write GOD a letter requesting the $100. When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to GOD USA, they decided to send it to the President.
The President was so impressed, touched, and amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5.00 bill. The President thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.

The little boy was delighted with the $5.00 and sat down to write a thank you note to GOD, which read:

Dear GOD,
Thank you very much for sending the money, but I noticed that for some reason you had to send it through Washington D.C., and as usual, those jerks deducted $95.00.

NATURAL HEALTH CARE WITHOUT DRUGS AND SURGERY
Chiropractic is the most popular drug-free form of health care in the world. Millions of people - children, adults and seniors visit their neighborhood Doctor of Chiropractic for improved energy, quicker healing, release of stress and to turn on their natural healing ability without drugs and surgery.

Tried everything?
Not unless you've tried Chiropractic!