Battle Ground Back and Neck Pain

It is important to understand that as a doctor of chiropractic I do not treat conditions or diseases. My expertise is in checking your child’s spine for misalignments that impair their nervous system function- therefore affecting their overall body function.

The bones of their spine, the vertebrae, house and protect their spinal cord. Their spinal cord is an extension of their brain and carries information from their brain to their body parts and back to their brain again. Subluxations (misalignments) interfere with their nerves’ ability to transmit this vital information.

Their nerve system controls and coordinates the function of all the systems in their body including their: circulatory, respiratory, digestive, hormonal, eliminative, and immune systems. Any aspect of their health may be impaired by this nerve interference. The chiropractic adjustment restores their nerve system function allowing their body the ability to express a greater state of health and well-being. It’s that simple. Don’t let your children suffer, especially the little ones that can’t tell you how they feel. Call our office today. 360-687-6307 It’s a non-invasive procedure and there are NO shots involved. Just good adjustments.

What you think about most is what you get.

There is a law of attraction in nature.  Or maybe it’s psychological.  I don’t know and frankly I don’t care.   It’s more useful to know about how a principle works then why it works, and this one is laid out for you below.

Here it is in a nutshell.  What is in your mind is reflected “out there”, in what you experience as your reality.

Afraid of losing it?  Afraid of competition?  Afraid of the economy?  Then all the goblins that you fear will be drawn to you.  Protracted fear or worry means that you’re spending too much unprofitable time in the future.

The only useful purpose of fear is to remind you to PLAN.  So do it.  Plan to protect yourself form obvious harm, and then focus on what you can do in the PRESENT.  Because the present is where your future is being created.  Plunge ahead.  Don’t become timid.  If you play it TOO safe you’ll freeze in place and trade your life away for nothing.

Depressed?  Then everything you think, see or hear will reinforce your lack of energy, engagement and action.  Depression means that you’re spending too much passive time thinking about the past, and allowing it to imprison you in the present and steal your future.  When you focus on the present you can change things.  You can’t change the past, only your assessment of it.

Angry?  Then you’ll get a lot of angry people to tussle with.  Your life will fill up with honking horns and people pushing you around and you’ll spend all your time pushing back.  Get over your anger by dealing with the person who causes it – even if it’s the person who is looking back at you from the mirror.  Believe me; anger doesn’t get any better with age.  It sours a person.

It’s a good idea to choose your habitual thought patterns carefully.

Love, optimism and gratitude are good choices.  These states of mind will inspire you to explore, to create, to grow and to give.  People and opportunities will become attracted to you.  And the goblins and angry people will get smaller and quieter and less important, and finally they’ll just fade out and go away.

Events are just events until our thoughts and reactions turn them into experience.  What the experience means, how useful it might be, those are the choices that e make –they’re the stories we tell ourselves about our lives.  The point of choice comes when you have to deal with a challenging situation.  Will you call it a “bad break” –some S.O.B was out to get you?   OR can you call it just “something that happened,” giving yourself a chance to label it in the most nourishing way possible?

You might as well be positive.  Bottom line- it works better and it takes less effort.  It makes you easier to be around and more creative ad good-natured.  And your immune system will be strengthened.  We’re taught that it’s not reasonable to expect to win all the time.  Nonsense! That kind of thinking numbs ambition and smothers greatness.  Even worse, it leads to excuses.  Excuses don’t accomplish anything so do NOT be reasonable.  Actually, achieving the impossible is reasonable and quite normal–you’ve done it thousands of times.  EVERYTHING you do now was impossible for you before you did it the first time, from feeding yourself to balancing your checkbook to becoming a real doctor who will help people.  TRY THIS FOR A WEEK.  Focus on what you want instead of what you don’t want.  Practice the skills of optimism, gratitude, generosity, and forgiveness and your life will expand.  Yes, that’s right. PRACTICE.

Good attitudes are skills that you develop through repetition, just like swimming or buttering toast.  And skills become second nature through practice.  You will become stronger and more relaxed when you decide that you might as well thrive.  A commitment to expectancy is another skill, and it’s decisive and magnetic.  It creates focus and attracts good fortune.  People, patients and opportunities will be drawn to you.  Life starts to get easier.  And your practice becomes more fun.  Go ahead and test it.  What have you got to lose?  The only way you can fail at anything is to “quit trying!”

If you go to you dentist because of a toothache and he discovers that you have a bad cavity that is infected and he gives you some medication, do you think your cavity is FIXED because you don’t have any pain or symptoms?

The same is true for your back, spine and boney structure.

Medication may relieve your symptoms.  Regular care at this clinic may relieve your symptoms, but just because you don’t have any pain doesn’t mean your problem is magically FIXED.

Decay is decay, no matter where you find it.

Make sure you don’t jump the gun and quit before your problem is taken care of properly.

Why would I continue to RECEIVE Regular Chiropractic Adjustments and Exams If I “FEEL GOOD” and Don’t Have Any “Symptoms Whatsoever?”

SIMPLE… This goes back to the concept of your ‘threshold of pain.’  With enough treatments, most likely your pain level will be greatly ‘reduced or completely gone.’

But that’s why you have to be Careful, VERY CAREFUL.  In most cases, if you STOP treatment once your pain is gone, you’ll find out YOUR PAIN will return because the bulk of your condition is still looming below the water line, (threshold of pain), like an iceberg.  Once you resume your normal stressful activities of life, YOUR PAIN will reappear.

THIS IS VERY DANGEROUS

Make sure you’re released from care by your doctor.  It’s imperative that you do this.

Disease vs Dis-Ease

Disease is a term used by medical doctors to describe something that has to do with a diagnosis.

When a doctor of chiropractic uses the word dis-ease it is an indicative of your body being MINUS something that your body needs to be at its optimum health.  Something needs to be restored, in order to help your body become normal again.

When your body is FREE of dis-ease, it is 100% normal and it has a better well being.  This office wants to help restore your body to its optimum health.

Don’t forget, if your body is in chronic pain or discomfort, pain that has lasted more than a few days, you most likely have had pressure on your nerves for some time now.