Health-y?
Are you health-y? What
does it mean to be healthy? The
definition of health means to be sound in body, mind, and spirit. But is this the end all? How about health meaning a state of optimal
physical mental and emotional well-being not merely the absence of disease or dis-ease?
We tend to only focus on our health when we are sick or have issues that
arise that makes us aware that something is wrong. Does this make us healthy those other times
that we are not noticing these things?
This happens all the time! You
may not know you have heart disease until you have a heart attack. The heart disease is something that has been
going on for a while. The whole time you
thought you were healthy because you didn’t experience any symptoms from that
heart disease. How about a tooth
cavity? You could be dealing with one
for a long time and not know until you start to experience the pain associated
with it. The same could be said about
your spine. You may think and feel that
everything is going well until you stand up out of bed and then “throw your
back out”. Were you as healthy as you
thought you were?
Our society is based on the idea that most of the time you go
to the doctor when you are “sick”. What
led up to that cold? Was it the virus or
the bacteria, many people were exposed to this germ before it got to you? Why
didn’t everyone get sick from it? Maybe
your body was not in an optimal state of health to defend the attack. With your spine it is no different. How is your spines health? Is it able to handle your daily activities
okay? Perhaps you only feel a little
discomfort after a long day at work sitting.
You couldn’t get up as much as you wanted to because you were very
busy. Far to often we ignore the little
hints that our body is telling us that something is not alright but in a state
of dis-ease. The volcano is brewing, the
pressure is building, and it can only hold on for so long. When the pressure becomes too great, the
weakest link fails, and pow-wee you have an eruption. This happens in our everyday lives. “Throwing
your back out” is almost never that one occasion. Your body has been telling you there is
something brewing, but we have misunderstood what the body is tell us, or worse
we ignore it. It’s not serious, I am
health-y.
Dr. Andrew P. Bauman, D.C.
Chiropractic Centers of Short Pump
Richmond, Va
Dr. Andrew Bauman, D.C.
