Friday, November 30, 2018


                                              
                                               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
 

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