“Chiropractic has been helpful to me throughout my career”

Lou Greenwood – Country music legend.

The Big Idea

A slip on a snowy sidewalk in winter is a small thing.
It happens to millions.
A fall from a ladder in the summer is a small thing.
It also happens to millions.
The slip or fall creates a subluxation.

The subluxation is a small thing.
The subluxation produces pressure on a nerve.
That pressure is a small thing.
That decreased flowing produces a dis-eased body and brain.
That is a big thing to that man.

Multiply that sick man by a thousand, and you control the physical and mental welfare of a city.
Multiply that man by one hundred thirty million, and you forecast and can prophesy the physical and mental status of a nation.
So the slip or fall, the subluxation, pressure, flow of mental images and dis-ease are big enough to control the thoughts and actions of a nation.
Now comes a man.
And one man is a small thing.

The man gives an adjustment.
The adjustment is a small thing.
The adjustment replaces the subluxation.
That is a small thing
The adjusted subluxation releases pressure upon nerves.
That is a small thing.
 

The released pressure restores health to a man.
This is a big thing to that man.
Multiply that well man by a thousand, and you step up the physical and mental welfare of a city.
Multiply that well man by a million, and you increase the efficiency of a state.
Multiply that well man by a hundred and thirty million, and you have produced a healthy, wealthy, and better race for posterity.

So, the adjustment of the subluxation to release pressure upon nerves, to restore mental impulse flow, to restore health, is big enough to rebuild the thoughts and actions of the world.

The idea that knows the cause, that can correct the cause of dis-ease, is one of the biggest ideas known. Without it, nations fall; with it, nations rise.

This idea is the biggest I know of.

B.J. Palmer – The Developer of Chiropractic 1944

The truth

We Chiropractors work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the prisoned impulses, a tiny rivulet of force, that emanates from the mind and flow over the nerves to the cells and stirs them to life. We deal with the magic power that transforms common food into living, loving, thinking clay; that robes the earth with beauty, and hues and scents the flowers with the glory of the air.
 

In the dim, dark distant long ago, when the sun first bowed to the morning star, this power spoke and there was life; it quickened the slime of the sea and the dust of the earth and drove the cell to union with its fellows in countless living forms. Through eons of time it finned the fish and winged the bird and fanged the beast. Endlessly it worked, evolving its forms until it produced the crowning glory of them all. With tireless energy it blows the bubble of each individual life and then silently, relentlessly dissolves the form and absorbs the spirit into itself again.

And yet you ask “Can Chiropractic cure appendicitis or the flu?” Have you more faith in a knife or a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?