Life can change in seconds.  The impacts of a traffic accident can be life changing.  While the accident can be over in seconds, the recovery can take a lot longer.  Many patients over the years have come in for care after accidents have left them with new and sometimes frightening aches and pains. 

I can realign their spines pretty quickly using the NUCCA work and this turns the nervous system back on in a balanced way, facilitating the healing process inside them.  By itself, this offers tremendous relief for many who were feeling headaches, dizziness, and numbness and tingling in arms and legs.  Correction of the upper cervical spine is real primary care once structures have been thrown around in an accident. Correcting the spine will promote healing and restore balance to the whole person.

At the same time, however, there is often damage to the supporting soft tissue structures around the spine such as the muscles and tendons and ligaments.  Tearing of these structures occurs because of the terrific forces involved when vehicles collide at high speed and sometimes even at lower speeds.  For over a decade I have worked with Carolyn Hall, LMT for rehabilitation of the soft tissues after serious injuries.  Carolyn has long been a student of Aaron Mattes, a Physical Therapist in the Sarasota region who is world renowned for his work rehabilitating professional athletes of all kinds.  His work , Active Isolated Stretch, is a sophisticated method of assessment and therapy for the myriad effects of trauma, or as we say, issues in the tissues.  Carolyn has several other tools that she works with too including the use of the Anatomy Trains model formulated by Thomas Myers.  Under Carolyn’s discerning eye and knowledgeable touch, she has long been a wonderful asset, bringing people back to life and function, not only relieving the knots and spasms she finds but also teaching people about themselves and how to take care of themselves in the future.  More than one person has noted that while the effects of the accident they were involved in were tough for them, the knowledge they received from Carolyn over time was a blessing in disguise and improved their life way beyond just recovering function.

Many times, people come into the office for problems that may stem from such accidents that happened years and even decades ago.  Not everyone requires extensive tissue work to recover, but when they do, we have a wonderfully effective way to overcome them.

On an added note, many of you are aware we do not accept health insurance as payment up front, but you may not be aware that we do accept Personal Injury insurance.  Otherwise we would not be able to take care of our own patients when they are involved in an accident. 

I hope you never have to use us in this capacity, but if you do, please know we are ready able and willing to help you return to health as quickly as possible.

Sometimes a new ache or pain arises and someone will come in and not know if it is related to the adjustment or not.  Generally, if the symptom lasts for a few days, it is wise to come in and get checked.  I often hear people say that they would have come in sooner but they were having pain in a different area of their body and they didn’t know if it was related.  Signs and symptoms will come and go.  If you are out of adjustment however, the things you are feeling will gradually become more intense and last more of the time. 

Our bodies do the best they can with what they have to work with.  Being out of adjustment means that the nervous system is not working in a balanced and proper way.  The nervous system is the great communications network that links all the parts of our body together.  When the nervous system is being interfered with, everything will be affected.  This is why I believe that upper cervical adjustments are primary care for human beings!  So many of the pills and medications that people take for their problems are related to being out of upper cervical adjustment.  I cannot tell you how many times I have heard people tell me they have been able to wean off numerous medications once they began to get adjusted.  Drugs turn life off, but the NUCCA adjustment turns life back on.  In these stressful times, we need all the energy and health we can muster.  NUCCA adjustments bring more life to each of us and help us to handle the stresses that life hands us.  It is cost effective to prevent problems before they become more serious and require more invasive assistance. 

Getting checked for alignment three or four times a year is definitely cheaper than falling into the seemingly endless medical morass of endless visits and expensive tests and examinations.  Medicine is there when we truly need it but staying healthy keeps your dollars in your own pocket and its also a lot more fun!

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The Leesburg FPA Support Group will meet on Saturday, June 5th at 9 am( until 11am) at the Morriston United Methodist Church in the Juanita Gregg Family Life Center, 1005 West Main Street, Leesburg FL.  Anyone who is interested is welcome but due to space constraints, Mr. Irons, who is coordinating the meetings asks that you RSVP him.  Mr Irons home number is (352) 750-1149; Cellular (804)301-7586. Directions: Just about 1/2 mile off US 27/FL 25 on Main Street. There is ample parking in front of and behind the church.

The Ocala FPA Support Group will also meet on Saturday June 5th at 1:30 (until 3:30)pm at the Monroe Regional Medical Center Dining Room, Conference Room. It is just off the cafeteria on the 1st floor.  1542 SW 1st Ave. Ocala, FL.  Directions: From Pine avenue-US Hwy 441/301/27 turn east onto SW 15th St. and go 1 1/2 blocks. Visitors parking is on the left.  A shuttle bus runs from the parking lot to the main entrance of the Medical Center.   Again, Mr. Irons asks that if you plan to attend, please RSVP him at (352) 750-1149 or (804) 301-7586 due to limited space.

Mr. Irons can also be emailed at: ironsronald@yahoo.com

Upper cervical doctors have had a doubly difficult time getting published becasue of the prejudice against upper cervical work in the chiropractic profession.  I wrote about this issue in the new e-newsletter that is published by ChiroAccess.com.  This group is associated with MANTIS which is a database of literature for professions that have traditionally not been included in the peer-reviewed, indexed literature.  These include acupuncture, massage therapy, and other groups.

The paper has been published by ChiroACCESS so I cannot include it here but I can give you the url:

http://www.chiroaccess.com/Articles/Chiropractic-Technique-Summary-NUCCA.aspx?id=0000152

This paper contains a link to all of the Upper Cervical Monographs in .pdf format and also lists the various papers and talks over the years that have been produced by NUCCA doctors. 

In addition, I have been giving talks in the local area, specifically with the Buddy Club at Spruce Creek, the Belleview Public Library and Oakbrook in Ocala.  I have put together three different talks with accompanying PowerPoint presentations.  These talks look at our health from an expanded point of view.  Taking care of ourselves requires that we know not only who and what we are (an exciting topic in this time of ever expanding knowledge) but also how we are connected to our environments and how these connections are critical to our health and well being. 

I am currently working on writing a synopsis of these talks so that I can record them on CD.  Each of these talks has been received very well and there seems to be a thirst for this kind of information among everyone who has been to the talks.  I’ll let you know more when I have them recorded.

In addition, I am now starting work with my website designer to get the e-newsletter up and running.  So there are a number of new and exciting changes happening which I will alert you  to as they come on-line. 

In the meantime, if you are part of a group that would like to have me come and talk, please contact me and we can certainly make that happen. 

As always, I hope your life is a healing journey for you and if I can be of any help, please let us know at the office, (352) 245-6169.