if you wear out your body, where are you going to live ?

If you wear out your car, You can get a new one..
If you wear out your teeth, You can replace them..
But,if you wear out your body, where are you going to live ?

Life requires care and maintenance. That’s an unavoidable fact. Even those “replaceable” items in our life, need to be cared for, if we don’t want to replace them before their time. We have our car’s motor tuned, oil changed, tyres rotated, alignment checked and all the other things which will ensure the vehicle is as safe as possible and lasts as long as it can.

With our teeth, we brush, floss, have regular checkups and generally do what we can to keep our teeth in as good condition as possible. Even if teeth are replaceable, who wants dentures if they can be avoided.

When it comes to our bodies, a little prevention goes a long way. In this day of incredible advances in medical technologies, it may seem that we do have a replaceable body. Joint replacements and organ transplants are becoming more and more commonplace , yet they are still something to be avoided; will always carry risk; and will never be as good as the

original.

It all comes back to the old adage, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” For us to get the most out of our bodies, we have to take care of them, preferably before they break down.

Chiropractors have traditionally concerned themselves with prevention and wellness. Since this is the approach which pays the most dividends.

Correcting subluxations as they occur, (from the physical, chemical and emotional stresses we’re subjected to) results in the least damage to our body and health and gives us the greatest possibility to express our full potential for health and life.

This approach is very different from what we’ve been taught about our health in the past. We’ve mostly been trained in a crisis care mode. This means we ignore our health and our bodies until they yell at us. This approach gets us increasing and ever more invasive interventions, until “all that can be done”, has been done and we’re left with a failing body.

Instead, keep caring for and maintaining your body and health while you have it, with regular chiropractic checkups and adjustments when necessary. Also look at other aspects of your life and see where you can make even minor improvements in the way you eat, how you exercise, what you do to release stress and get connected to the power within yourself.