In my continued pursuit of excellence to provide the best care and maximize your movement towards abundant health and life I have been working on a functional neurology course online. The instructor, Dr, Michael Hall, who is one of my mentors, is a world renown expert on brain science and neurology. Part way through last weeks presentation he paused and addressed the doctors in attendance with the following statements. (He is in the US and using American stats, but like all health stats, they are very similar in Canada):
“What if you knew, Dr. Jay, and the rest of you, that 80% of the world’s anti-depressant medications are prescribed here in the USA? And what if you read the 2019 ‘Happiness Report’, and the US is now down to number 19 in general happiness and well being? And what if you knew that our children in the US rank 47 out of 52 countries in aerobic fitness? And what if you knew that the fastest growing demographic cause of death in the United States was teenage suicide? And what if you knew that the primary presenting hallmark feature was a straight neck? What could you do as a chiropractor? How could you not be motivated to open up the flood gates to your practice? Because what you do to the spine is dramatic to the brain. We have got to get our message out there, because chasing low back pain is not getting the job done. If teenage suicide is the fastest growing cause of death in the US, we have got to do something different.”
Do you understand what he is saying? Science is now revealing that the primary and consistent health variable that determines your mental state and happiness, your aerobic fitness and likelihood to commit suicide if you are a teenager is whether or not you’ve got a C-curve in your neck… ie. a straight neck is very bad and is not congruent with a long, happy life, full of joy and abundance of health. You have to have a C-curve in your neck! Not just to prevent degenerative damage from accumulating at 6 to 10 times the normal rate and not just so your spinal cord isn’t being stretched… but so you can live, I mean truly live and get the most out of this beautiful life you have been blessed with. There is a reason we spend all day everyday working to restore this curve, and it’s the daily stories of lives changing, people set free, and being part of the miracles as they happen. There is the science of curve correction and there is God’s hand upon it at the same time leading and lifting and healing all of you.
So two take homes,
First you’ve got to get that curve, which means you need to do your corrective exercises not just laying on the block and not just doing that movement based exercises… you have to do both! I know it takes time, and it takes effort… but you are worth it! Second, send in everyone you know to get checked – the likelihood of them having a straight neck is far far greater than you may suspect, and it is robbing life from the people you love and care about. Don’t let that happen anymore.
We are here to serve you and them step by step by step towards the abundant life!
God Bless,
Dr. Brad and the New Life Team
New Life Chiropractic│ 705.735.1838
