Symptoms Not That Important

Symptoms in the big picture are not as important as you might think. They are very important in that they are a warning sign that something in your body has gone wrong. Symptoms require attention, and in some instances can save your life, but in the overall picture they are not that important.

Certain diseases and conditions take years to develop in the body. For instance, cancer and heart disease may take five to ten years to develop in your body before your doctor can even detect that you have the disease. And in heart disease, 40% of the time the first symptom is a heart attack.

So, you can see that if you felt good yesterday and you had a heart attack today, that particular symptom was useless in letting you know you had heart disease. That is why it is so much more important to be healthy rather than just feel good. Healthy means everything in your body is functioning properly, while just feeling good only means that you do not have any symptoms.

My job as a chiropractor is not to treat symptoms, but to correct what is causing the symptom. Treating the symptom would be no different than giving you an over-the-counter medication. The medication covers-up the symptom but still leaves the cause. As chiropractor, we correct the cause of your condition by restoring proper spinal function. When we adjust the spinal bones to the best possible position for your body, the body is able to begin to heal itself.