A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to research many amazing chiropractic stories throughout the country. Time and time again, when reading an article, it always occurred to me that people relate the success of chiropractic to a “miracle”.

If this is true, then it can also be said that chiropractors all over your town and providing miracles to the general public every day! Not only are these miracles changing the course of the lives of patients, but also changing the way they think about their health.

However, I don’t think of them as miracles, but only the power of the body to heal itself when provided the proper environment to do so. That is the basis of chiropractic. Chiropractic removes the hindrances within your nervous system so that your body can do what it does best; function optimally. When your brain and body are able to communicate the way they were designed, the possibilities for better health are endless.

Take this research on epileptic seizures for example. I would imagine, given the severity of the symptoms of the patients, that they too described their results as miracles:

Two studies highlight the positive response that patients suffering from epileptic seizures experienced after beginning chiropractic care.

The April, 1998 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics reports on the case of a 21- year old female who had a history of grand mal and petit mal seizures occurring every three hours since childhood. A program of chiropractic care was begun and a follow-up one and a half years later revealed she was going as long as two months between seizures.

According to the authors, "data suggests that epilepsies are common, with an incidence between 40 and 200 per 100,000 with an overall prevalence between 0.5-1.0% of the general population. When one considers the potential side effects of antiepileptic drugs, research into the effects of chiropractic care for patients with epilepsy should be initiated."

The January, 1996 issue of the Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics studied a five- year old boy who was having 4-6 petit mal seizures every hour. By the third visit, the mother reported that the seizures had decreased to 2-3 every two hours.

After two months of his chiropractic care program, he was only experiencing one seizure per day and it only lasted 2-4 seconds.

As a chiropractor, I see and hear about results like these every day. I disagree that they are miraculous in nature, but conclude that they are simply life changing results that stem from a simple philosophy of care. Nervous system interruptions, spawned from misaligned spinal bones placing pressure on vital nerves, create hindrances within our bodies that degrade its ability to function the way it should. Removing these hindrances often produces amazing results.

Whether you want to call them “miracles” or simply “results”, the truth of the matter as a whole is that they happened and continue to happen every day for those under chiropractic care.

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