What is Restoration Care? Our patients always begin with Restoration Care. In this initial phase of care the focus is on removing subluxations that are standing in the way of your body's inborn mechanism to heal naturally from the inside out. We know that when the spine maintains a correct spinal position, the central nervous system functions at its fullest potential. When the nervous system works, all other systems work better.
What is Wellness Care? Following restoration care all patients are given recommendations for wellness care, or maintenance care. Your body has done the work of correcting its spinal alignment through Upper Cervical Chiropractic Corrections. Now we work on continuing to keep the spine aligned so that every nerve, tissue, and cell within your body continues to heal and function at its best.
Why have I never Heard About Chiropractic for Wellness or Overall Health?120 years ago the first chiropractic adjustment was given by D.D. Palmer to a man who had lost his hearing. Chiropractic adjustments for hearing loss? What!? Three days later his hearing was restored, and soon word got out that chiropractic was a cure for deafness. People started flocking to Iowa to be seen by the doctor who had made this discovery, in hopes their own hearing would return. While not everyone got their hearing back, everyone did experience positive changes in their health. Chiropractic grew at such a rapid pace that the mainstream medical profession took notice and decided something needed to be done to slow the progress. One medical doctor took special notice and decided to disprove D.D. Palmer's theory that disease in the body is caused by misaligned vertebrae. What Dr. Windsor found was to his dismay. He actually ended up proving the theory of chiropractic when he took 97 cadavers, located their diseased organs, and traced the nerves connected to each organ all the way back to the spinal cord. He found dislocations at the attachment location over 95% of the time. Thankfully, Windsor published the study anyway, furthering the progress and reputation of chiropractic care. This didn't go over well with mainstream medicine, and in 1963 a "Committee on Quackery" was formed in order to disband chiropractors. Over the span of many years the committee used every means necessary to give chiropractic a bad name. Their most extreme efforts included convincing government officials that chiropractors were practicing medicine without a license, resulting in many chiropractors being jailed, sometimes for years at a time. In the 1980's, not long ago, the Supreme Court finally ruled that the American Medical Association had a long history of illegal activity against the chiropractic profession. Although this ruling did make a way for chiropractic professionals to practice more freely, there was still a long-standing reputation to build up that had been squashed for nearly 100 years
Ella; Ella is a patient at our office. She began Upper Cervical Care the first time in 2002. She had excruciating pain in her shoulder to the point of being unable to move her right arm at all. Ella met Dr. Opal at a health talk in Tulsa and was immediately convinced that Upper Cervical Care could alleviate her pain. But Ella's story with her pain is touch and go, as she did not continue with consistent wellness care after her pain was alleviated. Like many, she held the false perception that chiropractic is for pain management. Off and on through the years she came and went, always deciding against wellness care
Ella Returns With More Pain; Most recently, she found herself with severe pain in her leg, unable to even wear pants or have anything touch the skin on her leg. Ella visited for a correction, knowing the pain would be relieved. But this time something was different, because after this experience Ella chose to stay with Upper Cervical Care for the long-term. She says, "I haven't had any problems since I started keeping my appointments!"
