Sometimes, results take time...

I wish everyone felt fantastic after their first adjustment, and most of the time, this is true, but occasionally, someone's body has been so toxic or stuck or abused for so long that their first adjustment doesn't make much of a dent in their condition. In very rare cases, it can actually make them temporarily MORE sore.

The good news is, this does not last.

This soreness is a sign of how confused the nervous system is...

Just like people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome get sick after eating too much healthy food or a dehydrated person can get sick from drinking too much water, people who have had low functioning nervous systems for a long time can experience some side effects.

Be sure to report these side effects to your chiropractor.... they probably have tricks up their sleeve to alleviate some of the negative effects and help you through. Often when the nervous system's functioning is restored, things lurking in the background can spring to the surface, but the good news is that since your body is healing from the inside out, you don't have to worry that these insidious ailments will come out to get you later in life. Wellness is not a destination, it is a journey. What you do today and the choices you make physically, mentally, spiritually, financially, etc are investments into your health tomorrow. It took a while to drain your health piggy bank, and sometimes, it can take a while to fill it back up. Don't give up!

Feeling better and better... Where does it stop?

A patient said to me this morning, "I haven't been in pain for months, and yet every week I come to get adjusted, I just feel better and better!"

This made me think.  If we have never experienced a fully-functioning nervous system, how can we ever know what it's like to have one?  So many people think they don't need a chiropractor, but they don't even know how much better their body could be functioning!  If you were born blind, would you never want to see?  If you were born deaf, would you never want to hear?  Imagine all the untapped potential out there... all the people who, if adjusted, would begin to shine in ways they never imagined were possible...