Creation Chiropractic Blog - Eden Prairie MN

Written by Dr. Matthew Alvord DC, DPhCS

It’s that time of year again: the Holidays. There are many seasons throughout the calendar year. Related to health, there are also allergy seasons and let’s not forget, the dreaded cold and flu season. The truth is, there are no such things. These are just names given to specific times of the year when many people have similar reactions. In reality, allergies and colds and the flu have more to do with the person than any place or thing. People love to blame the trees, the pollen or even the wind, but allergies aren’t about any of these things. Likewise, the problem also isn’t about any particular cold or flu bug. It’s about the person with the allergy, the cold, or the flu.

Here is a short course in microbiology, which is the study of the germs and microbes and their relationship to a society that has feared them for far too long. You see, everyone is exposed to practically everything, whether we know it or not or feel symptoms related to it or not. Who we are when we are exposed to anything in our environment ultimately determines how our body will handle it. 

The famous chemist, Louis Pasteur, was one of the founders of the popular germ theory. However, on his deathbed he admitted to his colleagues, “It is the soil, not the seed.” The seed is the germ that is often demonized for causing illnesses such as allergies, colds, the flu, or worse. The soil is your body, the terrain that seeds grow in if your body is comprised. So really, what we have at various times of the year are compromised seasons. It all depends on how we are, not the time of year or even the environment. Why do some people react to pollen and others don’t?Why does the flu bug seem to affect some people but not others? Do germs like some people but not others? Of course not! It depends on how we take care of ourselves and in particular, how our immune system is functioning. 

DD Palmer, the founder chiropractic, said this:

One question was always uppermost in my mind in my search for the cause of disease. I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table working in the same shop, at the same bench, was not.

Why?

What difference was there in the two persons that caused one to have pneumonia, catarrh, typhoid or rheumatism, while his partner, similarly situated, escaped?

Why?

This question had worried thousands for centuries and was answered in September 1895.

Your nervous system controls everything in your body, including your immune system. When you have interference in this system, nothing in you works as well. With chiropractic adjustments, the intelligence running your body is expressed again fully, allowing your immune system to also work optimally. There have been studies done to show that there is about a 60% increase in immune system function with chiropractic adjustments. Wow! What is really misleading is that your back may even feel great, but your immune system could be dramatically compromised, setting you up for the next set of symptoms at the next comprised season. 

So stop blaming the latest pollen count or the bug that seems to go around preying on people like some kind of monster. The only thing you really have to fear is a misunderstanding of the basic concepts about how your body really works and is designed to protect you if we simply recognize our relationship with the things around us. Schedule an appointment with a chiropractor today to find the interference that is preventing you from being your best. Start fighting off the things that have gotten you down so you can live a life again with the function that is your birth right instead of a life with dysfunction and fear. Chiropractic will truly help you make it the most wonderful time of the year.

Written by Dr. Matthew Alvord DC, DPhCS

Where do the apples in the apple orchard come from? Apple seeds? And if the seeds come from apple trees, where do the trees that produce the seeds come from? The ground? The sky? The air? If we are being truly honest, we have to acknowledge that there is an intelligence that produces the life within all matter, whether it is a plant, mineral, or us. 

 All of the cells in your body, like the apples on an apple tree, were created from just two cells with the specific intention of functioning in a certain way, in an exact location, for a special purpose. You are really special, but if your body is the produce, who is the producer? Chiropractors refer to the source of your life expression as Innate Intelligence, which simply means that an inborn intelligence makes all life and guides it while it exists.
 
Would you ever expect to get turnips from an apple tree? Of course not! But we CAN expect unhealthy apples from an unhealthy apple tree. If we want healthy apples, we have to take care of the apple tree. We all know that water, sun, and good soil are important, but what if something was putting pressure on the trunk of that tree? All of the other care of the tree would not be appreciated. The tree trunk affects every part of the tree, from the roots to the branches to the fruit it bears. The trunk of the tree is vital to every single apple hanging on the apple tree.
 
How about the cells that make up your body? Where do they come from? Have you ever wondered where is the trunk of YOU? Well, the nervous system in your body is made up of your brain, the spine in your back, and all the nerves connecting all the cells of your body. Your spine is the vital link between your brain and the rest of your body, so it’s the trunk of your tree. You must take care of your spine if you want your tree to be healthy.
 
Now, if you had pressure on your spine, what kind of produce would you expect from your body? Exactly. Well, there is a common interference that happens in everyone called spinal subluxation. This means that bones in our spines, especially in the upper neck area, misalign and put pressure on the delicate nerves that connect our brains to our big toes. If this interference is not removed on a regular basis, our bodies will not grow and function as the intelligence that made us, intended for us. 
 
Chiropractors are uniquely trained to find and remove this specific interference in you. No matter how well you eat, or sleep or exercise, none of these things will remove this interference. Get everyone you know checked by a chiropractor, so you can begin to harvest this childhood saying for you and your family:
 
“Here is an apple, up in a tree. Open it up, and what do you see? Little brown seeds that will grow to be, a strong and beautiful apple tree.”

Written by Dr. Matthew Alvord DC, DPhCS

Sometimes in life, the right things get demonized and the wrong things get the credit. The concept of being sick is a good example. Many people don’t understand what sickness really means because they have a sick perception of being sick! When they have cold or flu related symptoms, they often assume it is bad and then try to treat the sickness out of them, but instead end up just running their health down. After all, who likes feeling tired, achy and sniffly? And don’t healthy people feel good? But if we put it into perspective, dead people don’t get any symptoms either! So what gives? Well, all these symptoms are coming from an innate intelligence working through our bodies to protect and heal us. Which one of these two functions do you think is bad for us? The answer is neither! A different question might be, why does the amazing intelligence within us need to produce any of these sickness symptoms in the first place?

 The cold and the flu go together like immune and system. Without this system, your body could never fight off the things it has to every moment you are alive, and not just when you only feel symptoms. In addition, the immune system is controlled by the most important system in your body, the nervous system. When there is interference to this supreme system, nothing else in your body can possibly work as well, including your immune system.
 
Have you ever noticed that some people are never sick, some people are always sick and yet other people are like dominoes, where it seems like germs just knock down the next person in line? If one person is always sick and another person is never sick, does that mean that germs like some people and don’t like others? In truth, germs are around us all the time. We actually have a healthy relationship with them as long as we are functioning properly. Everyone gets the flu. The real question is what are you going to do with the flu?

This also means that why we get sick depends on how strong our immune system is before we even get sick, and therefore how well our nervous system is working, too. So the difference between a cough and a coffin isn’t the strength of the microbe we are exposed to, but rather how strong our body is to begin with. After all, there is no such thing as a flu season, but there is such a thing as a compromised season. These are really just the various times throughout the year that we are more vulnerable to the exact same microbes we would demonize if we don’t understand how our relationship with the environment really works.
 
Now, here is where chiropractic comes in: The cause of your health isn’t outside of you, depending on germs or anything else, it is inside you! You and everyone you know gets regular interference to their nervous system, called a spinal subluxation. It prevents the intelligent messages trying to communicate between your brain and your body through your spine. This means you must have your spine checked just as regularly as these subluxations happen, and only Chiropractors are specially trained to detect and remove spinal subluxations.
 
If you haven’t noticed it yet, this is also a message of empowerment. Once you realize that you can now take control of your health, your entire life changes for the better as well. Instead of being fearful that you don’t get sick or feel lucky when you don’t, or even dreading the symptoms associated with being sick, you can turn your compromise into a promise. And the promise is that as long as your nervous system is working properly, you can be assured that everything else in your body is working as it is designed too, including your immune system. This can only happen with chiropractic care. Call today to begin living a life without fear.

Written by Dr. Matthew Alvord DC, DPhCS

At Creation Chiropractic, we could make an impressive list of the many conditions that people suffer from which have improved with chiropractic care. But let’s start with some perspective of how that is even possible, especially since we don’t treat any of the conditions we have helped, many of which we weren’t even aware of!

There are three important logical facts that create the foundation for everything we do and why we do it at Creation Chiropractic:

First, the nervous system is the supreme system of the body because it controls and coordinates every single aspect of all its functions.

Second, spinal subluxations interfere with the nervous system because the spine is the connection between the brain and the rest of the body.

Third, chiropractic adjustments remove spinal subluxations, allowing the body to restore itself back to full expression and normal function.

Therefore, everything in your body is affected negatively by spinal subluxations and everything in your body is affected positively by chiropractic adjustments. You are always better off without spinal subluxations, and only a chiropractor is specifically trained to find and remove them, so you can function exactly the way you were designed.

Regardless of any specific condition you may have, the question you really need to ask yourself is, “Do I want interference to my body’s ability to manage any of my conditions?”

Many conditions go away completely with chiropractic, while some lesson and still others just have less complications without interference to the system that controls every part of every condition. There is never a downside to removing interference to your LIFE. The reality is, everyone gets spinal subluxations as part of being alive. No one can escape this dynamic. Everything has to be maintained; Your car, your computer, your body, and in particular, your spine.  When we don’t maintain our spine, interference is inevitable and so is the dysfunction that follows it. The only difference from person to person is how they subluxate and how often.

What is truly sad is that many people don’t even know to get checked for subluxations. Even worse, many people feel fine so they just assume they are fine. But how would they know unless they get checked? Can you feel your cholesterol level? How does your blood pressure feel? The only way to know about your subluxations is to get checked regularly by a chiropractor. 

Lots of people assume their problem is where their pain is, or that their pain is the problem itself. All pain is a secondary condition to a primary one. Pain is a pain, but the cause of the pain is the key to getting right. And when your pain or conditions goes away with chiropractic, there are no illusions. You feel better because you are actually better.

Symptoms often motivate but they don’t dictate what needs to be done. Other people don’t see a chiropractor with their condition because their back feels good. And yet the organs producing those conditions hang off their spine like puppeteer strings! Remember, all roads lead through the spine and your chiropractor can tell you exactly how it is working.

We like to say that you “run the risk of pain relief”, because when you begin working the way you are supposed to again, things also begin to go away that are not really you. You are not your pain, and you are not your condition. They are just things your body has had to do to survive while you were in a subluxated state. You’re better than that.

Chiropractic isn’t about pain relief, it’s about REIGN RELIEF! The power that made you and reigns over your life is just waiting for you to tap into it again, to bring your life back to its fullest! Your reigning power is on the way, just as soon as you are ready to start receiving it with your first chiropractic adjustment. That’s how big this all is. At Creation Chiropractic, you no longer need to guess because you have real hope.

Do yourself a favor.  Make an appointment today.

Written by Dr. Matthew Alvord DC, DPhCS

Do you feel like you and your children are backed against a wall? Are you dreading another school year because of health or learning issues? Not looking forward to the calls from the school nurse, the teachers, or even the principal? Are all the sick days making you sick? Wondering how you are going to get through the homework? Once again this year, many children will get on their buses armed with books, but they will not be armed with the one thing they need the most for their health, learning, and overall well being: a fully functioning nervous system that controls their entire lives. 

That’s because every single thing we do in our lives, including concentration and learning, is all done through our nervous system. This vital system begins developing within seven hours of conception and is made up of our brain and all the nerves that connect with the rest of our body through our spine. Spinal subluxations are bones that misalign in our spine, interfering with communication from the body to the brain, and even within the brain itself!
 
These spinal subluxations interfere with signals going to and from our brain, causing our whole body to work abnormally. And since over half the entire feedback to the brain is coming from the spine. That's an awful lot of abnormal feedback! Everything bounces off your brain before it goes anywhere else in your body. If you stub your toe, that pain signal needs to reach your brain through your spine before it goes to the muscles of your mouth that eventually yell, “Ouch!”
 
When you were growing up, did your mom ever tell you that you must have holes in your head? I can tell you that my brothers and I heard that more than once. As usual, mom was right. We all have holes in our heads. They are portals for all our senses that go to and from our brain with the outside world. For example, we have holes for our ears, eyes, nose and mouth, but we can’t even appreciate the biggest hole in our head. It is the connection between the brain and the rest of our body at the base of our head and its official name is the Foramen Magnum, which just means “big hole.” 
 
Spinal subluxation cause abnormal function of our brains through this big hole in our heads when abnormal signals bounce off our brains just like everything else. When our children sit in their classrooms, every bit of information and interaction required for their brains to process is completely dependent on its ability to work without interference. All that new information they will be required to learn must quickly enter through the smaller holes around the sides of their brains without interference from spinal subluxations through the biggest hole we can’t even see at the bottom of their brains. Otherwise, when all these outside signals bounce off their brains, your children might sit sadly in their classroom chair thinking things like:
 
“I don’t get it!”
“I don’t like math!”
“I don’t like learning!”
“I don’t like my teacher!”
“I don’t feel good!”
“I’m tired!” 
“I don’t like school”
“I want to go home!”
 
Sound familiar?
 
Everyone gets spinal subluxations. Therefore everyone has abnormal brain function if they don’t have this interference specifically checked and removed by a chiropractor on a regular basis. That means anyone not seeing a chiropractor has less energy, less concentration, less ability to learn and less motivation for life! Let that sink in for a moment. It is simply impossible for our children to be their best and grow and learn as they should with spinal subluxations. And its impossible for a subluxated parent to properly cope with subluxated children, and visa versa. So before you and your children get back to school, get your brains back to normal by getting your spine back to normal with chiropractic adjustments. 

Written by Dr. Matthew Alvord DC, DPhCS

Welcome to the very first official blog at

Creation Chiropractic

I have been in practice for over twenty years and have been writing about chiropractic online for about six years now, but it will finally all be in one place:  

creationchiropractic.com

Also, please check our links on Facebook and Linked In.  If you like what you’re reading, please pass it along.  There are people suffering unnecessarily because they won’t get to read this blog.  I am excited to continue this source of information and expand it into regular articles that speak to the heart of chiropractic, life, health and most importantly, you and those you love. 

If it hasn’t yet hit you over the head, our world is in crisis; Your world, my world, and our children’s world, too.  We have become a society where the head is chasing the tail and we think that somehow running faster, chasing the same tail is somehow the solution.  We need to get off this crazy train.  We need to step back before we continue further in the wrong direction.  We need to get some perspective, get a bigger picture and start getting a better understanding of our problems before we continue trying to solve them in a clearly failed paradigm.  It’s time to start new and fresh.  No presumptions.  It’s time to be open and honest in the assessment of our selves and our ideas: Where we are and how we got here. It is said that in order to know where we are going, we have to know where we come from, and I don’t believe our society knows either one.  That can change and get better if we let it, if we allow ourselves to see things differently.

One of the things I say at Creation Chiropractic (CC) is that we are different because we ask “why”.  It’s a simple, powerful question and probably the most important.  It’s the only way to find our way from the effects in our lives to their causes; from symptoms and conditions, to how they actually got there.  After all, is the oil light the problem or simply the effect of a cause somewhere else?  And we don’t stop there, because we can’t.  If we just stop at the first cause of an effect, we just end up in the middle, not the true “cause of the cause”, as I like to say.  For example, if you ever want to stump your medical doctor, you don’t have to know a thing about medicine or even biology.  All you have to do is take the statement or observation or diagnosis they just gave you, and send it back to them with a “why” in front of it. Many providers don’t, because it doesn’t fit into their philosophy or agenda, the way they see life and you.  At CC, we LOVE this question.  It allows us to get to the truth.  It’s the reality check.  Start doing this more in your life, and watch things change on their own, just because you start to think differently.

CC is truly different.  Not just to BE different, but because we ask different questions and end up with truly different answers:  Bigger, better, different answers that we all need to live better.  You see, we are one of the few chiropractic offices in the world to offer pure, specific chiropractic:  nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.  And you may not even know how special that is, yet.  But it’s coming:  A better version of you, inside and out.  At CC, we don’t just offer chiropractic adjustments.  That’s just an effect.  Eating well is just an effect, so is exercise or anything else we do to try to improve our lives.  Why do anything, (there’s that question again) unless we know why?  Why should you and all your friends and family be seeing a chiropractor when many of them don’t have spinal pain, or any pain at all for that matter?  But I’m getting ahead of myself.  Before we can get there, we need to step back….way back.  Back to the beginning, back to how you began, back to you.  Are you ready?  Here we go!

Written by Dr. Matthew Alvord DC, DPhCS

Life begins at creation and we are released into the world at birth about nine months later.  Now what?  In order to live your life to the fullest, you need to adapt to your world without interference, without spinal subluxations.  Your brain must communicate with the rest of your body through your nervous system, which is all connected through your spine.  When you are subluxated, not only can’t you relate to the world on the outside, you can’t even relate to world on your insides!  And since this happens to most of us at birth, we can’t be surprised to find out later on that we are not at our best.  

Anything that is good for us we should do our entire lives, on a regular basis.  Eating, exercise and rest are common examples.  However, there is another thing that belongs on that list:  Getting checked for spinal subluxations.  Were talking about something that you can’t feel. It begins at birth and it always lessens your life.  This is why everyone should get checked for this problem as soon as possible and as often as needed.  

The mother of the young lady above knew enough to bring her daughter in to have her spine checked by her Chiropractor so any subluxations could be corrected, allowing that little girl to grow into a promising young woman, without interference, just as her creator intended since she was conceived. And it doesn’t stop there.  Why should it?  Because as long as you are alive, you need to be checked for interference to your life.

Without seeing a chiropractor regularly, there are many conditions or symptoms that could arise as a result of spinal subluxations.  But why wait?  You can know today if you and your family are living your lives to the fullest.  Some childhood symptoms that could indicate complications of nerve interference are so common, we often mistake them for being normal.  

What do you think of this list?

• Colic
• Ear Infections
• Asthma
• Night Terrors
• Restless leg syndrome
• Jumper’s knee
• Growing pains
• Cold and flus
• Allergies
• Bed wetting
• Strep throat
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Tummy problems
• Strep Throat

How many of these issues has our culture accepted as normal just because they are common?  In reality, these are often just ways intelligent, little bodies are forced to deal with because of spinal interference.  Remember, subluxations mean poor adaptation, which commonly means any number of the conditions above that we just teach our children to live with.  But things can be better.  Help us get every child in your life checked by letting every parent that you know about this important information.  Kids need so much from us and they can’t get checked without us. Let’s not leave them subluxated too.