Chiropractic and Health
Please read the following definitions before reading on:
Optimum - The condition or degree of producing the best result.
Social- Of society or of its organization. Friendly; a state which promotes public welfare.
Wellbeing- A condition of health and happiness.
Merely- Being nothing more or less than.
Potential- A possible development.
Wholeness- Containing all the parts needed to make up a total; an organization of parts making a unity.
Indexes- Anything that serves as a guide.
Function- Perform a natural or proper action.
In Australia, we spend over ten percent of the nation's Gross National Product on hospital and medical care. We have quality, well-educated and dedicated doctors and nurses in our hospitals, yet the United Nations World Health Organisation continually notes our population as having a low general health index. In other words, the general health of most Australians is poor.
Perhaps the reason that health seems to escape us rather than being our normal experience could be that we do not understand what health is and where it comes from. The World Health Organisation likes the following definition of health:
"A STATE OF OPTIMUM PHYSICAL, MENTAL
Most people think health is having no symptoms. This is truly not the case. Example: the first symptom of heart disease for forty percent of those who suffer from it is a severe or fatal heart attack!
SYMPTOMS
Currently society's emphasis has been on the removal of symptoms rather than on creating an environment in which the body can function as close to 100% as possible.
Health can be achieved and maintained when your emphasis shifts toward creating optimum function, not simply removing symptoms.
And that's Chiropractic's function! Chiropractic ahs the goal of seeing that you function as closely as possible to optimum.
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Dr John Kyneur
Bachelor of Science
Doctor of Chiropractic