The Herbal Insider

What’s New In the World of Health Care for 2010
The Answer May Surprise You!

Dr. Linda Miller, Holistic Chiropractor, Anaheim, California – It’s strange how what seems to be “new” or “advanced”, can sometimes really be old fashioned – and what used to be considered “old”, or “folksy” can really be more advanced. Here’s what we’re talking about.

For the last hundred years or so, health care was pretty much controlled by the established institutions. The public had been conditioned to take whatever “medicine” they had been dishing out to us. It could be in the form of drugs, surgery, or other types of health care that are now commonly referred to as Western Medicine or, in some people’s minds, were considered “new” and “advanced”.

But over the last few years the public has learned the REAL DEAL. We’ve discovered that much of what was considered “modern” as recently as a few years ago, is now looked at as old school. And what was considered “primitive” is now considered high-tech and very advanced! For example, certain types of surgery that used to be considered “advanced” are now looked at as being too harsh and old school. While non-invasive techniques that have been used for decades to successfully treat those same conditions are now seen as the “advanced” more humane methods.

What we’ve come to understand is that the REAL solutions for health care are to use the methods that are the most advanced, efficient, easiest to administer, lowest cost and come with the highest probability of success. We want these methods to be the least invasive, the least risky, and with the lowest probability of unwanted side effects. Finally, as a society, we just want to get healthy, and stay healthy, without the bias over what kind of doctor delivers the care, or whether or not the “establishment” blessed the methods.

It seems that the “establishment” isn’t totally in charge any more. We believe that YOU are finally in charge! Enough people have demanded that our health care be what works best, instead of based on certain institutions’ biases. We’ve finally reached the point in time where mostly everyone agrees that the right answer is to blend in and use the best and most successful of “Western Medicine” techniques, along side of the best and most successful of what used to be called “Alternative Health Care”! It’s ALL part of mainstream health care for 2010.

In this new era of enlightenment millions of Americans in search of pain relief no longer have to suffer unnecessarily. We no longer have to choose between taking potentially harmful drugs or going through surgery as our only options. After a century of searching for the right answers the verdict is finally in – Chiropractic care really works. Young and old, rich and poor are seeing doctors of Chiropractic for more than just back pain.

Chiropractors were once though of as doctors for treatment of back pain only. Now Americans are being referred to in droves to Doctors of Chiropractic for their auto and work injuries, neck and back pain, headaches, migraines, sports injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, indigestion, allegories, osteoporosis, fatigue, osteoarthritis, nutritional counseling, smoke cessation, weight loss, and more!

Did you know that Medical Doctors and Chiropractors have the same education? Same premed requirements and 5 years of medical education. Chiropractors are primary health care providers at the same level as medical doctors. There are a few differences between MD’s and DC’s:

Chiropractors do not invade the human body – we don’t cut you or perform surgery.
Chiropractors do not prescribe harmful drugs.
Chiropractors treat the cause of disease not the symptoms. Drugs only change your symptoms. They do not cure you. Only your body can cure itself.

As a matter of fact, Chiropractic is now the third largest primary health care profession in the world!

Editors Note: Dr Linda uses the same Alternative Health care on her own horses. Steve