Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The Neurology of Hope

One of the better book titles I have encountered in recent years, The Audacity of Hope, served as a driving force in opening eyes and minds to the political idealism of Barack Obama. I feel that the title suits the message well, a paradigm shift that became viral as Mr. Obama's Democratic campaign expanded in the past year. As you might be guessing, my point in citing this example will not be found in governmental politics, actually I would like for you to consider the medical/health care political landscape. Specifically, I will draw parallels between the wisdom behind Mr. Obama's book title, message and subsequent move towards critical mass with a subject closer to my own heart, the unique paradigm and clinical application of Precision Cervical Correction.



People living and/or working in the Silicon Valley, for the most part, share a common experience of engaging in a full time battle dealing with the effects of physical, emotional and chemical stress. We also share the common knowledge, whether we choose to attend to it or not, that our bodily energies and resources undergo a progressive drain yielding familiar secondary conditions such as chronic inflammation, pain and mental anguish. As a matter of socially embraced routine, we tend to quickly displace these problems from our real time awareness through an array of chemical cocktails, allopathic and otherwise. Though these "solutions" may be fleeting at best and organically harmful through repetitive usage, we continue, as we always have, enduring our stressors one day at a time by indulging ourselves in whatever means will get us through another day. Meanwhile, our "on board" central processing units, (the Central Nervous System) become increasingly programmed into a constant pattern of over activating our fight or flight mechanisms in spite of the reality that, due to time constraints, many of us are at an all time low for personal physical activity. No fight, no flight, but our physiologies are called upon to mobilize the body's preparation for emergency strenuous activity. Our real time physiologies become so imbalanced with our relatively sedentary environments that we experience an increasing variety of secondary symptomatic conditions affecting breathing, blood flow, digestion and heart rate.....not to mention the creation of large musculoskeletal regions that often scream for oxygen by the end of our day.

Bringing the discussion back to the Audacity of Hope, the application of Precision Cervical Correction offers hope for many patients suffering with the aforementioned stress driven secondary symptoms (secondary to primary structural and neurological changes in our bodies).
The problem is that the mere suggestion that a relatively simple, unique, nonallopathic approach to health care can be beneficial to patients in a way that familiar, mainstream treatments, therapies may not seems, yes, audacious.

I would like to suggest considering this point in the same context as Mr. Obama's book title. If you take iconic procedures representing the status quo that are not only failing many, but witnessing their outcomes going from bad to worse, is it audacious to effect a completely different paradigm for health and wellness? For this reason, I have titled this discussion "The Neurology of Hope" because I believe that forward thinking individuals can empower themselves and find solutions for the problems borne out of our manic lifestyles if they open thier minds to the untapped healing ability within their own nervous systems. Unlike political optomism, you need not indefinitely suspend disbelief; begin Precision Cervical Correction care and proactively witness your body move in 4 weeks from hope to undeniable change.