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Last week, our topic was structured around car accidents and the plan of
action you should take immediately following to avoid long-term implications
that you won't necessarily feel in the short term. Today, as a follow-up, I
want to discuss an acute situation - one that you often will feel
immediately or a day(s) following an accident.
Whiplash
You've likely all heard of this condition, in which the head and
neck are thrown backward into extension after a car accident. What you may
not know is that whiplash occurs in almost every other kind of accident,
too. Think of all of the slips and falls you've taken throughout the course
of your life; or the times you've ridden a roller coaster, gotten injured
playing a sport, or been on an airplane when windy conditions arose and
tossed the plane around a bit. Each time, your head and neck have been
thrown, very quickly, out of their normal position. The quick jerk of the
whiplash incident causes both a misalignment of the bone where the head and
neck meet (the top vertebra in the neck) and a strain on the muscles from
the base of the head down into the mid-back. The more significant the
incident, the more likely you'll experience the associated symptoms.
Whiplash has been linked to so many different symptoms, ranging from
headaches to neck pain to Migraines to visual disturbances to Vertigo to
upper back problems, etc. That reason is simple: the head, neck, and
surrounding muscles are made to be positioned a certain way and move within
a certain range; whiplash throws the head, neck, and surrounding muscles out
of that position and outside that certain range. It's often disorienting,
usually painful, and always capable of doing underlying damage.
The usual course of action with such an injury is rest and ice.
Rest gives the muscles a chance to relax and ice dulls the pain.
Unfortunately, these measures do not address the long-term implications;
only the short-term symptoms. The top bone in the neck and its alignment
with the base of the skull is foundational to the rest of the body. When
aligned, the rest of the body falls nicely into its proper position. When
misaligned, the rest of the body compensates/shifts out of its proper
position. Muscles from the head to the toes pull from a balanced state to
an imbalanced state. That foundational head/neck alignment, therefore,
needs be assessed and corrected, for otherwise the compensated position will
only lead to more significant issues down the road.
Also not to be underscored is that the top bone in the spine is the
protector of the vital area of your neurologic system called the brainstem -
where every nerve in the body originates and branches from to keep every
organ, muscle, and tissue in the body functioning normally. A misalignment
of that bone will not only disrupt the structural integrity of the body, but
also interfere with internal processes, creating for abnormal conditions in
the body.
Thus, whiplash may seem like a simple condition and, therefore, not
be something that requires much further attention than home remedies. The
reality, however, is that whiplash is quite common and carries with it
numerous long-term effects.
Medications Will Become the Next Tobacco
A few weeks ago, I detailed my concerns about flu vaccines and their
complete uselessness. Well, statistics continue to pour in about the
dangerous effects of vaccines and, the more educated people become, the less
likely they're becoming to get vaccinated for things like the flu or have
their kids vaccinated. 40 years ago, stats similar to these were pouring in
about the tobacco industry. Not too long ago, the government took away
their ability to advertise. Not too long before that, the tobacco industry
carried a lot of political clout because it was a cash cow. Now look at
it. Every media outlet echoes that if you smoke, you're pretty much
ignoring all logic about the dangers of what you're smoking. One day (maybe
not in my lifetime), the drug companies will suffer the same fate. Until
that day, we'll continue to find ourselves dead last in health stats amongst
the industrialized nations in this world.
http://www.naturalnews.com/
Thinking good things for you, as always,
Dr. Chad
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