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Wellness

 
     
 

...is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a more successful existence. It is a choice, a decision you make towards optimal health.

These days, it’s in the news all the time. There is a growing interest in this term we refer to as “Wellness”.

In a book called “The Wellness Revolution”, the author states that wellness is “not about a fad or trend, it’s about new and infinite need infusing itself into the way we eat, exercise, sleep, work, save, age and almost every other aspect of our lives”.

It is a life style you design to achieve your highest potential for well-being. Wellness is a process, a developing awareness that there is no end point, but that health and happiness are possible in each moment, here and now.

The Chiropractic profession is on the fore front of this revolution, the “wellness” concept is what Chiropractic was founded on 110 years ago. Vertebral subluxations can impact proper nerve system function, the system responsible for controlling and coordinating every cell, tissue, organ, system, and process in the human body, resulting in aberrant perceptions of our internal and external environments. The inevitable result is a state of dis-ease or lack of well-being. Vertebral subluxations compromise our ability to express life to our fullest potential.

By addressing vertebral subluxations and the physical, biochemical and emotional stresses that cause them, a person seeking wellness can enhance their life experience. A wellness patient does not merely attempt to maintain the status quo, return to pre-injury status, or prevent illness. They recognize that Chiropractic is a life long endeavour, a way of life, as it is the foundation for a developing global strategy of optimal health and wellness.

 
 
 
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"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
Thomas Edison
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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