Who Is the "Real" Health
Care Expert?
by Dr. L. A. Bartell

Just the other day a patient shared with me her concern for a friend of hers. She said, "Do you have a chart that shows the nerves and organs they control. I have a friend who is having pain in her arm. I keep telling her to come and see you, but, she doesn't believe me that pain in her arm could be coming from her spine." She reasoned that a nerve chart would help her "prove" to her friend that she needed a chiropractor.

With my years of chiropractic education, I sometimes assume that we all know that the body is under the constant control of the brain, spinal cord and nerves. Nerve pressure will cause pain in the neck, mid back and low back. But that isn't all. We know that nerve pinching in the neck will cause arm pain. It can also cause thyroid malfunction, headaches, dizziness, sinus disturbance, heart and lung problems. When the nerves in the low back are irritated, leg pain, constipation, menstrual cramps and abdominal pain can occur,.

My patient knew that not everyone has been to a chiropractor and not everyone knows how the body works. For many people their knowledge of the human body comes from vague memories of high school health classes and TV shows. As a result, the public is at the mercy of the "experts".

These "experts" tend to be specialists in different areas of medicine. One expert tells us what the most recent research says about the heart. Another one gives us the lowdown on exercise or diet. And, if you've noticed, invariably there is disagreement among the "experts".  The more science discovers the less we seem to truly know about the body.

The real expert is your body's innate intelligence. This intelligence knows how many times your heart needs to beat in a day, how often you need to breathe, how to digest your food and where to direct the resulting nutrients. There are a million other functions taking place in your body, second by second, all under the control of your innate intelligence. All this intelligence needs to keep you healthy is to be free of interference.

There is innate intelligence in every one of the 70 trillion cells of your body. The nerves that come from your spine carry impulses of intelligence to these cells. When the bones of your spine misalign, the result is blockage of these intelligent impulses interfering with your body's innate intelligence. Sickness, pain and malfunction are the end results of this interference.

My patient wanted to use a nerve chart to educate her friend on a basic health principle - the nervous system controls all the other systems. Chiropractic care unblocks nerve interference and allows the body's innate intelligence to operate at peak performance. We all have friends and family with different health problems.  Don't question which "expert" would be best for their particular problem. Let the real expert, the innate intelligence of the body, take charge by letting chiropractic care remove interference to the nervous system.