YOU are seven times more likely to be struck by lightning than to be injured by a competent doctor of chiropractic, and you are 25,000 to 100,000 times more likely to die from surgeries than you are from being seriously injured by a competent chiropractic adjustment – which is about two in 10 million.

In fact, you are literally safer with a chiropractic adjustment from a doctor of chiropractic by 4,000 than you are from taking a common aspirin. When was the last time your doctor told you that you could die or become paralysed or develop a serious bacterial infection from the treatment that you will be receiving? Think about that if your doctor has ever told you that chiropractic “won’t help you” or isn’t “safe” for you.

Not safe? Relative to what? Getting hit by a bus? Your chance of that is about two in one billion, incidentally. These statistics do not apply to other practitioners who are not actual chiropractors, such as a physiotherapist or an osteopath, which can increase your chances of being injured just like the other statistics in those approaches.

You see, the big industries and associations have been trained and desensitised into playing the statistics on paper game with real lives. Many times, when the risks are admitted, and the question is redirected, the outlook is much different. When actually confronted with the real world fact that their own family members could in fact die or be seriously injured, very few remain adamant about recommending that surgery, experimental drug or other invasive procedure.

Up to 60 per cent of doctors and other medical personnel do not implement treatments commonly prescribed to the public for themselves or for their own families. For example, many doctors and health-care practitioners do not get vaccinated and do not vaccinate their own children because they:

* Know vaccines are not proven to be safe or effective;

* Know vaccines contain dangerous substances;

* Know vaccines can cause serious health problems; and

* Have treated patients with serious side effects from vaccines.

Consistently, patients present to my office with the same concerns. They have been to three or four doctors, have had multiple diagnostic tests performed, have consumed all kinds of pills, potions, and applied various lotions, and have even undergone extensive physiotherapy – none of which have worked for them, significantly.

You know this is true because you have either experienced it yourself or you know someone who has. It hasn’t worked for them because they have fallen for the lie that we are to depend upon human beings for miracles and cures. The Power that made the body heals the body and it happens absolutely no other way. Period.

Commonly, after only one chiropractic interference removal session, they show immediate or relatively quick improvement in relation to how long they have suffered from their manifestations.

I can sleep soundly at night knowing that I have truly helped to improve lives without doing harm. And, I will put natural chiropractic care up against any pharmaceutical or medicinal treatment, privately or publicly – anytime, anywhere, save emergency or crisis situations.

Chiropractic is that effective and that safe.

Medicine has its place in crisis and emergency care and can be and is life-saving when used knowledgably in the appropriate time, manner and situation; and, there are many good, honest and competent medical doctors in this world. In fact, when working closely with those kinds of doctors, we mutually find vast improvements in both medical amd chiropractic approaches. I welcome this kind of symbiotic relationship.

For example, a prescribed muscle relaxer may allow a person with intense pain to relax enough to receive a more effective chiropractic adjustment, while a correctly aligned spine, with the nervous system operating optimally, will allow that much-needed antibiotic to work just as it was designed to, both physiologically and chemically.

It is only when ignorance of natural and beneficent health-care methods is present that problems arise, such as telling an improving patient of chiropractic to stop treatment because it “won’t help them” or will “harm them”, while masquerading behind the old “do no harm” oath (I encourage the reader to research “Iatrogenesis”).

This is ridiculous and does them injustice, especially when the patient is in fact improving. I would never consider telling an actual surgical candidate they did not need surgery, or an actual high blood pressure patient to just stop taking their blood pressure medicine. The problem is that the actual number of truly needed surgeries or ongoing consumption of pills is much lower than would ever be admitted by the medical association. Unfortunately, there remain some medical doctors that attempt to tell my improving patients just that, which is of course, futile and untruth.

Medicine focuses on three major areas: fractures, dislocations, and tumors or disease processes. If none of these are found clinically or diagnostically, then patients are told they are “normal” even when they continue to suffer from symptoms. The medical model then proceeds to cover those symptoms with “prescriptions”, which not only do nothing to correct the problem or cure what is causing the symptoms, but actually allow the problem to continue and even worsen, sometimes irreparably, all the while causing toxic reactions or side effects. If that doesn’t work, they try to remove the symptom by cutting it out. Finally, they refer to a shrink to “manage” the patient’s pain. The human race needs to be reminded that they have a choice when it comes to their health and their life. The less invasive choices should not be dismissed or demonised or labelled “alternative”. They should simply be another choice. And, they should not be the last choice. People are free to choose, and I am simply attempting to provide them with enough information to make an informed, educated choice rather than one of blind faith alone.

Chiropractors and medical doctors should embrace a beneficent symbiotic relationship for the overall benefit and improvement of all suffering humans.

My concern as a chiropractor is to free the nervous system by aligning the bones that are likely subluxated due to trauma or multiple other causes. Even if it only decreases the symptoms, decreases the headaches, and increases range of motion and activities of daily living or quality of life, then I would consider that a success. Remember, doctors – myself included – are not gods.

Don’t forget to “Ask Your Chiropractor” every week where your questions may be published and answered in subsequent articles. Address questions to: Dr Chris Davis, the Spinal Mechanic and lead doctor, at movethebone@gmail.com; or, Dr Michael Harvey, director, at dr.michael_harvey@yahoo.com.