“YOU are just getting old. You have arthritis. You must learn to accept it and live with it.”

This is a bold-faced lie. Do not believe it, or it will manifest.

Doctors are eager to assume that an older person with pain in their spine and joints has arthritis. This is probably the most misdiagnosed or misnomered condition prevalent in society today, worldwide.

The definition of arthritis is “a disease causing painful inflammation and stifness of the joints”.

The medical dictionary states acute arthritis is marked by pain, heat redness and swelling, and some types can be caused by bacteria, rickettsia, mycoplasmas, viruses, fungi, or parasites.

In fact, the suffix “-itis” intrinsically and literally means inflammation.

Therefore, do you seriously believe and blindly accept that every single person who presents to a doctor’s office who has some age behind them and has some pain in their spine or joints is sick with an inflammatory disease, even when they have no swelling, redness, or febrile areas?

Incidentally, arthritis is not age-specific, further dispelling this myth.

You can be 60 years old and function just as well as a 20-year-old; or, you can be 10 and already be exhibiting signs of degeneration, not necessarily arthritis. There is also such a thing as juvenile arthritis. They certainly can’t tell a child that they are “just getting old”.

Degeneration is a more correct term for symptoms and X-ray findings correlating with your subjective complaints, especially when lab tests such as positive rheumatoid factor (RFD) are not present.

We are biomechanical machines and just like any other machine, we degenerate, some of us at different rates. We are designed to live in our present bodies for around 120 years (see Genesis Chapter 6 verse 3, which says a mortal’s days will be 120 years). So for someone to tell you that you are getting old at 50 or 60, it’s ludicrous.

Psychosomatic suggestions and effects are very powerful on the human mind and body — especially coming from an “authority” source such as those wearing white coats. For example, in the Western world, authority figures often tell someone that they have an incurable disease and only have six months to live. Most of those patients believe and accept that and are in fact dead in six months. In Eastern philosophies, the patient is never told such things. The family members are made aware of the fatal disease process and are encouraged to make the sick family member as comfortable and happy as possible. Those patients on average live an additional five years or even longer. Some even live out normal lives unaware in full capacity of their condition.

So, I am here to tell you that you are not old. You may or may not have arthritis, but odds are that you don’t. Odds are that you are simply degenerating at a faster rate than intended because you have lost something vital to your quality of life — your normal motion.

I say again, motion is life, and if you don’t use it, you lose it. That cannot be truer for your joints and your spinal motion segments. If those joints and segments are stuck out of position or subluxated, then not only will you have compression and interference within the nervous system, which controls every single aspect of your body and life, but you will also experience advancing degenerative joint and disc disease. If this motion is restored and maintained, then your function, range of motion and quality of life increase, probably increasing your quantity of life as well. If your motion is not restored and maintained, then you are on a downward course to demise.

The spinal cord and vertebral discs get their sustenance from a process called imbibition. The vital nutrients, vitamins and minerals are provided by a moving, fluid, pumping action. If you don’t have motion, you cease to thrive. Sharks depend upon imbibition in a very similar way. They must keep moving, or they will simply die.

The Power that made the body, heals the body. I simply remove the interference in that system so that it can function at optimal levels as intended.

So, what restores this vital motion? Pills? Potions? Lotions? Physiotherapy? Surgery? Chance? None of the above. Those methods are used for sickness care and symptom chasing.

The only thing that will restore this motion is an actual physical movement release of the stuck bone, joint, or motion segment.

In the human body, it happens naturally no other way, save moving the bone.

That is what I do. I am a mechanic for your spine and body. I detect, and correct your improperly functioning joints and motion segments, and realign your spine taking pressure off the nerves and restoring natural motion, allowing you to move and your body to heal itself. I do not, however, believe or promote that I can replace your parts with new ones. That is why surgery is very unsuccessful. We were blessed with the gift of this life in this body. It is up to us to properly maintain this body for as long as we use it.

Let’s face it. There is no other practitioner in existence that is specifically and skilfully trained to do only this one thing of restoring motion and alignment to the human spine. Contact your doctor of chiropractic today and experience the joy of chiropractic health care for yourself. You deserve it and you have been deprived of it for too long. Give me the chance to prove to you that you can feel and move like a much younger person for the rest of your life.

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.