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A New Approach to Your Family's Health

Are you suffering from pain, sickness and/or a disease? Upper Cervical Care may be your answer!

As we step back to look at the current health condition of America, we are in a sad and scary place. As time and technology move forward, our healthcare seems to be running the opposite direction.

In the U.S., we have the latest technological advances, the brightest doctors, the biggest hospitals and the most resources for access to healthcare. However, our society continues to plummet in health. We are currently the sickest species to ever live on Earth. As compared to other industrialized nations, America repeatedly ranks near the bottom of the barrel when it comes to our state of health.

We have the highest rate of chronic disease, highest consumption of pharmaceutical drugs (The US makes up 5 percent of the world’s population, yet we consume 70-80 percent of the worlds drugs), the highest infant mortality rates, and we spend more on healthcare than any other nation in the world (Over $2 Trillion per year). It is known that cancer and heart disease are the top two disease killers in America. What is sad about this is that both of these conditions are 100 percent preventable. They are not genetic, they are hereditary, and they are caused solely by the lifestyle we choose to lead.

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What is even more alarming, the number one cause of death in our country is iatrogenic disease. Iatra- meaning doctor, and –genic meaning to produce. So our very own medical system is the leading cause of death in America!! It is not that we have bad doctors and nurses, or that anyone is out hurt anyone. The problem lies in the paradigm and system within which they work. A system based on disease management, drug therapies, ineffective and unnecessary surgeries, and health decisions being made by money hungry insurance companies and politicians, has led us down a road of pain, sickness, disease, and death. Something has got to give. We spend more and more on healthcare, yet we continue to get sicker and sicker. There has to be another way, a better way. Well there is! And it is called Upper Cervical health care! 

As an Upper Cervical doctor, I look at the body as whole, not as parts or individual systems. We know that everything single cell, organ and tissue is connected in one way or another. If one system is not functioning at 100 percent, some other part of the body will malfunction as well. We focus on creating health within the body; instead of treating disease from the outside-in.

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Science tells us that if the body and immune system are operating at full capacity, the body cannot fall into a disease state. Our lifestyles tend to be deficient in the resources we need to create health. How we eat, move, think and function will ultimately determine how we adapt and thrive in our environment. In Upper Cervical, we focus on a part of the nerve system called the brainstem. The brainstem is unique in that it controls and coordinates all function and healing in the body. When it is not operating at 100 percent, then the body will grow into pain, sickness, and disease. A condition known as an upper cervical subluxation can literally shut down the brainstem, causing the body to grow ill. Upper Cervical Doctors perform an in depth neurological evaluation to see if subluxation is present. If subluxation is found, then we perform a scientific procedure to correct the subluxation, thus allowing the body to grow well.

Due to our focus on brainstem health and our whole body approach, we are able to help our patients get well, and more importantly stay well, from conditions such as high blood pressure, multiple sclerosis, migraines, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, ear infections, asthma, allergies, vertigo, and the list goes on.

If you, or someone you know, are suffering from pain, illness or a disease, seek out an Upper Cervical Doctor near you. This may be the answer you have been looking for!!

In Health,

Dr. Adam Tedder

Upper Cervical Specialist

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