Thursday, 18 October 2012

Monday, 15 October 2012

Priciples of Posture or Harmonizing with Gravity's Pull


Principles of Posture
or
Harmonizing With Gravity's Pull

 Long ago and far away, a fourth-grade teacher told a student to "stand up straight - you look like a pretzel". The unthinking adult only offered criticism. The child was left to try to un-kink himself in the ways that probably caused more structural damage.

Most of us think good posture involves thrusting out the chest and pulling back the shoulders. Informing a person that he needs to improve his posture usually results in a sudden, robot-like increase in stature, the person stiffly incorporating most or all of these muscular stresses.

 As a direct result of our weak relationship to sound concepts of what good posture actually is, most people have protruding stomachs, slumped shoulders, and necks that protrude far in front of their body's center. Aside from perpetually unattractive aesthetics, such chronically inefficient posture places ongoing strain on back and neck muscles. Poor posture interferes with normal functioning of your heart and lungs. Metabolic processes deteriorate owing to lack of normal oxygen supply. Poor posture not only leads to musculoskeletal problems like chronic back and neck pain, but also is implicated in gastrointestinal and endocrine diseases and many other disorders.

 The welcome news is that achieving good posture is not that difficult. Work is required, of course, as well as consistent attention. But the work is not hard - it is merely new and different, for most of us. As we can guess, the key element in good posture is a straight spine. Importantly, straight doesn’t mean rigid.

The main consideration here is how to get your spine straight without tightening all your muscles and holding your breath.  The solution requires a little imagination. Picture in your mind a string dangling from the sky and attaching it to your sternum - your breastbone. You can name this image “hitching your sternum to a star”. You dangle from the string like a puppet.

Also, you imagine that the string is supporting all your weight. As a result, your chest lifts up easily and your spine straightens naturally and smoothly.

Another piece to the posture puzzle is to allow your shoulder girdles to rest on your rib cage. You don’t have to press your shoulders down to do this - just don’t hold them up. Most of us unconsciously tighten our neck and shoulder girdle muscles all day long. By starting to be conscious of what’s going on, we can start letting go of tight shoulder girdle muscles. The shoulders will then gently descend and come to rest on top of the rib cage, where they belong.

By paying attention to these basic postural corrections, over time we can develop a posture that is fluid and efficient. We will appear taller, comfortably reaching our full height with grace and ease. Tension and anxiety begin to reduce and we sleep more restfully at night. Good posture is good health. Always remember that the spinal river of life must be free to move and transmit millions of signals to keep everything in health.  Posture is truly underrated!

Monday, 20 August 2012

The Chiropractic Meaning of Life!
...by Bob Pike D.C.

There is a distinct Chiropractic view of Life.  We believe that health is much more than just how one feels; it’s how we function and express ourselves! Health is that state in which Life can express freely from inside-out. Life's nerve force impulses hold 100% of our human potential living within our Innate spirituality. We are fully alive when our cells tissues, organs, and systems are functioning to their full capacity as we let love radiate without concern for results.
There is an inborn intelligence in all living things that naturally gives us Its instincts and attributes.  With these we survive, thrive, and adapt in this ever-changing world. The expression of this inborn intelligence through our nerve system allows our body to perform at 100%. This is the Chiropractic meaning of life. Any attempt I make to describe the depth of this idea will fall short. So I've decided to use this video to help us get into the zone. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU&feature=edu&list=PL70DEC2B0568B5469

This life we live is possible through expression of this intelligence through the body. The quality of your life is indeed directly proportional to the ability of your nervous system to express this intelligence into the body's cells and systems without neurological interference to compromise its flow. We call these common disturbances spinal subluxation
How well is your nervous system performing? Vitallistic Chiropractic removes interference and disturbances in the nervous system, allowing you to express yourself to your fullest potential. This is the primary purpose of each adjustment. The concept of 'potential' is abstract. If we are going to awaken to our own possibilities in this sense, this video will help convince you of your body's awesome potential...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyljukBE70

Chiropractic has always been and always will be about the expression of optimum health and wellness. Chiropractic is a science and life centred philosophy. Both are applied through an art which has never been about treating or relieving symptoms like back and neck pain. Wellness Chiropractic is a lifestyle choice that allows internal well-being to surge from our cells.  It enhances quality of life, and individual performance at every level. Have your family checked for interference to their nervous system today.

Until the end of October we are offering free health scans (HRV) on our new Pulse Wave Profiler!  This instrument measures neural performance and gives two number values that tell you about how much energy you have in reserve and also how well you are adapting to life. This important insight will inspire and motivate you to be the best you can be. Give us a call or drop into the website  http://www.pikechiropractic.com  to book your experience of the Heart Rate Variability score. 


Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Why Does Regular Chiropractic Care Pay Off Like a Homerun?

Why Does Regular Chiropractic
Care Pay Off Like a Home Run?

This year it is my privilege to sponsor the Georgina Ladies Fun Baseball League. Over the years of my chiropractic practice in Georgina I have shared my passion for what I do with each of my teams. It is a great way to change lives as I make my contribution to our community.

In this brief article I’m going to address one of the biggest obstacles that prevents many people from experiencing chiropractic and its benefits in their lives. I have a saying that applies here...”If people knew what I knew; they would do what I do”. The biggest piece of this is that chiropractic philosophy is misunderstood. The main premise of our profession is that the body is designed to be self-healing, if given the chance.

How is this possible? The central nervous system is your body’s master operating system. Think of this as the brain-body connection. The science of this is that everything you are doing all day every day is being experienced through and because of your nervous system. Your brain is designed by Life to regulate all of your organs. You use this system to process the emotion of a sunset... Do you see that this is true? Good! The only way the brain can send and receive energy and information is your spinal chord. How important is it that this spinal system is functioning properly so that 100% of these life-messages are transmitted? Are you with me?

The art of what I do as a chiropractor specializing in health and wellness is to use sensitive scanners and my own system of muscle testing to detect disturbances in your spinal pathways that chiropractors call Subluxation. The purpose of a specific chiropractic adjustment is to remove subluxation disturbances in the nervous system. This process of having the spine checked begins with pregnant moms, newborns and continues on a regular basis throughout life. The body is self-healing, self-regulating and self-organizing if given the opportunity.

If you have been enlightened about chiropractic health care by this article, I have a gift to offer you. I’d like to remove all of the barriers that may have preventing you from experiencing the awesome benefits of spinal health. If you take action before August 17th by contacting Pike Chiropractic Healing Centre you are eligible for a health consultation and initial assessment with me for only $55.00 - a 50% savings! I look forward to helping you to change your life for the better.

Yours for health,

Dr. Bob Pike
ps: We have decided to extend this offer to your family and friends too because you are special!

Monday, 2 April 2012

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE by B.J. Palmer, Developer of Chiropractic 1949

The difference between the great, the near great or commoner, is in the limitations of matter -- not in any limitations of the Innate producer within them.
And what limits matter?
The vertebral subluxation -- itself a limitation of matter--which occludes an opening
     producing pressure upon a nerve
     reducing the supply of the producer to the product
     limiting the action of the priduct to repriduce the producer
If there were no vertebral subluxation
     --no occlusion of any vertebral foramina
     --no pressure upon nerves
     --no reduction of supply between producer and product
     --no limitation of product to repreduce the poducer
all men would be equal in producer and product.
    That which scales human beings is their physical inability to climb to the heights of the Innate producer within them
    For this reason the slient and vital factor of human production is entirely wrapped up in the supreme importance of the vertebral subluxation.
   To adjust the subluxation, then, is to advance mankind, step up his efficiency, increase his ability, make him more natural and more at peace within himself; for all things are possible to him whose body equals his Innate.
   Men themselves are not great.  Men are great only insofar as they do something which is construed as great by other men.
   Why are there so few great and near great and so many so far removed from doing great things?
   They are down he ladder of accomplishment on the various rungs of the ladder, somewhere between the top and bottom.
   There is on fundamental answer, subject to two classifications:
   1st.  If there were 100 per cent continuous, uninterupted flow beween Innate brain and Educated brain, the educated thoughts and action would be equivalent to the thoughts and actions of Innate itself.
   There are few.
   There are few 100 per cent, fully alive, healthy and sane educations.
   In exact ratio as they are up the ladder, they are more nearly 100 per cent alive,
healthy and sane.
   In exact ratio as they are seen the ladder below 100 per cent, they are
dying, unhealthy, and insane, and to that exttent they are not great or near-great.
   Innate cannot produce a great 100 per cent external product, via education in a
less that 100 per cent sick or insane education.  Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally, to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.
   Innate cannot do when there is a vertebral subluxation between Innate and Educated brains which interferes with the 100 per cent normal quantity and quality flow.
   2nd.  In exact ratio as the vertebral subluxation interferes with the normal 100 per cent flow between Innate and Educated, to that extent Innate takes the value of education.
    As the verbebral subluxation creates an insane and unnatural value on education, to that extent the sane and natural becomes unreal --"uneducated."

The above article - written by Dr. B.J. Palmer Developer of the Chiropractic Profession was extracted from the 1949 Volume XXII of his Green Book Series. This piece demonstrates the profound depth of his contemplation of the Big Idea at the heart of this model of health care.  The Innate philosophy is the foundational principle and premise upon which the chiropractic profession is founded. If vertebral subluxation is this devastating in Dr. Palmer's expert opinion, as a dedicated researcher,  master communicator and midwife to the birth of the chiropractic profession, certainly it is time the world was introduced to his perspective. If you find yourself interested to know more or perhaps even to experience the reality of these words, please call Pike Chiropractic to let us know that you are ready to embody and be as great as the potential flowing through your living body

Sunday, 18 March 2012

The Formula: Time+Repetition=Result

Thanks for visiting Lifeforce5.
We have big problems in our culture. But there is a way out. The first thing to admit is that our cultural values are weak. Not that we don't have any...is just that we don't focus on them. To life them fully we must begin to live each day with an 'end in mind'.

Before we can experience what if feels like to live full out, we must declare what our values are and set a plan to make them real. This plan will happen over time, involve repetition and lead to where we intended to go. 'Start with the end in mind' is the concept. This end must be specific, measurable and connected to our vision of our ideal life.

As mentioned above the formula of success is TIME/REPETITION = OUTCOME. We will be discussing this principle in relation to health and wellness each week at Pike Chiropractic during Monday Night Live at 7:15pm at 204 Simcoe Ave. Unit 10.

If you want to know the formula call 905.476.6475 to register

Friday, 9 March 2012

CHILD ON DEATHBED...MEET CHIROPRACTIC...*A MUST READ*

CHILD ON DEATH BED......MEET CHIROPRACTIC...*A MUST READ*

 Welcome to Lifeforce5 Blog by Dr. Bob Pike a chiropractic specialist in Keswick Ontario. Please understand that this is an actual case demonstrating the power of the human body to recover its function while under the care of a chiropractor specialist trained to detect and remove disturbances of the nerve system call SUBLUXATION.
Thank you for taking the time to visit and read this account of self-healing by Lennox, an infant under the care of a chiropractor after having been medicated and declared a medical emergence and potential surgery candidate by his medical providers.
Following the introduction are comments by the provider and several colleague D.C.s...
Let me introduce you to W.A.S. This is Lennox, born at 24 weeks--birth weight 2lb1oz. Due to being a preme, Lennox spent a majority of the first year of his life in the hospital. His parents were told numerous times--he would not make it. (FAST FORWARD) Lennox is now 17months old and is home. His mom (who is a nurse) is now unable to work as Lennox requires much personal care, she is required to cathederize her son daily and do rectal stretching daily to ensure his bowels continue working, he is on 9 different meds and at his last appt. w/the nephrologist, was told his kidneys were beginning to only function at 40%...and that he may need a kidney transplant soon. He doesn't crawl, let anyone touch him other than his mom. When she puts him down, he lays on his back and pushes off his right side so much that all of the hair on his left side has worn off d/t rubbing on the floor. Five weeks ago, Lennox's lungs both collapsed and he was taken to Iowa City He has been seeing a PT since birth and local Area 7 people come to their house to check on him and do exercises.
(FAST FORWARD) 4 weeks ago, my wife who is facebook friends w/Abby sent her a message saying 'Abby, I don't know your feelings on Chiropractic, but all healing comes from within and that if his nerve system isn't working right......he may not be healing right. Dusty sees a lot of kids and would like to see Lennox and see if there is something he can do.' Abby sent a message back saying 'we don't know what else to do and will try anything at this point.' I called and talked w/her and explained chiropractic and what we should do. (to say I was scared was an understatement, she was bringing him in to me--as a last resort---*no pressure;)*---I reached out to some of my Chiro. brothas and sistas---Monika Buerger and Michael Thompson to get their input on preme's etc....and it all came down to one thing ....adjust the spine.
Lennox and Abby came in on 8/27/10 the following day (I was a sweating machine and very nervous---I had seen hundreds of kids before w/no probs., but this one was different....I was his last resort) , Lennox screamed a sceam like I had never heard. He wouldn't lay on his stomach, and when we tried, he would scream and was unable to lift his head also wouldn't allow a sub-scan as he also has hypersentivity issues (technology is good, but you must also trust your hands). Knowing his next neurology/nephrology/gastrology etc. appts. were on 9/27/10 I told Abby 'I will check him every day until his appt. in Iowa City for his Medical check-ups, then we will go from there.' They came in every day. After the first week, Abby noted " I don't know if this is a coincidence or not, but Lennox is starting to have more energy and starting to smile more often....he's also kissing more." She also told me she wanted to discuss something w/me. She opened her bag and brought out his catheder and rectal stretching device that looked like a 7 inch galvanized steel pencil that she had to insert 3/4 of the way up his rectum.....she began to tear up as she said 'If anything happens to me I want to make sure you know how to do this so that Lennox can keep getting better." I stopped her and said, "I don't know how to do any of that stuff....you take care of you so that nothing happens to you and I'll work w/Lennox's body so he can get better--deal?"--I then explained Chirpractic in more detail. As she left, I walked directly into my office and cried.....my CA came in asking if everything was OK? I said, 'No one should have to go through that with their child----catederizing, rectal stretching, feeding tube, not being able to be away from her son for more than 30min. for 17min. Why did God bring this little man into my life.' *here is why............
WEEK 2....Abby came in and said that Lennox's PT people want to know what she was doing different as Lennox was beginning to do more things than he ever has. ;)
WEEK 3....Abby shoots me and email asking if it would be alright if Lennox's Area 7 people can come and watch what we are doing, as they have never seen a child that was in Lennox's condition grow and be able to do what he is doing so quickly....;)
WEEK 4....Abby has now sheduled her daughter McKenna in who HAD been dealing w/bed wetting but since her first adjustment has wet the bed only once.:) Abby is in the process of scheduling herself and her hubby for an exam and wanting to pre-pay for the year.....before I have done an exam or gone over results ;)
Day of LENNOX'S Nephro, Medi, GastroAPPT: The day of his Iowa City check-up...My CA and I were anxious to see the little man and hear results. We knew they were scheduled for the afternoon, but also knew that Abby always posted updates on facebook of how his check-ups went. The day went on...no facebook posts, we were getting worried--something bad? An hour before her appt. Abby called and talked to Lizzy (my CA)......Lizzy hung up the phone and just smiled---"you're going to like the news"......When Abby, her mom and Lennox showed up they were almost in tears......'the doctors have never seen that much of a change....they expected to see scaring on his kidneys...there was none...they were working perfectly. Every single test they did--he scored out on and that he no longer needed to be cathederized.' Abby said that when the Doctor asked what's going on---she said 'The only thing that we have changed is that we are taking him to chiroprator.' ;):):):):):)
Later that night I went home and was checking my facebook and saw that Abby had posted something about Lennox's results. 'normal size kidneys, no scaring etc' 5 people followed w/posts of 'GREAT news' etc., then Abby followed with '.....also when Dr. Myer was surprised by the results, I said the only thing that has turned Lennox around.....the only that that is new in our lives...is Dusty Behn at Inspired Living....That I truly believe has changed Lennox's life and turned it around." a few more people posted some 'awesome! Great news etc.' Then someone else posted a 'Our son has been on acid reflux pills since he was 2 and has migranes twice a week!! Since going to Dr. Behn he's stopped his meds and not had one migraine' (I didn't even know that;)
I tell this story....first, because I'm freaking STOKED!! but secondly....NEVER doubt the power of your two hands and the impact they can have on someone---IF the intent is present. We sometimes get used to seeing people 3x, 2x 1x per week and it just becomes same old, same old. What Lennox taught me and/or reminded me of is that with EVERY adjustment there is a miracle occuring, some may be highlighted more as in Lennox's case, but EVERY time we lay our hands on someone or have an interaction w/someone.....miracles ARE happening........TRUST THAT, AND ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT things happen for a reason.
I am SO excited that my new CA was there to witness that entire transformation, she now has an entirely diff. belief in what we do and the power that it can have.
W.A.S.? Lives are at stake!!!! INspired--DustIN
 This is such a lesson - not only for our clients, our detractors and the sceptics, but for us a doctors. It addresses directly, the power of INnate. It cares little for our educated mind, which seems to dummy us down from being connected to Universal Intel. It's like believing or not believing in Gravity -- it doesn't care if we do or don't; it exists.

You cannot talk a baby into believing that chiropractic works any more than you can convince an animal that it does -- there is no spoken language that can communicate this to them. But humans as infants, pre-verbal, pre-prejudiced by experience, etc., has no such limitations of belief because they have yet to define them (thank God).

All that can be said really is "Wow!"

You would hope that if offered to 20/20, 60 Minutes, Dateline.... that SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE in that mix would ask, "So... what's up with that?" SO look... If you've got a flip vid, maybe you could do your own documentary - interview those docs, nurses, moms, dads... it could be huge... HUGE I tell you. Why not? Why not make a film?

Why couldn't we all do something to make it happen??? People love movies/documentaries especially if they are "controversial" . We are in a time when more film - based on true stories - is being gobbled up by the public more than ever before and producers know that. So if any of us have ties to industry connections, this could a moment of opportunity for the profession like never before. Any takers
Love it! no better example of why chiropractic is so powerful and why we all love what we do. Restoring life to families!
 
AWESOME!!! Thrilled for Lennox and his family.

Stories like yours ground all of us in the power of Chiropractic...by removing nervous system disturbance, we allow innate to be fully expressed. It's beautiful!!!
 
Beautiful. Thanks again, Dustin, for reminding us of the why (life) behind the what (chiropractic). The world needs more of these stories
 
Lennox Update:
Week 6: Lennox is now able to sit for extended periods of time (has never been able to do that), he is now able to be on all fours while holding his own head up.....his mom said this past weekend that he is starting to *scoot* on all fours, however when he wants to get somewhere fast he still lays on his back and pushes off with one leg and *cruises* on his back...(but he is FINALLY starting to cross crawl!!!;)
Special Note: Area 7 has scheduled an appt. with me to observe Lennox being adjusted next Wed. to find out what we are doing to get the changes he has gotten so quickly. (cant wait to see their face when I use my pinky to his atlas, integrator to sacrum and done....less than 30sec.----and hear them say....*thats it?*) ---POWER ON!! How long does it take to flick a light switch on?;)---who else do you know?
Other Special Note: Abby (Lennoxs mom) is now getting adjusted.....to find out in her consult that she has been taking 2....let me repeat 2 Ambien every night since Lennox has been born (now 18months) to sleep d/t her worries w/Lennox. Since getting adjusted (3times) she is sleeping more sound w/out the meds;)
Note: Abbys sister--Annette prepaid to begin her daughter under care as she has *focus problems* in school;)
Abbys other sister scheduled an appt for tomorrow to see *what all the buzz is about*

Side Note: We have a meeting w/the little kids wrestling program--called the *IronHawks* to become their *Performance Coach* They have 70 little wrestlers ages 7-13 (could be a HUGE impact) Im looking into adjusting those interested and donating a portion of that fee back into their program, setting up workshops w/the participants and their parents discussing nutrition, goal setting, leadership topics and creating a legacy......Things they should learn in school but dont. Let the INspiration continue..........things are looking up in Jesup, IA.
 
Note to my community of "what if" readers...What if the body is actually capable of  healing and balancing itself when the spine is healthy and the nerve system is undisturbed as Lennox's case demonstrates? What if because this simple fact is missing from the current 'medical health care' model, untold suffering is amplified and lives comprimised. What can you do? In my opinion, you can call my office and arrange to have me come to your workplace to teach and demonstrate the science, art and philosophy of chiropractic adjustment. One more thing you can do is make an appointment to come and have your own nerve system scanned an learn what's up with it for youself; rather than the status quo method in pur sick care system - wait for a sign, symtom or a health crisis to show up. I invite you to WAKE UP to the body's ability to self heal. Stay tuned for more and thanks for visiting LIFEFORCE 5 today.
 
Dr. Bob Pike
Director Pike Chiropractic Healing Centre