{"id":931,"date":"2015-07-15T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/sfcwordpress\/?page_id=931"},"modified":"2015-08-09T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T21:57:21","slug":"chiropractic-is-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/articles-and-information\/chiropractic-is-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiropractic is Dangerous??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/articles-and-information\/\">Click Here to Return to Articles and Information<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><b>Chiropractic? \u00a0Dangerous?<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>How many times have I heard, \u201cI\u2019m afraid to get adjusted.\u201d\u00a0\u201cChiropractic scares me.\u201d\u00a0You should be much more afraid of NOT getting chiropractic care.\u00a0If you become sick, here are some important statistics to be aware of.\u00a0You need to be afraid of ever taking medication or, worse yet, landing in a hospital.<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>12,000 deaths\/year from unnecessary surgery.<\/li>\n<li>7,000 deaths\/year from medication errors in hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>20,000 deaths\/year from other errors in hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>80,000 deaths\/year from nosocomial infections in hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>106,000 deaths\/year from <u>nonerror<\/u>, adverse effects of medications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you imagine, 106,000 people die every year because they took a medication which the entire medical community agrees was correct and proper for their condition?\u00a0And that\u2019s only one of the causes.\u00a0These statistics were taken from an article entitled \u201cIs US Health Really the Best in the World?\u201d which appeared in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) on July 26, 2000 \u2013 Vol. 284, No. 4.\u00a0If you add these numbers up, the total is 225,000.\u00a0Over 200,000 people per year die unnecessarily.\u00a0This is the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer.\u00a0To put that in perspective, the U.S. was involved in Vietnam for just about ten years.\u00a0Over the course of those ten years, about 55,000 service people, mostly young men, gave their lives.\u00a0That was, and still is, an atrocity.\u00a055,000 young people\u2019s lives cut short.\u00a0But it occurred over a ten year period.\u00a0That equates to 5,500 lives lost per year.\u00a0How does that atrocity stack up to the Hospital\/medication atrocity?\u00a0Over 100,000 people die every year from properly prescribed medication.\u00a0That\u2019s almost twenty times the number of people who were killed in Vietnam every year.<\/p>\n<p>Our nation became outraged with sending our loved ones to Vietnam to risk their lives.\u00a0I ask you:\u00a0where is the outrage over sending our loved ones into a hospital, only to lose their life?<\/p>\n<p>The problem is not insurance.\u00a0The problem is not doctors that don\u2019t care (the largest percentage of them most certainly do care). The problem is the fact that we, as a nation, are insane.\u00a0A definition of insanity is \u201cdoing the same thing and expecting different results.\u201d\u00a0We, as a nation, believe that by doing more of the same old thing we can accomplish different results.\u00a0By throwing more money at the problem, the problem will get better.\u00a0We already spend more per person on supposed health care than almost any other nation on earth. So why do we rank 12<sup>th<\/sup> of 13 nations in a study using 16 health indicators such as birth weight, infant mortality and life expectancy at various ages?\u00a0Twelfth, that\u2019s next to the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not for a lack of money. It\u2019s not a lack of doctors or hospitals, or the availability of\u00a0medication.\u00a0They are all available in great quantity.\u00a0So why then is our health and our health rating\u00a0so abysmal?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s because of how we look at things.\u00a0We spend literally billions of dollars attacking disease.\u00a0Yet we spend almost nothing promoting health.\u00a0We pay a lot of lip service to health, but in reality, we do almost nothing to actually enhance the health potential of our own bodies.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a different result, do something different.\u00a0Stop living in fear of disease.\u00a0Stop waiting for disease.\u00a0Start promoting health.\u00a0What are you doing to ensure that your health is maximized?\u00a0What are you doing to allow your body to actually heal itself from within, the way it is supposed to.\u00a0As opposed to waiting for disease, then combating the disease with dangerous medication and surgery.\u00a0If you promote health by promoting normal, proper function, disease does not occur in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what chiropractic has excelled at for the past 108 years.\u00a0Not attacking disease, but promoting health.\u00a0Not doing something from the outside in, by attempting to force the body to do or not to do something through the use of foreign substances, i.e. medication. But by releasing your innate power to heal, your body\u2019s own power to stay healthy, chiropractic helps you to heal yourself.\u00a0You see, health is already within you, healing is already within you.\u00a0Unfortunately, your expression of that health is blocked; therefore, your health and healing ability are less than what they should be.\u00a0That is why you are sick.\u00a0That is why drugs don\u2019t make you healthy; because they do not increase your healing, they only diminish your symptoms.\u00a0Medication does not enhance function or cause healing or create health.\u00a0Drugs can only subdue symptoms.\u00a0Chiropractic, on the other hand, releases the innate or inborn potential and ability of your body to heal, no matter what disease you may have.\u00a0It also maximizes that innate ability in healthy folks, so as to prevent disease from ever occurring.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing chiropractic is dangerous to are the folks who want you to stay sick so that they can continue to sell you more and more medication.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please call Dr. Gary Stewart of Stewart Family Chiropractic at (973) 835-5773.\u00a0His office is located at 43 Newark Pompton Turnpike in Riverdale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/articles-and-information\/\">Click Here to Return to Articles and Information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click Here to Return to Articles and Information Chiropractic? \u00a0Dangerous? How many times have I heard, \u201cI\u2019m afraid to get adjusted.\u201d\u00a0\u201cChiropractic scares me.\u201d\u00a0You should be much more afraid of NOT getting chiropractic care.\u00a0If you become sick, here are some important statistics to be aware of.\u00a0You need to be afraid of ever taking medication or, worse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/articles-and-information\/chiropractic-is-dangerous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chiropractic is Dangerous??<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-931","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/931\/revisions\/1227"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stewartfamilychiro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}