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FEBRUARY 2026

 

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Happy February!

February is the month of love! Advertising and Hallmark remind us that Valentine's Day is right around the corner. The ads focus on the gifts that you will be giving to your loved ones. I would invite you to give yourself a gift as well.


You see, you cannot continue to prioritize others at the expense of yourself. It is necessary to take care of yourself so that you can be there for your family, friends, and loved ones. You are instructed to use the oxygen mask first before putting it on your child.


Some of you made New Year's resolutions. Some have started eating better. Some are exercising more regularly. Some have returned to chiropractic and are getting your spine's checked after taking some time off. Here's the thing...whether you are eating well, exercising, or sleeping more - your body functions at its best when free of nerve interference.


Making yourself a priority is a must. Getting checked and adjusted on a regular basis is vital to your existence. Love yourself so that you can love others.


See you on your next visit.



Dr. Daria

Dr. Joe


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No cell coverage?

 

Ever have this experience?


You're driving down the highway having a great conversation with your better half (on speaker phone, of course) and you pass through an area with less than optimal cell coverage and discover your brand new $1,000 smart phone drops calls because the signal is being interfered with and it can't communicate with the closest cell tower. That can be really annoying. But are you aware of the more serious dropped calls occurring in your body right now because the communication from your brain is being interfered with and cannot adequately communicate with your body?

 

Imagine if your brain was in the middle of telling your heart to “keep beating” and your nerves dropped the call. Or your immune cells were desperately calling in a request for a higher fever to fight a persistent infection… and your nerves dropped that call too. The negative effects on your health could be devastating. When spinal bones misalign, they interfere with the proper communication between your brain and your body. Chiropractors call these interferences / “dropped calls” Vertebral Subluxations.

 

A few “dropped” nerve calls (Subluxations) may sometimes result in numbness, tingling, pain, or other more serious health issues. Or, in most cases, subluxations cause NO SYMPTOMS at all! That is because only 10% of the nerves in your spine are sensory - meaning they feel hot, cold, pain, pressure, etc. If proper communication between your brain and body are not restored promptly, your body's ability to function properly will continue to decline.

 

That's why it's so important to keep regular with your chiropractic care so the communication between your brain and body is at full strength all the time.


Remember, if your new iPhone drops a call, it's just an inconvenience. When your nerve system does it, it's a potential crisis.


thanks to Stamatis Tsamoutalidis, DC for this article

 

How much do you know about Chiropractic?

We have found that the more you know about something, the more benefit it becomes to you. Would you agree with that?


When we first got smart phones, we literally didn’t know how to turn it on much less use it. But the more we read about it, the more we learned, we began to be able to:


  • connect to the internet
  • use a spreadsheet
  • send e-mails
  • listen to music
  • use a word processor
  • and much more.


The more we found out about this smart phone, the more valuable and useful it became to me.


The same is true about chiropractic.


Most people get about 5% of the optimal value from their chiropractic because that is about all they know of it. Most people go to chiropractors with an ache or a pain or some other problem much like you came in with. Those that only go for these reasons are only seeing that small 5% value and benefit. Unfortunately, anyone ONLY going for those reasons will be missing out on the other 95% of what chiropractic has to offer. This office is all about the other 95%. If someone gave you a choice that you could have 5% of something or 95% of something, which would you take? RIGHT! And by the way, I’ve yet to have someone tell me they only want the 5%! Everyone like yourself chooses the 95%. I know one thing, that if I am laying out my hard earned money for something I want to know that I am getting THE MOST that I can from that particular thing. Chiropractic is no exception. That’s why in this office, we are totally dedicated to making sure that you receive the MOST value from your chiropractic care


In order to understand about chiropractic and this other 95% we are talking about, you need to understand a little bit about how your body works.


Your body is designed with an inborn ability to maintain itself in a state of proper function. A newborn baby may seem small, fragile and helpless, but within that body is the ability to make food into living tissue, to heal cuts and bruises, to adapt to changes in the environment, to produce the chemicals necessary to perform every bodily function, to fight off invading organisms, to live as much as 100 or more years. In short, to lead a healthy, productive life. In chiropractic, we call this ability Innate Intelligence.


The brain and nerve system are the primary tools by which we attain proper function, what we commonly call health. Every organ, gland and cell in the body depends upon messages carried to and from the brain in order to function in a coordinated manner so that each part can benefit the whole of the body producing a full and abundant life.


Interference in the nerve system reduces the body’s ability to function in a coordinated manner. While a corpse has a brain and nerve system, it does not have life, there is no power or energy flowing over the nerve system. Similarly, a paralyzed person has lost function due to injury to the nerve system. Even slight damage to the delicate and vital nerve system can reduce the body’s ability to function at its fullest potential.


A spinal misalignment that interferes with the nerve system (called a vertebral subluxation) creates a reduction in coordinated function. Slight misalignments of the bones of the spine caused by everyday, common activities can interfere with the ability of the nerve system to carry messages that are necessary for the successful accomplishment of those everyday activities, not the least of which is the attainment of maximum health. Vertebral subluxations interfere with the full expression of ALL their potentials, not just the potential for health.


Chiropractors correct vertebral subluxations. The single objective of the chiropractor is to locate and correct vertebral subluxation in adults and children so that families and entire communities are able to express life at a higher level.


If you and your family are not seeing a chiropractor regularly, you are not doing all you could for your life and health.


Chiropractic Absolutes


Vertebral subluxation always causes the body to work at less than 100%. You cannot ever reach your full potential in life without regular chiropractic care. Since no other health care professionals address vertebral subluxations, there are no alternatives to chiropractic care. And Chiropractic is never an approach to treating disease. The innate intelligence of the body can always run it better than the finite educated mind.


The practice of chiropractic in THIS office allows the wisdom of your body (ii) to be more fully expressed across the full spectrum of human potentials and does not include and is not represented to include any diagnosis, treatment, cure or prevention of any mental, physical or emotional disorder of any kind, or the rendering of any opinion about the same.


Taken from and inspired by one of our mentors, Reggie Gold, and Tom Gregory, DC

 

A dime's worth of damage

The weight of a dime, 8-10 mm of Mercury, that's all it takes to drain normal nerve transmission to a trickle. Stretching a nerve by as little as 6% can also decrease its signal strength by 70%. So what does that mean for you?


Your Nerve System transmits the data of Life. Depending on role, thickness and sheath covering, some nerves can relay information from your brain to your body at speeds exceeding 200 mph. If those impulses are communicating vital instructions like “how many times your heart needs to beat” or “how should your immune system respond to a cancerous lesion,” you want those messages traveling at the highest speeds - with NO interference. If those signals get blocked at the spinal level because of misaligned vertebrae (subluxations), damage to your health becomes eminent.


Sustained pressure and stretch on spinal nerves may not manifest symptoms immediately. Detrimental effects usually grow silently until a crisis occurs. That's why it's important to keep your spine in proper alignment wit Chiropractic care - so your good health doesn't stop on a dime!

 

The butterfly struggles

butterfly

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.


One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.


Until it suddenly stopped making any progress and looked like it was stuck.


So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, although it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.


The man didn’t think anything of it and sat there waiting for the wings to enlarge to support the butterfly. But that didn’t happen. The butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly, crawling around with tiny wings and a swollen body.


Despite the kind heart of the man, he didn’t understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the butterfly to get itself through the small opening; were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings. To prepare itself for flying once it was out of the cocoon.


Moral of the story:

Our struggles in life develop our strengths. Without struggles, we never grow and never get stronger, so it’s important for us to tackle challenges on our own, and not be relying on help from others.

 

Today's quote

“The distance between who I am and who I want to be is only separated by what I do!”


-John Maxwell


 

Happy Valentine's Day

 

Thank you for your referrals

We would like to thank all of you who have referred friends and family members to our office for care recently. We look forward to serving both them, and you, in the future.


Rest assured, we will do all that we can to honor the trust you've place in us.


See you on your next visit.

 

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