New Beginnings Optimal Health has been fortunate to have an affiliation with some of the finest chiropractors around. We recommend and encourage you to patronize some of our affiliates.

In the Manhattan and Queens (New York), New Jersey, and Nevada area, please visit www.maxhealthonline.com.

In the Copiague Long Island area, please contact Family Wellness at 631-956-3080.

In the Kansas City area, please visit www.shawnaevans.com.

In Colorado, please visit www.lthaw.com.


Chiropractic Information
From Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, and Galen, the Prince of Physicians, to the 19th Century bone setters of the British Isles, many individuals throughout history have recognized the importance of the spine and nervous system as they relate to the health of the individual. The wisdom of this concept is even more compelling as our society becomes more dependent on drugs or surgery for treatment of health problems. However, in the broad tapestry of health care, the golden thread of manipulation weaves its way throughout.

With increased knowledge has also come a greater appreciation for natural, conservative methods as viable alternatives for many human ailments. Doctors of chiropractic have been recognized as providing exceptional care for back pain, headaches, and other spinal related disorders.

Chiropractic care seeks to restore normal physiologic function and thereby help to improve the heath of the individual. Counseling patients in areas such as nutrition, proper exercise and diet, lifestyle changes, and general health matters demonstrates the doctor of chiropractic's concern about the "whole person." Chiropractic adjustments attempt to restore proper spinal motion, and thereby directly influence spinal-related disorders.

For more than a century, doctors of chiropractic have advocated that an optimally functioning nervous system is necessary to good health. The significance of the nervous system in health maintenance is not yet well understood or researched. As research continues to advance, answers to how the body is able to respond and activate its immune system to protect itself, will be better understood and able to be utilized.

As a society moves into the 21st Century, there is increased awareness of the need to consider prevention and health maintenance rather than simply waiting for a disease to be found and treated. What may initially have been considered an alternative approach to health care has now become mainstream for tens of millions of Americans who seek better health and increased personal participation in the way their care is provided.

Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts, and as a health-care discipline is based on the premise that good health care depends, in part, upon a normally functioning nervous system. When body structures such as cells and organs are functioning normally, a state of health or normal physiology exists. However, when the body's physiology is abnormal the potential for a disease state exists.

What is this thing called "health?" It is more than just the absence of disease. Health must be viewed as an evolving state, a process that starts at birth and continues until death. The health care crisis now raging throughout our country has caused many people to start asking some very pointed questions about the type of care they are receiving and whether the current model of health care needs to be changed. Terms that appear in almost all discussions relating to health care are, "maintenance" and "disease prevention."

We have been taught since childhood that if there are "no symptoms," we are well. We have been preconditioned by advertising media to believe that any time a symptom appears we need simply "pop a pill" or "swallow that liquid," and all will be well. Drugs and medications have become so commonplace that we do not question whether we should take them or not, but rather, which ones are "faster" or "stronger."

In reality, we often only hide the problem (symptoms) by medicating it. We do many things to fool ourselves into thinking we are well: avoiding activities which cause pain; not eating foods which cause disease; by attributing symptoms to "just getting older." By continuing to approach our health in this fashion, we are, in essence, avoiding or masking the symptoms, rather than attempting to identify the underlying cause of the body's malfunction.

The chiropractic approach to well-being typifies the new and changing attitude toward health. It is based on the concept of "maintaining health" versus "treating disease."