Hi, Dr. Greg Malakoff here, sharing some life experience hoping that it will make your experience of life a little more hopeful and pleasant. BTW, don’t let this confusing diagram of how chiropractic works overwhelm you. I find it difficult and you don’t have to understand it to benefit from it.
I started going to a chiropractor in 1956. I was 2 years old when I went because my parents were told many times at the Emergency Room that I was eventually going to die from reoccurring 106 degree fevers. One visit to the chiropractor and I’m still around and never had a high fever again.
The topic for this page is spinal misalignment and the best treatment to align your spine. You could choose a 15 hour surgery to place steel rods in your spine to realign it. You could do painful exercises and they are painful not because exercise should hurt, but because if your spine is misaligned it is not really a good time to decide to start working out.
The only thing that can move a bone is a muscle and the deep core, shunt stabilizing muscles that effect your posture are not under your volitional control. They are not controlled by the part of your brain that allows you to use your limbs. The cerebellum is what controls the deep spinal postural muscles such as the multifidi. Your cerebellum is your automatic pilot. You don’t want to consciously think about the thousands of calculations per second to resist gravity, which means standing.
The best treatment for the spine, the safest treatment for spinal misalignment is chiropractic. The reason why people suffer needlessly is because they may have heard something disparaging about chiropractic. Since I started practicing in 1983 I noticed a very strange phenomenon. People that did not speak English came into my office and because they did not speak English ended up getting well quite quickly because they needed to have their spines aligned by a chiropractor.
They were never told that Chiropractors were the most dangerous monsters on the planet. It turns out that the American Medical Association back in the days before they lost the world’s largest antitrust suit in history didn’t think of Spanish speaking people as their audience. They didn’t advertise to them. The Spanish speaking people had no idea that I was planning on killing them at the first opportunity that arose. So these people got well and all the smart English speaking people that were able to understand the message from the AMA remained miserable for no sane reason. I’m still in practice 42 years later and like many superstitions, I see that one has not gone away. So many patients will tell me that they are afraid of the safest treatment known to medical science, which is a chiropractic adjustment.
In one way things have progressed since the antitrust law suit, but not when it comes to utilization. Now every other commercial is for drugs that promise you on their commercial that their product could kill you. These adds cost a fortune and they are not spending that kind of money if people were not gullible enough to buy what they are selling. What they are selling is something that is designed to never make you healthy, but dependent up their product for you to manage through your misery. Their goal is to make you take it for the rest of your life. That is where the profits are. Many of these scientifically proven drugs are later taken off of the market because they harm so many people. You’ve seen the lawyers on T.V. asking for you to join their class action lawsuit.
In 1895 chiropractic was developed. Nerves were not observed until 1930. So the early theory of why chiropractic worked so well was wrong even though they guessed right as far as how to get many sick people well. In 1990, also known as the decade of the brain, advanced technology figured out how and why chiropractic gets the amazing results that it does.
It is in the text book used by all neurology programs called The Principles of Neural Science by Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessel. It is a very big book and I’ve never seen the word chiropractic written anywhere in it. They use the term, Joint Neurology, which means chiropractic. None the less, it is the greatest advertisement for chiropractic in the world since it explains with the benefit of modern technology, why the crazy guys in 1895 guessed right, even if it was not quite technically correct.
Why do I bring all this up? Humanity is suffering needlessly because we were told that chiropractic is not scientific. We’re just crazy people that want to crack your back. Those spinal misalignments don’t mean anything and we are just stealing your money. This monopoly on health that the AMA once owned was outlawed in 1990, around the same time that the science of the day finally validated chiropractic. It is now 33 years later and most people know nothing about what I just wrote.
They see commercials for drugs that rob them our health. Even though we won the world’s largest antitrust suit in history against the AMA, not a thing has changed as far as overall improved health and quality of life. We may live longer, but we’re taking a lot of medication that makes us feel less than optimal. The overall percentage of the population that utilizes chiropractic care is still incredibly low.
Your health is still sold to the highest bidder and that means that the news stations that receive most of their revenue from drug companies are going to report health news that is deliberately designed to confuse the consumer. I hope I was not too confusing.
To simplify the neurology I’ll just keep it at this. We are only as healthy as our brain. Our brain is dependent up our spinal joints to work correctly. Our spinal misalignments become fixations that do not allow the most largest, fastest, most powerful nerves in your body that innervate the spinal joints to do their job and we are robbed of our vital life force. If 20% of your brain was in your elbow we would adjust that. But 20% of your central nervous system is running through your spine.
All of the blood tests in the world don’t show that you are sick because you have not taken enough drugs today. (Disclaimer: Of course if you have diabetes you better not stop taking your insulin. I’m not telling you to stop taking drugs, only your doctor who put you on them can do that.)
Getting your spine aligned/adjusted is putting a lot of good information into that 80% of your central nervous system that is inside your head. Approximately 90% of all the information that ever gets into your head is coming from your spine. Only about 10% is coming from your eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Your manager/brain does not make good decisions over all of it’s departments when it is receiving disinformation arriving from your spinal joints.
That is one reason why the healthiest people in the world, athletes at the Olympics get adjusted before a competition. They don’t have a back ache. They are in the best shape of their life. They want that extra edge of functionality that a chiropractic adjustment provides.
If I was confusing, but you feel that I may be able to change your health situation and you live in the Los Angeles area, feel free to call me at 310-663-9975.
