Why do we offer free checks?

The following is taken from a book I’ve contributed to which is due out in October 2010: I’ve added it here because I feel strongly that in order to have a healthy business you need your key employee (usually you!) to be 100% healthy first… I also feel that stress is the biggest threat to our health: Here’s how it all comes together…

Stress has such a vital role at all stages of life, even as early as at birth: It is becoming an ever more evident cause of modern health issues in the so-called developed world.

So, what is stress? Well, there are 3 stresses: chemical (toxins), physical (trauma), and emotional (thoughts). Stresses lead to symptoms (often aches and pains) via overload of the body’s ability to cope with stress and strain. Think of it as the body adapting to strain, like an iron girder bending under the strain of ever-larger weights placed upon it until, finally, something snaps. Symptoms are our body’s red light indicating damage has been done, and we need to heed them until healing has completed.

I mentioned above about that our own birth is the first stress. Birth Trauma is the first challenge the fragile infant body has to overcome. This is not to say that birth is inevitably a horrible process for mother and child. On the contrary, a natural birth is a beautiful event. However, with any problematic presentation of the child, such as breech, we have potential issues. Further physical stresses can be placed on the infant with the use of ventouse (vacuum), forceps or medication to alter the natural flow of the process. The infant’s system is easily overwhelmed, leading to adaptive change in body structure and function.

Studies as far back as 1969, and later in the 1980s, found that traumatic birth methods can be the cause of spinal injury, spinal misalignment and cranial distortions, which may often escape diagnosis. If these spinal injuries are never corrected, the baby’s ability to adapt to the new (external) environment is hampered. The importance of a developing child being free from nerve interference cannot be understated.