Some
define wellness as an absence of disease: if I am not sick then I must be well?
The answer . . . not necessarily! Even if you do not have any outward signs and
symptoms of disease you may be heading down a path that will cause chronic
disease of aging.
Modern
medicine is very good at defining, describing and testing for chronic disease
but defining, describing and testing for wellness
has never been a priority. Instead of
defining each separately, we can look at chronic disease and wellness as a
continuum.
The stage in between wellness
and chronic disease is subchronic disease.
Here, you know you aren’t well
but you are not quite sick enough to be considered truly ill either. It is where most middle aged adults drift. Is there a way to really know where you are
on the continuum of wellness and chronic disease?
YES!!
At
Advanced Wellness Chiropractic, I use advanced technology called The COREscore™
to measure how deeply stress and tension are impacting your overall health. The
computerized program takes the results from the three tests and computes your
individual COREscore™. Scores of 80 and
above are indicative of a well neural integrated nervous system and reflect
wellness. Scores of 59 and lower are
indicative of a poorly neural integrated nervous system and reflect a more
challenged state of health. Scores from
60 to 79 are considered transition and indicative of the subchronic disease
state.
Where
do you think you fall? You might be
surprised . . . .
The
real goal of wellness is not to
subdue signs and symptoms of chronic disease with medication driving you back
into a subchronic disease state but to move you all the way back to wellness. Instead of micromanage the chronic disease we
should macromanage wellness and let the body take care of itself!
The best way to keep the body moving toward
wellness and away from chronic disease is to accomplish three primary goals:
- Keep the Central Nervous System free of tension and stress with regular chiropractic adjustments.
- Decrease the level of silent (cellular) inflammation with the Zone Anti-inflammatory diet and pharmaceutical grade fish oils.
- Actively engage in smart exercise which consists of regular cardiovascular activities as well strengthening and stretching key postural muscles.
Chronic
stress and tension can damage anyone’s health.
Where you fall the COREscore™ graph will represent where you fall on the
continuum between wellness and chronic disease. The goal is wellness! Get your nervous system functioning
consistently better, move your score closer to 100 and live a life you deserve!
Dr. Vera Baziuk
Chiropractor, specializing in Torque Release Technique
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