The New Year Marks Beginnings of all Kinds

Fitness challenges, weight loss, and gym memberships, the new year is heralded by a desire to get healthier. For whatever reason, the new year spurs on visions of self-improvement and self-care like no other (with the likely exception of expecting parents, who often know no bounds in preparing a healthy surroundings).

Fittingly, among the very first visible structures of a developing human are portions of the intervertebral discs of your spine.

And throughout your life, your spine and it’s contents, your spinal cord and nervous system, are the most central part of you, supporting you as the very root of your core and coordinating nearly every activity throughout your body and brain.

But human nature likes to do something else, which is to get something for the least amount of effort. I.e., if at all possible, something for nothing. When we are young, as infants, that is how life works (or should work, at least). Everything we need is provided to us without effort.

But basic needs are simply provided to us without the need for work. It’s how parents of all sorts, across the mammalian kingdom, care for their young. But as adults, or even as we develop as children, it changes.

We become aware of responsibility, and learn to care for ourselves, rather than be a billion-strong horde of hungry, needy mouths expecting (or demanding) to be fed - not to mention all of our many other needs.

Unfortunately, when we look at the spine, the overall results are not good. The most common reason for work-related disability across the globe is spine injury and loss of spine function. While it encompasses 30 million people, the number of people using a chiropractor is only 10% of the population.

The number of people regularly caring for their deepest core, their spine, discs and nervous system, is an exceedingly low portion of the total.

Unsurprisingly, a relatively similar number to those completed New Year’s Resolutions.

So, this year don’t make resolutions but instead do make a commitment to protect, improve and grow your health - from the most central part of yourself, your spine and “lifeline.”

Build the health of this lifeline and let it support you in creating a better future for yourself.

Care for yourself like you would a newborn - as if you deserved all of the care in the world, everything you needed to survive and thrive - simply with the effort you give yourself.
Fitness challenges, weight loss, and gym memberships, the new year is heralded by a desire to get healthier. For whatever reason, the new year spurs on visions of self-improvement and self-care like no other (with the likely exception of expecting parents, who often know no bounds in preparing a healthy surroundings).

Fittingly, among the very first visible structures of a developing human are portions of the intervertebral discs of your spine.

And throughout your life, your spine and it’s contents, your spinal cord and nervous system, are the most central part of you, supporting you as the very root of your core and coordinating nearly every activity throughout your body and brain.

But human nature likes to do something else, which is to get something for the least amount of effort. I.e., if at all possible, something for nothing. When we are young, as infants, that is how life works (or should work, at least). Everything we need is provided to us without effort.

But basic needs are simply provided to us without the need for work. It’s how parents of all sorts, across the mammalian kingdom, care for their young. But as adults, or even as we develop as children, it changes.

We become aware of responsibility, and learn to care for ourselves, rather than be a billion-strong horde of hungry, needy mouths expecting (or demanding) to be fed - not to mention all of our many other needs.

Unfortunately, when we look at the spine, the overall results are not good. The most common reason for work-related disability across the globe is spine injury and loss of spine function. While it encompasses 30 million people, the number of people using a chiropractor is only 10% of the population.

The number of people regularly caring for their deepest core, their spine, discs and nervous system, is an exceedingly low portion of the total.

Unsurprisingly, a relatively similar number to those completed New Year’s Resolutions.

So, this year don’t make resolutions but instead do make a commitment to protect, improve and grow your health - from the most central part of yourself, your spine and “lifeline.”

Build the health of this lifeline and let it support you in creating a better future for yourself.

Care for yourself like you would a newborn - as if you deserved all of the care in the world, everything you needed to survive and thrive - simply with the effort you give yourself.