The Big Idea

The Big Idea

 

 

 

The following was inspired by and often paraphrased from the writings of the founder of Upper Cervical Care as we know it, Dr. BJ Palmer

 

Just think…the power that you wield should you choose to make the most of it…

 

A slip on a snowy sidewalk is a small thing; it happens to millions.  A fall off a bike or a ladder, a trip and a tumble; these are small things that also happen to millions.  The slip, fall, or tumble produces a brainstem subluxation; the brainstem subluxation is a small thing.  The brainstem subluxation produces interference within the hub of the body’s control center and throws off the body’s foundational balance; that is technically a small thing.  That interference decreases the flow of information from the brain and the foundational shift causes the rest of the body to physically compensate; that decreased flowing and structural adaptation is technically a small thing.  That decreased flowing and structural adaptation produces a diseased body and brain far less resilient than it’s inherently capable.  That is a big thing to the individual suffering due to that brainstem subluxation.  Then, amplify that already sick person’s condition by poor nutritional habits, a sedentary lifestyle, and completely inadequate stress management skills. 

 

Multiply that sick person by twenty thousand and you significantly weaken the physical and mental welfare of a city.  Multiply that sick person by ten million and you significantly weaken the physical and mental destiny of a state.  Multiply that sick person by 319 million and you can forecast and prophesize the physical and mental downfall of a country.  So the slip or the fall or the tumble, the brainstem subluxation, the internal interference, the reduced flow of information from the brain, the structural imbalance, the lack of nutritional education, the sedentary and high stress lifestyle, and the disease(s) that follow are big enough to control the thoughts and actions of a nation. 

 

Now comes along a person; any one person is a small thing.  This person gives an upper cervical correction or tells a loved one about how to find a person who gives an upper cervical correction; the correction or the conversation that ultimately leads someone to a person who makes a correction are small things.  The correction removes the brainstem subluxation; that too is a small thing.  The correction of the brainstem subluxation eliminates the interference within the hub of the body’s control center and re-establishes the body’s foundational balance; that is technically a small thing.  The return to normal internal function and structural balance restores health to a person; that is a big thing to that person!  Amplify that well person’s health by better nutritional habits, an active lifestyle, and strong stress management skills.  Multiply that well person by twenty thousand and you step up the physical and mental welfare of a city.  Multiply that well person by ten million and you increase the efficiency of a state.  Multiply that well person by 319 million and you have produced a healthy, wealthy, and highly capable country both for now and in the future.

 

You never know how something you say or do today could affect the lives of millions tomorrow.  The correction of the brainstem subluxation to eliminate the interference within the hub of the body’s control center and to re-establish the body’s structural balance in combination with proper nutrition, the right kind of activity, and sound strategies for stress management to restore health is BIG enough to rebuild the thoughts and actions of the world.  The idea that we can correct the causes of disease is one of the biggest ideas known.  Without it, nations fall; with it, nations rise. 

Atlas for Wellness Podcast #1

 

"The Single Most Underrated Aspect of Healthy Living"

 

Have you ever gotten frustrated with your doctor for telling you that "stress" is the reason why your health is suffering?  It seems like an ellipsis is attached to the end of such statements, does it not?  "You're probably just stressed...."  The words of wisdom that tell you what to do about said stress rarely come.  The thing is, he or she is at least partially right in all likelihood.  Stress wreaks havoc on your health.  The problem is that you go home from being reminded how stressful your life is without any tools to manage it.  That changes today.  Listen in....answers await.

 

Coming in April!

The Realities of Health Insurance, Part 1

The Realities of Health Insurance, Part 1

The more money that we spend, the more thought gets put into the purchase.  For the vast majority, that is a fact of life.  When performing a costs vs. benefits analysis, it is necessary to know the right questions to ask.  Unfortunately, as costs have continued to rise in healthcare, it has become increasingly difficult to know what needs to be evaluated in order to make sound decisions.  It can be very confusing. 

At the heart of the confusion is so-termed “health” insurance.  Years ago, it was purchased by consumers to protect themselves in the event of a crisis requiring hospitalization.  As the modern American mindset toward health changed to fit a philosophy primarily concerned with treating symptoms in as instantly gratifying a manner as possible, what constituted an emergency began to encompass a much larger scope of issues, most of which had not previously necessitated evaluation.  The healthcare industry exploded.  The last resort became one of the first options and the number of unnecessary hospitalizations soared to nearly 10 million per year. 

The primary therapy for nearly every ailment became pharmaceutical; the by-product of expanding the list of reasons to visit doctors is that Americans now consume 80% of all the medication produced in the entire world despite making up just 5% of the world’s population.  This “ready, fire!, aim” mentality that often ignores the cause and context of symptoms has been instigated by direct-to-consumer advertising from pharmaceutical companies.  Since the turn of the century, between $2.5-4.5 billion annually has been spent on prescription drug advertising; six times that amount was paid yearly to promote medications to doctors.  The average 17 year old has seen over 20,000 hours worth of drug commercials.  Everywhere you turn, you are reminded about the various symptoms of the thousands of modern diagnoses.  The insurance industry has jumped in and assumed a lot of the corresponding astronomical spike in cost, but the premiums to afford insurance have skyrocketed accordingly. 

Quality of healthcare has plummeted down as costs have continued trending up.  Despite spending nine times more per household on healthcare today than was spent in 1980 (adjusted for inflation), our health system is one of the worst in the world among industrialized nations. 

Our healthcare system, around which the health insurance system is built, has been operating on shaky ground for several decades.  The term “health” is defined as the condition in which an organism performs its vital functions properly.  Yet, over 90% of our healthcare system is designed to get patients to treat their symptoms with medications that may or may not stop the symptoms, but unquestionably do disrupt vital functions; such is why the drug advertisements are two-thirds full of side effect warnings.  If health is about maximizing function, the primary means by which Americans supposedly achieve health – drug therapy – serves the opposite purpose.  No wonder our health system is in shambles.

In order to lower health insurance costs, progress must be made in fundamentally changing our healthcare system.  For that to happen, the consumers that drive the system need to be empowered to thoroughly appraise the current state of affairs.  One important question to ask is: what role should insurance play?

One of the basic laws of the insurance business is that the greater the likelihood of dire circumstances, the more money it will cost to purchase insurance against it.  Insurance is, therefore, most affordable when fewer claims are being filed due to dire circumstances.  A fundamental problem with modern “health” insurance – more appropriately named “sick” insurance – is that we have collectively lost sight of when it is and when it is not appropriate to use it.  The more we utilize it, the higher the premiums will be; the more the public is educated to visit the doctor for even minor concerns, the more money the public will spend.  The best way, then, to keep your insurance costs to a minimum is to be healthy enough to avoid using it. 

That begs the question: how does one go about becoming healthy?  How does your body, as the definition states, perform its vital functions properly?  First, its central nervous system must be capable of working normally; that means limited to zero interference within your body’s electrical network – the body cannot function properly if its brainstem, brain, or spinal cord has been even subtly injured due to even minor trauma no more than a faulty smart phone is capable of performing 100% of its advertised features.  Second, if the structural foundation is properly balanced, the body can develop normally and sustain itself physically over time, but the opposite is true if the foundation has shifted, making a simple task like exercise far more difficult.  Third, the body needs constructive sources for sustenance; it accepts water, naturally grown fruits and vegetables, and animals farmed without antibiotics or hormones much easier than it does soda, processed meats, and food from crops sprayed with chemicals.  Finally, learning to navigate emotional highs and lows is quite important, for the less stress on the body the better; stability is one of the primary things necessary for functioning properly. 

You may then ask: shouldn’t your insurance cover the above?  Not necessarily, because the reality is that insurance is not designed to support how you go about achieving health; it is most readily accessed by the cumulative effects of not being healthy and/or by catastrophic events.  Tweaks to the insurance system to include within its costs the ability to seek preventative care are inherently flawed because the basic law of insurance is that catastrophes are going to happen (why else would people buy insurance?); preventing calamity breaks that law.  So, it is important to recognize that the associated costs for the education and guidance that health professionals can offer to help you and your family achieve the above and become healthy are understandably separate, in many cases, from your insurance premiums.   

The confusion ends when the understanding begins.  If we cooperatively redefine health, we consequently demand that healthcare changes.  If we inspire healthcare to change, we simultaneously hold insurance companies accountable.  The consumers will have to be the ones that initiate the grassroots process, one person at a time.  With a better grasp of the right questions to ask, sounder decisions can be made, health can increase, and costs can decrease. 

Sources: The Washington Post, The American Thinker, American Medical Association, Sciencebasedmedicine.org, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Chad McIntyre owns and operates the Triad Upper Cervical Clinic in Kernersville.  Specializing in Upper Cervical Care, his practice emphasizes a proactive, goal-oriented approach to health heavily rooted in thorough patient education. 

ESPN Special Focuses on Upper Cervical Care, Jim McMahon's Recovery

The ’85 Bears
Original Air Date: Thursday February 4, 2016 at 9 pm

CHICAGO -- Jim McMahon would leave home and forget how to get back. The last time we saw Jim McMahon on national television it was not a pretty picture. In an episode of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel that aired one year ago he talked about his pain, about how he used excessive amounts of painkillers, about his many surgeries, about his memory loss. The former quarter back admitted he had considered suicide, like teammate Dave Duerson, who shot himself to death in 2011.

Filmmaker Jason Hehir said McMahon’s doctors have determined that the root cause of his problems is in his cervical spine and not so much his brain, the result of repeated concussions. It has completely revolutionized the way people are starting to look at the concussion issue.

Executive producer Vince Vaughn insisted the upper cervical specific chiropractic care McMahon received was “not quackery. We show him in an MRI machine, we show you the scans and the scans don’t lie. It’s how his brain was before and after the treatments. His condition has improved immensely under upper cervical specific chiropractic care.”

The most significant objective proof of upper cervicals results has been demonstrated by Scott Rosa, DC, McMahon’s chiropractor, and Raymond Damadian, MD, inventor of the MRI. Recent research shows a correlation between trauma and Chiari, by hyper flexion type strains of the cord, in which the neck over stretches as it is pulled forward by the weight of the head moving in a chin toward the chest direction, can traction the brainstem and pull it down toward the foramen magnum. On the way down it causes a compression deformation of the larger part of the brainstem in the foramen magnum. The action would be similar, for example, to pushing a cork into the top of a wine bottle. The cork compresses and deforms as it enters the bottle top. As the driving force is released the cork then expands and becomes trapped in the bottle top. If you turn the bottle upside down the wine cannot get past the cork. In the brain, blood and cerebrospinal fluid similarly get trapped.

Jim McMahon, former quarterback for the Chicago Bears, speaks in Stamford, Connecticut on behalf of the Trauma Imaging Foundation. McMahon suffered three diagnosed concussions while in the NFL, but states that looking back, he knows he had many more that went undetected. He has been diagnosed with early dementia. An upright MRI revealed that McMahon had misalignment of C1 & C2 with the base of the skull, pathological cord distortion, aberrant cerebrospinal flow and significant stasis of cerebrospinal fluid pooling in the frontal lobe of his brain. Since the skull is a closed hydraulic system, too much CSF means not enough blood. McMahon says that Dr. Rosa’s TIF research and treatments literally “saved my life.”

He found out about five years ago, when he went for X-rays and an MRI. Doctors told him he had broken his neck at some point, and McMahon believes it happened with the Minnesota Vikings during the 1993 season, when he got sandwiched by two Giants defenders in a playoff game at New York.
Just moments after the first cervical adjustment, McMahon said "it felt like a toilet bowel flushed and all the pain and stress went away". This occurred because the CSF (Cerebrospinal Fluid) flow went from being obstructed to flowing normally, allowing it to remove the neurotoxins and wastes that are a byproduct of brain function. This improved Jim McMahon's dementia symptoms as well his brain fog, migraines and slurred speech.

The pain in the 55-year-old former quarterback's head was so excruciating, the throbbing of every single heartbeat in his ears so persistent, that he mostly sought refuge in the bedroom of his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was the only way he could find any sort of relief, and even then -- just lying on his bed with the lights off -- he couldn't completely escape the pain. "It got to the point where I wouldn't get out of bed for weeks at a time," the former Super Bowl-winning quarterback said.

"Let's raise the awareness about this problem,'' he said. "I wish they had figured out what was wrong with me sooner, but at least I got some help. Let's help others out there and let's deal with the problem."

"Medicine will start looking at the brain, spinal cord and spine together. The emphasis is on the together part. Medicine sees a brain injury as something that only exists in the brain, and a neck injury as only something that exists in the neck, but the blood, tissue, and cerebral spinal fluid are all continuous between these two parts of the body. Symptoms of brain trauma can actually be symptoms of neck trauma, and vice versa,” said Guskiewicz. Kevin dedicated his career to discovering and harnessing knowledge about head injuries. Now, he's a highly regarded concussion expert and the recipient of the $500,000 Genius Award.

As a researcher he has made major advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports-related concussions. Each year, approximately 3.8 million athletes in the United States experience mild traumatic brain injuries, or concussions. Through laboratory and on-the-field research, Guskiewicz has played an important role in raising awareness about the dangers of sports-related brain injuries in both professional and youth athletics. He was among the first to identify the long-term effects of multiple concussions, including cognitive impairment and depression in later life, through large-scale epidemiological studies of retired professional football players. Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional concussion screening tools — most rely solely on an athlete's self-report of symptoms — Guskiewicz demonstrated that postural control, or balance, serves especially well as an objective measure in the evaluation of concussive episodes. His portable and cost-effective Balance Error Scoring System is now widely used by athletic trainers at colleges and secondary schools to diagnose and manage injury more accurately and rapidly. 

His recent work focuses on the cumulative effects of repetitive, sub-threshold brain impacts. Using accelerometers embedded in the helmets of college football and youth hockey players, he and colleagues are investigating the relationship between magnitude and number of head impacts and clinical symptoms of concussion. Taking this research a step further, he is working directly with collegiate football players and coaches to identify dangerous hits in real time and to correct improper tackling techniques associated with sustaining concussions. While engaging clinicians, coaches, parents, and athletes in recognizing the immediate and long-term effects of concussions, Guskiewicz is contributing significantly to state and federal policy discussions concerning development of more stringent return-to-play guidelines and headgear investigations that will improve the safety of athletes of all ages.

“I first discussed the correlations between my Meniere’s research with Kevin and his concussion research fifteen years ago,” Dr. Burcon commented. He encouraged me to stick with it even though mainstream medicine would first dismiss it because it was something new.

You might not have bought a movie ticket for “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy,” but that is the actual syndrome at the heart of the movie “Concussion.” CTE is a brain disease found in patients with a history of repetitive hits to the head.

“Luckily, upper cervical care can allow people to play contact sports safely,” states Tom Forrest, Blair upper cervical doctor practicing in California. All athletes of every age should get regular checkups by an upper cervical specific doctor, just like going to the dentist.

The Importance of Proper Sleeping Posture

Establishing positive habits is one of the most important ways that you can take control of your health.  Considering that as many as half of all adults report at least mild insomnia, it would seem that a great deal of us never learned how to set good sleeping habits.  Sleep is the time for daily maintenance, when the conscious mind shuts down and the entirety of our internal energy can be put toward rejuvenation.  Everyday life is inundated with tasks to complete and emotions to manage, giving our bodies ample repair to do by the end of our waking hours. 

Sleep allows our bodies to recover faster.  When we sleep between 7 to 8 hours per night, we are more mentally sharp, sifting through information faster and more efficiently; we have more energy and a better outlook; we are more apt to pay closer attention to our eating habits; we build stronger immunity; we find it much easier to deal with stress; and, with our systems working vibrantly, our bodies are able to optimally regulate heart function, hormone production, digestion, and the like.  The opposite to all of the above is true when we do not sleep; insomnia, from mild to severe, wreaks havoc on our health. 

The process of sleep is an automatic activity engaged by a network within your central nervous system, so it is to an extent beyond our conscious control.  However, we can support healthy sleeping patterns by eliminating deficiencies that cause insomnia within each of the five basic areas of overall health: proper function, stress management, nutrition, exercise, and structural balance. 

It is on that last category that the remainder of this article will focus.  Structural balance makes life easier in general, but specific to sleeping habits makes it possible to breathe through fully opened airways, fully relax your muscles to release the stress from your joints, and allow for proper circulation.  Maintaining proper sleeping posture, then, is an important step that must be taken to ensure the best quality of rest.  The three common sleeping positions are on the back, the side, or the stomach. 

Stomach sleeping should be avoided completely.  It puts tremendous physical strain on the body; the neck twisting stresses the supporting musculature, starting a domino effect that causes one hip to pull the attached leg up into a bent position close to the waist.  Try standing that way and see if you think it is comfortable.  Stomach sleeping also cuts off the blood supply to your brain.  The vertebral arteries that run up both sides of your neck and supply roughly 25% of your brain’s blood supply are stretched and twisted when the head is turned, decreasing blood flow; combined with the manner in which it contorts the body physically, this is why stomach sleepers are notorious both for not being well-rested and for being stiff when they wake up in the morning. 

The two best ways to sleep are on your back or on your side.  Back sleeping is ideal.  The body is most relaxed in the supine (back-lying) position, with the head slightly elevated by a supportive pillow and a small pillow tucked beneath the knees.  The head and neck are the body’s structural foundation; wherever the head goes, the rest of the body follows, so sleeping on your back without the lower body support creates a situation in which the musculature in the lower back, hips, and legs attempts to pull itself into a similar position as the head on the pillow. 

Side-sleeping is okay too as long as it is done correctly.  Two things are required to ensure high quality sleep when side-lying.  First, the pillow that you use must allow your head, neck, and shoulders to rest in their neutral positions.  If you imagine looking at yourself in the mirror when your posture is relaxed and then tipping 90 degrees onto your side, that is the correct head and neck posture for side sleeping.  Second, a pillow between the knees is a must, for it prevents the natural shifting of one hip and leg across the other to avoid the bones of the knees resting on top of each other.  To put it simply, the head, neck, shoulders, and hips need to be balanced in order to avoid undue strain on your body.  If your body is stressed while sleeping, then sleeping will not accomplish the fullest extent of its intended purpose. 

In regard to pillows, the one that you use to support the lower body can be a regular pillow, but be sure to use common sense when gauging the size of the person (slight of frame needs a smaller pillow, larger frame needs bigger pillow).  The head and neck pillow represents a more delicate search for both comfort and support shaped by the consistency of your preferred sleeping posture.  The SleepRight side-lying pillow, for instance, is designed for sleepers that exclusively lay on their side.  It is custom fit to meet the requirements of your body style and its website offers a helpful, basic guide to help you measure your shoulder heights correctly.  The D-Core is the back sleeper’s equivalent. 

Perhaps the best pillows are the ones that allow you to fluctuate between your back and your side.  Cervical contour and standard memory foam pillows give you that flexibility, but they have to be replaced more often than a fiber support pillow, the gold standard of which is the Therapeutica.  The Therapeutica has a wedge extension that acts like a ramp to support the upper back, as well as a dip in the center where your head rests that provides optimal head/neck support and keeps you from turning/straining your neck.  It is also raised on each side to allow you to roll to your right or left without having to maneuver it. 

Without proper sleep, we cannot be truly well.  The manner in which we sleep, thus, has a big impact on our health.  Paying attention to your sleeping position and investing in the supportive pillows that are right for you goes a long way to ensuring that you sleep not just adequately, but optimally. 

Sources: WedMD, Therapeutica.com, SleepRight.com

Mass Shootings: What Is The Real Cause?

In the wake of tragedy comes opportunity.  The gunman who killed ten people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon was the latest in the seemingly endless run of mass shootings.  Each one of these alarmingly common occurrences provides another chance to logically evaluate the reasoning behind them, an absolutely vital step in determining the appropriate actions to take after twenty years of watching the problem worsen. 

One of the most popular reactions in America to mass killings is to demand greater gun control.  Any topic that becomes political in the modern climate evokes polar viewpoints hyperbolized by the media.  If we are to seriously assess the mass shooting problem, though, the political undertones need to be stripped away. 

Studying the issue on a more humanistic level, this is a people problem.  At the heart of this debate is that people are deciding that it’s OK to kill other people in schools and other heavily attended public places.  The theme behind the firearm regulation argument is certainly worth exploring; it absolutely makes sense to find a way to keep guns away from people willing to commit heinous acts of violence.  However, this is not a simple matter of the presence or absence of guns.  Given that people are far more complex than the weapons they use, it is imperative that we acknowledge that this is a multi-faceted problem. 

Societally, we have developed a bad habit of black and white thinking, which limits our collective ability to develop a well-rounded understanding of various issues.  Take mental illness, for example.  63% in a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll said that they think mass shootings are more likely due to the difficulty in identifying and treating people with mental health problems.  Reasonably, one could assume that no sane individual would enter a public forum with the intent to harm and that if a previously unstable individual could regain his/her soundness of mind, tragedy could be potentially avoided.  It is in pulling that narrative thread that we then engage the most complicated question of the subject matter: what is mental health?

The Mayo Clinic staff begins an article on their website designed to answer the above question with the statement, “Understanding what's considered normal mental health can be tricky.”  Search the term “mental illness” and you may notice the trend to describe it as a disease in a rather arbitrary effort to separate the sick from the well.  Hence, we are generally categorized as either mentally stable or mentally unstable.  A mental illness is defined as a wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior.  Their common traits include sadness, loss of interest, fear, doubt, worry, mood swings, obsession, impulsiveness, and misinterpretation of reality.  Tricky indeed; if they read as familiar symptoms, it would be because nearly everyone deals with them to varying degrees at some point.  So, do we not all vacillate somewhere between mental stability and instability?

Each of us should be concerned with our mental health and we should be encouraged to explore various ways to keep ourselves mentally well, as there is a fine line between stability and instability.  Unfortunately, we live in a world that professes symptoms to mean disorders and disease.  Those who are diagnosed with a mental illness become stigmatized, simultaneously discouraging others who may exhibit consistent signs of emotional turmoil to seek help.  One in four adults (nearly 62 million Americans over the age of 20) and one in five children (19 million kids) will go through a significant mental health issue that has a pronounced affect on their daily lives in any given year.  60% never ask for support either through apprehension, denial, neglect, etc. 

Mental health issues are not well understood; the manner in which they’re dealt with even less so.  As is the case with most diagnosed health conditions, medication is the popular treatment route suggested for the so-termed mentally ill.  The mechanism of action that dictates the efficacy of such medications is interference with brain and body chemistry.  There are 75 trillion cells on average in the human body, each of which perform 200,000 chemical reactions every split second.  Disrupting the normal processes that control our body chemistry is a dangerous, controversial method that addresses nothing but the symptoms and takes no account of their cause or context.  Consider that the human body is still developing its normal chemistry during the teenage years and that the last two decades have seen a sharp rise in the prescription of anti-psychotic drugs to teenagers and young adults.       

Dr. Peter R. Breggin, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health, insists that there has been overwhelming scientific evidence for decades correlating psychiatrically prescribed drugs with violence.  He has testified to Congress that research demonstrates a causal relationship between antidepressant drugs and the production of suicide, violence, mania, and other behavioral abnormalities.  Accounts like Breggin’s help in understanding the results of alarming statistical analyses like the one in 2012 which revealed that the common link between over 80% of the mass shootings was a perpetrator on anti-psychotic drugs.  The four most commonly prescribed psychotropic drugs all share side effects that include difficulty concentrating, mood or behavioral changes, feeling like you cannot control your actions, suicidal tendencies, confusion of identity, paranoia, sleeplessness, aggressiveness, and sudden loss of consciousness.  Such are the potential dangers of interrupting brain chemistry. 

Mental well-being, one of the pillars of overall health, is an intricate thing and its integrity can be challenged or broken by environmental, social, emotional, spiritual, and biological causes.  Our food crops are sprayed with weed and bug-killing chemicals and the animals that keep our meat supplies replenished are pumped with synthetic hormones, resulting in nutritional deficiencies and internal systemic chaos.  Traumas, both emotional and physical, are extremely common especially during youth, each creating functional discord in different ways.  Physical traumas deplete structural integrity and weaken our central nervous system’s ability to regulate basic processes, including the limbic system that controls our emotions and motivations, while emotional trauma often creates destructive psychological patterns. 

None of the above areas of discussion can be left out of our exploration into the reason why people are choosing to commit mass murder.  It may be easier to blame the instrument instead of the person wielding it or to blame altered brain chemistry for terrible actions; it may be easier to view the issue as a mental illness recognition problem that does not apply to you.  Meanwhile, mass shootings have spiraled out of control.  It is not the result of one thing, but many.  Attempting to fully understand the underlying problem will not be easy, but the time has arrived to do the difficult work.  We must accept that sometimes the answer is not black or white, but somewhere in between.

Sources: The Journal of Ethical Human Sciences and Services, The National Alliance on Mental Illness, The Mayo Clinic website

Dr. Chad McIntyre owns and operates the Triad Upper Cervical Clinic in Kernersville.  Though his practice specializes in Upper Cervical Care, emphasis is also placed on nutrition, physical activity, and stress management.  With his pre-doctoral education centered on the field of Psychology, Dr. McIntyre takes a particular interest in mental health.