Michael Lenarz - The Chiropractic Way: How Chiropractic Care Can Stop Your Pain and Help You Regain Your Health Without Drugs or Surgery

An inspiring and informative approach to health. It combines a profound respect for the innate intelligence of the human body with a clear exposition of how to cooperate with its healing power with minimal yet precise intervention.

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As president of the Palmer Chiropractic Colleges (a system that includes the world's first and largest chiropractic college and the Fountainhead of Chiropractic) I am committed to working with individuals such as Dr. Lenarz to bring a health care revolution into being in our lifetimes. It is our responsibility to speak loudly and clearly to the issue. This book does so beautifully.

Even though I consider myself to be open-minded, it took my thumb going numb (not a good thing for a surgeon) for me to consider chiropractic. Chiropractic treatments resulted in full return of sensationand have helped to resolve aches and pains that I thought were just part of aging. Chiropractic has been a very good thing for me, and I believe Dr. Lenarz's book is a great way of introducing it to other people.

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It is a strange paradox of modern life that, despite our obsession with curing disease and prolonging life, as a society we still have no framework for achieving true health and maximizing human performance and potential. Even the complementary and alternative medicine approaches that have grown so greatly in use still focus largely on symptom reduction and disease treatment.

Yet, for more than one hundred years, chiropractic has been built on a unique philosophy that recognizes living organisms as possessing a profound, inborn drive toward health and that has as its goal unleashing the body's ability to fully express its inborn potential. The profession as a whole, however, has to date been only partially successful in sharing that profound philosophy clearly and succinctly with other healing professions and the public. The wholesale change in health care approaches that our chiropractic colleges and practitioners envision has yet to become realityin part, I believe, because we have not yet adequately articulated our philosophy of health.

Although the use and acceptance of chiropractic is at an all-time high, its advancement has been hampered by the lack of published works that clearly espouse the tenets and purposes of the profession and illuminate its far-reaching impact for the lay audience. They say that without the printed word there can be no revolution. Perhaps this thoughtful and balanced work will provide the treatise needed to fuel such a revolution in public thought regarding true health and the contribution chiropractic can make in helping individuals achieve it.

One of the things that impressed me most as I read the book was the comprehensive and straightforward manner in which it is presented. The author clearly has no hidden personal or political agenda he is working to further and so provides a refreshing, candid and complete explanation of the complex chiropractic profession and its practitioners. He explores such key topics as the differences between a mechanistic (traditional medicine) and vitalistic (chiropractic philosophy) approach to health; the history of chiropractic; how the brain and spinal cord work together to coordinate body function; the impact of vertebral subluxation on body function; how to select a doctor of chiropractic and what to expect from chiropractic care. Most important, he accepts readers where they arefrom skeptics to devoted patientsand provides them with valuable information that empowers them to make their own decisions regarding their health and health care.

Dr. Lenarz utilizes a no-nonsense approach and real-life case studies the reader can relate to. He answers common questions and addresses frequent misconceptions without preaching or becoming defensive. He covers the specific issues an individual considering chiropractic care might raise, yet consistently brings in the bigger picture of total health maximization. He clearly captures the chiropractic philosophy and lifestyle.

As president of the Palmer Chiropractic Colleges (a system that includes the world's first and largest chiropractic college and the Fountainhead of Chiropractic), I am committed to working with individuals such as Dr. Lenarz to bring a health care revolution into being in our lifetimes. Chiropractic has a singular philosophy of human function and health that makes us uniquely positioned and qualified to open, lead and advance public discourse regarding a vitalistic approach to health. It is our responsibility to speak loudly and clearly to the issue. This book does so beautifully.

Guy F. Riekeman, D.C.

President of the Palmer Chiropractic Colleges

Sedro-Woolley is a small town north of Seattle. It is located near the foot of Mount Baker, a picturesque snowcapped peak that sits in the midst of the North Cascade Mountains. Originally a logging town, in recent years it has become a bedroom community for the larger cities to its west and south. It is a nice-looking place, working hard to keep its small-town feel; its one main downtown street is lined with black cast-iron streetlamps. I practice chiropractic here. My office faces Ferry Street, a tree-lined avenue with Victorian houses for several blocks. In fourteen years of practice I have come to love this town and its people. I also have experienced many miracles.

Sarah was one such miracle patient. She was born in a hospital in Spokane, Washington, and her birth was complex and troublesome. After a long, difficult labor, as the baby's head began to appear it was discovered that the umbilical cord was wrapped around her necknot once but three times. Luckily, the attending doctor was both skilled and inventive. Realizing the danger of the situation, he pushed Sarah back up the birth canal before the cord strangled her. Then he reached inside, cut the umbilical cord free from her neck, and delivered the child.