Common Symptoms
The classic signs that parents and teachers notice:
•Inattention, hyperactivity and being easily distracted
•Difficulty concentrating and sitting still
•Inability to control impulsive thoughts and behaviors
•Easily distracted by noises and activities
•Always moving—fingers, hands, arms, feet or legs

First Things First
Begin by making nutritional and lifestyle changes. Rule out environmental factors by reducing your child's exposure to substances that are increasingly common these days:
•Remove food dyes, preservatives and additives from the diet.
•Focus on natural, organic foods grown without pesticides or herbicides.
•Determine if an allergy is involved such as dairy or gluten and eliminate.
•Eliminate all sugars and artificial sweeteners.
•Reduce the use of cleaning agents, detergents, fabric softeners and other chemicals.
These are wise choices whether your child has the symptoms associated with ADHD or not!

Traditional Treatment
A popular approach to controlling symptoms of ADHD is to administer regular doses of methylphenidate. More commonly known as Ritalin®. Ritalin® is a schedule II controlled substance related to, and producing similar effects as, amphetamines and cocaine. The side effects, including personality changes and permanent changes to the brain, cause many parents to look for alternatives.

Chiropractic: Pure and Natural
Instead of treating the various symptoms of hyperactivity, we look for disturbances to the child’s nervous system. We often find problems caused by spinal distortions in the upper neck.
In fact, this link between the spine, brain stem dysfunction and ADHD is common. A thorough chiropractic examination can reveal noticeable spinal distortion, even a reversal of the normal neck curve. Thats why we often recommend a schedule of safe and natural chiropractic adjustments to help reduce the accompanying nervous system tension.

Find Out More
As parents, we want the best for our children. If your child exhibits the symptoms of ADHD, you know it affects virtually everyone your child is in contact with. As you consider your options, get a thorough chiropractic evaluation. Call our practice today!

Up to the age of four or five, most children have poor bladder control at night. But after that, the inability to stay dry at night may be a sign of an underlying problem. While chiropractic is not a treatment for bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis), countless children have been helped with safe and natural chiropractic care.
Bladder Physiology
Two key muscles control the emptying of the bladder. Their technical names are the detrusor and trigone muscles. Nerves that exit the spinal column in the lower back and sacrum control these muscles.
During the early years of life, the sacrum has five separate segments. Later, they fuse together to form the triangular-shaped bone that adults have at the base of the spine. If these segments misalign (falling, learning to walk, ride a bike, etc.) they may compromise nerves that are responsible for bladder function.
We look for these sometimes subtle misalignments during our examination. When these misalignments are reduced with safe and natural chiropractic adjustments, nervous system control and regulation of the bladder may often be restored.
Published Reports
The Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics document many studies showing the positive benefits of chiropractic care.

•A study of 46 children received chiropractic care for a 10-week period. A quarter of those receiving chiropractic care had 50% or more reduction in the wet night frequency, while none among the control group saw a reduction. (JMPT 1994 (Nov-Dec);17 (9): 596-600 )
•Children with a history of persistent bed-wetting received eight chiropractic adjustments. Number of wet nights fell from seven per week to four. (JMPT 1991 (Feb);14 (2): 110-115)
•The lumbar spine of an eight-year-old male bed wetter was adjusted once and at a one-month follow-up. There was a complete resolution of enuresis. “This happened in a manner that could not be attributed to time or placebo effect.” (JMPT 1994 (Jun);17 (5): 335-338)

Will Chiropractic Care Help?
Since chiropractic care isn’t a treatment for bedwetting, a thorough examination is necessary. If the bedwetting is caused by nerve interference from the spine, many children see great results with chiropractic care. Find out!
We approach these cases with sensitivity and compassion. Your son or daughter will appreciate and understand our explanations.

The following is a copy of an article written by Kevin Donka, D.C. It is entitled "Stupid bodies, smart drugs and microchips." Give it a read and you just may want to think again before you roll up your sleeve for that flu shot.

Reuters is reporting today that VeriChip Corp has been granted an exclusive license to two patents for implantable biosensor virus detection systems in humans that can detect the H1N1 and other viruses, and biological threats such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus.

"If we can teach our bodies to recognize and destroy cancer cells through the use of there new vaccines, well, the possibilities are really, really exciting!" This statement was made on WGN Radio in Chicago this week in an interview with Dr. Kevin Most, Vice President of Medical Affairs at Central Du Page Hospital near Chicago.

At first, you may think these breakthroughs" sound really amazing and exciting. But the problem I have with both of them is that in order to invent these things for our bodies, you must first make an assumption. That assumption is that our bodies are not capable of handling the problems these new technologies are designed to deal with. It’s true that sometimes it seems as though we CAN’T handle cancers and viral infections, especially the way pharmaceuticals use the media to propagate the fears that we can’t live without drugs. But the truth is, if allowed to function as it was designed to, your body not only CAN handle cancers and infections, it DOES - EVERYDAY!

You already have a "virus detection system" in your body; it is called your immune system and it is controlled through your brain and nerve system. Normally, anytime an "intruder" enters your body, it is recognized as such and your body takes immediate action to deal with it. However, if your body is too busy trying to deal with the consequences of negative thinking, an unhealthy lifestyle or an interruption in your brain-body connection, effective responses are less likely. Did you know you are continually surrounded by bacteria and viruses, but you never notice because your immune system is handling them?

As far as cancer goes, everyone on the planet today has cancer cells in their bodies right now. It’s true! A cancer cell is nothing more than a cell that has mutated and can no longer perform its normal function. As you are reading this, your immune system is in the process of identifying and destroying these mutated cells in YOUR body, and replacing them with normal, healthy, functioning cells. That is, as long as it is ALLOWED to do so. The same three things mentioned above (negative focus, unhealthy lifestyle, and loss of brain-body connection) will affect your ability to find and destroy all of your cancer cells. But YOU are quite literally curing cancer all the time!

You see the problem with people who are suffering from infections and cancers is not that they HAVE something they shouldn’t have and need to get rid of; the problem is really that they have LOST something they need! They have lost their natural and dynamic state of health, harmony and ease!

Is the answer to add more detection systems into the body or try to "stimulate" our immune systems to work better with drugs that are "smarter" than our poor, stupid, badly designed bodies? Or, does it make more sense to simply take steps to make sure the amazing system that has served us so well throughout our time on this planet can work the way it was designed to?

Science is always trying new things and coming up with new theories that are later found to be untrue and even dangerous. Even thngs we have accepted without question turn out later to be totally wrong. Doctors have been cutting out people’s appendix for years, but just last month (August, 2009), a medical researcher at Duke University said, "The appendix is a lot more than just a useless remnant. Not only was it recently proposed to actually possess a critical function, but scientists now find it appears in nature a lot more often than before thought. And it’s possible some of the organ’s ancient uses could be recruited by physicians to help the human body fight disease more effectively." Help physicians fight diseases more effectively? WHY?! Why not just let it do it’s job?!

The arrogance here is simply overwhelming to me! Our bodies were designed to carry us through our lives while not only handling the stresses we encounter, but helping us actually grow stronger because of them! Science keeps trying to tell us that we are weak, defective and prone to illness and injury and that we live in a very dangerous world. It tries to scare us into believing we need drugs and surgeries and implantable microchips just to survive. Medicine is amazing as crisis care, but when we take crisis care and masquerade it as health care, we end up with a sick society!

A Chiropractor friend of mine relates a conversation with his brother, an MD. His brother told him that we chiropractors never change: we just stick with the same theories that were around over 100 years ago, whereas medicine is always changing. My friend Tedd simply replied, "You only need to change what doesn’t work!"

The most basic tenants of chiropractic and our major premise state:

The intelligence residing within you needs no help from the outside; it just needs to be free to fully express itself in, through and as you! All you need to do is love yourself enough to take care of your body by following our very simple three-step formula;

ACCEPT your importance; EMBRACE your greatness; CELEBRATE who you are and the POWER you have inside, and then follow the three-step formula above. Then when you read or hear a report about some new drug or technology that claims to be able to "make you better," you can simply smile, relax, and KNOW that you are PERFECT just the way you are.

This situation with my grandfather got me thinking.  That is not how I want to spend the last years of my life (I sure that is not the way he wants to spend it either).  That is why I do things now that are health enhancing for a better future.  A future that does not include life in a nursing home or hooked up to tubes to eat, breath or use the restroom.  Seeing my grandfather's situation, made me wonder if I did more for him would he be in the condition he is presently in.  Who know's for sure, but I feel like I should have done more.  I should of insisted on him finding a chiropractor to help keep his nervous system interference free.  To help him optimize his body's innate healing abilities.  I don't know if that would have kept him from falling and braking his hip, but I do know his quality of life would have been better.  That alone could have made all the difference.

This news of my grandfather has strengthened my resolve, and instilled a new energy within me, to tell more people about Chiropractic and a healthy lifestyle.  Not just for today or for a little while, but for a lifetime.  You live your life through your nervous system, so it should be functioning optimally for a lifetime.  You do that by getting your nervous system checked for interference with a chiropractor.  You do it not to get rid of something, but to gain something.  That something is health and a better quality of life.  It's not just for now, it's for your future and your family's future.  The decisions you make today, affect you years down the road.  Let's make good decisions now, so we don't have to live our lives confined to a room, or a chair or hooked to tubes.  Live life to it's fullest now and always.

Grandpa you are in my heart and prayers.  Thank you for inspiring me to do more for others.

Your Intelligent and Organizing Life Energy is like a conductor of a symphony.  It controls and coordinates the trillions cells in your body so they work harmoniously together for a common purpose.  Did you know that there are certain things that take priority over others when comes to your health?  If the amount of energy available to you each day were infinite, there would be no need for your Innate Intelligence to prioritize what it gives energy to.  However, just like your monthly budget, the amount of energy available to you each day is limited.  Doesn’t it make sense then that your Innate Intelligence always makes sure that the most crucial functions receive Life Energy first?  Here is our current understanding of how your Innate Intelligence delegates your Life Energy:

Priority #1:  Survival

            The very first priority is to make sure you are alive – that you SURVIVE!  No energy is given to any other functions until this is assured.

Priority #2:  Coordination

            This allows the different parts of your body to work harmoniously together toward a common purpose.  Coordination is simply another way of saying NORMAL FUNCTION.

Priority #3:  Adaptation

            Once your body is functioning normally, extra energy is used to adapt to all of the physical, chemical and emotional stresses you face each day.  The more fully you can express your Life Energy, the more easily your body can resist, adapt to and integrate these stresses without breaking down.

Priority #4:  Repair

            Once your body is handling the stresses it is facing, Life Energy is given to repair any damage that has occurred.  Since every day parts of your body are breaking down, it is also important to have the resources available to rebuild and repair every day.  This is more than resistance: this is resilience!

Priority #5:  Growth

            The final use of your Life Energy is for advancing and growing.  Growth is something that occurs in many aspects.  When young, growth is mainly physical as you get taller and stronger, and as your brain develops new pathways.  As you enter into adulthood, growth becomes primarily mental, emotional and spiritual.

When you look at these priorities for the use of your Life Energy, where do you see yourself?  Are you functioning normally with ease?  Are you handling the stresses you face each day?  Are you resilient and growing?  You can see that it is of the utmost importance to maximize the expression of your Life Energy in your body to get the most out of life!

Making sure your spine is properly aligned and functioning through regular chiropractic care will help you and your family maintain clear neurological connections and maximize the expression of your Life Energy.  This will allow you to move consistently toward the full expression of health and life!

The Lexington Kids Day is on its way!  Come join us for some major fun on April 25th!  This year's event will be held at the same place, Virgina Hylton Park!  The hours are 10:00am until 2:00pm.  Some special events this year will be the Pancake Supper on Tuesday the 21st at Lexington Town Hall 4:30pm until 7:30pm.  We all enjoy the sugar rush from all of the syrup!  After you eat these pancakes you will certainly want to join us in the Walk & Talk on Saturday the 25th from 8:30am until 10:00am.