So it’s Monday morning….Jiu-jutsu is at 12:30pm….You race over to your favorite chiropractor to get your spine adjusted. Now that your nerve pressure is removed, you get to the studio a little early to implement Fighter Training Warm Up Part 1…the full body lubrication sequence. Once finished with the lubrication sequence you begin Part 2….the full body stretching sequence.

In Part 2, Los Angeles Chiropractor, Dr. Jeremy Brook takes the martial arts practitioner through a yogic sequence designed to increase flexibility and minimize stress and strain.

Shot at Street Sports Jiu-jitsu Chatsworth, with Scott Singer and Nik.

If you’re looking for reasons not to visit a chiropractor, here are eight of them!

1.) You don’t have a spine. If you’re born sans spine, there’s really no need to worry about spinal degeneration, is there?

2.) If you can’t see it, it must be fine. Skin, eyes, hair, teeth… These front-facing body parts are important because other people can see them. If a healthy spine was really that important, it wouldn’t be in the back.

3.) You love taking medication. Taking risks makes life more enjoyable! Dizziness, headaches, dry mouth, constipation, seizures, cancer, death… What’s not to like about side effects?

4.) Your insurance doesn’t pay for it. Money is for important stuff like Netflix, cigarettes, and gambling. If your insurance plan doesn’t cover it, maybe chiropractic care just isn’t necessary?

5.) They don’t prescribe drugs. Why would you want to go to a doctor who doesn’t think you need another prescription? (See #3.)

6.) They think lifestyle “stress” can make you sick. Apparently they’re not aware of bad genes. Everybody knows you only get sick because certain diseases just run in the family.

7.) They expect you to do stuff at home. They want you to make time for rest, exercise, and stretching. On top of that, they think you should change your diet. Evidently they don’t understand how busy you are…

8.) Besides, you’re impervious to mistakes. You eat just fine, and there’s nothing wrong with the way you’re living. Even if your “habits” are making you gain weight and age prematurely, that’s none of the doctor’s business! Their job is to get you out of pain so you can get back to doing the things that brought you there in the first place.

You walk into your Chiropractor’s office, hop on a table and point to where it hurts… expecting to get adjusted right in that very spot.  But the Chiropractor starts working on a totally different part of your spine, not even close to where you feel the pain.  Why is that?

Chiropractors recognize that if you remove the cause of someone’s symptom, the body will no longer have a need to produce it.  That’s why the main focus of a Chiropractic visit is to locate and correct the underlying problem, and not the superficial effect.  Chasing after symptoms is like a dog chasing after its own tail.  You only end up spinning around and around until you get dizzy, confused and frustrated.  It’s much smarter to address the underlying cause.

There’s an old saying that goes when you step on a dog’s tail, it barks out the other end.  In Chiropractic that means, where you hurt (the bark) isn’t necessarily where the problem is (the tail).  Many times the pain you feel in one area is actually a referred symptom from somewhere else.  For example, someone with sciatica may feel pain down their leg, but the source of their problem is a Subluxation (vertebral misalignment) in their spine.