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If you have a fever, are you sick or healthy?

Chiropractors love asking this question because it gets to the root of the chiropractic difference. Turns out fevers, vomiting, coughing and even sneezing are all healthy responses. It means your body is working correctly. Taking medications to suppress these natural processes can actually prolong your recovery.

How do most people deal with subluxations?

First, they try to ignore them. When they don't, they go to the medicine cabinet to stop their brain from feeling the symptom. Later, back surgery may be threatened. Sadly, it's not until this later stage that they consult our Toronto chiropractic office. Yet, even with the delay, most are delighted by the results produced by today's chiropractic care. Contact us and let's get started.

Healthful Effects of Prayer

Many popular magazines, Time, Reader’s Digest, PARADE, have featured cover stories about the benefits of prayer on health and healing. Even scientists have begun to conduct studies to qualify and quantify the healing power of prayer.

Harold Koenig, MD, associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke University, is senior author of a book titled, Handbook of Religion and Health. The book documents 1200 studies involving the effects of prayer on health. These studies conclude that people who pray tend to live healthier lifestyles and get sick less often than their non-praying counterparts.

Some interesting facts are emerging…

• People who do not attend regular religious services generally have hospitalizations three times as long as those who do
• Non-religious heart practice members were 14 times more likely to die following surgery than those who participated in a religion
• Elderly people who attend regular religious services are half as likely to suffer from strokes as those who do not.

In addition, people who participate in a religion tend to become depressed less often, or they recover more quickly if they do get depressed. They also tend to suffer less from stress, high blood pressure and heart disease.

Some studies indicate that sick people who are prayed for face better chances for recovery than those for whom no prayers are offered. In fact, there are studies that document this, even when the practice members are unaware that anyone is praying for them!