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Illness, Health, Wellness, Chiropractic, and the Big Picture...

Godshall Chiropractic Offices

The terms ill and well are opposites. Health care needs a paradigm shift from ill care to well care. There is a predominant mind trap we live in, allowing a degenerative tendency to set in, thinking of fixing the symptoms, and neglecting the potential of restoring body tissues and their functions. The human body maintains a marked propensity to be well. There is a need for allopathic and chiropractic care in the shift from a fixation on ill care toward a focus on well care. All future doctors, acting as a patient’s team, must be sensitive to curative and preventative realms of care. Chiropractic and medical doctors have separate and distinct approaches. Each must return to being servants of the patient, teaching and treating a patient as if close family. A health care team concept managed by the patient, for the patient’s well-being, is essential for the future.

Key Words: chiropractic • homeostasis • nervous system • vertebral adjustment • vertebral subluxation • wellness

Home Health Care Management & Practice, Vol. 16, No. 6, 464-473 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1084822304265852


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