Question
Do you know of any places that will monitor your internal body to correct discs, vertbraes, and provide degenerative ones nourishment at the same time?

Answer
Dear Richie,

Please read my response to your other question before this.  It will give you some perspective for this one.  

There is a dichotomy that exists in scientific thought when it comes to human function.  Some would view it in a mechanistic way; i.e., that there is a normative value for measurable functions which defines proper function.  This is the basis for most of what the world understands as healthcare.  There are panels of experts who meet from time to time to determine the lists of 搉ormal?values and these then become performance standards to be measured by providers in their offices.  When the values are outside the current published 搉ormals,?therapeutic measures are employed in a trial-and-error model or simply according to convention to bring them back to the averages.  When a person抯 values are 搉ormalized?in this way, they are labeled 搉ormal?or, quite often, 揾ealthy.? It is likely that this is the basis for your question about monitoring the body.  You seek to find some value that can be linked to controlling or modifying a function ?state of disc norishment, for instance - to a particular value.  It is an accepted practice in athletics and therapeutic practices.  

Others view human function in a vitalistic way; i.e., that there is an innately determined value that will vary according to the needs of the organism at any and every given moment in order to express their optimum potential to carry out life.  It comes from an understanding that there is more to life than what can be explained through simple chemical or physical processes.  There is an inherent humility in this approach in that it must be accepted that the innate normal can never be known with certainty; it is not some static value.  

It may help you to understand that my profession is split across these two lines of thought.  Recall from my response to your other question that therapeutic mixed chiropractic and non-therapeutic straight chiropractic are differentiated by whether they deal with the mechanistic, limited therapeutic approach for aches and pains (commonly termed "therapeutic mixed" chiropractic because it represents a mixture of a chiropractor with a non-chiropractic matter) or a vitalistic, non-therapeutic approach to optimum body performance (termed "non-therapeutic straight" chiropractic because there is no mixing of chiropractic with anything else).  

In summary, then, a non-therapeutic straight chiropractor has the professional objective of checking the spine on a regular basis for vertebral subluxations and safely correcting those that are found so that the individual may express their optimum potential on all levels.  The idea is that one is hampered from realizing or expressing one抯 full inborn potential with vertebral subluxation.  

Similar reasoning can be applied, for that matter, to anything which allows a person to live to the best of their innate ability, whether having all your nerve channels open or being properly nourished or avoiding damaging stressors, etc.  It抯 a prima facie concept - though not a complex premise, it is based upon sound logic.  If you disagree with it, then we may have no basis to discuss its value.  If you do agree with it, however, there is much that can be said as to why the exact benefits to a particular individual may be impossible to detail.  

I have said over the years that it would require me having your Creator抯 knowledge (or creator抯 knowledge, for the agnostic) to know what your inborn potential is or if you are expressing it fully.  For instance, how many years should you live?  I don抰 mean the average lifespan for someone of your demographic, I mean YOUR specific lifespan.  You or I can抰 know that, so it would be impossible to tell you that you抣l live a few more years addressing non-therapeutic matters than if you did nothing about them.  A similar argument can be made for many other variables.  How much blood should be going to your left hand right now?  How many body cells should you replace today?  What should your pain threshold be?  How many times should you breathe today?  We could even add the question of what your disc nourishment should be at this moment.  Not only are these things impossible to know, they are dynamic and may change from one moment to the next.  Though these things can抰 be knowingly or validly measured from an innately normal standpoint, it is inescapable that they are less likely to happen perfectly in a situation where the individual is compromised.  

It is not relevant, then, to my professional objective to monitor body values.  Whether such could be changed or not is not a reliable measure innate normal values.  


Sincerely,
James W. Healey, D.C.