Healthy News & Views

On March 5 2011, in Columbus Ohio, the sports and fitness world shared a common interest in performance with the chiropractic world.  It was on this day that the Arnold Classic Sports Festival was held along side the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) Sports and Fitness Symposium.  

Arnold Schwarzenegger then gave a talk to the attendees.  He started his address by praising the relationship that his fitness expo has had with the chiropractors over the past 19 years. He noted that in past years the bodybuilding world and the chiropractic world both had a problem with their image in some peoples' minds. He explained by saying,  "Some people have a terrible image of chiropractic. This is why you are at this convention here. This is why I myself have always been out there campaigning and talking well about chiropractic." Arnold continued, "We've got to let the people know that there is a necessity, it's not even an option, it's a necessity to have a chiropractor. As much as it is a necessity to have a dentist, if you have a dentist for the family, you should have your chiropractor for the family."

Former California Gov. Schwarzenegger then talked about how chiropractic has personally helped him and his family by saying, "I have seen it over the years, over the 40 years since Franco Columbu, my dear friend, became a chiropractor, and how this has helped our family, how many times he has saved the day in our family. So we know the value. We talk about it all the time. Every seminar that I do about exercising and training, weight resistance training, good nutrition, I talk about the importance of chiropractic."

After his talk Dr. Braile got this picture with Arnold. (No Dr Bob Does not adjust Arnold, he has his good friend Dr Columbo do that.)

Dr. Braile and the Board of the Georgia Council of Chiropractic met with Gov. Nathan Deal. Gov. Deal signed a proclamation making March "Chiropractic Month" in the state of Georgia.

I recently had the opportunity to be at the Arnold Fitness Classic in Columbus Ohio. At this event Lou Ferrigno former champion body builder and actor who play the Hulk on TV gave a talk about how important chiropractic is. Below is the short video of his comments.

Here is the text of his talk: "I have to say thanks' to you, because you people will help a lot of people, keep them from having surgery unless they have to have surgery." Ferrigno noted that he recently had to have his knee and hip joints replaced due to years of heavy training. He credited chiropractic for helping him recover and noted, "I need to have chiropractic once a month, or twice and month. Sometimes I go every week because I think it is very vital."

You can have anything you want,
if you will give up the belief,
that you can't have it.

Robert Anthony

Health is obtainable for everyone. Unfortunately, many people believe they can not be healthy. The excuses of "I'm too old", or "I have such-n-such, and that can not be helped," or, "well I've had this for a long time and I just have to learn to live with it", are self fulfilling prophesy.   You can be healthy, God gave health to you, and only you can give it away.

Dr Bob

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is nothing more or less than the individual who listens, accepts with out questions, and permits development of a superior knowledge from within to flow freely.
BJ Palmer - Developer of Chiropractic

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

When one man, for whatever reason, has an opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Jacques Cousteau

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan

To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tsu

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippman

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness. Kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile."

Mother Theresa

"Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of."
Benjamin Franklin

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."
Robert Collier

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by,
and that made all the difference."
Robert Frost

"As I look back upon my life,
I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next.
The most trivial of incidents fits into a larger pattern
like a mosaic in a preconceived design."
Sanger

The First Christmas
by Bob Braile, D.C.

Nearly 2000 years ago the baby Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem. This blessed event would have been looked upon quite differently if seen from a medical perspective. Let us examine the so-called "modern" thinking about this event.

What a big risk our Heavenly Father took when He sent His Son to us in the way He did. First of all, the Virgin Mary was much to young to bear such an important child. Plus, no tests were performed to see if she was even capable of carrying the child full term. Also, Mary was not adequately prepared. She attended no birthing classes, did not practice her breathing, nor did she read up on the birth process.

It should also be noted that some safety procedures were ignored during this pregnancy. I mean, no blood tests were done, no obstetric examinations, no ultra sound, or even the listening and monitoring of the child's heart beat. And surely, for such an important baby, an amniocentesis should have been done! Not even the proper regime of vitamins was given to the mother for her nutrition. When you think about it, we're taking a major risk here.

And just think of the terrible conditions for the birth itself. Certainly stable was not sterile. And with all those animals in the same room it's a wonder there wasn't a major infection. Not even simple clean sheets, or surgical masks for the three Wise Men were used. And I'm quite sure that Mary was not on the proper delivery table with her feet in the stirrups.

If that's not bad enough, common medical practice was ignored from this point on. Certainly an important woman like Mary should have been given some pain relievers or a spinal block to help ease her discomfort. Of course an episiotomy would have been called for to help out. I'll bet that a set of clamps weren't even available in case of need. Not to mention the lack of fetal monitoring equipment in case an emergency cesarean was required. I mean this whole procedure sounds like a nightmare.

From there on it still got worse. No surgical instruments to cut the cord, no silver nitrate for the baby's eyes, no fetal intensive care units, no alcohol rubs, no temperature control cubicles, no suction of the child's nose or throat, none of the modern safety precautions that should have been used.

The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced this entire procedure was a menace to the mother and child. Someone should be liable for mal-practice in a case like this. With the state of things as they were, I'll bet the child Jesus never even got His required vaccinations!

I don't know,... but if it were up to modern medicine, this should have been done much differently. God sure took a big chance.....

... or maybe we need to rethink the things we think are necessary and stop interfering with normal God-given miracles.