Do You Know the Medical Definition of Health?
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Do you know what health is? When I ask this question, most people tell me that health is feeling good. If they have pain, they have a problem, and if they have no pain, they figure they must not have a problem.
But simply feeling good has little to do with how healthy you are. Think about someone you may have known or heard about who never had any indications of illness and simply dropped dead of a heart attack. (The number one symptom of heart disease is in fact sudden death, and not chest pain.)
Dorland’s Medical Dictionary defines health as a condition of optimal physical, social, and mental well-being—not merely the absense of diseases or infirmities. Webster’s dictionary defines health as a condition of wholeness in which the organs are functioning 100% all the time.
So what if you’re only functioning at 80%? By this definition, are you healthy? Do you think you’d know the difference? What about 60%? Maybe.
In many cases, there needs to be substantial damage or destruction—say 50%—before a problem is detectable.
Will you wait for this and be reactive, or will you be proactive with your health?
A chiropractic checkup is one of the best ways to find out your level of spinal health so you can deal with any problems before they become permanent, or more expensive, costly and time-consuming to fix.
Contact me and I’ll be happy to refer you to someone in your area.
Yours in good health,
Dr. Sidenberg
