Hi, I’m Dr. Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic. Your pain isn’t the problem, your pain is a signal that your body has a problem. So, it’s like a fire alarm in your house. Your body is designed to heal completely, provided the nervous system is functioning right. So, if you cut your arm you don’t really have to think about it too much, or do anything other than just give it a little time, make sure it’s clean, make sure the bleeding is stopped. And your body does the rest; it heals it up completely. Just like anything else in the body, this requires the coordination and the control of the nervous system. So, if your body is able to heal it completely, it removes the cause of that problem. If it’s not able do that, it heals incompletely.

Or a lot of times, in allopathic medical model in Western medicine, we see covering up symptoms with medication. This is very prevalent and it’s really just like taking the batteries out of the smoke alarm and doing nothing about the fire. Nobody likes to be in pain, I get that. It is very debilitating. If you live in chronic pain, it really changes your life. So the goal is really to get rid of the pain, but it’s to do so by removing the cause of the problem. Healing is the body’s natural state as long as the nervous system’s functioning right. Spinal mis-alignments put pressure on the nervous system and it inhibits the body’s ability to heal. So it either causes a malfunction, in the nerves functioning too much or not enough.
So, chiropractic care is a great solution for addressing the cause of the problem and allow the body to heal properly.

I’m Dr. Steven Battaglino with Battaglino Chiropractic (in Petaluma, CA), and this has been your “Health Minute.”