The Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, loves Nebraska. So that’s the first thing you have in common with the Monarch, but that’s not all and that’s not the most important thing. Monarchs even love the specific part of Nebraska we’re in. In fact, Aurora, Nebraska, is considered the gateway to the Butterfly Highway. Special, right? But the most important thing, in our opinion, about the Monarch butterfly and you, is that you were both made by God.
You both have a beautiful purpose and were designed perfectly by Someone so much larger than our little lives or the Monarch’s tiny eggs.
This idea that God made each of us for a purpose is very, very, very, very important to us at Griess chiropractic.
I spent a lot of years in school to get a Doctorate of Chiropractic and I’ve been practicing for over 15 years, and yet I’m still learning more and more about our amazing bodies every year. And as a dad and a husband and follower of Christ, I’m learning more about Our Creator every year too.
God Made You
I believe with every cell of my being if every person, and every family knew they were made and loved by God…that they were never a mistake and they are wholly unique we would all approach our lives and our health differently. If we believed God doesn’t make mistakes and He made our bodies different from each other, but perfectly. We would be a healthier community, a healthier population of people, with healthier families–mentally and physically. We’d find positive communities untouched by the side effects of drugs and not relying on drugs and surgeries to treat symptoms.
Griess Chiropractic focuses on allowing our bodies, especially our children’s, to heal themselves. Adjusting our bodies to clear up communication from the brain to the gut to the nerves to the muscles and round and round again
Experienced chiropractic care allows our bodies to heal, to adapt, to function.
I would love for us to get back to remembering the basic principles that God has given us. Our family likes to say, “The Truth is the Truth.”
God Made Our Bodies To Heal
And the truth is, God made our bodies to heal and to adapt. We have this intelligence inside of us that allows our bodies to self-heal and communicate without interference.
There is a specific way our bodies are intended and designed to work and function.
So, when our children have a particular issue like:
- ear infections,
- drainage issue,
- frequent illness,
- runny nose,
- cough,
- congestion, or
- digestive problems like, reflux, colic, or tummy issues,
We don’t have to run out and get a bottle of anything.
For example, a typical method for an ear infection is to go in, name it, and treat it with a medication.
Your child does not have an ear infection because they don’t have enough Amoxicillin in them. The infection is telling us something. Amoxicillin has a list of general side effects including discoloration of your child’s teeth and then an even longer list of “serious side effects” including difficulty breathing, skin blisters, or prolonged vomiting.
An ear infection is a buildup of fluid in the middle ear. Does that sound like an obstruction in your child’s body? Yep. A pathway that is normally clear, but has become blocked. A chiropractic adjustment can restore that perfectly-created pathway.
Medication For Little Ones
Your child doesn’t have constipation or reflux because they don’t have enough MiraLAX in them. And so on and so on.
Injecting a medication into your system, or their tiny one, is not the answer or solution to the problem. It may help a really short-term scenario, but it’s not going to fix the issue. And oftentimes it drives the symptoms deeper into the body.
So as a pediatric and family chiropractor, I am very passionate about the truth that your child’s body has the potential to heal–the innate ability to heal and to make sure that that is able to express trauma. Trauma that often goes back to birth and delivery and begins to interfere with the body’s communication system so you see symptoms like an ear infection, congestion, cough, sleep disruption, constipation, colic, reflex. Going back to basics–those symptoms are just an expression of your body’s nervous system not working properly.
If you remove the stress from your child’s or your system through specific chiropractic adjustment symptoms, you allow the body to communicate and allow it to do what your body needs to do. And then you see the symptoms resolve.
With those symptoms gone and health restore you can soar like our friend the Monarch Butterfly. Created for a beautiful purpose in this world.
Let’s get back to basics of how God created us and help our bodies remove stress through specific adjustment.
I’m so grateful that He loves us all no matter how different we are and that God made our bodies so amazing.
Dr. Luke Griess, D.C.