2. Welcome Farabaugh Chiropractic Office The pain relief you need, the personal attention you want

3. Purpose To provide you with information that you’ll need to better understand the problems we may have found in your case after careful analysis of your examination and x-rays.

4. Patient’s most common questions: 1. What’s Wrong ? 2. How long will it take ? 3. How often will I need to come? 4. How much will it cost ?

5. Those questions will be answered on you next visit We will be going over your specific information. Our best recommendations.

6. For now you need a better understanding of your problem and ask any questions you may have.

7. The Problem…. Disease Care vs. Health Care Stats and Facts

8. Drugs…. 44,000 to 98,000 die each year due to medical mistakes and drug reaction

9. 1 st Fact: Your spine needs to be regularly maintained throughout your life from the very beginning.

10. WHY ? Because our body and spine are under constant assault from: - Gravity: constantly pressing upon us - Daily activities and postures: - Standing, Sitting, Bending etc. - Obvious traumas and injuries - Car and work accidents - Sports accidents - Slips and falls

11. These assaults can result in: These small vertebrae to shift. Normal Subluxated

12. Vertebral Subluxation One or more vertebrae shift and put pressure on the nerves Subluxations occur when we don’t maintain our spine.

13. Subluxated

14. 2 nd Fact You can not feel Subluxation What you are feeling are the effects of subluxation

15. Subluxations cause a loss of nerve flow, which over time causes effects in your body. Headaches - Numbness in an arm or leg – Back or Leg Pain – Ulcers – Organ disease………….

17. What happens if we stop the effect ? The Crisis i.e. the headache, back pain etc. And leave the subluxation ?

18. If we help your body get rid of the PROBLEM The SUBLUXATION… And not maintain the spine then what…

19. We return to the subluxation, which puts pressure on the nerve, and may result in what… Another health crisis, or even worse.

20. An Example: A patient with unhealthy diet. -overtime it leads to clogged arteries -If left undetected and uncorrected what might that cause? ( A Heart Attack… which can be deadly.

21. Subluxations are much the same way. You can't feel the subluxations, so if left undetected and uncorrected that nerve pressure would result in what? (Effect and lowered state of health)

22. Cause Effect

23. 1 st Goal is to detect if you have a subluxation. If you do – correct the subluxation. Once corrected we go back to maintenance.

24. Spinal nerve chart with effects.

25. Lets look at a healthy Spine.

26. When a subluxation occurs, it puts a shift in the spine. This shift causes an imbalance in the spine. Normal Subluxated

27. Nerve pressure is affected and causes a lowered state of health And the vertebrae themselves undergo a rapid phase of degeneration.

28. Normal Phase I

29. Normal Cervical SpinePhase I Degeneration

30. Phase II Phase III No Correction Possible

31. Phase II Degeneration Phase III Degeneration

32. Normal Pelvis A/P Normal Pelvis A/P

33. Subluxated Pelvis

34. Normal Cervical Spine

35. Subluxated Cervical Spine

36. Normal Subluxated

37. AFTER BEFORE

38. 29 yrs. Machine Shop Worker, Mid- Back Pain, Sinus, Allergy BEFORE AFTER

39. JULY 1997 OCT. 1997