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What's the difference between sick care and health care?
Sick care is largely about relieving or suppressing symptoms. Health care is about improving performance. While sick care is about how you feel, health care is about how you function. Sick care is what you do to treat an obvious problem, and health care is what you do to avoid the problem and advance your well-being.
What's the difference between chiropractic and medicine?
Medical treatment focuses on the disease or the symptom. Chiropractic focuses on the person with the disease or the symptom. Medical treatment usually involves changing blood chemistry. Chiropractic involves restoring nervous system integrity. Medical doctors prescribe medicine. Chiropractors adjust the spine—a common source of nervous system interference.
Children's Health Issues Articles
Each month, Dr. Karl Standifer publishes a new article related to childrens health. Here are some links to the current article and to previous months' articles.
- Month
- Article
- February 2012
- Wear Your Helmet!
- January 2012
- Infant Mortality
- December 2011
- The Risks of Being Born
- November 2011
- Self Esteem = Success
- October 2011
- Bedtime Story Benefits
- September 2011
- Pox Party!
- August 2011
- Being Born Is Hard!
- July 2011
- Antibiotics? Again?
- June 2011
- Lice and Ringworm
- May 2011
- Living With Asthma?
- April 2011
- Car Seat Catastrophe
- March 2011
- Fear of Fevers
- February 2011
- Ritalin Risks
- January 2011
- Growing Pains
- December 2010
- Autism-Mercury Connection
- November 2010
- Chiropractic and Bedwetting
- October 2010
- Backpacks 101
- September 2010
- How Bones Grow
- August 2010
- Colic? Try Chiropractic!
- July 2010
- "My Baby Won't Nurse"
- June 2010
- Asthma On the Rise
- May 2010
- Another Breakout Ruins the Day
- April 2010
- Innie or Outie?