At Marc Bony Chiropractic Center in Mataró, we specialize in improving your health naturally through chiropractic. Learn how our spinal adjustments can transform your well-being.
My name is Marc Bony and I am a Doctor of Chiropractic. In Spain chiropractic is a very unknown science; the whole country has 347 doctors of chiropractic, and in the rest of the world it is the third health profession that is used to take care of health, due to the results it achieves with patients and the practically non-existent side effects it can have as a health practice.
WHY IS CHIROPRACTIC THE THIRD LEADING HEALTH PROFESSION?
Chiropractic is the third leading health profession because, after traditional medical doctors and dentists, people rely on chiropractic as an alternative to traditional medicine.
Chiropractors do not work on pain as traditional medical professionals do. Chiropractic works on the functioning of the body. Chiropractic could be compared to the dentist. The dentist takes care of the teeth, the doctor of chiropractic will take care of the spine, the vertebrae and the nervous system. What cavities are for the dentist, we will call them subluxations. In chiropractic, the correction of these subluxations will require a specific spinal adjustment. When a cavity affects our teeth, there is a latency time from the time they appear until symptoms occur. With chiropractic it is exactly the same, that is, from the time the subluxation occurs until the pain appears, it can take a long time. Some scientists even speak of ten to twelve years.
HOW DOES CHIROPRACTIC WORK IN OUR ORGANISM?
The spinal column is very important since it is the communicator between the brain and the rest of the organism. That is to say, it is the channel through which all information is sent. We must understand the spinal column and all the vertebrae as an information highway that reaches all the organs. If this information highway has an interference (subluxation), the nervous information will not arrive completely to the organs and during 5, 10 or 15 years less and less information will arrive, finally generating a disease.
That is why chiropractic is so important. It is necessary to take care of this central axis so that the body can function better and avoid major problems, eliminating the «interferences».
Many people come to my office for the symptoms, it is the passport to enter the consultation, but they realize that by making the body work better thanks to the vertebral adjustments of chiropractic, the pain disappears...... but not because I work on the pain directly, but because I work on the cause of this pain, recovering the proper functioning of our body.
HOW WOULD YOU EXPLAIN CHIROPRACTIC WITH A SIMILE?
To understand the concept of chiropractic, we could imagine a faucet, a hose and a vegetable garden. Imagine that we put a brick on top of the hose. If we leave the brick on top of the hose for many years, eventually the garden dries up. That is to say, if for a long time we have a subluxation on our nerves, the organs will start to stop working properly, for lack of «correct irrigation of the information», and they will end up getting sick. That is when the symptom appears.
Doctors of chiropractic what we do is to lift the brick that presses the hose (we make specific vertebral adjustments), getting the water flow back to normal (brain-organ nerve information flow) and eventually we will get the orchard to recover and bear fruit (the body returns to function properly, because in optimal health situation is self-regulating).
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE VERSUS CHIROPRACTIC
In our society, we associate the concept of health with the concept of not having pain, but this concept is totally illogical. For example, people who die of a heart attack (a large part of the population) and do not feel pain .... do they all die in good health?
The second cause of death in Spain and in many industrialized countries is cancer.... and the same thing happens. Many patients with grade one to four cancer do not feel pain. Therefore, basing health on pain is not an adequate reference.
Traditional medicine focuses on pain and works on health to address the pain at the moment or the next day. The correct, logical, coherent and healthy thing to do is not only to attack the pain (which is the symptom) but to look for the source of the pain and correct the problem. Chiropractic looks for the cause of the symptom and seeks to correct it for the benefit of our long-term health.
Finally, I leave you a video in which I explain how chiropractic contributes to your health.
