Back Talk: Wellness Care is the Ounce of Prevention We All Need

KARL SCHWARTZ, D.C.

s we move past spring and into summer, I am beginning to see some common and familiar problems with my patients. Patients are starting back to yard work, beginning a A new outdoor exercise routine, or simply getting back to neighborhood walks. Problems may arise if your spinal and muscular systems have not been properly maintained over the winter. Several patients have already come into my office with a spinal crisis caused by a restart of simple outdoor activities. So how do you keep from becoming a victim of this same crisis?

First and most importantly, remember that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We have a program in our office called “wellness care.” Once patients have received treatment for whatever acute issue has caused them to initially come in, we offer the choice to move to wellness care. Wellness care is simply getting your spine checked and adjusted when you are feeling well. Does this mean that because you feel good, you do not have any spinal issues? Of course not; this is what prevention is all about. We can find the spinal issue and fix it so that you don’t have to experience pain and symptoms. Why wait for problems to occur when you can simply correct them before they develop into a problem that limits your ability to enjoy life?

Let’s expand that idea out further. Imagine every person at a small business would take advantage of wellness care. We would have employees that were happier and healthier and out of work less due to spinal issues. Apply the idea of wellness care to a larger business, and imagine how health care costs would be reduced and controlled. What about applying the idea to a small city, and think how a program like this could cultivate more productive workers, or healthier and happier residents, and become more productive overall. Imagine the cumulative effect if wellness care was offered to all residents in a state, or a country. Imagine the broad effect in increased productivity and decreased overall costs. Unfortunately, this idea is not promoted in this country, but imagine the benefits if we had a different paradigm about heath that is common in other countries.

Since we cannot control the government, the city, the insurance company, or even our company’s HR department, we can as individuals institute this paradigm of health in our own families. We do it in my family. Choose wellness care. Be all you can be by being proactive with your health as a family, and your family will be happier, healthier, and more productive. Isn't that what we are all striving for?

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DR. KARL SCHWARTZ is a graduate of Life University in Marietta, Georgia; he has been practicing chiropractic in Tucker for twenty-one years and a resident here for fifteen years. His office specializes in preventing sports injuries and maximizing performance by analyzing posture, weight bearing, and gait. If you have a question you would like addressed in a future column, please email karlschwartzdc@gmail.com. Note “Back Talk” in the subject line.

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