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Activate Your Health has lots of AMAZING changes and lots of AMAZING news!!!!

First, we are EXCITED to welcome Dr. Allison back to our practice. After being away for a while we realized we were needing a third doctor so you all wouldn't have to wait so long. Dr. Allison was able to come back and join our amazing chiropractic family back in December.

Second, we are EXCITED to announce our new chronic pain program utilizing an AMAZING new technique that is non-invasive and non-painfull, just like an Activator treatment. Dr. Allison is holding informative lectures on this new technique two times a month. Please call our office and get the date for each month. The lecture is 45 min. long with a free testing after to see if you qualify for this new, AMAZING technique!

Dear Patients

We would like to inform you that Dr. Allison has taken a new position in Hobbs, New Mexico. She is purchasing an existing practice in her home town. This was not an easy decision for her and her husband, Andrew. However, after praying about it for six months, they felt it was apparent this i s where they have been called. It is a very exciting yet sad time because she will truly be missed. She wishes to thank you for all of your love and support for the past three years.

We are excited to announce the addition of Dr. Halima Farah of Kansas City to our practice. Dr. Halima is a dynamic chiropractor who graduated top of her class at Cleaveland Chiropractic College of Kansas City with an emphasis in Activator Methods Technique. She will be joining us in the office on August 3rd.

We would like for you to join us on Dr. Allison's last day, Friday, August 14th, from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for an open house reception to extend Dr. Allison well wishes for her extremely bright future and extend a huge warm welcome to Dr. Halima here at Activate Your Health.

Health And Blessings to you all,
Dr. Sivi, Dr. Allison, Dr. Halima and Staff

New Solution for Fibromyalgia Seminar

HAVE YOU RECENTLY HAD ANY.....
SEVERE PAINS, Stiffness, Tenerness, General Fatigue, or Sleep Problems?

Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal aches, pain and stiffness, soft tissue tenderness, general fatigue, and sleep disturbances. The most common sites of pain include the neck, back, shoulders, pelvic girdle, and hands, but any body part can be affected.

Fibromyalgia patients experience a range of symptoms of varying intensities that wax and wane over time. Imagine knowing what treatments work for people just like you — and having the ability to finally start experiencing relief from this draining disease.

Attend the New Solution for Fibromyalgia

Seminar!

• Discover a New Way for Treating Fibromyalgia!

(This knowledge alone could save you and your loved ones years of needless suffering!)

• Receive a Free Relief Test for Fibromyalgia!

Our relief test usually relieves your Fibromyalgia symptoms at the time of testing. This relief lasts anywhere from minutes to days and sometimes weeks.

Call to hold your spot. Seating is limited!

816-676-9100

Monday, April 26th 7:00pm

Activate Your Health

3915 Beck Road, Suite A

Saint Joseph, MO 64506

Natural Solutions to Allergy Problems

Allergic conditions have been increasing dramatically in industrialized countries around the world. More than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies and more than 100 million Americans experience allergy-like symptoms. Allergies are the 6th leading cause of chronic disease in the U.S., costing the health care system over $18 billion annually. Many diseases such as migraines, diabetes type II, rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and others can be caused by an allergic response. Some of the more common symptoms or problems that one might experience due to allergies include:
• Runny nose • Ear infections • Coughing
• Burning, watery eyes • Chest congestion • Headaches
• Sinus congestion • Fatigue • Asthma
• Postnasal drip • Skin rash • Sore throat
Other, less common symptoms or problems that you or your children might experience due to allergies include:
• Learning problems • Joint swelling and pain • Heartburn
• Hyperactivity • Heart palpitations • Ulcers
• Mood swings • Urinary tract problems • Seizures
• Weight loss or gain • Appetite changes • Arthritis
Allergies are an over-reaction of the body’s immune system to normal substances such as dust, mold, pollen, animals, and even foods. These substances only affect a person who is overly sensitive to them. Over-sensitivities are due to a genetic predisposition because your body is malfunctioning from accumulated stress. Research at Nassau University Medical Center has shown that when an allergen enters the body, the immune system reacts as if it were bacteria. The immune system in turn notifies the brain which then causes the secretion of certain hormones in response. This system has been found to be the key factor in immune system disorders including allergies, auto-immune disorders, and immune deficiency disorders. It is also important to know that the principal endocrine (hormone) glands in your body involved in stress are the adrenal glands.
According to a study published by The Davidson College, stress can inhibit the function of the nervous system and the adrenal glands where adrenaline and cortisone-like hormones are produced. It is no wonder that these two areas are directly involved with the development, prevention, and treatment of allergy problems.
Your nervous system controls all of the functions in the body. When the brain is notified by your immune system that a virus, bacteria, or particle you are allergic to enters your body, it sends a signal for your body to fight back. It is the fight against these allergic substances, known as allergens, that produces many allergic reactions. Doctors at John’s Hopkins School of Medicine have found that hay fever [allergies] and asthma originate from events, not only in the respiratory system, but from the nervous system overreacting to stimuli. Scientists call the connection between the brain, your hormones, and your immune system, the neuro-endocrine immune system whose reactions are what cause the manifestation of allergic symptoms.
There are three approaches to handling allergy problems. The first is to avoid contact with substances that you are allergic to. Some tests that can help you determine what substances you may be allergic to include skin tests, blood tests, or an Allergy Pulse Test you can do at home. The second approach is to take medications to suppress your allergy symptoms. Unfortunately, even over-the-counter allergy medications can cause serious side effects. For example, Benadryl® (diphenhydramine), has been found to cause:
rash, anaphylactic shock, photosensitivity, excessive perspiration, chills, hypotension, headaches, palpitations, sleepiness, dizziness, disturbed coordination, fatigue, confusion, restlessness, nervousness, tremors, irritability, insomnia, blurred vision, convulsions, gastrointestinal problems, urinary dysfunction, thickening of bronchial secretions, and sinus problems.
All allergy medications have been found to produce similar or more severe side effects. The third solution, without side effects, involves helping your nervous system and your immune system handle allergens more effectively.
Chiropractors can evaluate your nervous system and determine which areas to adjust to stimulate and improve brain function and adrenal function which results in helping to eliminate one of the causes of allergic reactions. A combination of chiropractic care to improve brain and neurological function along with proper rest, exercise, and nutrition, to strengthen your adrenal glands can produce an improved overall state of health and well-being and reduce or even eliminate allergy problems.

Welcome to The ACTIVATE YOUR HEALTH Newsletter

Making Good Parenting Choices

As parents, our most important responsibility is to make sure our family grows up healthy, happy, and successful. The choices we make as parent’s impact the health of our children and affect the longevity of their lives. The four main controllable factors that impact our children’s health are: proper nutrition, eliminating impurities/losing weight, exercise, and improving body function. By controlling these factors, it is possible to positively affect our children’s future.

To improve the health of your family, you need to control what they eat. Junk foods, sodas, and fried foods are not simply empty calories, but they deplete the body of vitamins and minerals and rob it of what it needs to be healthy. These poor choices can lead to childhood obesity and possible childhood diabetes.

The next area we need to address is exercise or, the lack of it. If you and your family were to take a walk together for 20 minutes each evening, you would do more to enhance each person’s health and prolong your lives, while creating quality family time. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported on a study that found a 10 minute walk is enough to increase energy, alter mood, and affect a positive outlook for up to 2 hours. By addressing these two areas of diet and exercise, proper body weight is achieved.

The final area to address is the ability of your body to properly function.
Nerves control all function and can be damaged by trauma. Here are some facts regarding where traumas can come from:

• From birth, babies are subjected to trauma to their head and neck caused by inducing labor, pain medications, restrictive maternal positions, the use of forceps, vacuum extractions, and caesarian sections.

• According to the National Safety Council, nearly 50 percent of children fall head first from a high place during the first year of their life.

• Tossing your child in the air, pulling a child by the arm, falling, bicycle accidents, school sports, rough-housing, and even carrying a backpack can contribute to spinal trauma.

• A study released by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission stated, almost a quarter of a million children, under the age of 15, are treated for injuries related to playground equipment. The majority of the accidents are falls, and approximately 50 percent of all falls result in head and neck trauma.

These individual and combined traumas result in spinal misalignments, called “subluxations,” which can have far reaching effects on the health of your child.
Health problems such as infantile colic, scoliosis, ear infections, tonsillitis, bedwetting, and adolescent low back pain, just to name a few, can be related to spinal subluxations more commonly referred to as pinched nerves. To understand how this happens, we need to understand how the spine and the nervous system affect the body.

To begin, there are two types of nerves: pain and function. If there is pressure on a nerve of pain from trauma, you feel pain. If there is pressure on a nerve of function, you feel no pain, but your body will not function properly. Thus, when a nerve of function is not working properly, it causes a loss of function to the area of the body that the nerve controls. This could be a muscle, gland, tissue or organ. On the other hand, if a nerve of pain is pinched, you can experience pain in that area of the body where the nerve has pressure. By releasing the pressure off of the nerves, chiropractic has been very successful in treating many common childhood health problems. To find out if you or your family can benefit from chiropractic, please give us a call!

Posted in March Addition of "Elegant Living" Magazine