Why Wellness after restoring the curve?

This is an interesting question my sister asked me. It sort of sucks having to debate with my sister about chiropractic because she doesn't "believe" in it. Makes me laugh because she is a physical therapy student and so there are different opinions about chiropractic care.
We have had our arguments and I admit that I need to train myself to handle her questions better. This will be a topic that I will ask the doctors I work for to do a video on because I am sure a lot of people ask this.

When you start care and do correction eventually you get to the point for Wellness Care. That is when you come in less often just to maintain your spine the way it should be. Then my sister asked me why? If it works then why do we need to come in so often to maintain? Also how often should you be coming in for Wellness care?

Well when I talk to her tonight, after I have thought it over a bit, there are quite a few interesting points that I can bring up. Why do we brush our teeth every day? In order to take care and maintain our teeth after using it through out the day. Her come back will probably be..."well, don't you teach people  how to maintain their spines properly?". We do. You have to consider the fact that just like your teeth you are constantly using your spine to do everything. The only way you aren't putting your spine through any kind of stress... wear and tear... etc... If you just lay down properly and never move. Impossibly... because you would need to get up at some point to eat, drink, walk around, relieve yourself... etc.

Next point, you go to the dentist to have your teeth cleaned. Recommended twice a year. Now think about that... if you asked a dentist if there are people who should probably get it cleaned more frequently or less frequently? They would say yes. It depends on the person and how they use their bodies.

Same thing again with exercise. You do things to maintain your body health. So why don't you just go exercise twice a year? A good hour twice a year? Is that really productive? No.. you need to be consist to continue to be healthy and get good results. So after you get that six pack you've been dying for, you don't need to work again for another 6 months right? No you need to maintain it. Just like your spine, after you get the spine fixed after 6 months a lot can happen to it.

Same thing with eating healthy. We all know that we should do it. So lets say you will eat healthy twice a year. How productive is that for your body? Not very? It's a very similar concept. In order to continue to get good results and feel great from your healthy meals, you need to be consistent on it. Let's say you work so hard on losing weight by cutting out the soda, ice cream, sugars and fats. Then you get skinny and start eating it all again and just eating healthy twice a year... Will you stay healthy skinny? I highly highly doubt it.

So since I've rambled I just wanted to let people know that chiropractic is a healthy lifetime decision. The reason why so many people who think chiropractic thinks it's just pain relief for the moment or it utterly doesn't work. It's because you aren't thinking of the Wellness Chiropractic where you take care of yourself in the long term : Fighting and Preventing Disease.