Without even considering the second and third world countries, the first world’s health care systems are in an unsustainable state. Skyrocketing costs of a system that is losing ground to ever increasing demand due to its inefficiency is just one small aspect of this system that has lost its way. Iatrogenic disease is now a leading cause of death and injury and it is not being addressed with the urgency it deserves. Instead we are pumping more money and effort into a system and expecting a different result. The mechanistic foundation of this “Health” system is inherently flawed.
The 17th principle of chiropractic states that “Every effect has a cause and every cause, an effect.” Pretty obvious, you might say. One cannot exist without the other, but when it comes to our health we often seem to overlook that a temporal relationship between the two events exists. The medical system operates as if the appearance of a health ‘condition’ and its associated symptoms and pathogens just happened and if we can’t find a cause that makes sense at the time the condition is noticed, we tend to put the condition down to bad luck, or genetics, or something as equally nebulous and treat the effects, leaving causes to remain.
Chiropractic states that every effect has a cause and that the highest purpose in health care is to locate and address the cause letting the person’s body deal with the effects unless it has reached the limitations of matter, in which case the mechanistic intervention is necessary. Structure affects function in the human being and therefore any alteration to structure, especially the person’s skeletal system, will affect the way the person behaves, performs and functions.
As the insanity of the ‘magic bullet’ to ‘cure’ conditions is becoming increasingly apparent, we are seeing the public reaching in ever increasing numbers for those who provide a sane and sustainable form of health care. Chiropractic is the best positioned to provide this new direction.
At Quest Chiropractic Coaching, we provide services and products to the chiropractic profession that enables and empowers chiropractors and their teams to ethically answer this calling for a new direction in health care.
One of the fundamental goals of Quest is to develop chiropractors and others who will take an initiative in leading (or as we refer to it as wayshowing) health care. A new era where a proactive, health focused, scientifically sound, holistic model of health partnership serveing society will emerge and it is our business to inform and inspire the chiropractic profession to be there showing the way.
