Cafe of Life Chiropractic of Bend

02/16/2023

Parents bring their kids to see me in my office to check for spinal health. What alarms me is the amount of spinal deviation and in more extreme cases, severe scoliosis that shows up. Many parents let the schools determine if the health and alignment of their kids' spines are "good enough." It is shocking at times, what is considered healthy. I hear stories from parents of their frustration with their kids and their constant reminders to "sit up, stand tall, don't slump..." It is quite probable that that child honestly cannot "straighten up." This creates a cycle of the child feeling failure and being in the wrong. Are there ways to reduce the scoliosis? Often there are. At the minimum, it is best to have information so you can take action. I have posted a very simple video to educate you on how to check your kids at home. Of course, you can see your chiropractor or other health practitioners, although chiropractors are trained specifically to assess spinal issues. It is best to catch these challenges earlier in life than wait until they are adults.

This video was created by the Setting Scoliosis Straight Foundation. The purpose of this video is to educate and support scoliosis patients, their families, ...

01/18/2023

Written by a respected colleague...

"To everyone who thinks chiropractic is about headaches and low back pain- it’s so much more than that.
Chiropractic restores and maintains the neural communication pathways between the brain and the body so the body has the ability to self-heal. When there is a breakdown in that communication, dis-ease occurs in the cell/tissue/organ supplied by that neural energy. Breakdown of physical matter leads to dis-ease, of which pain is a symptom.
It is similar thinking to that of a garden hose— when there is a “kink” in the hose, water can’t get from point A to point B and the flowers never get watered. When your brain and body fail to have proper communication, the tissue supplied by that affected nerve begins to die and manifestation of dis-ease sets in.
Chiropractic has nothing to do with cracking backs and everything to do with the maintenance of a homeostatic environment that promotes health and fights sickness. Pain relief is also a proven benefit of being under care, but not the sole intent of an adjustment.
We don’t take credit for the healing, but rather allow your body to achieve an internal environment where it can heal itself. Do you have to ask or direct your skin to heal a cut? There is an innate intelligence inside all of us that strives to be alive and well- the body is an amazing thing capable of self-healing when the circumstance allows it.
Don’t get swept up in the medical paradigm of chasing symptoms- you don’t want to treat symptoms anyway, you want to fix the problem. Chiropractors are skilled at finding the root cause of dis-ease so that you get back to true health and avoid drugs, surgeries, and other unnecessary interventions.
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
Sounds about right 👌"
-Kayci Cleveland Obarr

09/03/2021

Back-to-school time is here and it looks different than ever before. Like many of you, I have been pouring over the research and the news while trying to juggle children at home — and the swirling energy of so much uncertainty. Many of us feel drawn to know what we can do to ensure our families ar...

09/03/2020

Life is a canvas!

06/24/2020

Our bodies can take a tw***ie and make heart and lung cells. From the simple joining of a s***m and an egg, a whole being is made. An inhale is enough to keep us filled with oxygen and in perfect balance, to exhale CO2 to feed the plants. From a kind thought or word, a whole cascade of chemicals floods our bodies to support life, love, and happiness. Has all this wisdom abandoned us because of a virus? Are we so helpless? I am not saying the covid virus is not something to be reckoned with, but we are not helpless! We have tools built into our very being. And we can add to those tools with good thoughts, healthy foods, time in the outdoors...The passage below is a poetic way to express that we are strong and we can have trust in what we are....strong, adaptable, and full of innate wisdom.

THE TRUTH...

“WE CHIROPRACTORS work with the subtle substance of the soul. We release the prisoned impulse, the tiny rivulet of force that emanates from the mind and flows over the nerves to the cells and stirs them into life.

We deal with the magic power that transforms common food into living, loving, thinking clay; that robes the earth with beauty, and hues and scents the flowers with the glory of the air.

In the dim, dark, distant long ago, when the sun first bowed to the morning star, this power spoke and there was life; it quickened the slime of the sea and the dust of the earth and drove the cell to union with its fellows in countless living forms.

Through eons of time it finned the fish and winged the bird and fanged the beast.

Endlessly it worked, evolving its forms until it produced the crowning glory of them all.

With tireless energy it blows the bubble of each individual life and then silently,
relentlessly dissolves the form, and absorbs the spirit into itself again.

And yet you ask, “Can Chiropractic cure appendicitis or the ‘flu’?”

Have you more faith in a knife or a spoonful of medicine than in the Innate power that animates the internal living world?”

BJ Palmer