Some of the actions and issues that cause us to waste time are:

• moving slowly, possibly due to pain
• sleeping in – is it because we didn’t get efficient sleep?
• running back and forth inefficiently because we can’t find something or can’t remember what we were doing
• thinking slowly
• inability to focus

Stephen Covey said, “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”

We tend to react when there is an “emergency” and run from one emergency to the next without planning ahead to avoid the problem.

The NUCCA technique will help with these things.  It can help you think clearer and give you a better perspective on life once you’re out of pain.  It can help you move better, faster and without pain as well as making your daily activities more enjoyable and more possible!  It can also improve your quality of life.  You’ll be more efficient!

The time you spend seeing Dr. Pritchett is minimal compared to the time savings you’ll see.  Plus, you won’t need to keep coming back three or four or five times a week.  Once your spine stabilizes, you’ll need fewer adjustments.

Call Vital Life Wellness Center in Dublin, CA for a consultation.

What if we can’t sleep?

• Is it the presence of a child (perhaps young or perhaps just not able to sleep either)?
• Do we have too much to do preparing for a holiday or a job?
• Are we unable to sleep?
• Is sleep restless and disjointed?

I don’t think there’s much we can do about the presence of our children, although if there’s a reason he/she is not sleeping and it can be resolved, let’s deal with that.  If kids are insecure, sick or teething, they need more TLC, but if they never sleep well, perhaps they, too, need a NUCCA adjustment.  NUCCA will also help boost their immune system.

Are we inefficient with our jobs? Are we stressed out and need to consider a career or job change?  NUCCA can help us to be more focused and able to get our work done better, so we’ll have more time to sleep.

Are we unable to sleep because our bodies won’t cooperate? Insomnia or an over-active mind?  NUCCA can  help stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system which helps us to sleep.  It helps relieve stress and allow us to relax.

Do we have trouble staying asleep or being rested in the morning? NUCCA can help make the sleep more efficient so you’ll be rested and more able to function.

If you’re like me and your lack of sleep is not due to staying up late having fun, make sure you’re doing everything you can to make the time you have to sleep as effective as possible.

Call today for a complimentary consultation at Vital Life Wellness Center in Dublin, CA.

If this sounds like you:

• NUCCA works to align your spine and improve the way your body works.
• There is no twisting or “popping”

With the NUCCA technique, you will sleep better than you ever imagined, and wake up refreshed, revitalized and with plenty of energy to propel yourself throughout the day!

If this is the kind of morning you’d like to start with, there are people who can help.  Whether you think your pain is age-related, or you’ve tried some things that just didn’t work, or perhaps you are not aware of what chiropractors can do for you:

You may be ready to find out what great potential your body has within it.  Try this:  Looking in the mirror, check your posture and look at your shoes to see if they wear unevenly.  If your posture is imperfect or your shoes wear unevenly, we can “put your head back on straight.”  This takes the tension away from your brainstem, improves blood flow to your brain and reduces or eliminates pain.

I can help to get you back to “being mom,” adding vitality to your life and relieving your pain and discomfort.

Call us today at (925) 829-7900 to schedule your consultation in Dublin, CA.

I began to think about how this relates to our bodies.

If our alignment is off (we have a crooked spine / we are subluxated / we have scoliosis / one leg is short), we can end up ruining our belts, too (needing joint replacement or spinal fusion and one often leads to another unless we correct the alignment).  Eventually, we may need to add pieces (it could be as benign as a heel lift, but it doesn’t solve all of the issues, or it could be a surgery to open the spinal canal wider or even adding a pacemaker).  Adding pieces could also include using a cane or a brace.

All of this could be avoided if the car was aligned in the beginning, or if our bodies were aligned.  We can replace the car if it gets too old and beat up, but we can never replace our bodies.  It’s really unfortunate that many people take care of their cars better than they take care of their bodies. Find an upper cervical chiropractor, such as a NUCCA practitioner to accurately align your spine.  It could save you a lot of headaches and injuries in the short- and especially the long-run.

• Are you able to expend energy helping others without wearing yourself out?
• Are you able to think clearly enough to make long-term plans?
• Are you able to think positively about life?
• Are you able to help your parents or friends or kids with their needs?

We are created to be in community and to make a difference in people’s lives.  We cannot live isolated lives. It’s not fulfilling to us and doesn’t make us feel rewarded or useful in life.

• Are you healthy enough mentally and emotionally to give to others and to know your boundaries?

You have to get healthy first – and that means more than being “fine”.  In the case of emergency on an airplane, we are instructed to put on our own oxygen mask first before giving it to others.  The same thing is true in life: we need to take time and effort to make ourselves healthy in order to be there for others.  Moms especially need this advice.  I need this advice!  It’s so hard to take time for myself when I have a little one who needs me.

One way to begin the journey toward mental and emotional health is through NUCCA.

“What?!” you ask?

Your purpose in life is difficult to determine when you are in pain (pain takes our focus off of other things) and with a subluxation (a.k.a. your brain not connecting with your body properly or firing optimally).  The communication between your brain and your body is not working properly.  Your body takes care of the necessary things like breathing and keeping your heart pumping, before complex thought and planning and relaxing.  NUCCA stimulates your body’s ability to communicate and to heal.

Once your brain is communicating properly, you can begin to get things in perspective.  Functioning will be more efficient.  Thinking will be easier and hormones and emotions will be more balanced.  Then and only then, will you be able to make better decisions for yourself and your family.  Then you’ll be able to have more time to spend on yourself.  Then you’ll be able to do other healthy things like counseling or exercise or organizing or eating properly. Then you’ll be able to stay healthy and feel better than fine – fabulous perhaps!?

So how should you choose?

Word of Mouth and Reputation.  Ask someone you trust who they’ve been seeing and if they like him/her and why.  If your friend or family member likes the chiropractor, there’s a good chance you will, too.

Technique.  If a particular technique has worked for you before, try it again.  Take note that all chiropractors practice in a fashion that is unique to them, so even if the technique is the same, there are going to be differences.  Remember, chiropractic is an art as well as a science.

Interpersonal Interaction / Your Gut Feeling.  If you don’t like the person you’ve come in to see, go somewhere else.  Just because you walk in the door doesn’t mean you need to sign up for a course of care with someone you don’t like.  If you don’t want to sign a contract for a course of care, go somewhere else.  If you don’t like the “vibe” of the chiropractor, go somewhere else.  There is an exchange of energy when you touch someone, so when someone adjusts you, your body has to be relaxed enough to properly accept the adjustment.  If you are uncomfortable around the practitioner, the results won’t be ideal.  On the other hand, if you connect well with the chiropractor, stay there!  Enjoy your care!

Cost (a secondary/tertiary consideration).  After all of those things above, cost can sometimes be a consideration, but it’s certainly not the best way to decide.  Sometimes, the cost may be more initially, but if you’re holding your alignment, you will save a ton of money by not needing to return as often.  (NUCCA is a technique that tends to stabilize and require fewer visits.)  Cost is also based on value, so if you need to sacrifice a luxury (buying coffee or eating out) for the sake of your health and long-term quality of life, the trade off is worth it.

If you have further questions about what chiropractor to see, you can ask your previous chiropractor, or call me.

Enjoy your new quality of life!

I help many people get rid of pain (low back pain, sciatica, shoulder pain, headaches, menstrual cramps, neck pain, chronic pain, etc) and allow them to sleep better.  It helps to allow the body to relax so that lying down is more comfortable.

NUCCA helps many people with their stress levels and to make them more efficient during the day so that they get their work done.  I help get their minds to be more focused so that things get done when they are supposed to.

If you are too tired to function during the day and need to drink caffeine to stay awake, then can’t sleep at night because you’re too hyped up, we need to figure out a way to get you to sleep better.  See above for a solution: NUCCA.  If your body isn’t relaxing enough for you to feel tired at night, we need to stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system, which is the complement of your stress response.  NUCCA stimulates this calming part of your nervous system.

I’ve helped many people sleep better at night.  It’s worth a try.  It’s time for you to get the sleep that allows your body to heal and function at is best!  It’s time for you to do more than take sleeping pills.  It’s time for rest.  Call Dr. Pritchett at 925-829-7900.

Eventually, Valerie found her way to an upper cervical chiropractor.  He evaluated her, took x-rays and found that the atlas/C1 vertebra was severely misaligned, and began adjusting her. As her spine stabilized, her symptoms began to lessen.  She also began seeing a homeopath, reducing her stress and doing yoga.  Elated by her discovery and with deep compassion for other women with less hope than she’d ever possessed, Valerie began writing a book so that others may find healing as well.

Valerie Lumley now speaks around the country at various chiropractic conventions, bookstores and anywhere else she can find to spread the word about upper cervical chiropractic.  Her book, Curing Chronic Fibromyalgia: Choosing What Works, has been endorsed by the NUCCA board of directors as well as the International Chiropractic Association (ICA).

You can learn more about Valerie Lumley’s story and purchase her book here.

Here’s some anatomy to explain.  The tensor veli palatini muscle is innervated by the trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve V).  The trigeminal nerve comes from the superior cervical ganglion (from nerve roots C1-C4).  NUCCA utilizes the atlas (C1) as a lever to correct the entire spine. It follows that correcting C1 will improve function of the trigeminal nerve and therefore improve how the tensor veli palatini holds the Eustachian tube open.  When the Eustachian tube is open, it allows more fluid to drain, therefore keeping infection at bay.

A study is in progress to show how chiropractic may increase function of the tensor veli palatini.  In 1996, published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiologic Therapeutics, was a retrospective study with 46 five-year-old children who had otitis media (ear infection). 93% improved with chiropractic care, 43% with one or two treatments.  The improvement was determined by one of the following: parental observation, chiropractor declaring patient asymptomatic, or the medical doctor saying the patient is improved.

In 1997, published in the Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics, a study of 332 children, ages 27 months to 5 years, was done and showed a “strong correlation” between chiropractic and improvement of otitis media.  There are many other case reports as well.

If your child suffers from chronic ear infections, bring him or her in for a consultation to see if NUCCA can improve the function of the tensor veli palatini and help your child to live a healthier life.

Here are only a few examples that scratch the surface of the value of NUCCA.

• young man being able to work again after being incapacitated by headaches and unable to work for years.
• woman being able to conceive after trying unsuccessfully for years.
• woman being able to have children after being taken off of a pain management medication she was told she’d have to take the rest of her life.
• woman no longer having extreme menstrual cramps that kept her home from work.
• man being able to work after getting rid of extreme neck and shoulder pain.
• men and women staying healthy throughout the year – no more colds and flues.
• lessening allergy symptoms.
• men and women being able to sleep – no more insomnia.

I could go on, but you get the picture.  What is the value for these individuals?

Life!

Vitality!

Being able to enjoy their families!

Being able to provide for their families!

Better energy and positive outlook on life!

It’s not a dollar amount value.  If you had the chance to have that with the promise that you wouldn’t have to see a chiropractor daily or weekly for the rest of your life, would you try it?  I would!

Call Dr. Pritchett at 925-829-7900 for a consultation to see if you may be able to receive that value.  (We’re located in the Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore, San Ramon, Danville area.)

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