Let Freedom Ring!

Name: Joanna Moore, June 2009

Health Problems: I have written this testimony because I want others to know how chiropractic care and nutrition education through the Extreme Makeovers has greatly changed my life. I had a lady at Dr. Yachter's ask me while I was standing in line to use the vibration plates if all this is really helping me. My answer was so full of enthusiasm I think I took her by surprise when I said OH YES, immensely, and started telling her just a portion of how much it has helped. I suppose she had just started her adjustments and like all of us was trying to overcome her fears and needed assurance she was in the right place. My daycare parents see how much it is helping me and they are interested but feel they may not be able to afford it. So I tell them whenever they are ready let me know, I can hook them up with a free dinner with the doctor and a free evaluation.

My daycare parents ask me, "So why do you travel to Lake Mary when you live in Oviedo and there is a very good chiropractor far closer to you?" I met Dr. Dan at my church when he did a free "mini" Extreme Makeover workshop. Dr. Dan's care and love for his patients shines through in everything he does, from his loving attitude toward his patients, to the free workshops, to the way he runs his office, to his love and passion for God, to the passion he has to make people's lives better. Dr. Dan is truly a person who cares about people and the love of God shines through him. Dr. Leif and his gentleness and kind heart also shines through his personality. So I have peace that I am in very good hands with Dr. Dan and Dr. Leif.

So as I sat writing this I was reminded of things I had forgotten that had once plagued me. The following are things that I was suffering from: mild pain in left shoulder and worst pain in right shoulder. The pain in my right shoulder was keeping me up at night; it was difficult to fall asleep. I had extreme pain in right knee and mild pain in left knee. When I would take my daycare children for a walk, upon returning I would have to put a Thermacare Heat Wrap on my right knee and take Tylenol, aspirin or Ibuprofen. I interchanged them to keep from upsetting my stomach. I had suffered from acid reflux for several years now. I now believe it was caused by subluxation. I have had swelling in my left ankle since my first pregnancy and she is now 20 years old. I was not able to tolerate being on my feet for very long, because of extreme aching in my feet. I could not lift my daycare children onto the changing table so I changed diapers on the floor. I could not carry the daycare children around, I had to sit and hold them. I struggled with being able to coddle/hold one of them when they were having problems falling asleep because it would cause my shoulders to hurt. I had numbness and tingling down my arms and in my hands and weakness in my hands to the point of not being able to open a vacuumed jar. I had stopped going to the gym to do my circuit weight machines because of the weakness in my arms. I started packing on the weight when I was around 33 years old and I seemed helpless to stop it.

What treatments did you try first? I went to a sports medicine doctor and a family medicine doctor and I was given a prescription for pain and an anti-inflammatory. It didn't help so I quit taking them and just suffered. I don't take prescription medicine; it is something I have always had issues with. So I just took Tylenol, aspirin, and Ibuprofen with Thermacare for my knees. I tried acid reflux medications but they didn't help. I tried to control the weight by diet and exercise. I joined the YMCA, I swam, did aerobic classes and circuit weights. I tried the Atkins diet and the Fat Flush Diet. They did blood work and told me there was no explanation for the weight gain, I just needed to improve my diet and I should lose the weight. But when the weakness and tingling and numbness worsened I was forced to stop working out. The only thing a medical doctor typically does for the tingling and numbness and weakness in the arms and hands, otherwise known as carpal tunnel syndrome, is to cut the nerves in the wrists. I don't think so. I am not willing to trust a knife to fix my problems.

What has Chiropractic done for you? I started my adjustments on February 19th of this year, by my 3rd adjustment the tingling and numbness in my hands was gone and I had regained enough strength to open a vacuumed jar. By my 5th adjustment the pain in my shoulders was gone. I was enjoying REM sleep for the first time in a very long time. I got back into the gym in March and was doing my circuit weights again. By April I was going on walks with my daycare children and having no pain in my knees. In May we went to Epcot and MGM and I noticed I wasn't having pain in my knees or feet. I have no acid reflux anymore. I can now carry around a fussy, teething toddler and comfort and coddle them the way I have wanted to. I can hold them till they fall asleep. I have so much more energy for them. I have lost over 10 lbs. I went to the Extreme Makeover in February and March and I learned so much about nutrition and how to begin to really lose weight through proper diet but first, our spine needs to be communicating with our body properly in order to have balanced hormones and for our thyroid and spleen to be functioning at its optimum. I learned about the pH balance of our bodies and how having an acidic bloodstream causes our bodies swell and become inflamed. I went to the water workshop and learned about the importance of drinking alkaline water instead of acidic water. I learned that bottled water is acidic and we need to be drinking alkaline water. So my husband and I got a water treatment system installed that treats our entire house. So now our water has all the minerals and calcium removed and it is at an alkaline pH and it is considered soft water instead of hard water. We only drink bottled water if we don't have our house water available to us. One of my hobbies is maintaining aquariums. After the water workshop I came home and used my pH testing kit to test the bottled water we use and indeed it was acidic. I went to the vitamin workshop and learned about the importance of healthy vitamins. I learned that there is a difference between natural vitamins and synthetic ones. We now take better vitamins that have raised my Carotenoid score to 46,000 from 27,000. I learned about Vega, Green Vibrance, Mila, and the importance of Coconut Oil. You can learn all about these topics at the Extreme Makeover, the water workshop and vitamin workshop. Yes, I was very afraid of trusting my back to anyone. But I was more fearful of a surgeon's knife. Look at how many doctors and surgeons make mistakes everyday and cause untimely deaths, pain or suffering. I couldn't live my life with the pain I was in and I wasn't willing to trust a surgeon. I have worked as a Certified Medical Assistant for Family Practice and Pediatrics. I also worked as a Phlebotomist. So I know the mistakes and the limitations of medicine. Pharmaceuticals do not have the answers with their medications. I would have patients come in to get their blood work prothrombin time or INR done weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, b/c they were on Coumadin or the generic warfarin. They would be so weary of spending so much time getting blood work done so often and have such messed up veins from all the blood work. They would ask me why the doctor needed this done so much. I would tell them, "Well do you know what you are really taking?" Rat poison, seriously, that is what Coumadin is. So your doctor has to monitor it very close in order to not overdose you. Most already knew what they were taking and others were surprised.

You can learn at the Extreme Makeover how to prevent heart disease through fixing the subluxation in your spine and proper diet. Then you won't have to worry about Coumadin or the blood work that goes with it. Yes, I have been concerned about the money and the expense. But God can show you how to get rid of unnecessary things in your budget and cut back on some other things in your budget in order to get the help you need. Also, you have the added benefit of learning about a whole new lifestyle at the Extreme Makeovers. You learn how to get more energy and more benefits out of your adjustments by eating better and exercising better.

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