“Better than 90% of the brain’s output is directed towards maintaining your body in its gravitational field.  Therefore, the less energy one spends on one’s posture, the more energy is available for healing, digestion and thinking.”  -Roger Sperry, 1981 Nobel Prize winner for brain research

Consult a Chiropractic Life Chiropractor today to maximise your healing potential.

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Taylor - Chiropractor Brighton

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book – Irish Proverb

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Taylor - Chiropractor Brighton

Image sourced from United Chiropractic Association (with permission)

Some said it wouldn’t last.  Some said “give them six months” – now it is the largest meeting of Chiropractic delegates in the United Kingdom!  That is/was the United Chiropractor’s Association  annual Conference in Birmingham over the weekend -  and we were there!

Over the years there have been many individuals and organisations trying to silence the soul and spirit of the true Chiropractic story – people who want to move away from the founding principles of Chiropractic and reduce Chiropractic to back and neck pain therapy.  We are delighted to announce – Chiropractic in it’s purest form is alive and well – AND GROWING with thanks to Melissa and Amanda from the UCA and tireless individuals who work with passion and compassion to bring the message that health and vitality is within your reach – by keeping the nervous system free of interference so that the body can do its marvellous work of self healing.  Chiropractic is a science, art and philosophy that allows individuals to express the health and life potential they were born to have, and the United Chiropractors Association and it’s members are working to keep it that way.

Look this way for a lifestyle of  natural health and vitality!

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Helen Taylor - Chiropractor Brighton

Chiropractors Brighton and Hove

It doesn’t seem five years since we opened our doors at 88 Portland Road in Hove, taking an empty space and creating the busy health centre we have today.

During this time we have been awarded the Patient Partnership Quality Mark by the College of Chiropractors and have been voted Most Loved Chiropractic Clinic In The Whole Of The United Kingdom 2010 and 2011 by BestOf.  Check out 549 patient testimonials here

It is our mission to help people live healthy, happy, vital lives and we want to thank everyone who has put their trust in us.

Consult a Chiropractic Life Chiropractor to achieve the health you deserve and desire.

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen - Chiropractor Brighton

Chiropractors in Brighton

Socrates said “If you would have health – look first to the spine”.

The spine is made of many bone segments which house and protect the spinal cord and the smaller spinal nerve branches that come off the spinal cord and exit between the bones.  These nerve pathways carry information or messages between the brain and the cells of the body. These messages are essential for the life of the cells.  Without vital brain messages, the cells immediately begin the process of dying; i.e., they can no longer function the way they should, to maintain health and vitality.

Because the bones are moveable, they can misalign in such a way as to interfere with the messages and, ultimately, the ability of the person to function at their best or express their optimum life potential.

Misalignments can be caused by a wide variety of factors, which we refer to as stressors.    These stressors can be physical (such as accidental trauma, sleeping posture and mattress condition, the birth process, sneezing, falling down, etc.), mental / emotional (in its many forms, probably the most familiar use of the word stress), or chemical (such as pollution, chemicals, drugs, etc.), which are, unfortunately, a regular part of living in the industrialised world – so misalignments may be caused from a multitude of reasons.

Misalignments are rarely obvious to the individual they affect – except when they have pain,  however misalignments frequently have no symptoms at all – at least not initially.   The reason is that most of what goes on inside us happens without our awareness.  As an example, try to “feel” your liver.  What’s it doing right now?  We can’t know, so we have no idea if it is  functioning at its best or something less -  so our body function may be far from optimal and we would not even know it.  The branching of the nerve pathways is complex and extensive, making it exceedingly difficult to predict or determine exactly how the person will be affected.  In order to know if someone has spinal misalignments they need a Chiropractic checkup.

Since misalignments of the spinal column can be caused by so many different things, many people choose to maintain their health through regular Chiropractic care in order to enjoy their life more, knowing that the power that made the body is also the power that heals the body – through the nervous system, housed inside the moving bones of the spinal column.  Socrates knew this.  The ancients knew this. The modern world has rejected this wisdom, however, there are still many who understand that the nervous system is still the powerhouse of the body and our five children whose ages add up to 133 years today without ever having been to a medical doctor, and having had Chiropractic Care since the day they were born -  are a living testament to that fact!

Each person has a unique life potential – by removing nerve interference it is possible to realize that potential!

Consult Chiropractic Life for the healthy future you want tomorrow!

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen - Chiropractor Brighton

Chiropractor Hove

True Chiropractic is about restoring and maintaining the integrity of the nervous system – giving it the best opportunity to work to its fullest potential.  We experience the world through our nervous systems and just the very act of living (in this modern world) interferes with the way our nervous systems works.  Your nervous system is the most important system in your entire body as it controls and co-ordinates virtually every cell, tissue, muscle, gland and organ in your entire body – that is why your Chiropractor is so interested in your nervous system. Every day life – beginning with the birth process can have such an impact on our nervous systems.  Childhood falls, traffic accidents, sporting injuries, bad work practices, lack of exercise, drugs, stressful relationships, work problems, debt, etc etc all have an impact on the nervous system and it’s ability to transmit messages to and from the brain.  If you ever wondered how important your nervous system is just ask yourself the following questions -

• How long can you live without food – approx 40 days
• How long can you live without water – approx 4 days
• How long can you live without oxygen – approx 4 minutes
• How long can you live without a nerve impulse – YOU CAN’T – that is why your Chiropractor is so interested in your nervous system!

Your nervous system controls everything!  Most people arrive at our clinic with a problem that is causing pain and of course are looking for relief.  Our Chiropractors help to identify the cause – most often – nervous system interference!  Our Chiropractors remove that interference, thus allowing the nervous system to communicate with the body unimpeded and allows the body to heal itself naturally.

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen - Chiropractor Brighton

Brighton and Hove Chiropractors

This is just a ‘short’ list of why millions of people around the world love what Chiropractors do everyday – sourced from United Chiropractors Association Newsletter.

When they say ‘hands on’ care, they really mean it… Human to human contact is vitally  important to the healing process.  No cold stethoscopes here!  Just warm, healing hands and warm, loving hearts.

They’re ‘in tune’ with your problems… Ever have a good Chiropractor go right to the parts that bother you before you even mention it?   It’s like they’re the Harry Houdini’s of health care.  Their skills and abilities are remarkable!

‘DC’ stands for Doctor of Cause… Chiropractors don’t resort to using pills, potions or lotions to mask symptoms, but rather locate and remove the CAUSE of health problems in your spine and nerve system.

Some of the happiest people you’ll ever meet… If you want to be happy and healthy,  hang out with happy healthy people.  There’s an abundance of them in the typical Family, Chiropractic office.

It’s extremely cost effective… Talk about health care savings.  Studies show over and  over again how lost work time and lost wages can be reduced if injured patients seek Chiropractic first.

They give credit where credit is due… Chiropractors acknowledge that the only thing that can heal the body is the Power that re-creates it.  They address the subluxations, but something bigger than all of us, does the healing.

Chiropractic helps you get the most out of Life… Your Life and your Health flows so much better with a clear nervous system.  Better sleep, more energy, less pain… and too much more to mention here.  Millions today already enjoy the benefits of regular Chiropractic  care.  Have you joined them yet?

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen - Chiropractor Brighton

Chiropractors Brighton and Hove

This blog post comes with a special thank you to our practice members at Chiropractic Life for voting us The Most Loved Chiropractic Clinic In The Whole Of  The United Kingdom for the second year running.  We collected 334 testimonials during the Fourteen Days Of Love national promotion on the BestOf website.  View all 543 accumulated testimonials here

Consult a Chiropractic Life Chiropractor – you are in safe hands!

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton

Next Generation Chiropractors - Elise on the far right.

Brighton Chiropractors

Having completed a year of pre Chiropractic Science and a very intense Summer School, Elise is seen celebrating her first day at New Zealand College of Chiropractic.

Message from Elise – Next Generation Chiropractor:

Bruce Lipton - Cell Biologist

Our first class this morning was Immunology with Bruce Lipton and he was saying how the gene theory is “old science”  where people believe that their mother, had it and their grandmother had it etc, so that predisposes them to it.  Not any longer – we are in complete control – well almost  – about 99% of the time because  new science has discovered that our environment affects our health either negatively or positively – we can choose !!!    How cool and empowering is that!   Our environment affects our genes, so we can change our environment through our lifestyle which will affect our health.  Yay!    Eat Well, Move Well, Think Well, Choose Well and we are well on the way to health and vitality!!  One of those choices is about choosing to keep the nervous system free of interference through regular Chiropractic maintainance and Wellness so that the body can communicate effectively to repair itself daily!

See yesterdays post here

Dr Bruce Lipton is a world renowned cell biologist, former University of Wisconsin Medical School professor and Stanford University researcher. Dr.  Lipton has turned his scientific exploration to the integration of mind, body and spirit – how our beliefs affect our health.  Dr Lipton is a popular speaker at Chiropractic Conferences.  Read his book The Biology of Belief it is very illuminating.

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton

Your body is the most amazing drug producing facility in the whole world!

It is capable of:

1. Making any and every drug we can possibly ever need
2. Knowing how to give us exactly the right prescription strength and amount to keep us healthy
3. Delivering the right amount at the right time – because our body changes from hour to hour, day to day and so do our needs
4. Producing 24/7
5. Delivering everything for free!
6. Having the fastest delivery system in the whole world!
7. Having the Cleverest Doctor in the World at it’s disposal

Your body is totally capable of all this if it is just given the chance.  You were conceived – this happened without direction from any outside source) and then you were born.  Your body knew exactly when this should happen – giving you the best chance of survival.  Your body is capable of doing all the wonderful things mentioned above.  It makes the right amount of drug, at the right time, at a moment’s notice, free of charge.  Most things happen in our body without our conscious control.  We do not have to tell our body to produce digestive juice to digest our food, or to make insulin to regulate our blo0d sugar, or make our heart beat, or control our blood pressure or temperature or to breathe  etc etc.  We cannot learn this intelligence.  It is in us by design.  This innate intelligence is the greatest doctor in the whole world and it uses the brain as it’s nerve centre and headquarters.  It sends it’s prescriptions for running the body through the nervous system (housed in the moving bones of the spinal column).  Messages from your brain go across the nerves to all parts of the body.  There are absolutely billions of nerves  which bring messages and life to every part of your body.    Instructions are sent along these nerves from your innate intelligence to every part of the body instructing it how to maintain health (homoeostasis).  Such instructions tell your cells, glands and organs what chemicals are required, where your body needs repairing, what invaders need to be destroyed and where cancer cells may be lurking – all without your conscious knowledge!  THIS ALL HAPPENS AS LONG AS THERE IS NO INTERFERENCE TO THE SUPERHIGHWAY OF COMMUNICATION – YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM.

Your nervous system controls and co-ordinates every cell, tissue, muscle, gland, organ and system of your entire body but sometimes spinal misalignments interfere with this process.  Your Doctor of Chiropractic is trained to remove these interferences, to allow the body to once again communicate with itself effectively – to do what it knows best to do in producing chemicals and hormones in the right amount, at the right time to bring your body back to health.  Our innate intelligence is “wired” to health and it will do everything it can to bring the body back to health.

BUT………………………..it cannot do these things when we disobey nature’s laws.   We need to:

• Eat Well – so that the body has good raw material to produce the chemicals  that create the drugs your body needs.
• Move Well – so that everything is in good working order to manufacture these drugs.
• Think Well – create a positive mental attitude as this influences the kind of drugs the body produces
• Choose  Well - Get sufficient physical and emotional rest and relaxation
• Keep your nervous system free of interference by having regular Chiropractic care so that your body can respond to the Doctor Within you.  A healthy spine means healthy nerves, which allows healthy messages to travel unhindered  -  producing health and vitality.

Don’t wait for ill health to happen – consult a Chiropractic Life Chiropractor today!

• Dr Richard McMinn - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Helen Martin - Chiropractor Brighton
• Dr Glenn Fredericksen – Chiropractor Brighton