Backpack Safety?

Backpack safety is not about making sure your child's backpack fits properly to prevent neck or back pain.

The moment your child leaves your site their going to unstrap and sling that backpack every which way but lose.

I know because we have 5 children and they never listened to us about wearing it properly and they did just fine. They also benefited from regular chiropractic checkups to make sure they had a healthy spine and nervous system to adapt to the physical, chemical and emotional stress of everyday life.

We were more concerned about the torque and tension the heavy backpack placed on our child's brain-stem and spinal cord versus the muscles of their back and neck because we knew that an uncorrected problem over time could alter body function.

What's alarming is that parents may not realize that their child may already have an underlying spinal problem before the child started carrying a backpack.

We don't ask the parents in our office to bring in their child's backpack so we may fit it properly. We ask the parent to bring in their child to make sure their body is working properly and able to adapt to all the stresses they put upon it everyday.

It's not about the backpack its about their life. Please get your child checked.

From near death and back: A Chiropractic patients story.

In 1986 I was on top of the world. I had just won the All  Navy Weightlifting Championships and had set a national drug free record in the bench press.  My full time job became to lift weights and compete and I loved it. I attended college at night and did a number of exhibitions and talks in the community. I had minor celebrity status both in the Naval community and in my city and it was great.

Shortly after returning from a competition tour I began having some sinus headaches and my training started to plateau a bit-I had kept a training journal since I started lifting in 1978 and tracked my progress very carefully. The headaches were not bad--just annoying and so I went to the Navy dispensary and was given some medications. The meds worked like magic, except they gave me severe diarrhea. I went back to the doctor and was given additional drugs to stop that. That went away, but then I experienced severe dehydration and was admitted to the hospital. After many tests, I walked out with 3 more prescriptions. 

My health rapidly begin to spiral downward and soon I was spending my days at the hospital going from one doctor to the next. Within a month I was taking 18 drugs a day--which amounted to about 80 individual pills. I quickly become homebound and disabled--unable to work, drive a car or really do much of anything. The only food I could keep down was applesauce and sometimes apple cobbler---Most nights, I would get a blanket and a pillow and just sleep with the pillow on the toilet because the dry heaves would begin around 1am and would last until sun-up. On good nights, the heaves were 4 minutes apart, on bad nights they were two minutes apart.  I went from a solid 220lbs to around 165-I looked like death warmed over.

This went on for over a year and most of it is still a blur. I had to have someone drive me anytime I needed to see the doctor. Fortunately I had good friends in this regard. I saw all kinds of doctors--was even seen by one of President Reagans doctor at Bethesda. None really had an answer for what was going on except that my immune system was failing.  Diagnoses of Epstein-Barr and severe Chronic Fatigue  Syndrome were thrown out as possibilities.

I had a meeting with the head of the Naval Hospital in Charleston in the summer of 1987. I was brought into his office and he told me that I should get my affairs in order because he felt I only had a few months to live. The news was actually a relief--I wanted to die and end the misery.  I had a friend drive me to a mall later that week to buy gifts for my family for the following Christmas, knowing I was probably not going to be alive.  While in a B.Dalton Bookstore, a man asked me if I was ok ( I could only walk maybe 15-20 steps before I had to stop and rest) I said I was fine, because I had gotten tired of telling everyone the story. This guy persisted a bit and he told me he was a doctor and that maybe he could help me. I told him I had seen some of the best doctors in the world and then he told me he was a Chiropractor.   I think I laughed for the first time in over a year. It told him ai had "INTERNAL" health problems, not neck and back pain, which was the limit of my views on Chiropractic. He kept persisting for me to come to his clinic and about this time, my friend came up and was listening and offered to drive me to the clinic the next day. I agreed with absolutely no intention of going to this quacks office. On the drive home, my friend said something like "well you should give it a shot--what do you have to lose?  And so I agreed to go.

I went to the office the next day and did the whole new patient process--the doc brought me into the exam room and began doing his exam--I was about as skeptical as you could be when all of a sudden, he says 'hey keith, did you have a bedwetting problem as a kid"…….wow...how in the world did he know that?  I did...classic bedwetting case for most of my childhood….4-5 nights a week. Never spent the night with a friend--EVER--kind of grew out of it by the time I was 15-16 but my parents spent all kinds of money on therapies and treatments…...How could this quack have known about that….He tells me he can tell from examining my lumbar spine and he started talking about the bladder and nerves…..ok, he had my attention--if he  pulled that one out of his butt..well  it was a good one. He ended up adjusting me the first day and sent me home with instructions to return.

I woke up the next morning with a stiff and sore neck, actually my entire back was sore--not severe pain, but just very sore. I knew this guy was a quack, I thought to myself--he hurts me yesterday and today he is going to fix me up---sorry, aint buying it---no more Chiropractic visits for me. I shaved, showered and got dressed and as I was walking down the hall to the kitchen---I was hit with a ton of bricks---I  had just slept through the entire night-for the first time in about 15 months...I had just showered, etc. and was not wiped out with fatigue…..I was even a bit hungry.  So went into the kitchen and made some scrambled eggs (which I love) and had been unable to eat for over a year. I sat down on the couch and waited for breakfast to come back up--it never did.

I continued getting adjusted and flushed the meds within the first week---it was not short term miraculous, but each day I get a bit stronger and could do more things--it was  huge victory to be able to walk out to the mailbox and get the mail. Within two weeks I was driving again, within two months  I was back in the gym training and ended up far surpassing my previous lifts.  But I could not figure out what Chiropractic had done for me---I would ask the doc and got sort of a vague answer. I ended up going to Chiropractic orientations at other offices in the area in hopes of figuring this all out, but I was disappointed in that all of the NPO's I attended were "spinal hygiene classes" --how to lift right, bend your knees, drink water, etc.

I could not find much at the library and on periodical microfiches either--most of what I read tagged Chiropractic as being somewhat effective for neck and back pain--and that was it. Finally the doc gave me some old, musty smelling books--kind of a weird green color to them and told me that maybe I would find my answers in them--He had never actually read them. The first volume was "Bigness of the fellow within” by a BJ Palmer" I remember reading it and thinking this guy was whacko. The more I read it, the more sense it made and I began going to the medical library here in Charleston and reading volumes of anatomy and physiology books, Guytons, Harrison and I saw this incredible congruence between books on how the body actually worked and Palmers writings---eventually it sort of clicked in my brain and I retired from competitive lifting in order to focus on communicating the Chiropractic message.  I don’t always like sharing the message, but I don’t feel that I have the right NOT TO...if a person rejects the message--that is fine with me--at that point they are no longer my responsibility and I can move on.

I have had the chance to speak all over North America to thousands of people each year and been blessed by their letters of testimony once they receive Chiropractic care.  I thank you for taking the time to read this and may it encourage you to get your spine checked and adjusted today to help save your life tomorrow.

Keith Wassung

Charleston, SC

            (843) 743-8351      

http://keithwassung.com/

Perfect Health.

I had the pleasure of sitting down with a business mentor yesterday on ways to help market our practice and improve how we communicate our message. He is considered a "senior citizen" in the worlds eye but he was spot on with what's going on today. My father is the same way.

As we were talking about improving our message he mentioned a cartoon caption that he read over the weekend that stated. "Perfect health is the slowest possible rate at which you can die". When you let that sink in it's a very profound statement. I responded with the statement that "some have a better quality of life than others while going through the process".

In the end we are all going to move on to a better place, but most of our senior citizens who still have decades to live have a poor quality of life. They are suffering from many nagging problems, illnesses and consume multiple medications just to help maintain "life".

I recall one patient I took care of years ago that took 20 plus prescription medications every single day and my one question to her was "if you're taking this many medications shouldn't your quality of life be better and not worse?" she didn't respond in fact she was a patient who came a couple of times but quit because she didn't receive her miracle after the 3rd visit. I tried to tell her it always happens on the 4th visit. Just kidding kind of. Sometimes it does but in all reality healing is a process that takes time.

My goal as a chiropractor is to help senior citizens understand that their nervous system controls every function in their body and that more life flowing through their nervous system is better than less life flowing through it. We also help them understand that the longer you maintain life flowing to the maximum it will in turn help them have a better "quality of life"...hopefully with less medication.

Also, your never old to go to a chiropractor, my grandfather started at the age of 84 and went until he passed at the age of 94. His quality of life improved dramatically I just wish he started sooner.

So please remember that "Perfect Health" is the slowest possible rate that you can die while maintaining the highest quality of life. Go see your chiropractor regularly.

Have a great day!
Dr. Paul

Greek Yogurt and Chiropractic

I read an article this morning on how sales of Greek Yogurt has exploded and that food companies in their quest to increase their profits have decided to jump on the band wagon and produce their own "Greek Yogurt" like product. The secret to the success of real Greek Yogurt is in its simplicity. They make it the way it was meant to be; by hand exactly as mother made it. 


The food companies have decided to do it in a way that has the traditional makers of Greek Yogurt alarmed. High tech procedures are now being used to produce this product by taking regular yogurt and adding ingredients such as starch from corn or tapioca to produce the same consistency and taste. They have tweaked the quality and quantity to come close. The only problem is that it may look the same and possibly taste the same but it is not the same.

And that brings me to chiropractic. When chiropractic began in 1895 it started out with one deaf man receiving an adjustment to his spine and having his hearing restored. It was a simple process done by hand with life changing results. The secret to the success of chiropractic helping sick people get well and helping families live healthier medication free lives is its simplicity. When it is done by hand and applied in a way that removes interference to the communication system of the body, miracles happen. Many of these miracle patients wanted to help others as they had been helped and a chiropractic school was created. 


As the profession and the school flourished it started to attract other health practitioners who wanted to practice chiropractic. They were readily accepted into chiropractic school in the hopes that they would give up their old procedures and only practice chiropractic. Upon graduation many of these health practitioners wanted to provide "more" for their patients began to integrate chiropractic with their old procedures. It was less effective and the results were not the same. 


To this day the success of chiropractic has always been in its simplicity. So remember its not the label on the outside of the package/building that will determine the taste/results its the ingredients/procedures on the inside that will.


In our office we choose to keep it simple and it has been well worth seeing the lives change!

The choice is yours!
Have a great day!

Dr. Paul Blumsack

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/19/156997600/high-tech-shortcut-to-greek-yogurt-leaves-purists-fuming?sc=emaf

West Cobb Vet Buds Meeting Thursday July 26th.

Hello to all, I would like to invite you to the next West Cobb Vet Buds Meeting this upcoming Thursday July 26th. VetBuds is a non-profit group where the members share a common bond of military service and the desire to provide assistance to veterans directly within the scope of our personal resources and indirectly by our combined business, social and personal knowledge and connections. The website is www.vetbuds.us. The first chapter began in the Johns Creek area and we are a branch off of that successful meeting. Some of the success stories of our West Cobb meeting have been employment opportunities, new business and referrals for some of our small business owners, increased DAV resource awareness and PTSD assistance. We are meeting this Thursday July 26th from 0730-0830 at The Daily Grind Unwind located at 3960 Mary Eliza Trace Marietta, Ga. 30064  (770) 422-9480 www.dailygrindnews.com Please bring your business cards, a need to be met, a service to be shared or a connection to be made. If you have any questions feel free to contact me Dr. Paul Blumsack (USAF) 770-362-6430 or John Forrest (USMC Ret.) 404-313-1369 Have a great day! Paul Dr. Paul Blumsack www.blumsackfamilychiropractic.com 770-362-6430 Live Better...Live Longer

Cost of Waiting

I have been speaking lately to a financial adviser on plans for the future. He cares about what he is doing for his clients and it shows. He is out there everyday promoting his business and I admire him for how he is going about it. He goes door to door to help create awareness on the benefits of financial planning. I am sure he has had a few doors slammed in his face, people ignoring his knock at the door, and has probably seen the lights go out mysteriously as soon as he shows up for his appointment.

The reason I bring this up is he recently dropped off a flyer to our office where the headline said "Cost of Waiting". I am sure he was subliminally telling me to stop procrastinating on getting started with him. The flyer had charts and graphs, ages and earnings and it showed how the older you are before you start investing how much money you have lost because of your procrastination. It was quite eye opening as it made me realize that I am in it for the long haul!

This flyer also got me thinking about the people who are not proactively under chiropractic care and how they are going to need to start investing in their financial future. You see they are most likely going to need money to fund all the treatments for the illnesses that they are going to experience as they get older. I don't wish that upon them but that is the truth of the matter.

Our nation is stressed out, sick and dying and yet we spend more money on health care and consume more medications than any other nation in the world. Our system has failed and yet people are still afraid to do something different. Many people are dying from the treatments and not the disease they were diagnosed with.

Why not start investing in your families health today by having regular chiropractic checkups? Paula and I have raised a family of 7 to be healthy and medication free for over 24 years. We have done this by making sure that the communication system of the body is working to its fullest ability. Our office has been helping families live healthier medication free lives for 17 years.

There used to be this saying "you can pay me know or you'll pay me later" The choice is yours, one is more costly?

Go ahead and start investing in your family's future today by giving us a call at 770-362-6430. You'll be glad you did!

Sowing seeds of health in our community.

I just wanted to let you know about a community outreach event that we are doing at our office for the next two weeks where we are going to give away $85,000 dollars worth of services to our Cobb County and Metro Atlanta community. We are calling it "Sowing the Seeds of Health".

We decided to do this because our community is stressed out, sick and dying and yet we spend more money on health care and consume more medication than any other nation in the world. We are also noticing a growing trend in our office where both the parents and their children are coming in with chronic health challenges and are all under medication. This is not good! We would prefer they would come in for preventative care. 

I feel guilty because I have not done enough to show families that there are other options out there. Paula and I have raised a family of seven to be healthy and medication free for over 24 years. Our health changed dramatically when we started going to a chiropractor for regular checkups. For 17 years we have helped families live healthier medication free lives, but we need to help more families. 

Our goal is to reach at least 1000 family's, friends, neighbors, businesses and co-workers with our "Sowing Seeds of Health Certificate". Each certificate has a value of $85 and is good for a complimentary detailed examination, computerized posture and stress analysis and digital infrared imaging. Since Monday we have handed out 250 of these certificates. They expire on August 1st.

There is more to chiropractic than neck or back pain and by your sharing of this seeds of health certificate to family members, friends, neighbors, businesses and co-workers you may help another family in Cobb County or Metro Atlanta live a healthier life.

If you have any questions please call our office at             770-362-6430      . If you want to know more about Blumsack Family Chiropractic check out our website atwww.blumsackfamilychiropractic.com. 

Thanks for helping us achieve our goal and helping our community!

Dr. Paul

The Power that made the body heals the body and the process of regeneration.

The Power that made the body heals the body. How it regenerates is determined by whether your getting the right messages from the brain to every cell, tissue and organ of the body. No messages=no life. Give Chiropractic enough time and repetition and watch an amazing new you be created.
http://www.agedefyingbody.com/RegenerationSchedule.html

If only my parents knew that there were natural options for children suffering with asthma and allergies. Perhaps my brother’s childhood would have been different?

I recently read an article written by a hospital CEO about the increase of asthma and allergy attacks during the summer months and how you need to find ways to avoid certain things in your environment that trigger attacks and to make sure you carry and take your medications. It reminded me of the movie that came out years ago called the boy in the plastic bubble. The boy had to live in this plastic bubble because his immune system was so weak that any exposure to common everyday allergens could kill him. 

What a sad life to live to never be able to smell fresh air, flowers, baby's hair, perfume/cologne or a warm ocean breeze. As a sibling of someone who suffered from severe allergies and asthma I saw the physical, emotional and financial toll it took upon my brother and my parents. There was a certain point where my brother had to live in a hospital out of state so he could learn to cope with his challenges, administer his own adrenaline shots and live a more vibrant life. This was not fun for any of us. 

As he grew older he was able to do more things and has participated in sports such as Rugby and he even has run the New York and Boston Marathons. We are all proud of his accomplishments however he is still challenged with asthma and allergies and keeps an inhaler close by just in case. 

The problem was that my parents didn't know of any other options. They followed the medical model and to some limited extent he was helped. Unfortunately there are too many other people out there who don’t know of any other options who are living in their own plastic bubbles because they are afraid to experience life because they have allergies and asthma. There is another option...

Did you know that your body is designed to adapt to its environment as long as there is no interference? Did you know that people with asthma and allergies have responded well to chiropractic care? Did you know that families under chiropractic care have stronger immune systems, take less medications and are healthier than families who are not under care? 

Please get a chiropractic checkup and make sure there is no interference and help someone Live Better...Live Longer!