Arthritis... what is it, really? The word itself: "arth" means joint, "itis" means inflammation. That's all it is, joint inflammation. And why is the joint inflamed? Because your body is attempting to heal it. Inflammation is the healing. This is the great secret hiding inside a word that everybody uses and almost nobody understands.

So consider what Medicine does with this. Anti-inflammatory drugs, pain drugs, corticosteroids... their entire arsenal is aimed at shutting down the very process of your body healing itself. It may quiet the pain for a while, sure. Meanwhile the joint gets worse. Much worse.

The medical explanation of arthritis is discussed... you're getting old, learn to live with it, there's nothing anyone can do. The same tired story whether it's arthritis in feet, arthritis in hips, arthritis in elbows, hands, knees, shoulders, spine. The famous "bone on bone," which everybody seems to get told, and the joint replacement that follows, are discussed.

So-called spinal arthritis is really subluxation degeneration, and this is the heart of the episode. Subluxated vertebrae stop moving right, abnormal forces build, and your body, because it's alive, defends itself... inflammation, scar tissue formation, and finally calcium deposition. Those frightening calcium deposits on your X-ray? That's your body protecting a vertebra from fracture. Intelligent. Purposeful. And Medicine calls it a disease.

A joint needs proper motion and proper nerve supply, and it gets neither while subluxation remains. With correction through the chiropractic adjustment, over time, like stopping a speeding train, degeneration slows, stops, and yes, to some degree can reverse. I've seen it with my own eyes, whatever Medicine says is impossible.

You're alive. Therefore you can heal. The question is whether you have the will.

Medicine says impossible. Your Innate Intelligence never got that memo. Listen.

Be well,

Don Harte, D.C.

Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!

For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.

Connect with me:

Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/

Email: harteofchiropractic@gmail.com

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21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925

415/460-6527

Pain is a message from your Innate Intelligence. The entire drug industry exists to hang up the phone.

Can painkillers kill?

Over-the-counter pain meds... Advil, Aleve, Tylenol. Passed around like candy, by people who love you. The painkiller side effects: gastrointestinal bleeding, kidney damage, liver damage, heart attack and stroke. How many years have you been living on this stuff? How many doses, added up... if you dare?

The opioids. Fentanyl, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine. Chronic constipation. Extreme immune suppression. Depression. Heart attacks. And hyperalgesia, which means the thing you swallowed to feel less has taught your body to feel more. Hyperalgesia is the whole enterprise turning on itself.

Muscle relaxers. Understand what that spasm actually is. It's your Innate Intelligence standing guard over a subluxated spine. Silence the guard, and you'll move in ways you've got no business moving. The bill comes anyway: blurred vision, seizures, liver damage, heart rhythm abnormalities, central nervous system depression.

Vioxx killed more Americans than we lost in Vietnam. Pulled from the market. Its sister drug is still sitting on the shelf, same class of drug. Better lobbyists, maybe.

Then the steroids. Prednisone, short term and long, is discussed... vision problems, psychosis, osteoporosis, diabetes, immune suppression so deep your defenses stop reporting for work. Shoot steroids into a joint that already hurts and the joint damage goes deeper. Boyd's Physiology, a medical textbook, calls corticosteroid therapy the refuge of the destitute. Poetic, isn't it? It means the doctor's run out of ideas.

The medical direction, outside-in, is discussed. So is the second damage, the quiet one. You feel better, so you wait. Chiropractic care gets postponed. Months. Years. The subluxation sits right where it is, and the clock keeps running.

You can pay me now, or you can pay me later.

Above-down, inside-out. You get adjusted to deal with cause, to express more Life, to pursue Health.

Be well,

Don Harte, D.C.

Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!

For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.

Connect with me:

Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/

Email: harteofchiropractic@gmail.com

Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family!

21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925

415/460-6527

Bone on bone. That's the pronouncement. Delivered like a sentence, with no appeal. No choice, they say. Surgery. The end.

Let's talk.

You have a bad knee. You're getting old. Never mind that your other knee is exactly as old, and it's fine. Then comes the label... arthritis. That word solves nothing. Just a diagnosis to justify what comes next.

And what comes next is the pre-surgical foreplay. Testing. Scans. Over-the-counter drugs. Then prescriptions. Then cortisone shots, which work for a few months and then come back worse... because the cortisone made it worse. And then the verdict. "We chop out your knee and bolt in a fake one."

The risks of knee replacement are not small. Knee surgery complications are severe. Osteomyelitis, infection in the bone. Anesthesia reaction. Metalosis, your body rejecting the metal like an allergy. That metal is in there forever. You're stuck. A failed knee replacement is not rare. One woman, 89, rushed to surgery, and it never bent right. One man, 90, whose replacement broke, too sick to survive the fix. He limped on a broken fake knee for the rest of his days.

So think out of the orthopedic box. Your body is not stupid. It can heal. Hundreds have walked in here carrying that same tired "bone on bone" story. They got adjusted. They got well.

Why did the knee fail? Direct injury. Other joints stressing it. Bad nerve supply, because your nervous system runs everything... the muscles, the blood, the joints. Problems in the upper cervical spine, the very top of the neck, which coordinates the whole body. Pop in a new knee and you've still got garbage muscle control, garbage blood control. Nothing dealt with.

So correct the cause. Not as one of the so-called alternatives to knee surgery. Not as a surgery alternatives gimmick. And not as knee replacement alternatives the way the orthopedic world means it, where the whole game is still the knee. This is Real Chiropractic. Correct the interference, express more life... and not just in the knee. Everywhere.

Check out Real Chiropractic. Get adjusted. Get well. Get healthy. Get happy.

Be well,

Don Harte, D.C.

Warrior for Truth, Biological Justice and the Chiropractic Way!

For 45 years, I have helped people in Marin County find real Health, not just a break from their symptoms. If you are living with back pain, sciatica, a pinched nerve, a herniated disc, migraines, neuropathy, arthritic knees or hips, or plantar fasciitis, and more, and you are in Corte Madera, Larkspur, Mill Valley, San Rafael, Greenbrae, Novato, or anywhere in the Bay Area, come see what real Chiropractic can do. Because real Chiropractic was never about chasing one symptom. When the nervous system is free of interference, the whole body can express more Health.

Connect with me:

Website: https://www.chirodrharte.com/

Come Join THE HARTE OF CHIROPRACTIC Family!

21 Tamal Vista Blvd #170, Corte Madera, CA 94925

415/460-6527