The human body is the most incredible machine ever created. It has taken hundreds of years for man to reach the level of understanding that medicine has attained. We are on the doorstep of controlling cancer and many other debilitating diseases and yet there is very little understood about such seemingly simple things such as why 80% of the population succumbs to back pain or why people are having joint replacements in their 30’s or 40’s.
In this fast paced impatient world, the practice of medicine is focused on treating patient complaints which we feel is a result of the insurance industry, the drug companies and physicians that see too many patients a day without taking the time to truly understand the reasons behind the patients complaints. On top of this you have the problem of patient compliance, which prompts the dispensing of pills to satisfy patient complaints rather than involving the patient in their own care. It truly is a vicious cycle that is a major factor in health care costs soon to be exceeding 3 Trillion dollars a year.
We as educators, feel the reason for the severe apathy of the general public regarding their own health and healthcare is a product of the media and rampant ignorance about how their body functions and each person’s responsibility to make good choices about activities they do, dietary habits, exercise choices as well as day to day choice about smoking and drinking. The media teaches everyone to do what is fun without any regard for the consequences and goes so far as to make people feel that having pain on a regular basis is a normal part of living.
We cannot change the media immediately but we can impact the level of knowledge about the body that we all live in. This is the purpose of our work, to heighten the awareness of people to realize that they have been given the most incredible body to live in and it is their individual responsibility alone, not their choice, to maintain and take care of that body as long as they inhabit it. Your body is the only thing that you and you alone have control over. Your body requires that you give it direction in everything you do, whether at work or play. When properly maintained and directed, your body operates in a healthy, pain free manner.
