Remove all obstructions, not just the obvious ones.

 

 

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

Research has shown that as little as 5 mm of mercury pressure (the weight of a dime), is enough to decrease nerve function.

So, if the nerve going from your brain to your heart is not functioning 100% , do you think you could possibly be as healthy as you should? Definitely not!

Is this something that you need to worry about? If you have never had your nervous system checked, then you probably should worry.

 Here is the deal.

You have 24 movable bones protecting your nervous system. We call it your spine.

When you have trauma, it is possible to get those bones (vertebrae) out of alignment this is called a subluxation. This misalignment (subluxation), can put pressure on the nerve roots and decrease nerve function. As you can imagine, decreased nerve function equals decreased health. Dis-Ease.

It makes sense to me, If you want to be healthy, you will get checked by a chiropractor as soon as possible. If you want your family to be healthy, you will get your family's nervous system checked.

At Barton Chiropractic in Concord we will never charge you or a loved one to sit down and talk about your needs. If you are serious about your health, call 925 685-2002 today for a free consultation to see if you are suffering from Subluxations in your spine.

Fewer ear infections, allergies, tonsilitis and asthma!

When one or more vertebrae are out of proper juxtaposition and/or not functioning properly, there will be an interference to the normal transmission of what we call “the mental impulse.” This is Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC). It can cause an ache or a pain, anything at all up to and including life-threatening disease. Disease begins with “dis-ease,” a lack of ease, of health.


Your brain and the nervous system controls and coordinates every cell, tissue, organ and system of the body.
Chiropractors remove nerve interference allowing the body to function at its potential. Not only do we feel better but research shows you are actually healthier.

Only a proper chiropractic examination, including X-rays and neurological examination, can detect VSC.  And only Chiropractic Adjustments can correct VSC.

Call Barton Chiropractic in Concord today at 925 685-2002 to schedule your free consultation, or visit our website at www.BartonChiro.com

Scientists Blow The Lid on Cancer & Sunscreen Myth

No Sunscreen?

That's right! Barton Chiropractic in Concord is constantly researching the latest news for our patients. If you would like more information on this subject contact our office at www.BartonChiro.com .


According to a June 2014 article featured in The Independent (UK), a major study conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that women who avoid sunbathing during the summer are twice as likely to die as those who sunbathe every day.  

The epidemiological study followed 30,000 women for over 20 years and “showed that mortality was about double in women who avoided sun exposure compared to the highest exposure group.”

Researchers concluded that the conventional dogma, which advises avoiding the sun at all costs and slathering on sunscreen to minimize sun exposure, is doing more harm than actual good.

That’s because overall sun avoidance combined with wearing sunscreen effectively blocks the body’s ability to produce vitamin D3 from the sun’s UVB rays, which is by far the best form of vitamin D.

In the USA, vitamin D deficiency is at epidemic levels. Ironically, vitamin D deficiency can lead to aggressive forms of skin cancer. A ground-breaking 2011 study published in Cancer Prevention Research suggests that optimal blood levels of vitamin D offers protection against sunburn and skin cancer.

Additionally, vitamin D protects the body from diseases like multiple sclerosis, rickets (in the young),

tuberculosis, inflammatory bowel disease, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjogren’s syndrome.

According to the Vitamin D Council, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently reported that “lack of sun exposure may lead to cognitive decline over time.”

A Dermatologist Who’s Not Afraid to Sit on the Beach”:

Bernard Ackerman, MD, (deceased 2008) was one of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject of skin cancer and the sun, sunscreens and melanoma skin cancer risks.

Below are Ackerman’s views excerpted from an article in The New York Times (July 20, 2004), titled “I BEG TO DIFFER; A Dermatologist Who’s Not Afraid to Sit on the Beach”:

The link between melanoma and sun exposure (dermatology’s dogma) is unproven.There’s no conclusive evidence that sunburns lead to cancer.There is no real proof that sunscreens protect against melanoma.There’s no proof that increased exposure to the sun increases the risk of melanoma.

A 2000 Swedish study concluded that higher rates of melanoma occurred in those who used sunscreen versus those who did not.

Sunscreens: Cancer-Causing Biohazards

Elizabeth Plourde, PhD, is a California-based scientist who authored the book Sunscreens – Biohazard: Treat as Hazardous Waste, which extensively documents the serious life-threatening dangers of sunscreens not only to people but to the environment as well.

Dr. Plourde provides proof that malignant melanoma and all other skin cancers increased significantly with ubiquitous sunscreen use over a 30-year period. She emphasizes that many sunscreens contain chemicals that are known carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC).


Dr. Plourde’s research on mice and sunscreen exposure also showed increases in both pup and maternal mortality as well as reproductive issues in subsequent generations.

Additionally, the book documents how sunscreen chemicals have polluted our water sources including oceans, rivers and municipal drinking water. Worse yet, testing revealed that 97% of Americans have sunscreen chemicals in their blood!

Dr. Plourde’s book also has a chapter on the importance of vitamin D3 to health, and she posits that the widespread vitamin D3 deficiency is linked to overuse of sunscreen combined with sun avoidance in general.

Why would anybody go to this doctor when he openly admits that he has never healed anyone?

  Crazy huh?

Over the last 26 years, thousands of people have gone to see this doctor for everything from headaches, asthma, A.D.D., diabetes, GURD, back pain even infertility. And to this day he still maintains that he has never cured or healed anyone.

You see, this doctor firmly believes that no doctor has ever healed anyone. So often doctors try to play God thinking that they can actually heal people but that is just not true. 

The truth is that your body is a self healing organism. It needs no help whatsoever to heal. It just needs no interference. Your Body has an innate intelligence inside of it that regulates and controls all of its functions. The Bible says that God breathed life into man and I believe that it is this life or innate that keeps you and I alive. 

Now imagine for  just a minute that your brain is controlling all of your bodily functions sending messages down your spinal cord and out to all the tissues in your body. Regulating everything that your body does, and everything is functioning at 100%. You are as healthy as you can possibly be.

What if something was to interfere with your brains ability to control the organs in your body. Lets just say for instance your heart. DO you think you would be healthier or sicker? Sicker, every time.

Every day we have trauma in our life. Sometimes this trauma is so severe of goes on for so long that it can actually cause the bones in your spine that are protecting your nervous system, to be moved out of place. If this Vertebrae is out of place, it can put pressure on spinal nerves.

That's right, a spinal bone out of lace can put pressure on your nervous system and cause a decrease in function of your body. 

Now, if that bone is protecting the nerve that goes to your heart, and you put pressure on the nerve that goes to your heart, are you going to be sicker or healthier? What if the nerve goes to your stomach? Did you ever think about the fact that the same nerve that goes to your low back and frequently causes low back pain also controls your ovaries, uterus, Male organs?

What if someone was trained in detecting and correcting these misaligned vertebrae (subluxations)? Can  you see that as the pressure is removed from the nerve that not only could the low back pain go away but even the erectile dysfunction or infertility or abnormal menstrual cramping, irregular menstrual cycles?

At Barton Chiropractic, that is just what we do! We detect and correct subluxations allowing your body to function at 100% so that it can heal itself. This is done through a series of gentle Chiropractic adjustments.

If you have a spine, you more than likely have Subluxations (spinal bones that are in the wrong place), decreasing your bodies ability to function at 100%. This may or may not be causing symptoms. We have found that symptoms are often not present until the problem has gotten really bad. A person that has just had a heart attack did not just suddenly develop heart problems. The heart was bad way before the symptoms arose.

If you would like to know more, you can visit our office at Concord Chiropractor or call our office at 925 685-2002 to schedule a free consultation with one of our doctors.

DECIDING WHETHER OR NOT TO CIRCUMCISE YOUR SON?

At Barton Chiropractic, our Chiropractors are constantly trying to educate our patients about their health. I am not saying that you should not circumcise your son. I just think you should weigh the options.

Circumcision is a painful, risky, unethical surgery that deprives over a million boys each year of healthy, functional tissue, while wasting health care dollars that could be spent on medically necessary services. Read the "Ten Reasons NOT to Circumcise Your Baby Below" below – and learn why you should keep your newborn son intact.

 

10 Reasons NOT to Circumcise Your Baby Boy

1. Because there is no medical reason for "routine" circumcision of baby boys. No professional medical association in the United States or the rest of the world recommends routine neonatal circumcision. The American Medical Association calls it "non-therapeutic." At no time in its 75 years has the American Academy of Pediatrics ever recommended infant circumcision. Bet you didn't know that.
2. Because the foreskin is not a birth defect. The foreskin is a normal, sensitive, functional part of the body. In infant boys, the foreskin is attached to the head of the penis (glans), protects it from urine, feces, and irritation, and keeps contaminants from entering the urinary tract. The foreskin also has an important role in sexual pleasure, due to its specialized, erogenous nerve endings and its natural gliding and lubricating functions.
3. Because you wouldn't circumcise your baby girl. In the United States, girls of all ages are protected by federal and state laws from forced genital surgery, whether practiced in medical or non-medical settings, and regardless of the religious or cultural preferences of their parents. There is no ethical rationale for distinguishing between female and male genital alteration. If it is wrong to remove part of a baby girl's healthy genitals, then it is wrong to do the same to those of a baby boy.
4. Because your baby does not want to be circumcised. Circumcision painfully and permanently alters a baby boy's genitals, removing healthy, protective, functional tissue from the penis and exposing the child to unnecessary pain and medical risks –for no medical benefit. What do you think your baby boy would say if he could tell you?
5. Because removing part of a baby's penis is painful, risky, and harmful. We know babies are sensitive to pain. Many circumcisions are performed with no analgesic, but even when pain control is employed, the pain is not eliminated. As with any surgery, complications can and do occur with circumcision. These include infection, abnormal bleeding, removal of too much skin, loss of all or part of the glans, urinary problems, and even death. All circumcisions result in the loss of the foreskin and its functions, and leave a penile scar.
6. Because times and attitudes have changed. The circumcision rate in the United States is now below 40% (and much lower in some parts of the country), down from 81% in 1981. More than 60% of all baby boys in the U.S. leave the hospital intact, as more and more parents realize that circumcision is unnecessary and wrong.
7. Because most medically advanced nations do not circumcise baby boys. People in Europe, Asia and Latin America are often appalled to hear that American doctors and hospitals remove part of a boy's penis shortly after birth. Approximately 75% of the men in the world are not circumcised and remain intact throughout their lives.
8. Because caring for and cleaning the foreskin is easy. A natural, intact penis requires no special care, beyond gentle washing while bathing. Later, when the foreskin can be retracted (something that often does not occur until adolescence), a boy can be taught to pull back his foreskin to wash his penis. Forcible retraction of the foreskin results in pain and injury, and should not be done.
9. Because circumcision does not prevent HIV or other diseases. Over the years, the claims that circumcision prevents various diseases have repeatedly been proven to be exaggerated or outright fabrications. Most men in the United States are circumcised, but our STD rates are as high as or higher than those in countries where circumcision is rare.
10. Because children should be protected from permanent bodily alteration inflicted on them without their consent in the name of culture, religion, profit, or parental preference. Under accepted bioethical principles, parents can consent to surgery on behalf of a child only if it is necessary to protect the child's life or health. "Routine" circumcision fails this test because it painfully and permanently removes a normal and healthy part of a boy's penis, does not protect the child’s life or health, and in fact creates new risks. Removing the foreskin is no more justified than removing a finger or any other healthy body part.

For more information I would recommend that you Google the subject. If  you would like to talk to a doctor about the issue, you can contact our office at : 925 685-2002 or visit our website at www.BartonChiro.com  

Which is Scarier?

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Although we have been taught the importance of good tooth hygiene, little or no emphasis is ever put on actual health. I am referring to our overall health. Politicians make a huge deal about "healthcare" when in fact they could care less. Lets look at the facts:

1) Our education system fails to teach anything about health. If we were truly concerned children would be taught nutrition . We would not have a nation of obese children. Childhood diabetes would not be rampant.

2) We would let our children enjoy exercise. Sports programs, making recess physical education fun.

3) less emphasis would be placed on pharmaceutical coverage and more on preventative care.

And the list goes on. Dentistry has done a great job of educating people about the importance of good tooth hygiene. pictures like the one of the rotten teeth look scary! But the picture on the right has far worst health implications.

Subluxation Degeneration which has been referred to as the silent killer can have devastating effects and few people understand it. It really is very simple. When you stop and think that your brain controls everything that your body does. Every bodily function.

If you cut the nerve that goes from your brain to your heart, what happens? That's right, you die! Now, what if instead of cutting the nerve, you put pressure on it, decreasing its function? "pinched nerve" . Yes, it ca cause pain, but more importantly, it can cause a decrease in organ or gland or even muscle function effecting your health.

If this vertebrea is left out of alignment, over time, as a result of the spine being out of alignment, the disc will literally start to wear away. This is premature joint degeneration.








All of this can be prevented.

Chiropractors correct the devastating effects of vertebreal subluxations. Chiropractic corrective care can even slow down or stop this premature degeneration, as well as removing interference in the nervous system.


It makes sense to me, If you want to be healthy, you will get checked by a chiropractor as soon as possible. If you want your family to be healthy, you will get your family's nervous system checked. 

At Barton Chiropractic in Concord we will never charge you or a loved one to sit down and talk about your needs. If you are serious about your health, call 925 685-2002 today for a free consultation to see if you are suffering from Subluxations in your spine.

Are you Suffering From Back Pain?

If you have back pain, you are in the majority. What most people understand is there is no reason to suffer. Listen to what this man discovered.

Estimates vary, but approximately 60% to 80% of us will get at least mild back pain at some time in our lives. In 2007 alone, about 27 million US adults aged 18 or older (11% of the total adult population) reported having back pain, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. About 70% of these people -- 19.1 million -- sought treatment by a doctor, the agency says. It also says that more women (10.9 million) received medical treatment for their back pain than did men (8.2 million).

Never before has it been easier to get rid of pain! At Barton Chiropractic in Concord our doctors specialize in gentle corrective chiropractic care. You will find that our office is different.

We Listen, We Care, We Get Results!
Want to find out more? Contact our office at 925 685-2002 or visit our website at http://www.BartonChiro.com

Check out what some of our patients have had to say!

Sandy Castillo

reviewed:

Concord Chiropractor, Barton Chiropractic in Concord

1251 Monument Blvd #130, Concord, CA 94520

I was a bit sceptical when I first started care at Barton Chiropractic. How could anyone be that friendly. I have to be honest it is still very strange. Everyone is happy. The staff is amazing. The doctors are patient and understanding. The initial visit was a bit long.... over an hour. They asked questions about my job, personal habits, childhood injuries. I was expecting to come in for a quick kind of thing , instead The exam was very detailed and in depth. When I left, for the first time I knew what was wrong with me.

I have been to many doctors and no one has been able to help me. Dr. Barton and Dr. Stockton have been amazing. I Feel Great.

Thank you so much. You guys are the best! 10 out of 10

Quality Excellent

Christy Warnick reviewed:

Concord Chiropractor, Barton Chiropractic in Concord

1251 Monument Blvd #130, Concord, CA 94520

I've been going to Doctor Westover for more than a year now, but recently developed severe back/neck/shoulder pain due to increased stress levels and other health complications. It was so bad that I couldn't turn my neck, I couldn't lift anything and even sleeping was painful. Dr. Westover worked with me almost daily to remedy the issues and I feel great! Could not be happier with my chiropractor!
PS: Check out the massage chair in the office. Amazing!