6812 W Brown Deer Road
Milwaukee, WI 53223-2102
USA

Practice Phone #: (414) 355-0433
Practice Fax #: (414) 355-6381
E-mail: gdonaldson@standupright.com

Welcome...

Congratulations on considering chiropractic care for your health care needs.

If you are like most people you first consider coming to us with some problem that you haven’t been able to handle on your own. Often it is a headache or arm problem or maybe a neck or back problem. And chiropractic is absolutely the most effective thing you can do for these problems.

But, in over twenty years of helping people with these problems I have found that most people have these problems because their spine has not been properly maintained. Lack of maintenance leads to a problem and problems remain silent until enough damage occurs to get into a crisis.

The crisis is when the symptoms occur. If you just treat the symptoms, the crisis is gone but the problem is still there.

Now, it’s not really a fault of yours that you haven’t learned how to maintain your spine. You probably were never told about the importance of it. Did your parents say anything more than standup straight? Did you family doctor ever test your spinal muscles? Did anyone ever check to be sure your neck curve was developing properly? Probably not. Because of this most people don’t know how their spine works, don’t know the importance of it, and don’t pay any attention to their spine until they have a crisis and are forced to do something.

Nobody likes to feel bad, nobody likes to be unhealthy. Whenever we do feel bad our first thought is “I want to get rid of this problem.”

Unfortunately, most of us never think about the things that we have done that led to this problem. For example, when the oil light goes on in the car, the first thought we have is how can I get that darn idiot light to turn off. If we did just knock out the light or cover it up with duct tape but didn’t take the car in and have the oil changed or added, what would happen is that we would have gotten rid of the symptom but the cause would remain and that would lead to future problems.

Yes, it is probably true that your body does have a symptom at this time, but it is also true that there are causes of these symptoms that you cannot see, that may have been going on for a longer time and that are often more extensive than the obvious symptom.

If you get rid of the cause of something, what happens is that the symptom not only disappears, but the reason that it was there also is finally handled, and the problem does not come back.

Now most people think of chiropractic as the best pain remover there is, because it is natural and it gets results. However, most people have a hard time looking beyond this to what the chiropractor actually does, which is to structurally rebalance your body so that when you’re walking, sitting, laying down, being active in your normal life, that your body is structurally in balance.

When your body is structurally not aligned correctly, you do not meet the forces of gravity favorably. And as a result there is a continuous on-going daily trauma to your body and your health. If you add to this all the falls, accidents and injuries that you’ve had throughout your life, you’re starting to see why the human structure needs to be maintained over your lifetime.

If you recall how you felt when you were young, you would realize that when you were younger you had a lot more energy, a lot more pep, and a lot more joy for living. How come? Because your body had no accumulated stress from the years of adapting to daily life.

You know, when we have a floor in our house that’s had a lot of wear and tear, we get tired of just waxing it and trying to make it seem superficially clean. Sooner or later we’ll do an overhaul. We’ll have someone come in and buff it and really do a complete job. Why do people have more concern about their floor? Why do people have more concern about their car?

The reason is that we are a symptom-oriented society with millions and millions of dollars worth of commercials blasting into our minds each and every day telling us the way to be healthy is quick and easy and can be solved simply through a pill.

The modern approach to health shows that this is not true, that the way to be healthy is to strip away all the stresses and problems that have accrued or built up on our body throughout our life.

I would like to hold out to you a new goal, a different goal and that is to make you as healthy as humanly possible by getting you to be as close to normal as possible. I will outline to you this form of care and I want you to know that the reason I do this is that I believe that each and every person I work with has the right to have as much health potential as possible.

I cannot give you an increase in your health potential by simply returning you to the condition you were in prior to this immediate crisis.

True, your headaches, your sinus problems or the neck or back pain that you have, may seem to have come about quite suddenly. But scientific research proves that a symptom is the last result of numerous different activities or losses of function within the human body.

Only as a result of correcting these underlying malfunctions and accumulated stresses can you really be returned to the 100 percent normal way Mother Nature meant you to be.

Having a 100 percent normal spine and normal structure allows you to be so much more healthy than you could possibly imagine than simply getting rid of a symptom.

It is my goal to help you in any way that you choose. However, as a professional I must tell you that there is a much more wonderful and much more meaningful and much more useful benefit from chiropractic care, which is the complete restoration of proper structural health. If you are interested in this type of care, it would be our honor and privilege to help you to obtain these results. I look forward to working with you.

Please contact my office by clicking on the link to email me, or you may call the office for an appointment at 414-355-0433.
Thanks,
Dr. Gary Donaldson

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