1. Mercer Island Chiropractic Dr’s Report

5. US Health System Most Expensive in World The most expensive in the world , the American healthcare system is also riddled with problems and contradictions. In short, the American system is a work in progress, driven by a disparate array of interests with two goals that are often in conflict: providing healthcare to the sick, and generating income for the persons and organizations that assume the financial risk . The government's annual bill for healthcare spending -- $3,925 per person -- significantly exceeds that of other nations, because physicians' salaries and hospital costs are higher, and medical technology is more widely used. The transfer of funds among federal and state Medicare and Medicaid programs is another important component of national healthcare spending. The American healthcare system is at once the most expensive and the most inadequate system in the developed world. The New England Journal of Medicine January 7, 1999;340:48, 70-76.

6. The World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems. Source: WHO World Health Report 1 France 2 Italy 3 San Marino 4 Andorra 5 Malta 6 Singapore 7 Spain 8 Oman 9 Austria 10 Japan 11 Norway 12 Portugal 13 Monaco 14 Greece 15 Iceland 16 Luxembourg 17 Netherlands 18 United Kingdom 19 Ireland 20 Switzerland 21 Belgium 22 Colombia 23 Sweden 24 Cyprus 25 Germany 26 Saudi Arabia 27 United Arab Emirates 28 Israel 29 Morocco 30 Canada 31 Finland 32 Australia 33 Chile 34 Denmark 35 Dominica 36 Costa Rica 37 United States of America 38 Slovenia 39 Cuba 40 Brunei 41 New Zealand 42 Bahrain 43 Croatia 44 Qatar 45 Kuwait 46 Barbados 47 Thailand 48 Czech Republic 49 Malaysia 50 Poland 51 Dominican Republic 52 Tunisia 53 Jamaica 54 Venezuela 55 Albania 56 Seychelles 57 Paraguay 58 South Korea 59 Senegal 60 Philippines 61 Mexico 62 Slovakia 63 Egypt 64 Kazakhstan 65 Uruguay 66 Hungary 67 Trinidad and Tobago 68 Saint Lucia 69 Belize 70 Turkey 71 Nicaragua 72 Belarus 73 Lithuania 74 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 75 Argentina 76 Sri Lanka 77 Estonia 78 Guatemala 79 Ukraine 80 Solomon Islands 81 Algeria 82 Palau 83 Jordan 84 Mauritius 85 Grenada 86 Antigua and Barbuda 87 Libya 88 Bangladesh 89 Macedonia 90 Bosnia-Herzegovina 91 Lebanon 92 Indonesia 93 Iran 94 Bahamas 95 Panama 96 Fiji 97 Benin 98 Nauru 99 Romania 100 Saint Kitts and Nevis

10. “ The Power That Made The Body Heals The Body”

11. Health comes from above/down and inside/out. Within all living things there is a power or energy. When the energy flows without interference life can express itself and health results.

12. We live in a world that includes many stresses. These stresses comes in one of three forms: 1. Physical – Birth trauma, slips falls, accidents, poor posture. 2. Chemical – Nutritionally deficient food, drugs, pollution. 3. Mental/Emotional – Negative thoughts, feelings, environmental influences. This is the true cause of lost health.

18. Subluxations? How dangerous are they? Are they really that bad? When you hear the word "cancer", there is an instant vision of a very serious and life threatening disease. When you hear the word "AIDS", you think of a terminal condition with a person suffering with no hope of survival. Subluxations compromise your body's function (lowered immunity and increased toxicity). Subluxations reduce your vitality making a breeding ground for infection, cancer and all other disease. That is how dangerous subluxations are.

20. Safety and gentleness … is the preferred approach of this office. The techniques at Mercer Island Chiropractic accentuate the importance of allowing a person's body to do the correcting, where possible. You will find the techniques used are safe, gentle and very effective. When is the best time to check for subluxations?

27. Near Normal As a result of trauma to the body and spine (physical, chemical or emotional), subluxation occurs and initiates the degeneration process. Description: Normal forward curve Disc Spaces are even and thick Distinct borders of vertebrae and neural foramen (nerve holes) are wide open.

28. Phase One Subluxation Degeneration Expected Outcome: With chiropractic care, complete correction is available and can take up to 18 months. If neglected and left uncorrected, progression to phase 2 is inevitable. Description: Loss of normal curve and alignment The disc spaces between the vertebrae are beginning to decrease. Clear and distinct borders of the vertebrae are still present. Nerve holes are stretched or compressed

32. Can you correct forward head syndrome?

39. What do you need to do to fix this permanently? 1)Time 2) Repetition 3) Energy