Lecture Descriptions.

Mountain Health Chiropractic and Wellness Center offers the following interactive workshops. We also offer an optional health consultation and spinal and nervous system screening for all participants.  If your

 Group or organization would like to schedule a workshop or screening, please call

 Sarah Sparrow at (972) 398 - 0440. Thank you in advance for the opportunity to

educate. You are helping us to Inspire Health and Wellness.

The Four Keys to Health: This program is designed to create an awareness of the four key requirements for optimal health. Food, water, oxygen and proper nerve function are all essential for health and wellbeing. During this presentation, we will define health and discuss the lifestyle habits that will create balance and integrity, thus empowering participants to make a lasting shift in the continuum from sickness and disease toward health and wellness.

Health From Within: We introduce our audience to a definition of health based on physiological function and balance where the body can adapt to stress and repair damaged tissues effectively and efficiently. We discuss the three types of stress and the adaptive processes that can lead to health. We will also review the adaptive processes that can lead to disease, focusing on lifestyle while providing participants with tips and ideas to propel them toward health and wellness.

Neurology of the Subluxation: This is an in-depth program that compiles decades of scientific research designed to educate allied health professionals. The neurophysiologic effects of spinal subluxation on muscular activity, circulation, immune function, adaptability to stress, and visceral function are all grossly misunderstood. This research points out: (1) the neurological compensation patterns that cause the development and progression of degenerative arthritis, (2) the short-term effects of the spinal adjustment on afferent and efferent function, and (3) the long- term benefit of life-time care to improve spinal and nervous system integrity and overall health and wellness.

Benefits of Chiropractic Care during Pregnancy:  Our audience will be educated on the importance of spinal balance and proper neurological function to support pregnancy, fetal development, and promote effective labor and delivery. This program was designed for expecting mothers, their families, and allied health professionals (midwives, nurses, obstetricians and pediatricians). We will discuss the importance of exercise, appropriate stretches, and the importance of regular spinal check-ups to ensure effective labor and delivery that is safe and magical for the mother and the baby.

Healthy Aging: This program highlights the difficulty today’s seniors face in a world of health care designed to treat disease as opposed to creating health. It looks at trends in medicine and the real-life effects on today's senior population. We conclude with practical ideas for seniors that will help them create lasting change in their health as well as their medicine cabinets.

Office Ergonomics: Employee health is a major concern for most employers and they will welcome your program with open arms. This is not just another work safety program; it emphasizes the importance of spinal health and regular spinal check-ups as part of a healthy lifestyle. 

Kids Health: Parents will learn the research related to ear infections, colds, sore throats, asthma, colic and other childhood illnesses, along with the studies that demonstrate the ineffectiveness of medical and pharmaceutical treatments. We will also discuss the growing evidence proving that the overuse and the inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics actually damage a child's health. Research from British Medical Journal, Journal of the American Medical Association, as well as the Centers for Disease Control all show alarming trends leading to increased incidence of childhood disease linked to drug therapy.

Ten Keys to Longevity: We discuss the ten most common characteristics of all centenarians, and how lifestyle factors (not genetics) are the greatest indicators for longevity. Longevity without health is not the goal; the goal is to add life to your years as well as years to your life.

The Power of Potential: Our audience will understand the Power of Potential and will understand the mind, body, spirit connection in the development of health and wellness. Participants will learn about the effects of perspective and mental attitude and the ability we all have to shape our destiny.

The Intelligence Within: Participants will learn the power of innate intelligence and the power of knowledge and limitless potential. They will also understand the value of spinal health and balance in the creation and maintenance of good health. Our thoughts create our reality - change your health by changing your thoughts.

Backpack Safety and Body Awareness: Audience members will understand why it is important to help children develop body awareness and proper spinal hygiene. This presentation leads the audience through a process of recognizing the lack of values that causes improper decision making, and helps them develop the value system necessary to start making healthier decisions.  

Changing Perceptions in Health Care: This program is packed with research and information showing the ineffectiveness of medicine and the “sick care” system, while highlighting the effectiveness and safety of chiropractic care. This program will provide individuals with the tools necessary to become an active participant in their own healthcare.

Welcome to a Life without Headaches and Drugs: This program was designed to describe the neurological, circulatory, and chemical causes of headaches. Participants will learn the perils of a pharmaceutical approach of symptom-chasing in contrast to the chiropractic approach of correcting the cause of the problem.

Understanding Physical Stress:  During this presentation, participants will learn: (1) the real-life causes of stress, (2) the relationship between stress and disease, (3) how to recognize and deal with stress in daily life, and (4) how to gain a better understanding of disease prevention and maintenance of health. 

The Natural Benefits of Breastfeeding and Care for the Mother After the Birth of the Newborn:  This class teaches women: (1) the benefits of breastfeeding, (2) how breastfeeding helps develop the neurological, immune, and digestive system of the baby, (3) the advantages of breastfeeding for the mother, as well as (4) challenges of breastfeeding and caring for a new moms’ health and well being after the child is born.  

Nutrition and your Health:  The old adage that you are what you eat is not the real truth. The real truth is you are what your body can do with what you eat. Real information to help your audience learn basic facts about nutrition and to understand how proper spinal and nervous system function is essential for proper nutrition, from digestion to assimilation of nutrients. We focus on the visceral affects of subluxation and the impact on nutrition 

How to Rev up your Metabolism:  Our audience will be educated on what the body’s metabolism is and how it works.  We’ll show them how to increase their metabolism to achieve weight loss and maintain their ideal weight once they achieve it.  We will discuss the 4 essentials of metabolism, the thermic effect of food, and the impact water, oxygen, and the nervous system have on our metabolism.  We’ll let them know they are in control, lifestyle choices are the key.  

Reducing Stress – How to Add Quality and Years to Your Life:  During this presentation,  participants will learn not only what Stress is, and common causes of Stress, but the Stress connection to disease.  They will learn that their spinal cord is the lifeline of information from their brains to their bodies and how they can improve their bodies’ ability to handle stress, even increase white blood cell production to fight disease. 

How to Enhance Your Performance:  This presentation introduces several very successful athletes like Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Martina Navratilova, and points out something special that they have in common…..they are among the best in their sports fields and they all view chiropractic as absolutely essential to their training and overall well being.  We review what Health is, talk about our not-so-great Healthcare System, and the Solution.  We cover lifestyle habits, both good and bad, the importance of proper nutrition, adequate water intake, the benefits of healthy thinking, and the importance of spinal and nerve system balance. We review what chiropractic is, the benefit of chiropractic, and why we need lifetime chiropractic care for good health and well being.

Chiropractic for Children:  This is another super presentation.  It starts off with the definition of health and explains what chiropractic is. We discuss what subluxations are, symptoms that may indicate subluxations, and the many causes of subluxations, including the birthing process. We discuss why and when a child should be taken to a chiropractor.  

Children’s Health & Nutrition:  Covers the Probabilities for children’s health and nutrition in a failing healthcare system, charts obesity trends among U.S. adults from 1985 through 2006, highlights the Possibilities of health through healthy eating, moving, and thinking well, and discusses chiropractic’s role in children’s wellness.  Probabilities or Possibilities, which do you choose? 

Optimal Health Builds Maximum Wealth:  This program highlights the current state of health care, explaining the bottom line of what health care is costing companies and individuals today.  We will highlight the predictions for the state of health care in the future and what it will cost companies and individuals.  The doctor will give tips that can be implemented immediately by individuals or companies, no matter the size, that will directly increase their profit.  Tips will range anywhere from drinking water to reducing stress.  The doctor will have research to show the affects these tips will have on productivity and absenteeism, as well as how it directly relates to your profit. 

Do I Look Fat in These GENES?  The new field of epigenetics takes a look at how our environment, habits and attitudes affect our genetic expression. We will review old beliefs around genetics and will show how new information is changing how we look at genetics. The message here is we have more control over our genetics than we ever thought possible!