Dr Brian Ferris Chiropractor

Five reasons you should see a chiropractor: 1. You have a spine 2. You sit at a computer all day 3. You want to age well 4. You want to sleep well... 5. You want your body to feel healthy #chiropractic #chiropracticcare

This pandemic has affected many aspects of life. Less time socializing, more time home. And more time home means more time spent in front of the TV. The more I watch TV, the more I'm amazed by how many drug advertisements pollute the airways. It seems every fourth commercial is a drug commercial. We must be a really sick society to warrant all this drug advertising. Or is the opposite true: are we a sick society because of all this drug advertising. I wonder? Americans ...make up 5% of the world's population. But did you know that we take 55% of the world's prescription drugs? Apparently those drug advertisements work well. Now if you said because we take all these drugs we are the healthiest people on the planet....well frankly I wouldn't have to write this. But we are not the healthiest population on the planet, not even close. We don't live as long as most industrialized societies. We are overweight, diabetic, hypertensive, depressed, anxious and the list goes on. Very few of our seniors are aging gracefully. Most are suffering with chronic conditions. We may be living longer but we are definitely not living better. Here's the problem. When you see this avalanche of drug commercials you start to believe that taking drugs is "normal", a "part of life". Not only that but taking drugs is "good for you". You cant be healthy until you take your medicine. Now I'm not here saying that some drugs aren't necessary for some people for some cases. But there is a reason why America is the only country that allows drug commercials on TV. Its good for drug company business. Drug companies do not want you cured. They want you as a customer for life. Please realize you are being marketed to. Please realize that if you take care of yourself and your body you have a much better chance of aging gracefully....needing less medication....not being a customer. Your body already has inside itself the greatest pharmacy in town. The chemicals your body makes are made in the exact right amount with no side effects. Trust it. Respect it. Chiropractic is a about supporting you and your body to have the healthiest experience possible while on this planet.

The office will be closed for the Labor Day Weekend. Office hours will resume Tuesday 9/8 at 9:30 am. Have a great, healthy, safe weekend everyone

Hi everyone, I am very gratified by the feedback my 2 cents blog has been generating. Thanks for all the well wishes. Someday I hope to write about other things besides Covid, but for now its still in the news. In fact this past weekend the CDC released the latest scientific findings concerning the virus. President Trump tweeted an exerpt from the report stating that only 6% of the total deaths can be attributed Covid. So out of the 180,000+ people who died of Covid per...haps as low as 9,000+ actually died from Covid. Suggesting the 180K number is grossly overinflated or falsified. Now I realize everything can be a political football, especially during an election year. Covid and death rates are no exception. Politics aside, let's look at what the repot really said. Trump's suggestion that the death rates are overinflated or falsified is at best misguided. What the CDC report did state was that on the death certificates of all those killed by Covid just 6% had Covid listed as the ONLY cause of death. The remaining 94% had Covid listed with a laundry list of co-morbidities: obesity, diabetes, respiritory disease, high blood pressure, etc. Two things we can derive from this data 1. The co-morbities go a long way towards weakening the body to such an extent that the virus had a greater chance of killing them. 2. If you are healthy with no co-morbidities your chance of dying from the virus is relatively small So, what do we make of this. Like we've been saying all along, healthy people have a very small chance of getting seriously ill from this virus. Now that doesn't mean that you should avoid taking precautions. Please continue to wear masks, distance, hand wash,etc. You need to take precautions because being healthy does not guarantee you 100% immunity (as pointed out in the CDC study). It only puts the odds greatly in your favor. Unfortunately in any epidemic/outbreak/pandemic a small number of seemingly healthy people always die and Covid is no exception. Take steps to improve your health. Call me if chiropractic care can help towards that aim: 516-520-1605 https://abc-7.com//cdc-report-shows-94-of-covid-19-deaths/

Patients come to me for help with their pain but most find that other ailments and problems clear up. Then they stay because they realize it helps them stay healthy.