What Happened to Tom?
Little Tommy is pedalling as fast ashe can and while doing a wheelie his tricycle flips over and he is thrown to the ground. He gets back on his tricycle and pedals away. But unknown to Tommy, the fall has misaligned a vertebra in his spine and .'pinched" a nerve that transmits mental impulses to his stomach. This is called a vertebral subluxation. (Often many nerves are involved in many complicated ways when there's a subluxation, but for the sake of simplicity we'll use the stomach.)

A Subluxation
Tommy of course has never heard the word subluxation and perhaps he never will. But in a few days he's complaining to his mother about a stomach ache. Since Tommy is a strong, growing boy, it may go away and not return for months. Tommy's mum may just overlook it: "Kids are always coming down with a little of this and a little of that," she may say. "Besides, he's usually better the next day."
As Tommy grows up, however, he finds that certain foods have a bad effect on him.
• He can't eat leafy vegetables.
• He can't eat spicy foods.
•. He can't eat pizza.

• like them, but they don't like me" he says a he gets older. He regularly consumes over-the-counter drugs such as Eno's , Mylanta , Gaviscon and Alka-Seltzer to get through the day.

Prescription Drugs
The years pass, and as Tom gets older he finds that his drugstore remedies aren't working as well as they used to. He now goes to his medical doctor, who prescribes more powerful drugs. These drugs have greater side effects.
Tom's problems with his stomach gradually get worse. One day he is diagnosed as having an ulcer. In time, the ulcer may get so bad an operation may be necessary. Tom will have to be careful of what he eats for the rest of his life - or else!
Tommy's story is not unique. You ma know many Tommy's: if it isn't stomach trouble, it's asthma or bronchitis, or arthritis, headaches, constipation, fatigue, insomnia, backaches or one another of the hundreds of disease conditions that run through our medical books and our communities. The world is full of Tommys who live on medicines and are resigned to a life of aches and pains, sickness and disease, adverse reactions and side effects. They may never know a truly healthy day for the rest of their lives since that very first "fall from grace."

What Happened to Dick?
Our next child is Dick. He is also a bit of a daredevil, overdoes a wheelie, and - you guessed it fails down and goes boom. He dusts himself off more worried about tearing his clothes and getting yelled at by his mother than any damage he may have done to himself - and gets back on his bike. Like Tommy, Dickie has gotten a subluxation, and, like Tommy's, it is affecting his stomach.
Dick too doesn't know he has a subluxation, but in time also begins to suffer from stomach problems. Like Tom, as the years go by, he can't eat everything he'd like to and begins to rely on over-the-counter drugs for relief. But one day a friend says to him, 'You know Dick, with all your stomach problems why don't you see a chiropractor?' .A chiropractors?'' says Dick, "I thought they were for backaches."
But since he has nothing to lose, he gives the chiropractor a try.

Can You Cure Me?
"Can you cure my stomach problems?" he asks the chiropractor. "Chiropractors don't treat diseases, we locate and correct vertebral subluxations, which cause nerve interference. After the subluxations are corrected, the body is better able to heal itself," says the chiropractor.
The chiropractor analyses Dick's spine and locates a subluxation - the one that was created when Dick was a child. He performs a chiropractic spinal adjustment, and the vertebra returns to proper alignment.
"Dick, 1 want to see you again soon to make sure your vertebra stays in position and doesn't resubluxate. In the beginning the area may be a little unstable and there may be a tendency to misalign," says his chiropractor.

THE WORLD AS FULL OF Tommys WHO. LIVE ON MEDICINES, RESIGNED TO A LIFE. OF ACHES AND PAINS, SICKNESS AND DISEASE,,A .,AVERSE effectS THEY may NEVER AND SIDE EFFect A TRULY HEALTHY DAY FOR THE rest OF "THEIR LIVES AND HAVEN'T SINCE THAT VERY FIRST "FALL FROM GRACE." ,DICK BEGINS CHIROPRACTIC CARE, AND SOON MYLANTAT AND AILIKA-SELTZER BECOME THINGS OF THE ,PAST. EVEN HIS SLEEP is BETTER, AND HE HAS:MORE ENERGY DURING THE DAY!

What Happened to Harry?
The last child in our trio is Harry. Little Harry also has a spill on his tricycle, but his story is very different from that of his friends. Harry is a member of a family that practices chiropractic health maintenance.

Health Maintenance Family Care
Shortly after Harry's mishap the family visits the chiropractor for its regular spinal checkups. Everybody goes, it's a family event - true health insurance that keeps their bodies working with a healthy spinal column, free from the vertebral subluxations that impinge on nerves and disrupt the flow of messages and energy from the brain to the body. "After all,' says Harry's mother, "we go to the dentist to have our teeth checked, why not go to the chiropractor to have our spines checked, too?"

The Chiropractor Checks Harry's Spine
"Well, Harry, what have we here? A subluxation! What happened, more daredevil stunts on your bike? Here, let's fix you up." The chiropractor uses the art of the spinal adjustment to easily and painlessly correct little Harry's vertebral subluxation. Harry will never known how truly lucky he is.There are many Tom, Dick and Harrys (and Harriets) living in our homes. Please bring them in for a chiropractic checkup. Why wait until there's a problem before doing something for your child's health?