If It's Not Broke,
Don't Fix It!

by

Dr. Joseph Strauss

     This saying may be a humorous one but there is a good deal of insightful truth behind it.  We all laugh at the antics of Tim "the tool man" Taylor on the television sitcom, Home Improvement, who is always trying to improve upon some appliance that is already working perfectly.  His disastrous results should be a lesson to us of the danger of trying to make something that is already working just fine, work better.  Fortunately for us, we rarely think we have the expertise to fool around with a complicated piece of machinery.  We would be afraid to try to improve upon the inner workings of an electric dishwasher.  Yet that very situation happens all the time relative to the human body.

     Our body has a built in mechanism to heal itself, factory installed, if you will.  The human body is more complex, more intricately and more perfectly designed than anything built by Hoover, Panasonic or General Electric.  Despite knowing that, we are constantly trying to improve upon it.  We believe that a drug can make it work better, heal faster or function properly.  The chiropractic idea is not to do any of the above but simply to remove an interference to the body performing its function in a perfect and timely manner.  The sad part is that we are often able to make the body work faster or perform functions better by the use of drugs, but we also suffer the consequences of that approach just as the Tool Man causes vacuum cleaners and food processors to explode by trying to give them "more power".