Romford and Ilford Family Chiropractic 313 High Road, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex RM6 6AX

1. Bank account/Overdraft
• It is important to keep your account
in the black and not allow it to creep
into the red!
• Do not allow those niggling
symptoms in your body to become
major problems.

2. Rubber Band Tourniquet
• You have three choices!
• Leave the band until the tip of the
thumb dies and then you will need
surgery! If you ignore symptoms you
will suffer chronic illness.
• Massage the tip of the thumb until it
feels better but this relief is short-
lived, it will not correct the problem
just address the symptoms.
• Chiropractic care will remove the
pressure (the rubber band) to allow
proper function to return to your
thumb.

3. Warning Sign
• You wouldn’t ignore the warning signs
on your car dashboard or cover them
over so you don’t need to be reminded!
• A good mechanic would fix the problem
not cover the warning sign and hope the
problem vanishes.
• Choosing drugs covers the symptoms
but doesn’t fix the problem.
Pain is your bodies warning sign, would
you ignore this?
• A Chiropractor will look for the problem
to prevent the symptoms returning!

4. Pain!
• If you step on a dog’s tail it would
yelp in pain!
• Where the noise/symptoms are
felt is not necessarily the source
of the problem.
• Chiropractors address the source
of the problem to prevent the
symptoms returning.

5. Smoke Alarm
• The symptoms we experience are the same
as a smoke alarm beeping. This is our
warning sign!
• You could ignore the warning sign or remove
the batteries but the house may still be on
fire.
• The warning signs are designed to save lives!
Smoke Alarm

6. • Although all we see is the tip of the iceberg it is
what is underneath the surface that is the
problem.
• These are the danger areas!
• The tip of the iceberg are the symptoms you feel
but underneath are the problems that need to be
addressed.
• Chiropractors addresses the problems
Tip of the
Iceberg!

8. Patch-up the bucket!
• You can easily cover the holes with plasters,
which may work temporarily, but over time
the water will start to leak and eventually the
bucket will overflow.
• Do you want to take drugs to cover/mask the
symptoms or do you want to replace the old
bucket!
• Chiropractic will repair the bucket not just
patch over the holes!

9. Safety Pin!
• If like a safety pin left open, there is
an interruption in the nerve flow
and organs and tissues will be
affected!
• Your body, spinal cord and all your
nerves control how your body
works.
Your nervous system operates in a full circuit from
the central operator, the brain, through the spinal
column to the organs and tissues.

10. Puppet-on-a-string!
• If your nervous
system is operating
as it should be, it can
be compared to a
puppet on a string
being moved and
directed by the
operator (the brain.)

11. Our nervous system is like a conductor,
directing a finely tuned orchestra, our body!

12. Elements
in a Wire!
• Like the elements in a wire, all are required to
work properly.
• We require all of our nerve pathways to work for
our organs and systems to operate correctly.
• A thorough examination can find the source of the
nerve interference.

13. • All fuses in a fuse board need to be
switched on otherwise a specific
circuit will not work.
• Our bodies are the same, if nerve
supply is interrupted or damaged
parts of our body will not work.
• Chiropractic restores the nerve
supply or replaces the fuse so the
fuse board operates fully.
Fuse Board

14. Kinked garden hose
• If there was a kink in the garden hose, water will not flow
through effectively. This is the same as signals through our
nervous system. If there is interference in our nervous
system the signals will be effected.
• Chiropractors help eliminate interference in your nervous
system by using specific spinal adjustments to allow
signals to pass effectively.
The Garden hose

15. Functioning Fridge
• If the circuit to your fridge fuse is
damaged the fridge will not work
and the food inside will go off! If
our nervous system is compromised
our body will not function properly.
• You can replace the rotten food in
the fridge but until you address the
broken fridge the new food you put
in will continue to spoil. The fridge
needs to be repaired.
• Chiropractors restore or repair
nerve interference and prevent the
body (food) being spoiled.

16. Play your instrument clearly!
• Playing a musical
instrument loud and
clear, in the correct note
is the desired outcome,
Chiropractic enables you
to be your best and
operate in the correct
note.
Chiropractic care ensures your nervous system
operates at its full potential.

17. Missing Puzzle
• Chiropractic care in your life enables you to
fill in that missing piece of the puzzle by
ensuring your nervous system is not
compromised and operates at its full
potential.
• When your body works as designed it
operates pain-free and heals itself!

18. Weakest link
A chiropractic subluxation (vertebral
misalignment) is like the weakest link
of a chain. Over time this will get
weaker and weaker until eventually
the chain will break. The break in the
chain is like vertebral misalignment
which over time will cause loss of
strength and poor posture.
Your chiropractor will correct the
misalignment ensuring the chain remains
strong.

19. Dimmer Switch
With a subluxation affecting the quality of your
life it may seem that you are living your life
slightly in the dark. Chiropractic care will help to
eliminate subluxations ensuring you live your life
with the dimmer switch on full!

20. Motorway accident
An accident on the motorway can cause massive
congestion leading to hours of delay. A subluxation
in your spine can cause congestion in your nerve
supply which will affect how well you live you life.
• Chiropractic can help remove the interference
and allow free flowing nerve supply, like the
traffic on the motorway driving at the speed
limit with no congestion.

21. Fine-tuning of a piano!
Chiropractic adjustments to your spine are like
the fine-tuning of piano keys. The piano keys are
all checked to ensure they sound perfect.
Your chiropractor will ensure that each of the
vertebra in your spine are perfectly in tune!
Regular chiropractic check-ups can help
preserve your progress and avoid a relapse.

22. Popping of a champagne
cork
The sound of an
adjustment your
chiropractor performs may
sound like a ‘pop’. This is
nothing to worry about, it
is quite normal, and is only
the sound of gases being
released between the
vertebrae, not bones
‘cracking’.

23. Ripeness of a Tomato
The pressure you would use to test the ripeness
of a tomato is no greater than that used by your
Chiropractor when he adjusts you if you wish.
A precise force applied at the right time and
place helps your body right itself.

24. Dental Braces
Braces are applied to teeth to
correct the alignment. They are
kept on for a specified amount
of time to ensure lasting results.
If they are removed before this
time then the desired result may
not be achieved.
Chiropractic care works in a similar way providing
appropriate maintenance care to ensure you
maintain the correct alignment of your spine.

25. Starting the ignition
Chiropractic care ensures
that you can always start the
engine to the car (your
body’s engine) and provides
you with the extra energy to
build up speed!
Well-being can return as
repeated visits retrain and
strengthen your spine.

26. • Maintaining the frequency of your chiropractic care will
ensure you have the energy needed in your everyday life to
live to the fullest potential.
• Like the energy needed to ensure an airplane takes off from
the runway, it requires that extra thrust of energy.
Aeroplane take-off

27. Rocket Thrust
Once you have overcome the initial
stage of chiropractic care, especially if
you started with severe pain
symptoms you will feel your life take-
off as you reach your potential
Like a rocket taking off from its launch
pad, the energy and commitment
needed is huge as is the energy and
commitment needed from you in your
chiropractic care to ensure you do not
fail and stay at the start line.

28. Exercise Lifestyle
It is vitally important that along with your
frequent chiropractic visits you make sure
you do your prescribed stretches and
exercises and ensure you do your daily
2hours of activity, whether it be gym,
housework, gardening etc…

29. Nutrition Lifestyle
Along with your Chiropractic care and exercise routine it is
also very important that you modify your diet and ensure
you get your daily essentials
Do you really need the dessert?
Physical, chemical and emotional
stress can overload your nervous
system!

31. Flossing your teeth
• Flossing your teeth ensures you minimise and
reduce gum disease.
• Chiropractic care is like spinal hygiene or spinal
flossing. Regular chiropractic care will ensure
your spine does not deteriorate over time with
a build-up of arthritis and decay.

33. Yo-yo Dieting!
• Yo-yo dieting means losing weight in a short
space of time and gaining weight over a long
period of time!
• If chiropractic care is not received regularly
you will find that painful symptoms may
return, a little chiropractic care will relieve
symptoms. If this care is not maintained the
symptoms will return!

35. Coasting down-hill
• If a healthier lifestyle is not maintained,
including regular chiropractic care, balanced
diet and adequate activity you may find that
your health is on a downward slope back to
being out of balance.
• Chiropractic helps your body work right so you
can get well and stay well!

37. Life is a roller coaster!
• Life has its ups and downs, like a roller coaster
but it is important to bear with these changes
and not bury your head in the sand. Keep the
momentum of healthcare going to get you to
finish line!

39. Maintenance of the Golden
Gate Bridge
• The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is
constantly maintained. Once they have
finished painting at one end they start the
other end again.
• Your spine constantly needs to be maintained
by regular chiropractic visits.

41. Patch or fix
• Would you prefer to drive on a road that had
been fixed/ re-surfaced or one that has just
had the pot holes filled in, with a substance
that will eventually wear away?
• You can just patch up your spinal problems
with minimal chiropractic care to reduce pain
symptoms or undertake regular chiropractic
care to ensure you fix your spinal problem.

43. Rusty Hinge
• Spinal decay if left untreated can be compared
to a rusty hinge. Without proper movement
and nutrition and water the vertebrae will
seize up and be harder to move!

45. Coral
• Coral is a very porous matter. Over time the
bones in our spine will become porous or
brittle. Regular chiropractic care and a
nutritious diet will ensure adequate bone
density.

47. Stalactites
• Stalactites appear over many years and
continue to grow. Bony spurs may appear on
our vertebrae and grow, unless we look after
our Spine!

49. Barnacles
• Barnacles are hard, calcified areas that grow
on sea mammals skin. We also may develop
hard, calcified areas in our body unless we
take great care of ourselves and move and eat
well.

51. Silly Putty
• The soft tissue in our body are the consistency
of silly putty and are therefore easily
compressed under pressure.
• Our spinal alignment can have serious effects
on the soft tissues surrounding the area.
Normal alignment will help to prevent soft
tissue damage.

53. Bowling Ball
• The human head weighs close to that of an
average bowling ball. The pressure of the head
on the cervical (neck) vertebrae can cause
serious damage if the alignment is not
corrected. This pressure can also lead to
damage of the soft tissues of the neck.

55. Tug-of-war
• The continued pulling and stretching of the
rope in a game of tug-of-war is similar to that
of the ligaments in your body being pulled and
stretched in both directions with poor
posture.

57. Jam Doughnut
• The fluid that is inside your spinal discs, is
similar in consistency to the jam in a
doughnut. If you place pressure onto the
doughnut the jam will seep out. Repeated
heavy abnormal pressure on your spinal discs
may cause the fluid to bulge or escape,
causing pressure on the nerves. The vertebra
may rub on each other without disc height
space.

59. Ice cream sandwich
• The perfect filling of ice cream, sandwiched
between two biscuits is similar to the perfect
filling of a disc between two vertebrae. This
will ensure the vertebrae do not rub on each
other, absorb weight forces and provide the
essential space for nerves to exit the spine
and supply the body.

61. Stable Foundations
• If the foundations on a house are not strong
eventually the cracks will appear! Strong
foundations will prevent this happening.
• Chiropractic (correction and strengthen
phases of) care will provide you with the
strong foundations you need to be the best
you can be and prevent the cracks from
appearing.

63. Tyre tread
• You wouldn’t allow the tyres on your car to
get to this state so why allow yourself and
your health to get down to the tread before
you take charge and change it for the better!

65. Working together!
• You and your chiropractor will work together
to ensure you are moving forward and
achieving your goals, with great even posture
and muscle balance.

67. Tin Man
• Regular chiropractic care will ensure you do
not seize up and will keep your joints loose
and moving freely!

69. Leaning tower of Pisa
• Chiropractic care will correct and prevent
spinal misalignments and aim to keep your
posture upright!

71. Perfectly Balanced!
• Your posture is similar to the wheels on your
car. If the wheels on your car are not correctly
balanced this will result in uneven wear and
tear on the tyres. A misaligned spine will
cause wear and tear on your body. Regular
chiropractic care will ensure a well aligned
spine! This will slow down the decay or aging
of the body.