HealthSource of Suwanee

Healthy Spines lead to Healthy Lives

BY: Tana Christian Suggs

Oftentimes people only look to chiropractic care to relieve pain due to an injury or disease. But what many don’t realize is that chiropractic care can be important in the way of preventive care as well.

According to Dr. Chris Waters, of HealthSource of Suwanee, chiropractic care includes a Corrective Chiropractic and Progressive Wellness approach that corrects the spinal and postural imbalances which allows the vital healthy nerve supply to increase to all the organs, tissues and cells restoring health and healing to the body.

“You see, the brain controls and coordinates all healing and healthy function to every organ, tissue and cell in our bodies,” Waters explained. “The spine is the ‘life line’ that transmits that vital information to all of our cells in order for them to be healthy and to function at 100 percent. When the spine is not moving properly, or has been injured by one or more accidents, falls, repetitive movements or spending much of your day in a seated position, it creates abnormal biomechanical stress forces that over time causes damage to your spine and nervous system.”

Waters, owner of HealthSource of Suwanee along with his wife, Laura, said they educate patients on living a healthy lifestyle through proper spinal and nervous system function, healthy eating, and healthy exercises, which are designed to strengthen and stabilize the spine to prevent injury and optimize efficient movement patterns of the whole body, working with our bodies design and not against it.

For Waters, it was a personal experience that led him into chiropractic care after his father suffered a whiplash injury when he was in his teens.

“His medical doctors prescribed the usual for these conditions…muscle relaxers, painkillers, anti-inflammatory medications and physical therapy,” Waters said. “His quality of life gradually deteriorated over a four to five year period.”

Waters’ father underwent a cervical spinal fusion surgery. But unfortunately, it didn’t give his father any relief or improvement. Moreover, Waters said his father became weaker and he lost sensation in his hands, all due to continuing nerve damage in his spine. Out of options, he was prescribed pain management through medication that led to an addiction, which ultimately led to brain damage and his overall lack of health.

“As you can imagine, this was very difficult for our family,” Waters said, and he realized then that the health care system was not designed to improve health, but rather designed for crisis care or sick care.

“I knew there had to be a better way to help people regain their health and improve their quality of life,” he said. “There had to be a better way to promote health and healing and help to prevent these tragedies from affecting families, as it did ours.”

Waters became a doctor of chiropractic medicine and has worked in the Suwanee area for more than 10 years. Waters and his wife said they chose the Suwanee location because of its central location to friends and home, making it easy for them to blend work and family life.

Waters treats patients of all ages, starting with infants, and offers services such as X-rays, examinations, and established individualized treatment programs designed to restore health to the patient to allow them to reach their sole potential.

“Programs consist of Adjustments, which are the most crucial part of correcting spinal imbalances,” Waters said. “Therapeutic Exercises, which work to strengthen and stabilize the spine and core. Manual Therapy, which is performed to workout the trigger points and adhesions that accumulate and negatively affect muscle function.”

In addition, HealthSource of Suwanee provides nutritional counseling and whole food supplements to optimize cellular healing and restoration, and they offer educational classes on a variety of topics, such as Raising Healthy Children, Move to Live, Eat to Live, as well as advanced workshops for individuals and the business community. They also offer yoga classes and belly dancing classes, free for HealthSource patients, and for five dollars for non-patients.

According to Waters, HealthSource is the largest chiropractic franchise with more than 400 offices across the country, and ten offices in the metro Atlanta area.

For more information about HealthSource of Suwanee, visithealthsourceofsuwanee.com. ■