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“The power that made the
body, heals the body.”
Those words, inscribed
on a wall just inside the front
door of Live Holistic chiropractic
offices in Bay Ridge,
are not a biblical passage,
but they are the credo of lead
practitioner Dr. Vincent Adamo.
For eight years, Dr. Adamo
has run his practice
adhering to the concept that
the human body is “a selfhealing
organism,” and that
patients can get healthy and
pain-free with chiropractic
care, and natural vitamins
and remedies — and without
potentially harmful prescription
drugs.
“Holistic medicine is
about finding the cause of
pain or illness, rather than
just treating the symptoms,”
Dr. Adamo says. “Most doctors
have the wrong approach;
they chase pain
rather than preventing it in
the first place. If you come in
to a doctor’s office complaining
of pain in your knee, it
may actually be that the pain
is being caused by a problem
in your back.”
At Live Holistic, everything
starts with the spine.
“I will not work on a patient
without first taking an
X-ray,” he explained. “X-rays
of the spine are a tool to see
how your system is functioning.
We check to see if your
spinal cord is in the proper
alignment. It’s always amazing
to me that medical professionals
will stress the
importance of checking
your teeth, your heart, your
liver, or other organs, but
they’ll never say, ‘check your
spine.’
“It’s a scientific fact your
brain, spinal cord, and the
rest of your nerves control
every aspect of your body,”
Adamo said. “Your spinal
cord is your body’s ‘information
superhighway.’ ”
The medical term for a
spinal cord that’s out of alignment
is a “subluxation,” he
said, adding that subluxation
can lead to a variety of health
problems.
“If you have a pinched
nerve in your lower back, that
can distort nerve messages
between your body and your
brain,” Adamo said. “That
pinched nerve can result in
high blood pressure, or it
can affect the performance
of your prostate gland. What
would a doctor usually do
to treat a prostate problem?
He’d prescribe drugs. But
instead of prescribing drugs
to control the problem, the
bigger question is why is the
prostate not working right in
the first place?”
Dr. Adamo received his
chiropractic degree from a
graduate of New York Chiropractic
College in upstate
Seneca Falls, then traveled
the world for five years exploring
healing techniques
and developing his holistic
approach to medicine. During
his educational journey,
he said, he became convinced
that rather than cure, prescription
drugs can, in certain
cases, kill a patient.
“In this society, people are
abusing drugs,” he said flatly.
“Why? Because it’s so easy to
take drugs to treat pain or
illness, and most people don’t
change anything. When doctors
prescribe medicine, the
intention is that you’ll be
taking the medication for the
rest of your life. If your doctor
prescribes medication for
high blood pressure, or for
high cholesterol, does that
doctor ever take you off that
medication? Chances are
they don’t. There are elderly
patients who are taking six,
seven, eight, nine, 10 pills a
day to treat various ailments.
What they’re doing, and they
don’t realize it, is dying a
slow, painful death.”
The shelves of a glass display
case near the front desk
were lined with white bottles
of vitamins and supplements,
which Dr. Adamo dispenses
in lieu of the prescription
medications he so strongly
warns against.
“We give our patients nutritional
support in the form
of vitamins,” he said. “The
vitamins we prescribe are all
natural, doctor-prescribed
FDA-approved vitamins, that
are a much higher quality
than what they sell at CVS or
GNC, or other pharmacies or
vitamin stores.”
Live Holistic 446 Bay
Ridge Pkwy. between Fourth
and Fifth avenues in Bay
Ridge, (718) 921–5483, http://
www.liveholistic.net. Open
Mondays and Wednesdays, 9
am–noon and 3 pm–6:30 pm;
Tuesdays and Thursdays,
1–6:30 pm; and Saturdays,
8:30 am–noon.
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