Radio Broadcasting

When you tune into several of Galesburg's popular radio stations, you may hear informative commercials about Wilson Chiropractic Center. In addition to the ad, some commercials include many thought provoking quiz-type messages that are fun to test your knowledge or stimulate your curiosity! But don't fret, whether you are intrigued or just want to check it out, you can look here on our site for the answers!

Dr Wilson also presents a live Radio talk show every Tuesday at 12:50 pm on WAIK 1590 AM! Popular and helpful health topics are discussed each week. If there are any topics you might like to hear discussed or questions to pose, please feel free to submit them and we will do our best to get it on the air!

Is Pain Good or Bad?
Pain! One of our biggest enemies! Or is it? Your body has a diverse and complex array of nerves that do everything from detecting light and sound, to movement, even heat or cold. There are also nerves that signal muscles or glands to contract. Each type of nerve does only one specific task. There is one type of nerve receptors that are very important and those are pain nerves. They preform a very important task to tell our brain that something is wrong and we should stop or fix the problem before more serious problems come about. Think of it this way, if your 3 year old child gets too close to a hot stove and attemps to touch the burner, is pain good or bad? As much as we don't want to experience it, pain is a good thing!
How Long Should Your Chiropractic Care Last?
This is a very common question but the answer often relies on an individual's intentions. Understand that chiropractic is a means of maintaining nervous system health as well as an excellent treatment for acute injury. While many turn to chiropractic with the intent for pain relief or following an injury, the true essence and science of chiropractic is the restoration of nerve system health which has major involvement in all aspects of our organ function and physiological health. Likewise, maintaining joint health slows and often stops the insideous joint degeneration associated with arthritis. If better overall, lifelong health is your priortiy while not relying on deleterous medications, then regular chiropractic care should last a life time. Much like regular exercise and optimal nutrition, keeping the nerves of your body in tune will go a long way toward better life long health.
When your child develops cold symptoms are they sick or healthy?
This is a provocative question that I like to use often to make an important point about our health. One of the most obvious results that my adult patients and I witness is when they bring their children in for treatments when the kids' immune systems are down. As parents we quickly recognize when our kids are either beginning to show signs such as lethargy or mopiness, red eyes or the sniffles for example, or when it's more obvious and they are down and out with fever, inflammed glands or sore throat. If we catch it and treat them early on, it never ceases to amaze us all as the kids leterally light up before they get out of the office. But sometimes when signs of infection are more established, it may take a little longer.

Interestingly, in some instances, the symptoms may be mild, yet after treatment the child may develop a more robust response, with an increase in swollen glands or even fever for example. This comes about because the adjustment is a tremendous stimulus to the immune system. This demonstrates my point, that a healthy body fights an infection - those nasty symptoms may be a neusance, but they are a normal response indicating the body is fighting back.

Conversely, people with serious diseases or chronic infections are not healthy because their immune strength is depleted or destroyed leaving them unable to fight off infections. Ideal to great health is to do the things to promote and maintain optimal immune strength and don't always look to suppress it when it's doing its job.