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Dr. Sash brings high level of chiropractic care

MACOMB - Dr. Gary L. Sash opened the doors to his Family Chiropractic and Occupational Health Service Clinic, 117 E. Carroll St., Monday,

Aug. 6 with one goal on his mind: to heal people.

“I see myself as more than a chiropractor,’ said Sash, who´s been seeing patients for 27 years. “I see myself as an alternative health care provider because I love to work with people that have physical problems and help them out nutritionally to get them well.’

Sash uses an arsenal of healing techniques that many people don´t immediately associate with chiropractic care. They not only focus on joint and deep tissue manipulation, but nutrition, homeopathy, neuro-emotional therapy, acupuncture and cold-laser therapy.

“Most people might think that chiropractic care is basically just to fix a biomechanical problem that you might have,’ he said. For Sash, chiropractic care is more neurology-based.

“When you have misalignments of the spine, it might be causing many neurological problems,’ he said. “It can cause brain problems, it can cause joint or muscle dysfunction and can even cause a lot of organ dysfunction problems.’

“I would like people to get the concept that chiropractic care goes beyond just cracking your back,’ he added.

Sash implements cold-laser therapy, a more versatile and pleasant alternative to acupuncture, that stimulates the body and harnesses its healing energy to speed up recuperating time.

“With the cold laser you can stimulate these acupuncture points on the surface of the skin and help to transfer the energy to balance it out throughout the body,’ he said.

According to Sash, cold-laser therapy is extremely effective in healing broken bones, injuries and muscle pain.

“It does amazing things for the body,’ he said. “It increases healing energy. It´s just a really amazing tool for stimulating.’

Sash also stresses the importance of nutrition and using supplements to assist in healing.

“I have treated problems with every single organ in the body,’ he said. “Maybe to the point of hundreds of different conditions people have had. Just using nutrition alone I´ve had over a 90 percent success rate.’

These methods of healing have been proven effective by constant research over the past decade, according to Sash.

Being devoutly Christian and practicing alternative medicine gives more faith to a science that has faced wide skepticism.

“I just tell (patients) to be open-minded and play this game with me and watch me work with it,’ he said. “I use acupuncture as a diagnostic tool to tell me what´s going on with a person. People are more open-minded when the ‘western approach´ isn´t getting them better.

“I want to build up the body to get the person well,’ Sash said. “A lot of times the standard medical approach is more for symptom eradication versus building up the body to get over the hump. There are other things out there that can be tried and they´re effective.’

Sash earned a master´s degree in kinesiology, the study of human movement, from WIU last spring. While there, he also worked as a graduate assistant and helped develop and teach courses in palpatory anatomy and manual muscle testing. He also taught five sections of stress management.

In his recent time at WIU, he was flooded by students asking him to work on them, which led to opening his clinic.

Sash is currently accepting appointments and hopes to see 25 people daily.