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Our purpose and goal are to educate and treat people on the Cima System of health care which, is in correlation with the Doctor Of The Future quotation above.

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." ~Thomas Edison By using Mr. Edison's templet of what the doctor of the future should be educated in, I have designed a program that I feel is the ultimate in achieving excellent health. This page is dedicated to givin

g out this information which, has taken me 40 years to compile. WE will always strive to give you the best information possible. In fact we will give you the 20% that will give you the 80% success you deserve. The purpose of which, is so you too can create a healthy, happy, harmonious, long and wealthy life. Just imagine living a life free of pain, sickness and disease. Think about how much more you could achieve. My wish and prayer is that everyone who reads these pages will add years to their life and life to their years. I know it did mine
Sincerely, Dr. james P. Cima

06/12/2026

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗠. 𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗨𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗠

Mainstream medicine treats pain as the problem. It is not. Pain is the messenger. 🔥 Whether you are dealing with spinal compression, joint degeneration, cranial tension, or organ dysfunction, the root cause is almost always a combination of structural misalignment, nutritional deficiency, and unresolved inflammation working together. Masking it with drugs buys time while the underlying damage compounds. 💊 I have seen patients with chronic back pain whose real driver was a magnesium deficiency starving their muscles of the ability to relax. I have seen knee pain that traced back to a failing liver under metabolic stress. The body is a system. When you treat only the symptom, you lose. When you find and correct the true cause across the chemical, physical, and mental-emotional triune, the body heals itself. That is not a theory. That is 50 years of results.

06/11/2026

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬

Most people think healing begins when the pain stops. It actually starts the second you get hurt. And the choices made in the first 72 hours either support that process or quietly shut it down. Your body sent its own repair crew to the injury site immediately. But common instincts like taking a numbing pill or going completely still can send that crew home before the work is done. Then comes the building phase, days 3 through 21, where new tissue forms based on what you eat and how you move. Skip that window and the tissue comes out weak. Weeks 3 through 12 decide whether that tissue gets strong or stays fragile forever. That is why an old ankle sprain still gives out. That is why your back never felt right after that one incident. Your body has not given up. It is waiting for the right signals to finish the job. Save this and share it with someone whose old injury never fully healed. Then reach out so we can find out exactly where you are on the timeline.

06/08/2026

𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗛?

John came to me exhausted, in chronic pain, and completely disconnected from anything natural. Fluorescent lights, processed food, no sunlight, no grounding, no time outside. His chemical side was depleted, his physical side was locked up, and his mental-emotional side was running on fumes. 🌿 When we started rebuilding all three sides of his health triune, nature became part of the protocol. Sunlight to support his vitamin D and hormonal balance. Fresh air and movement to reduce inflammatory load. Time outside to calm his nervous system and lower cortisol. His body already knew how to heal - it just needed the right conditions. 🌱 After 50 years in practice, I can tell you that nature is not optional. It is foundational. Your body was designed to work with it, not against it.

06/07/2026

𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗬𝗠𝗣𝗧𝗢𝗠 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘

If you have been hurting for months or years, here is something most doctors never tell you: your pain is not just a memory of an old injury. It is a signal your body is still sending right now. Pain shows that systemic inflammation is an ongoing internal fire your body cannot shut off. It is present in the vast majority of people living with long-term pain. That fire makes every nerve more sensitive and every ache louder. It is not bad luck. It is biology. And biology can be changed. At Dr. Cima's practice, we look at all three sides of your health: the chemical, the physical, and the mental-emotional. Inflammation touches all three. When we find where your fire is coming from, we can finally start putting it out. You have been managing pain long enough. It is time to find the cause. Save this post and call our office to book your consultation.

06/06/2026

𝗚𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗛 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘(𝗦)

MARY sat in my office defeated, convinced she had to live this way forever. 💥 After a full triune evaluation covering her spine, organ function, and nutritional status, we found severe magnesium deficiency driving her muscle spasms, a congested liver suppressing her energy, and three spinal segments creating referred pain into her hips and knees. Not one of these was treated in isolation. 🔬 That is the critical difference. Pain in the extremities is rarely just a structural problem. Organ dysfunction feeds inflammation. Nutritional deficiencies starve the nervous system of what it needs to regulate pain signals. Within 90 days she was off her medication(s) and moving without restriction. The body heals when you stop treating symptoms and start addressing the system.

06/05/2026

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗜𝗘𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗨𝗭𝗭𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚

After 50 years of treating thousands of patients, I've seen the same recovery gaps over and over. Here's where most people stall:

1. Structural alignment - an unaddressed spinal or joint misalignment keeps tissue under stress, making true healing impossible.

2. Nutrient supply - your body needs specific building blocks like zinc, vitamin C, and collagen precursors to repair damaged tissue. Without them, healing is slow and incomplete.

3. Organ support - your liver and digestive system must be functioning well to process inflammation and deliver nutrients to the injury site.

4. Mental-emotional load - stress hormones actively suppress tissue repair. Your mental emotion state matters more than most people realize. 🧠

Your body is designed to heal itself. 💪 When all three sides of your health, chemical, physical, and mental-emotional, are supported together, recovery stops being a struggle and starts being a process.

06/04/2026

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗬𝗠𝗣𝗧𝗢𝗠 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘

Most people spend years chasing the pain. Ice the knee. Rest the shoulder. Stretch the back. And it keeps coming back. That is not bad luck. That is a missing piece of the picture.

Pain has three sources working at the same time. A shift in your spine sends bad signals to joints far away. Swelling inside your gut travels through your blood and lights up muscles and joints nowhere near your stomach. According to the National Institute of Health, more than 50 million Americans live with chronic pain, and most are only ever treated for one piece of a three-part problem.

And then there is the brain. When pain stays long enough, the brain learns to keep the signal running even after the original injury is gone. That is why rest stopped working. That is why the pills stopped working.

"𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙭 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨, 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙮, 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙩. 𝙉𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙚. 𝙉𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙪𝙩. 𝘿𝙧. 𝘾𝙞𝙢𝙖 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙨 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳."

For 50 years I have been reading all three signals together, because that is the only way to find the real answer.

Save this post. Then book a call and let us find where yours actually started.

06/03/2026

𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗞 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗨𝗡𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗛
I have seen this too many times to count. A patient comes in with chronic back pain, joint inflammation, or persistent headaches and has already been through every specialist with no real answers. Here is what I check first.

1. Liver stress creates right shoulder and mid-back tension
2. Kidney imbalance drives lower back and knee pain
3. Magnesium deficiency locks muscles into chronic spasm
4. Gut inflammation triggers full-body inflammatory pain cycles
5. Adrenal exhaustion causes widespread joint and spinal hypersensitivity

Your pain has a root. Drugs cover it. Surgery cuts around it. Real healing means finding it. The chemical, physical, and mental-emotional sides of your health must all be addressed or nothing holds. If your condition(s) is running your life, it is time to stop guessing and start solving.

06/02/2026

𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗣𝗛𝗬𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟

You were cleared. You followed the plan. You did everything right. So why does something still feel off?

This is one of the most common things I hear after 50 years of treating patients. They passed the tests. They got the green light. But their body never got the memo.

Here is what most people are never told: the body has a short repair window after any injury. During that window, three things must happen at the same time - tissue must rebuild, body chemistry must reset, and the stress response must calm down. Miss even one, and the body fills the gap with scar-like filler instead of real repair. That filler holds for a while. Then it breaks down.

According to research published in the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, incomplete soft tissue healing is a primary driver of re-injury and chronic pain in patients who were previously cleared for full activity.

"𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨. 𝙄 𝙠𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜. 𝙉𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡. 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝘿𝙧. 𝘾𝙞𝙢𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙬𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙪𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩."

Health is not just physical. It is chemical, physical, and mental-emotional - each making up one third of your total health picture. Standard clearance only checks one third.

Comment the word HEALED below if you have ever been cleared by a doctor but still felt something was not right.

06/01/2026

𝗜𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗧𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙
After 50 years and thousands of patients, the one thing I see constantly is people blaming themselves for how they feel. 💡 The truth is, when inflammation takes hold, your body is sending a signal, not a punishment. Whether it shows up as spinal pain, joint aching, digestive distress, or organ dysfunction, it all connects back to an inflammatory process that has gone unchecked. Your body is not broken. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do, but it needs the right support to resolve it. 🔥 The chemical side of your health, nutrition, gut function, and cellular repair, plays a massive role here. When we address what is actually driving the inflammation, your body has a remarkable ability to heal itself. That is not a theory. That is what I have witnessed, case after case, for decades. You deserve answers, not just acceptance.

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