Dr. Roundy - The Spinal Column

What Is Your Spinal Column?
Your spinal column is made up of 24-vertebrae (spinal bones). Keeping all of those bones connected are 137-joints covered with ligaments, muscles and cartilage. Doctors of Chiropractic spend many years learning how to locate areas of nerve and joint pressure that can cause your entire body to:

Malfunction
Distort your posture
Distort your balance
Lower your resistance to disease
Set the stage for all kinds of health problems.

Chiropractors call this spinal condition, a "vertebral subluxation." Doctors of chiropractic spend years studying how to free your spine from subluxations to keep you healthy, flexible, youthful and free of nerve pressure.

Words of Wisdom
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. - Oscar Wilde

Seven days without an adjustment makes one weak. - B.J. Palmer, D.C., Ph.C.
(Give us a call to have your spine checked today!)

Going on a Vacation?
Enjoy yourself. We've got good news, vacations are good for you. Over 12,000 men enrolled in a heart health study were followed for over nine years. Those men who took vacations in most years were 20% less likely to die from any cause, than those who did not take regular vacations. Those who vacationed regularly were also 30% less likely to die from heart disease. The benefits of vacations affected people from all classes, irrespective of income, education, and health. So don't feel guilty about taking time off for yourself. (1)

Chiropractic and Spinal Research
There are thousands of papers extolling the wonderful health and healing benefits of chiropractic and spinal care. Here are a few from our archives.

Neck, Back, Radiating Pain and Chiropractic
A 34-year-old man was suffering from severe neck, lower back and radicular (radiating/shooting) pain. An MRI showed a disc herniation in his neck. For one year he saw multiple medical specialists with little or no results. His MDs were discussing neck surgery with him. He began chiropractic care and within one month nearly all his pain had disappeared and his disc herniation had almost completely resolved. The surgery his MDs had discussed was no longer considered necessary.(2)

Fertility and Chiropractic
For over a century, chiropractic has had great success with getting previously infertile couples pregnant and in helping women carry to term. In this case report, a 40 year old woman who had a miscarriage at 16 weeks, first visited her chiropractor because of mid back pain. However, postural studies revealed her neck and low back had vertebral subluxations. Both she and her husband began to receive chiropractic care, and shortly thereafter, she conceived and carried to term a healthy baby girl, without any complications. (3)

Headaches and Chiropractic
More people go to doctors for headaches than any other condition. In this case study, a 13-year-old girl was suffering from severe headache and neck pain for five days. Her headache and neck pain completely resolved after chiropractic spinal care. (4)

HIV, AIDS and Chiropractic
This is a very interesting study of a group of patients dying from AIDS. All patients were under medical care, but half of them were placed under chiropractic care while the others were not. After 6-months, the medicine only group experienced a continued decrease in CD4 white blood cells (-7.96%) with two deaths. Those people receiving chiropractic showed a 48% increase in CD4 cell counts and no deaths. This study was originally intended to go on for one year, but after two patients in the control group died of AIDS the study was ended and all the surviving controls were placed under chiropractic care. The effects of specific upper cervical adjustments on the CD4 counts of HIV positive patients is absolutely astounding. By removing vertebral subluxation, the patient's immune systems were able to work more efficiently without the use of dangerous drugs or irreversible surgery. (5) How efficiently are you and your family's immune systems working?

Let Kids Get Sick?
It appears that permitting children to run a fever, (rather than run to artificially lower the fever with drugs) helps strengthen their immune system. Make sure your child has a healthy, unsubluxated spine so they may regulate their fevers properly. In a recent study in the British Medical Journal 1,314 children were followed until age 7. Those children who had recurrent viral infections early in life were less likely to be diagnosed with asthma than those with fewer viral episodes. (6) Another way to say this is...the more a child gets to use and exercise their immune system early on, the lower the chances of asthma; asthma is the result of an over-active immune system (hypersensitivity).

Courts: "Vaccine Caused Multiple Sclerosis"
A French court has upheld a lower court ruling that found a link between the hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis (MS). The case involved two women who contracted MS after receiving the vaccine . The ruling is important, because it rejected arguments that a direct and irrefutable link between the vaccine and MS is needed. "Serious, precise, and similar evidence was enough proof," said the plaintiff's attorney. Agence France Presse (www.afp.com) (05/03/01)

To learn more about childhood vaccinations please contact the NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER Vienna, Virginia http://www.909shot.com and take a look at the links I have listed on my site.

Note: An increasing number of papers relating vaccinations to multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases are appearing in a number of medical journals. MS, formerly rare, is increasingly common as the number of vaccines increase. (7)

Your Amazing Body

Nerves
Nerves send messages at speeds up to 224-miles per hour! Nerves are the longest cells in your body, some growing up to 4-feet long! Nerves carry messages to keep your hormones, digestion, breathing and other body systems functioning at their best so you may have high resistance to disease. Spinal subluxations can stress or irritate your nerves, discs, muscles, joints and weaken your body. Chiropractors are specially trained to locate and remove subluxations.

Blood
Your body contains 9-pints of blood that travel along 62,000-miles of blood vessels (they could wrap around the equator 2.5-times). The nerves from your spine control the size of many of the blood vessels that go to your internal organs and other body tissues.

Muscles
Your body has 650-muscles. Subluxations may cause muscle spasm, contraction and pain. Remember, it takes 17-muscles to smile, 42-to frown and only three to extend your arm and smack the person on the head who was bothering you.

Water
Your body is mostly water. We often become dehydrated as we age because we drink coffee, tea, soda etc. instead of water. Dehydration makes us age faster and weakens our joints and discs. Conditions such as high blood pressure, back and disc pain, constipation, asthma, depression, overweight and many other problems have cleared up by drinking more water. It has been suggested that drinking half your body weight in ounces per day will re-hydrate you in about two weeks. For example, if you weigh 150-pounds, you would need to drink 75-ounces of water per day.

HRT - is it safe?
Women who use hormone or estrogen replacement therapy (HRT) at just 0.625 mg/day have 1.35 the risk of stroke of non-users. Those taking 1.25 mg/day or more have more than one and a half times the risk of non-users; .3 mg/day did not appear to increase risk. While the study did not find any increased risk of heart disease, the researchers warn that it is still too early to recommend HRT to prevent heart disease and that larger trials are needed to confirm the effectiveness and safety of HRT in this area. (8)

Preemies Reap Benefits of Breast Milk
Babies born prematurely are at greater risk of heart disease later in life. Feeding a premature infant breast milk, rather than formula, can substantially cut this risk. In a recently published study, 926-children (ages 13-16) who were born prematurely were evaluated. Those who were breastfed had a lower mean blood pressure by more than 4 mmHg compared to those who were fed formula. (9)

TOP 10 SIGNS YOU'VE JOINED A CHEAP HMO

10.	Annual breast exam conducted at Hooters.
9.	Directions to your doctor's office include, "take a left when you enter the trailer park."
8.	Tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicle.
7.	Only proctologist in the plan is "Gus" from Roto-Rooter.
6.	Only item listed under Preventive Care feature of coverage is "an apple a day".
5.	Your "primary care physician" is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.
4.	"Patient responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges" is not a typo.
3.	The only expense covered 100% is embalming.
2.	With your last HMO, your medication didn't come in different colors with little "M"'s on them. And the Number 1 Sign You've Joined a Cheap HMO...
1.	You ask for Viagra. You get a popsicle stick and duct tape.

NATURAL HEALTH CARE WITHOUT DRUGS AND SURGERY
Chiropractic is the most popular drug-free form of health care in the world. Millions of people - children, adults and seniors visit their neighborhood Doctor of Chiropractic for improved energy, quicker healing, release of stress and to turn on their natural healing ability without drugs and surgery.

Tried everything?
Not unless you've tried Chiropractic!

References

Are vacations good for your health? Gump BB, Matthews KA: Psychosomatic Medicine 2000;62:608-612
Management of cervical disc herniation with upper cervical chiropractic care: a case study. Eriksen K. JMPT 1998 21(1):51-56.
Chiropractic applications for infertility. Anderson, C. ICA Review. September/October 2000.
Chiropractic care of a 13-year-old with headache and neck pain: a case report. Hewitt, EG, Portland, Oregon. Proceedings of the National Conference on Chiropractic and Pediatrics. Oct, 1993 Palm Springs, CA. Pub. International Chiropractors Assoc., Arlington, VA.
Selano JL, Hightower BC, Pfleger B, et al. Chiropractic Research Journal. 1994; 3(1): 32-39.
BMJ, 2001; 322:390-5
Hepatitis B vaccination and the risk of multiple sclerosis. Ascherio A, Zhang SM, Herman MA. New England Journal of Medicine. 2001;344:327-332.
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2000;133:933041, 999-1001.
Lancet 2001;3s57:406-7, 413-9.