This patient (RG), is a 23-year-old
male (at the time of the radiographs) who was injured at work.
In addition to helping him recover from his work-related injuries,
we were able to help him recover from a mild scoliosis. The
primary course of care was correcting his atlas subluxation with
the Atlas
Orthogonal percussion instrument and adjusting his lumbopelvic
(lower back) region.
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The x-ray on the left is the "before"
(5/30/95) x-ray showing a 10-degree scoliosis. The x-ray on
the right is the "after" (6/26/95) x-ray - the spine is
in a normal, neutral/balanced position. The films were taken
27-days apart!
The upper cervical spine is very important for
postural consideration. Just because there's a scoliosis in
the lower back doesn't imply that the lower back needs to be
adjusted - the entire spine must be considered as a whole.
In this patient's case, we had to adjust his atlas and then once
that area stabilized, we adjusted his pelvis. It's truly
amazing what the body can do once all interference is removed to
the expression of well-being!
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Crouching Tiger, Chiropractic Dragon
For chiropractor and karate champion Daniel Buchmann, the union of
martial arts and healing art is a winning combination.
When Daniel Buchmann, three-time world champion of the North American
Sport Karate Association (NASKA), hurt his back and hip in the middle of
a tournament nine years ago, he never imagined his recovery would be so
easy.
The injury occurred when Buchmann lost his balance backing away from
an opponent and fell into a chair beside the ring; at that moment he
barely had enough strength to walk away, defeated. But two days after
chiropractic treatment for the injury -- his first-ever visit to a
chiropractor --
Buchmann says he was able to walk
without pain. After three days, he could even perform one of his
strenuous high kicks.
At the time, Buchmann was also completing his bachelor's degree in
physical education and planning to pursue a master's in sports
management. But after experiencing the profound positive effect of
chiropractic, he decided to follow a different career path.
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Whole Food Vitamins
An interesting article on "whole food" derived vitamins,
instead of synthesized, fractionated vitamins.
Click Here to
Read the Full Article
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Expensive Sneakers May Twist Ankles
Those expensive sneakers you thought would cushion your feet may
actually be bad for your ankles, according to a new study published in
today's British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Click
Here to Read the Full Article
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Hormone
Replacement Therapy (estrogen) and Cancer
From the Journal of the American Medical Association
Context: Postmenopausal estrogen use is associated with
increased risk of endometrial and breast cancer, 2 hormone-related
cancers. The effect of postmenopausal estrogen use on ovarian cancer is
not established.
Conclusions: In this population, postmenopausal estrogen use for
10 or more years was associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer
mortality that persisted up to 29 years after cessation of use.
Click
Here to Read the Abstract of the Study
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Chicken
Pox: Why Do Children Die?
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) admits that children don't
die from chicken pox per se, but rather "complications" from
chicken pox. But what they don't say is that these complications are all
derived from acute blood toxemia established by the very treatments
used by allopathic (conventional) physicians.
Click Here
to Read the Full Article
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The
Amazing Statistics and Dangers of Soda Pop
Kids are heavy consumers of soft drinks, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, and they are guzzling soda pop at
unprecedented rates.
Click
Here to Read the Full Article
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The Protective Effect of Childhood Infections
Several articles in the February 2001 issue of the
British Medical Journal discuss the actual benefits that childhood colds
and infections play on developing a normal and healthy immune system.
According to the articles, having many older siblings; attending day care
at an early age; growing up on a farm and in frequent contact with cattle,
poultry, and cats; and having childhood measles and infections
such as hepatitis A are all helpful in promoting normal immunological
maturation and in preventing disease.
Additionally, repeated viral
infections other than lower respiratory tract infections, early
in life may reduce the risk of developing asthma up to school
age. Another important conclusion of the article was that
the risk of developing asthma by the age of 7 is reduced by
about 50% percent in children with two or more reported episodes
of common cold by the age of 1 year. These
findings lead to the conclusion that children who fight a variety of
normal childhood diseases develop strong and more potent immune systems.
Click
Here to Read the Full Text and/or Abstract or Here
for another Study
[These
are just some of the reasons why I'm "down" on
vaccinations. Vaccinations are personal health issues that should
be taken very seriously
and not left to the government to tell you what to do. Most all
states have exemptions
that fall under the heading of "philosophical objection" or
"religious exemption"; I suggest every parent look into the
pros/cons of vaccination before blindly having yourself or your children
vaccinated.
There is enough data in the medical literature that calls into question
the routine practice of injecting children with 30+ different vaccines,
that no matter what position you take, you have to understand that there
ARE dangers with vaccines.]
Links:
Links
on my site
Information from Ted Koren, DC
Vaccine Quotables Part
1 and Part 2
Autism and Vaccination by Dr. Viera Scheibner and
Bronwyn Hancock BSc.
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From
an Australian Chiropractic Newsletter (OzChiropractic)...
The Australian government is currently spending huge amounts of money
addressing the "drug problem". Their solution to the
"problem" is to get people to "talk" to their children
and tell their children that illicit/illegal drugs are "bad"
drugs and that legal/prescribed or over-the-counter drugs are
"good" drugs.
As
any parent will realize, children DO what parents DO. They very rarely DO
what parents SAY. The question is, what example are you giving your
children regarding drugs. DO YOU DO the legal drugs for every unpleasant
situation (colds, flu, headaches, contraception, tiredness, nervousness
etc) and then SAY to your children “don’t take drugs” … and then
expect them to comply?
It
seems like drug taking is a way of life in our society and it requires
constant vigilance to even maintain drug free zones.
[I
couldn't have said it any better! They also noted in a past
newsletter...]
Chiropractic
recognizes two types of interferences to peoples nerve systems. One is the
QUANTITATIVE or the amount of nerve energy getting through to the body.
The other is the QUALITATIVE or the quality of the nerve messages getting
through to the body.
The
quality of nerve energy has a profound effect on your health. People who
are moody, nervous and susceptible to stress tend to subluxate (misalign)
more frequently, have a weaker immune system and succumb to degenerative
diseases more easily than their calm, happy and supported friends.
The
following study graphically demonstrates the importance of keeping the
quality of our nerve impulses happy and pure.
In a
study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology,
November 15, 2000; 36: 1781-1788, researchers discovered that anger
causes atherosclerosis to speed up. Atherosclerosis, the build-up of
plaques in the arteries that can lead to a heart attack, progresses more
quickly in people who express a lot of anger and in those who have a
weak social support system, the new research suggests.
Researchers
followed 150 people with diseased arteries. At the start of the study
and 2 years later, the participants underwent angiography to measure the
extent of atherosclerosis. They also filled out questionnaires that
measured their levels of social support, anger and hostility.
People
who had reported high levels of expressed anger and low levels of social
support were significantly more likely to have their atherosclerosis
worsen during the study period.
Our nerve
system communicates every thought we have to every cell of our body. The
cells of our body are only able to perform to the level of energy they
receive through the nerve system. Any interference to nerve impulses be it
in quantity or quality will result in the cells being and doing less than
they are capable of.
Make sure
that your family gets the opportunity to be positively healthy…. your
chiropractor is the specialist in removing quantity interferences – you
are the specialist in removing the quality interferences.
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"....There
is growing suspicion that immunization against relatively harmless
childhood diseases may be responsible for the dramatic increase in
autoimmune diseases since mass inoculations were introduced. These are
fearful diseases such as cancer, leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple
sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, lupus erthematosus, and the
Guillain-Barre syndrome."
Dr.
Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.
