Health Tips Newsletter
December 24, 2003
Health Tips Newsletter ArchivesHow many
observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep
Holidays than Commandments.
- Benjamin
Franklin
I'm
still no good at this scanning thing, but the cutest little guy in the
world got to open some presents early and I wanted to share his smile
with you!
Have a wonderful Christmas season. May this be a time for renewal, peace, wisdom and healing.
Thank you for joining our practice and letting us introduce you, your friends and family to the wonders of chiropractic and the world of natural healthcare. If we haven't seen you in a while please stop by for a checkup (your body will thank you) and share season’s greetings with us.Your Cells Dance to Keep You Healthy
Your body is made up of billions of little
packets of life called cells. These tiny bits of life are vibrating,
singing and dancing as your life energies organize them from a formless
mass into a living body.
Your cells are organized to form tissues, your tissues dance and vibrate together to form organs, organs are organized as systems (such as the digestive system, circulatory system, etc.) and when all your systems are working in a harmonious, coordinated fashion they create an organism a healthy, living you.
What is it
that makes all these structures come "alive" and dance and work together?
After all, a corpse has all its parts but it is not alive. What is
missing? The wisdom of your body directs the information that
travels over your nervous system your brain, spinal cord and 
billions
of nerve fibers that go to your every nook and cranny. This flow of energy
in the form of chemicals and electricity is necessary for organizing
your many parts and the thousands of activities your body does every
second. If your nervous system is stressed, this fantastic communications
system has "interference" your energies are disturbed and you suffer
from dis-ease and your parts aren’t working in harmony.
The most common cause of nerve interference is a vertebral subluxation, a tiny distortion in your spine that stresses your nervous system. Chiropractors spend thousands of hours learning how to locate "subluxations" and correct them. Without nerve interference your body and mind are more organized, function with greater harmony and are better able to heal.
See your chiropractor (me!) to get a spinal checkup to make sure your body is working without interference.To page top
Chiropractic Questions and Answers
Can You Tell if You Need a Chiropractic Adjustment on Your Own?
By the time you feel bad enough to seek out treatment, you're usually in bad shape. Generally, people can't tell that they need an adjustment until they're in significant pain. A subluxation can be likened
to a dental cavity: you may have one developing for a long time with no
noticeable symptoms. That’s why periodic spinal examinations by a
chiropractor are so often recommended. However, after a period of time under chiropractic care, some people become much more spine conscious and can actually be able to tell when they need an adjustment. The effects of spinal nerve stress are often gradual and slowly eat away at your well-being in tiny increments. For that reason, an occasional spinal checkup by a chiropractor is advisable.
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Did You Know...?
Your
brain contains more than 100 billion nerve cells called neurons. Common "wisdom" was that every day thousands
of your neurons died until you eventually lost brain function. Therefore,
so the logic went, senility was inevitable. Fortunately for us all, this "wisdom" was incorrect. Recent research shows that, in fact, few neurons are lost as you age and your brain is reorganizing and rebuilding itself, even into old age. Although there is some cell loss, it's far less than once believed and appears to be confined to certain highly select areas. Memory areas are spared, so don’t blame your forgetfulness on your age.1
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Nursing Home Residents Succumb to Flu Despite Getting Vaccine
Nearly all of the residents of a nursing home received flu shots before the outbreak occurred. No visitors were being allowed and all residents were taking antiviral drugs and eating meals in their rooms in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus. The quarantine comes two weeks after an outbreak of the flu led the Grand Island Veterans Home to take similar measures. The Grand Island home was quarantined after seven cases were diagnosed at the home of 340 residents even though 98% of residents were given flu shots.2To page top
Prayer May Increase the Likelihood of Pregnancy
It
was a finding that shocked researchers at Columbia University: women at
an in-vitro fertilization clinic in Korea had a higher pregnancy rate when,
unknown to the patients, total strangers were asked to pray for their success.
Prayed-for women became pregnant twice as often as those who were not prayed
for. The lead author of the report, Dr. Rogerio A. Lobo, Columbia's chairman of obstetrics and gynecology, said he and his colleagues had thought long and hard about whether to publish their findings, since they seemed so improbable. In the end, the differing pregnancy rates between the two groups of women proved too significant to ignore. "It was not even something that was borderline significant," Dr. Lobo said. "It was highly significant."3
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News From Chiropractic and Spinal Research
Remember, a person with any kind of health
problem needs chiropractic. Feel free to forward these studies to
others.Infertility
Two women deemed medically infertile were considering artificial insemination. Chiropractic evaluations were performed which detected spinal subluxations. Spinal adjustments were performed and during the course of chiropractic care both women were able to conceive.4Ear infection
A baby boy, age 6 months, was scheduled for ear tube surgery for chronic ear infections. He was brought to a chiropractor and received a spinal adjustment. His ear infection completely cleared up by the next day. Tubes were never inserted.Two [girls], ages 3 and 4 with chronic ear infections and upper respiratory dysfunction, [received] upper dorsal and cranial adjustments. No more ear infections have occurred since the first visit.5
Migraine
During a six month study of 127 migraine sufferers, half received chiropractic care, while the other half (control subjects) did not. Those who received chiropractic had decreased number of and shorter migraines and had less disability and less medication use; 22% reported more than a 90% reduction in migraines after two months of care; 50% reported significant improvement in severity of migraine episodes.6Pregnancy and Delivery
An AMA (American Medical Association) study revealed that pregnant women under chiropractic care have an easier pregnancy and delivery. Irvin Hendryson MD conducted this study which revealed that pregnant women who received chiropractic adjustments in their third trimester were able to carry to term more frequently and deliver children with more comfort.7To page top
Words of Wisdom
If you want to know how rich you are, just count up all
the things you have that money can't buy.- Daniel Webster
Call Me for an Appointment Today - Your Body Will Thank You For it!
Please stop by for a spinal checkup and bring your friends and relatives; everyone needs to be free from the damages caused by subluxations. Even chiropractors go to chiropractors so we can function at our best when we take care of you.Have a joyous and loving holiday season!
References
- http://healthy.net/scr/news.asp?Id=7918
- Midwest Nurse Week. March/April 2002;3(2):27.
- Journal of Reproductive Health.October 2001.
- Anderson-Peacock E. Case study reduction of vertebral subluxation using torque release technique with changes in fertility: two case reports. J Vertebral Subluxation Research. July 19, 2003;1-6.
- Hochman J. The management of acute otitis media using SOT and SOT cranial. Sorsi Communicator. July 2001;14(2).
- Tuchin PJ, Pollard H, Bonello R. A randomized controlled trial of chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy for migraine. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. 2000;23(2):91-95.
- American Medical Association records released in 1987 during trial in U.S. District Court Northern Illinois Eastern Division, No. 76C 3777 (the Wilk trial).
