Infertility & Chiropractic

CAM for Back and Neck Pain: Review of the Research

CAM for Back and Neck Pain: Review of the Research: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Get the unhealthy habits out of your life and your body will reward you. CAM treatments will help you achieve health without drugs or surgery.

Molecules involved in 'touch' identified: Could lead to new treatments for pain, deafness and cardiac function

Molecules involved in 'touch' identified: Could lead to new treatments for pain, deafness and cardiac function: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

This is such an exciting study, I can't even tell you! Chiropractic, from the Greek "Chiros" "Praktikos" meaning "done by hand" has been in use since 1895 with great and sometimes "unproven" results. Some of the controverisal benefits may include reduction of blood pressure or relief of asthma. Sometimes these results are ridiculed as "not scientifically" proven. Well, here you go. This study demonstrates how touch and pressure have on effect on "two proteins with potential to be important targets for research into a wide range of health problems, including pain, deafness, and cardiac and kidney dysfunction."

Hands-on therapies are very powerful and now we have one more proof why! Right down to the cellular level!

No Shortage of Happy Chiropractic Patients

No Shortage of Happy Chiropractic Patients: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

What we chiropractors have always known is finally coming out into the public light!

Chiropractic Care in the US to Reach US$12.53 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.

Chiropractic Care in the US to Reach US$12.53 Billion by 2015, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

"The US market for Chiropractic care is projected to reach US$12.53 billion by the year 2015. The market is driven by factors such as aging population, and increased acceptance owing to its non-medical and non-surgical treatment. Demand for Chiropractic care is also being propelled by the changing attitude towards alternative practices and increased research being done on the therapy."

High Blood Pressure

HBP in one patient has dropped significantly in just several visits. This confirms a well known study recently done at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20070316/chiropractic-cuts-blood-pressure

Why Chiropractic & Why The Integrative Health Center

You have many health care options.  First of course is the care provided by the excellent doctors at the various Kupot Cholim.  After that it becomes a blur for many.  There are many alternative therapies, all of  which are provided by some very talented and caring people who deliver effective care.

In most people's minds the medical doctor is thought of as "the doctor", the one with the highest level of education, and they have certainly earned that reputation.

What about the chiropractor?  He also uses the title doctor as conferred by his degree.  Is the chiropractor a "real" doctor?  Take a look at this link
from my website comparing medical school to chiropractic school:

http://drrosenberg.net/ChiropracticLicensureandEduation.aspx

As you can see chiropractic education is very similar to medical education.   Each has a different emphasis.  MDs get more training in pharmacology, immunology, general surgery, pathology, and other areas specific to the care they provide.  DCs get more training in anatomy, physiology, neurology, and orthopedics.

Chiropractic is no longer "alternative" care.  It is complementary care.

The chiropractor is the one most like your MD in level of education!  He is highly educated and qualified to be on your health care team as an expert in spinal hygiene, posture & ergonomics, neuromusculoskeletal problems, injuries due to sports or accidents, and nutritional issues.

Why The Integrative Health Center?  Top 10 reasons:

*Advanced post grad training in neurology and nutrition
*Offering a wide variety of modalities
*Regular spinal manipulation & gentle techniques
*Treat the person and not the problem!
*10 years experience
*Worked with many MDs and can communicate with your doctor
*Reasonably priced expert level service
*Gives you the time you need
*What I do is fun!
*Bottom line: Great results!  Ask my patients! http://drrosenberg.net/whatourpatientssay.aspx

Be well & be healthy!

POWER OF CHIROPRACTIC

It was a POWER OF CHIROPRACTIC day today! This morning my neighbor brought her 1.5 year old son to me. Suddenly this morning he was unable to walk. Not that he didn't want to, he could not! Mom was petrified. I adjusted C0, C1, & C2, then his lower back. 10 minutes later he was running around again. He's happy, ...mom's grateful and stunned! I LOVE what I do!!!!

Why Doctors Hate Chiropractors

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I've worked in harmony with many medical doctors. There is still much misinformation in the medial field about chiropractic and how it helps people. I don't like the back pain box because I know what I do does more than that. Chiropractors need to be thoroughly versed in neurology because that in fact is what chiropractic is. And they need to be able to explain what they do in medical terms if they want medical referrals. Research has improved vastly in the last 10 years but lags very much behind. This is the key to mutual cooperation. I also believe that the younger MDs are more willing to go CAM than their older counterparts.

Most doctors don't hate chiropractors. First they don't know what it is. Secondly they don't know any chiropractors to refer to. The time is ripe for education! The patients are tired of pills and surgery. They're tired of being told "you just have to live with it" or "no one really knows why you're in pain". We have the answers and the world needs to know.

Back Pain Relief :Ways to Relieve Pain Without Surgery

Failed low back surgery is actually a medical diagnosis.  I've had patients with this very unfortunate problem and have been able to offer a measure of relief.  The total damage cannot be undone.  Watch this video for very good advice.  Ask your doctor pointed questions and get other opinions.  Do not be afraid of hurting the doctor's feelings!  He should welcome and suggest that you get other opinions.  Most importantly do everything you can to avoid surgery first!  A chiropractor, especially one specializing in neurology, offers an expert opinion. 

Live Life Better

Live Life Better

A Simple Answer to a Medical Mystery

FOX CHANNEL 9 –The Rusten family of Minnesota can attest first hand to the benefits of pediatric chiropractic care. Evan Quinn Rusten was diagnosed with severe acid reflux, along with food allergies, and infant clubbed feet, among other conditions. The Rusten’s spent thousands of dollars a month on doctors appointments and prescriptions trying to find answers. After months of research, the Rusten’s went to the chiropractor. After the chiropractic adjustments all illnesses disappeared. The nervous system controls all the functions of our bodies infant and adult alike. Chiropractors are the only ones who can locate and correct these interferences in the nervous system. For the Rusten's this was an amazing transformation for the children; relief and hope for the parents.

Tiger Woods: "Chiropractic it's as important to my training as practicing my swing"

"Being a Chiropractic patient has really helped me immensely...lifting weights and seeing a Chiropractor on a regular basis has made me a better golfer. I've been going to Chiropractors for as long as I can remember. It's as important to my training as practicing my swing."Top Professionals in every sport are under chiropractic care to increase health and performance. Behind every great champion, there is a chiropractor.Tiger Woods• American Professional Golfer• Currently the World No. 1• Highest-Paid Professional Athlete in 2008 (Estimated $110 million)• Fourteen Professional Major Golf Championships• 67 PGA Tour Championships• More career major wins and career PGA than any other active player• PGA Player of the Year – 9 times• Associated Press Male of Athlete of the Year• Sportsman of the Year more than once• In 1995, he proudly appeared on the Chiropractic Centennial Foundation’s (CCF) Tournament of Roses Parade Float

An Ounce of Prevention; Chiropractic for Kids

Kids are increasingly using chiropractic to achieve better health. Some are more active with sports activities and some are less active, sitting in front of a computer or TV all day. Either way they need to pay extra attention to the health of their neuromusculoskeletal system.

Chiropractic Plays Significant Role in U.S.A. Men's Water Polo Olympic 2008 Silver Medal Win

CARMICHAEL, Calif., Oct 02, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Merrill Moses, goal keeper for the U.S.A. Men's Water Polo team, and his teammates took home silver medals from Beijing this year. Terry Schroeder, D.C., a standout from the 1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics helped Moses and his teammates as the current head coach of the Men's Water Polo team and resident doctor of chiropractic. While they were considered underdogs in this year's games, the team pulled together to achieve silver medal victory in a match against Hungary, and Moses and teammates attribute much of their success to the role that chiropractic played in their performance.

"I can honestly say that without chiropractic, many Olympic athletes would not be able to perform to their potential," says Moses. "We take such a pounding on our bodies, especially in water polo, because it's a contact sport. I like to get a chiropractic adjustment everyday just to keep my body healthy."

Moses, who is 31 years old, 6'3", and 215 pounds, was playing at the top of his game this year, an achievement which he attributes to the four practicing Olympic Committee team chiropractors in the Olympic Village as well as Schroeder, who treated Moses and other team members throughout the games.

"Athletes know that the difference between winning and losing can be a matter of fractions," says Schroeder. "When looking for that edge, chiropractic often makes all the difference."

To help this year's team to victory, Schroeder drew on his chiropractic knowledge and his experience as a two-time Olympic silver medalist in water polo. He was inducted into the U.S.A. Water Polo Hall of Fame in 1998. A statue of Schroeder's likeness sits at the entrance to the Los Angeles Coliseum commemorating the 1984 Olympics. He is noted for turning this team around by encouraging teamwork and vigorous training only months prior to the Beijing Olympic Games.

Moses plans to follow in his coach's footsteps by attending chiropractic college and earning his Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.) degree. His interest in chiropractic stems from a passion for helping others. He believes chiropractic helps those who cannot physically excel, including many of the Olympic athletes who participated in this year's games.

"I believe that chiropractic is going to continue to be of growing importance in the Olympic world," concludes Schroeder.

About the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress
The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress is a 501c6 corporation that represents a cross section of the chiropractic and vendor communities with the goal of increasing the public's awareness of the benefits of chiropractic. For more in depth information about these Olympians please visit http://www.yes2chiropractic.com/.
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WebMD reports how chiropractic cuts blood pressure

A chiropractic study run by Dr. George Bakris, director of the University of Chicago hypertension center shows that chiropractic adjustments lower blood pressure. This makes sense given what we know about neurology, physiology, and anatomy and the effect of chiropractic adjustments on receptor systems in the autonomic nervous system, but it's great to have the scientifc studies to back it up! Granted this was only a small study but it's a step in the right direction and hopefully it will be expanded upon.

WebMD reports how chiropractic cuts blood pressure

September 22, 2008 — Studies and research regarding the chiropractic adjustment are being performed more and more to show the validity of chiropractic. WebMD has recently released information showing a special chiropractic adjustment called the Atlas Adjustment, can significantly lower high blood pressure. “This procedure has the effect of not one, but two blood-pressure medications given in combination,” study leader George Bakris, MD, told WebMD. “And it seems to be adverse-event free. We saw no side effects and no problems,” added Dr. Bakris, director of the University of Chicago hypertension center.

Research showed that eight weeks after undergoing the procedure, 25 patients with early-stage high blood pressure had significantly lower blood pressure than 25 similar patients who underwent a sham chiropractic adjustment. Because patients are unable to feel the technique, they could not tell which group they were in. WebMD reported that patients that got the real procedure saw an average 14 mm Hg greater drop in systolic blood pressure and an average 8 mm Hg greater drop in diastolic blood pressure. None of the patients took blood pressure medicine during the eight-week study.

Dr. Bakris notes that some researchers have suggested that injury to the Atlas vertebra can affect blood flow in the arteries at the base of the skull. Dr. Dickholtz thinks the misaligned triggers release of signals that make the arteries contract. Whether the procedure actually fixes the injuries is unknown, Bakris says.

Source: Parker College of Chiropractic, www.parkercc.edu

Studies suggest chiropractic care can help dyslexia

Sept. 3, 2008 07:08 AM Special to the Republic

Question: My 6-year-old has been diagnosed with dyslexia. Can you tell me what causes dyslexia?

Answer: There are various theories such as the visual theory, cerebellar theory, etc. However, experts do not know exactly what causes a child to be dyslexic.


Q: I took my child to a psychologist who recommended special-education classes and psychological therapy. Talking to my child's pediatrician, he recommended that I consider placing my child on a stimulant medication. Are there any alternative therapies, including chiropractic, that can help my child?

A: There are several case studies that show the benefit of chiropractic care in treating children with dyslexia. The chiropractic approach is based on two models. The first is the vertebral subluxation/hemisphericity, which hypothesized to be a potential consequence of central nervous system dysfunction. The second model is vertebral subluxation/neurologic disorganization. This model is based on a theory that children with dyslexia and learning disabilities have a functional disturbance to the appropriate organization of higher centers of the central nervous system.

Another approach is to incorporate chiropractic with specific exercises to "train" the cerebellum to respond normally to information from the vestibular system, which is involved in balance.

Q: What is a subluxation?

A: The official definition of a subluxation is "a complex of functional and/or structural and/or pathological articular changes that compromise neural integrity and may influence organ system function and general health."

Q: Can chiropractic care help dyslexic adults, too?
A: Yes.

Q: I am afraid to take my child to a chiropractor and let him/her "snap" his neck. Are there any other techniques?
A: Chiropractors use many non-force techniques where there is no twisting, snapping, crackling and popping sounds.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/westvalley/articles/2008/09/03/20080903gl-askexpert0903-ON.html

Jeff Hartwig, Oldest American To Qualify for the Olympic Team in the Pole Vaulting Event, Attributes Success to Chiropractic Care

Jeff Hartwig, Oldest American To Qualify for the Olympic Team in the Pole Vaulting Event, Attributes Success to Chiropractic Care

CARMICHAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At age 40, Jeff Hartwig goes on record as the oldest member of the 2008 Olympic U.S. Track and Field team, competing in the pole vault event. A two time Olympian and four-time national champion, Hartwig holds the American indoor pole vaulting record and attributes much of his athletic success to chiropractic care.

“The first time I was treated by a chiropractor was akin to a miracle -- a much better option than simply using conventional medicine because my injuries healed faster and my whole body felt better,” said Hartwig during an interview conducted a week prior to the Olympic events.

Just shy of his 41st birthday, Jeff is one of the three U.S. pole vault athletes competing in Beijing. He vaulted 18 feet, eight inches to become the oldest American to qualify for the Olympic team in his event. Hartwig finished 11th at the 1996 Games in Atlanta and went on to set the American record in 1998 at 19 feet, 9¼ inches.

“Without chiropractic care, I doubt that I would ever have been able to reach these levels or be able to train at such an intense level," said Hartwig.

Jeff is treated by U.S. Olympic Committee team chiropractor Ted Forcum, D.C. of Tigard, Ore., one of four doctors of chiropractic joining the 62-member U.S. Olympic healthcare team for the 2008 Olympic Games.

“Chiropractic fulfills a niche need, not only by treating injuries but also by aiding in recovery and positively impacting athletic performance,” said Forcum. “Chiropractors promote active care and treatment with a commitment to healthy progression and rehabilitation.”

Since the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, chiropractors have provided healthcare services to elite performers, and this year chiropractors will assume an even greater role in the integrated healthcare team, which includes medical doctors, massage therapists, and certified athletic trainers.

In addition to the four chiropractors who will provide care to the U.S. Olympic athletes, chiropractors from around the world will be joining their respective Olympic teams in providing safe and effective healthcare. Team chiropractors will be present from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, and China among others.

About F4CP
The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress is a 501c6 corporation that represents a cross section of the chiropractic and vendor communities with the goal of increasing the public’s awareness of the benefits of chiropractic. www.F4CP.org.
Contacts
for The Foundation for Chiropractic ProgressJessica Giordano, 201-641-1911 x35
jgiordano@cpronline.com


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Chiropractic Care Helping Heroes Realize Their Potential in Triathlon Series

Chiropractic Care Helping Heroes Realize Their Potential in Triathlon Series

Disabled Veterans Value Chiropractic Care While Competing In Triathlon

CARMICHAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Team Semper Fi, a triathlon team comprised of elite athletes who are also disabled war veterans, competed in the recent Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon Series. These athletes have come forward to validate the value of chiropractic care in improving their ability to compete against able-bodied athletes by: swimming against the fierce currents from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco; biking 18 miles; and running eight miles in a triathlon.

“Competing in these events has actually made my life ten times better and has given me tremendous self-worth,” says Iraq war veteran, Eric Frazier, the team’s leading hand cyclist who suffered a paralyzing injury to the spinal cord and now uses his hands and arms to propel his cycle. “After any race, my upper body is in pain because I do it all with my hands and arms. Following chiropractic care, I find that I perform better.” Frazier receives his chiropractic care from Dr. Bill Morgan, staff chiropractor for the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, and affiliate chiropractor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC.

Team Semper Fi is a sports program of the Inter Marine Semper Fi Fund designed to help rehabilitate injured Marines and injured sailors. On a monthly basis, team members compete in triathlons, venture races, marathons, and 10k races. They compete against a variety of professional athletes, amateurs, and beginners, disabled and able-bodied athletes alike.
Team members Dan Lasko and John Szczepanowski also access chiropractic care on a regular basis so that they can perform to their greatest potential.

“With my injury and a prosthetic leg, my back is always in pain,” says Dan Lasko, who lost his left leg below the knee in two IED (Improvised Exploding Device) roadside explosions while defending the U.S. during the war on terror in Afghanistan. “But when it comes to triathlons, chiropractic has helped out tremendously, I see my chiropractor before the event and a few days later…it just makes me a better athlete overall.”

John, the only non-injured team member, praises chiropractic as “making it possible” for him to get out there and be a part of these events.

Prior to the triathlon events, these brave men are treated by chiropractors who support the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (www.F4CP.org). Dr. Bill Morgan feels privileged to be a part of the extraordinary perseverance displayed by these veterans.

“I salute the brave fighters who have overcome so much to compete in these athletic events,” says Dr. Morgan. “I can think of no greater honor than to provide care for those injured while in the service of their country.”

For information about Team Semper Fi or if you wish to make a donation to the team please visit www.semperfifund.org.

About F4CP
The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress is a 501c6 corporation that represents a cross section of the chiropractic and vendor communities with the goal of increasing the public’s awareness of the benefits of chiropractic. www.F4CP.org.

Contacts
For F4CPJessica Giordano, 201-641-1911 x35jgiordano@cpronline.com

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