The three phases of chiropractic care: Like most chiropractic patients you probably fit into one of three phases of care. In fact, different parts of your spine may be in different phases of care at the same time.  Why not ask us which phase you are in?

1. The Acute Phase.  In this phase you are in a state of ill health, discomfort or pain; people often visit a chiropractor when they’re in this phase.

2. Reconstructive or Spinal Healing Phase. In this phase you go to your chiropractor because your spine needs to strengthen and heal. In this phase you may find that nearly every time you come in for a spinal checkup your spine is out of alignment.

3. Health Optimization Phase.  Now your spine is holding its adjustments; you come in every so often for a spinal checkup and possible adjustment. Since Subluxations are often painless you never know when you need an adjustment so think of this phase in the same way that you think of a car tune-up every few thousand miles.

More breast-feeding means less breast cancer!

A major study published in the August 2002 medical journal The Lancet may explain the increase in breast cancer cases.  Researchers found that the number of children women have and the length of time they breast-feed them are the most important factors influencing their chance of developing breast cancer — even more important than genetic factors.

As early as 1743 an Italian researcher noticed that nuns had a high rate of breast cancer, and considered the disease an occupational hazard of nuns due to their childlessness.  The recent study revealed that if women in the industrialized world breast-fed each of their children six months longer, they could reduce their chance of breast cancer by 5 percent, even if they have a strong family history of the disease. “The risks go down the more children you have. Even if they’d never breast-fed, the risk of breast cancer went down by 7 percent for every additional child,” said lead researcher Valerie Beral.

The researchers also found that, regardless of the number of children, the risk of breast cancer dropped by 4.3 percent for every year the women breast-fed.  “What we have shown is that prolong-ing breast-feeding and having more children pushes down breast cancer rates.” The magnitude of protection was the same in all women, regard-less of other characteristics, such as ethnic origin, drinking habits and age at menopause.  

50% of mothers in the United States, about 25% in Europe and about 10% in Scandinavia choose not to breast-feed. ”Prolonging breast-feeding and having lots of children really pushes breast cancer rates down” said Beral. "If women had the same number of children as those in developing countries and breast-fed for as long, breast cancer would be a very rare disease," says Beral of the University of Oxford. (4)

Chiropractic and Spinal Research

Did you know there are thousands of papers on the wonders of chiropractic?  Please tell others about the power of chiropractic care – health without drugs or surgery. Any disease or condition you’d like to know about?  Ask us.

• Attention deficit disorder/scoliosis: This is the case of a ten-year-old girl on 60 mg. Ritalin/day who also had a severe scoliosis  of 48 degrees.  After ten adjustments her mother reported a happier child, with her immune system  doing much better and her endurance much higher.  A re-exam revealed scoliosis reduced to 12 degrees. She was taken off all medication. (5)

• Effects of chiropractic on blood pressure  and anxiety: In this double-blinded placebo-controlled study, individuals with elevated blood pressure, both systolic and diastolic blood pressure decreased significantly in the adjusted group. Adjustments were delivered to segments T-1 to T-5 of the 21 patients in the group adjusted. No significant changes occurred in the placebo or control groups. (6)

• Attention  deficit-hyperactivity  disorder:  A 10-year-old boy with a three year history of hyper-activity who also suffered from ear infections , headache  and allergic symptoms was brought to the chiropractor. Chiropractic analysis revealed multiple cervical, thoracic and pelvic Subluxations and multiple cranial faults.  By the 11th chiropractic adjustment hyperactivity symptoms had abated (his other health problems had cleared up from earlier spinal adjustments).  After 5½ relatively symptom-free months he had two falls and hyperactivity, headache and allergy  symptoms returned.  In a single visit they resolved . (7)

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Childhood vaccination

Most chiropractors do not vaccinate their children, preferring natural immunity (which is lifelong) to artificial immunity (which is temporary. 

A growing number of researchers and medical doctors as well as chiropractors believe that the risks of vaccination damage (such as autism, allergies, asthma, learning disorders, multiple sclerosis and other chronic illnesses) are greater than the benefits. For the latest on the childhood vaccination controversy we recommend you visit some of these web sites:

Everyone’s Visiting Chiropractors!

Well, almost everyone. In fact, more people are visiting chiropractors and drugless healers than ever before, and the numbers are growing. It has been estimated that the total number of visits to chiropractors nationwide is 250 million.(1)

The number of people utilizing chiropractic and drug-free health care increased from 34% in 1990 to 42% in 1997. This represents a 100% increase in the number of people seeing chiropractors in the last 20 years. (2

What’s in a name?

Perhaps more than we realize! Psychologist Brett Pelham of the State University of NY at Buffalo did a study on how people’s names affect their life choices. Pelham and colleagues researched phone directories, the Social Security Death Index and other archives. 

Among their findings: A person named Dennis is more likely to become a dentist. A person named George or Geoffrey is 40% more likely to become a geologist than the general population. Those born on March 3 (or 3/3) are more likely to live in a town with a name like “Three Thorns”; similarly those born on June 6 (6/6) are more likely to live in a town with a name like “Six Forks.”  (3)

A Little Perspective

Pythagorean Theorem: 24 words.
Lord's Prayer: 66 words.
Archimedes' Principle: 67 words.
10 Commandments: 179 words.
Gettysburg Address: 286 words.

Declaration of Independence: 1300 words.

US Government regulations, on the sale of cabbage:

26,911 words.

References

1.Haldeman S, Kohlbeck FJ, McGregor M. Risk factors and precipitating neck movements causing vertebro-basilar artery dissection affect cervical trauma and spinal manipulation. Spine. 1999;24(8):785-794.

2. Spine. February 1, 2002

3. Popular Science. July 2002.

4. Collaborative group on hormonal factors in breast cancer, breast cancer and breastfeeding: collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 47 epidemiological studies in 30 countries, including 50,302 women with breast cancer and 96,973 women without the disease. Lancet. 2002; 360:187-196.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020715/020715-13.html

5. Webster L. First report on ADD  study.  Int’l Chiro-practic Pediatric Association Newsletter.  Jan. 1994.

6. Yates RG, Lamping DL, Abram NL, Wright C. Effects of chiropractic treatment on blood pressure  and anxiety: a randomized, controlled trial . JMPT 1988; 11(6):484-8.

7. Phillips CJ.  Case study: the effect of utilizing spinal manipulation and craniosacral therapy as the treatment approach for attention  deficit-hyperactivity  disorder.  Proceedings on the National Conference on Chiropractic and Pediatrics (ICA). 1991:57-74.

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