Chiropractic and Spinal Research...

Chiropractic is the most popular natural, drug-free healthcare system in the world because of millions of success stories. If there is any condition you’d like to know about please write us.

Migraine Headache. Half of 127 migraine sufferers were given chiropractic adjustments for six months.  The other migraine sufferers just had medical care. Subjects in the chiropractic group demonstrated statistically significant improvement in migraine frequency, headache duration, disability and medication use.  22% of those undergoing chiropractic care reported more than 90% reduction in migraines after two months. About 50% reported significant improvement in severity of migraine episodes. (4)

ADD, Enuresis, Toe Walking. This is the case of a six-year-old boy suffering from nightly bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis), attention deficit disorder and toe walking.  He walked with his heels 4 inches above the ground. The medical specialist recommended cutting both Achilles’ tendons and breaking ankles to achieve normal posture and movement. 

The parents brought him to a chiropractor. The chiropractor found Subluxations of atlas, occiput, sacrum and pelvis. After 4 weeks of care both heels dropped 2 inches and the bedwetting frequency decreased to 2-3 times per week.  His medical doctor was shocked at his recovery under chiropractic care. (5)

Herniated Cervical Disc. A 60-year-old woman with a herniated cervical disc diagnosed by MRI suffered from deep, constant, burning aching and numbness in her left arm, severe neck and left shoulder pain and hand weakness.  Surgery was recommended but she began chiropractic care instead. Within 5 months her pain and numbness disappeared and her grip-strength returned to normal. (6)

Asthma and Chiropractic. 81 asthmatic children were placed under chiropractic care. After 60 days of care 90.1% of the children reported improvement compared to their pre-chiropractic scores. 30.9% of them voluntarily decreased their dosage of medication by an average of 66.5%. 24 of the patients who reported asthma attacks 30 days prior to the study had significantly decreased attacks by an average of 44.9%.  (7)

What’s Your Optimum Daily Requirement?

 Minimum daily requirements of vitamins and minerals (MDR) are the least amount you need to prevent you from serious illness or dying.  But who wants to remain in a state that’s just above the brink of disease and death? That isn’t optimum health.  Wouldn’t you rather have your maximum or optimum daily requirement of what you need so you can function at your physical and emotional best?

Physical or emotional symptoms may surface after you’ve been suffering from a “deficiency of health” a state of physical and/or mental dis-ease for a long time.  But why wait for a medical crisis before you address your health? To be at your maximum you need to function without spinal nerve stress (Subluxations) and chiropractors specialize in locating and correcting them.  Don’t wait until you are sick to address your health; do it now while you have energy and strength.

Chiropractic Patients Have Fewer Strokes...

A literature review in the September 2001 Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research reports that patients under chiropractic care experience strokes at a considerably lower rate than people who are not under chiropractic care. The review found that people not under chiropractic care suffer strokes at a rate more than twice that of people who are under chiropractic care.

Some of the studies reviewed put that number much higher saying non-chiropractic patients are 27,500 times more likely to have a stroke than chiropractic patients. (1) In another study, researchers found that the strain required to damage healthy vertebral arteries was approximately nine times greater than that produced by spinal adjustment. Indeed, many adjusting techniques are specific, using so little force that it is over 1/100th or 1/1000th the kind of force that can cause any problems. (2)

Chiropractic is getting more and more of the praise it deserves. A study in The Journal of Orthopedic Medicine concludes that chiropractic may offer the best opportunity for relief from chronic whiplash pain. In this study 93 people with chronic whiplash symptoms received chiropractic adjustments over the study period (about 4 months).

Most of those with neck pain, restricted neck range of motion and/or neuro-logical symptoms improved under chiropractic care.

At the end of the study period the researchers concluded: “Whiplash injuries are common. Chiropractic is the only proven effective treatment in chronic cases.” (3)

Words of Wisdom... 

No doctor can heal, nor can anyone else produce healings for you, but when correct adjustments are made, the body’s self-healing process begins and disease turns to ease.

In chiropractic, we seek to maintain your innate control by releasing interference to nerve supply so that normal function can be restored and the body can heal itself.   Correct skeletal alignment is essential for a healthy body, mind and spirit.”

- DD Palmer, discoverer of chiropractic in 1895.

1. Cohn A. A review of the literature regarding stroke and chiropractic. The Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Re-search. 2001;4(3):42-59.

2. Symons BP, Leonard T, Herzog W. Internal forces sustained by the vertebral artery during spinal manipulative therapy. Journal of Manipulative and Physio-logical Therapeutics. 2002;25 (8): 504-510.

3. Khan S, Cook J, Gargan M et al. Asymptomatic classification of whiplash injury and  the implications for treatment. Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine. 1999; 21 (1):22-25.

4. Tuchin PJ, Pollard H, Bonello R. A randomized controlled trial of chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy for migraine.  Journal of Manipulative and Physio-logical Therapeutics. 2000:23 (2):91-95.

5. From the records of Rejeana Crystal, D.C., Hendersonville, TN in the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association News-letter, May/June 1997.

6. Brouillette DL, Gurske, DT. Chiropractic treatment of cervical radiculopathy caused by a herniated cervical disc.  Journal of Manipulative and Physiologic Therapeutics. 1994; 17 (2):119-123. 

7. Graham RL, Pistolese RA. An impairment rating analysis of asthmatic children under chiropractic care. Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Re-search. 1997; 1 (4):1-8.