Two quick notes for today:
BetterSpines.com is officially two years old!
And, in Brazil recently, the Chiropractic profession won a ruling preventing them from harassment by physical therapists. The therapists were claiming that Chiropractic was a physiotherapy technique, not a profession in its own right! And that Chiropractors were illegally practicing physiotherapy. Funny isn’t it. The medical [...]
Discusses the college training of a Doctor of Chiropractic.
Chiropractic education, despite many misconceptions, is in fact comparable with that of medical doctors. As discussed previously in Yes, Chiropractors are real Doctors, the college and clinical hours required are astonishing to most people. The above video describes better than I could the rigorous requirements to become [...]
“You didn’t get out of shape and unhealthy overnight, and you won’t get fit and healthy overnight.”
and “It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.”
I read these recently, and immediately thought of all the people who say “Why do I have to keep going to the Chiropractor?”
Our health problems start when we are very young. [...]
More and more people are realising that “normal” western (allopathic) medicine is not the total answer to their health problems, and are looking for alternatives. Also, people are becoming more informed about the fact that there are other choices.
Holistic medicine treats the whole person. Lifestyle, diet, history are all relevant - not just the presenting [...]
A lot of people seem to think that chiropractors, masseurs, physiotherapists and “manipulative therapists” all come out of the same box. Let me correct this.
My Degree is “Doctor of Chiropractic”, obtained from Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. My subjects included physiotherapy, massage, and many, many hours of study and practice in adjusting vertebral subluxations. My class [...]
What can chiropractic do?
This is a terrific article from Dr Paul Martin
Dr Paul Martin says: I’ve had a couple of conversations with people lately about chiropractic. Usually when people talk me about chiropractic, they approach it from the standpoint of, “what can you do for me?” This is a completely valid stance. …
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Found this informative article recently - from Health First Chiropractic - entitled “What Exactly Does a Chiropractor Do?“, and thought I would share it with you:
“There are many ideas out there (good and bad) about what exactly doctors of chiropractic do. Chiropractic is a very effective therapy for pain control; however, the profession has much [...]
These two recent articles discuss the role of chiropractic care in the treatment of headaches:
MY HEAD HURTS and MY HEAD STILL HURTS
You really need a sense of humour when you suffer from migraines! That is why I became a Doctor of Chiropractic. I suffered severe migraines (is there any other kind?) in my teens. My [...]
You would never realise that I actually look for articles and news releases about chiropractic, would you?
Chiropractic is so simple - remove the interference and allow the body to function as it was designed to do.
Chiropractic does a body good
This is a good one - most people start chiropractic because of a specific injury or [...]
Check out these terrific articles from WASHINGTON SQUARE CHIROPRACTIC CENTER and JAMES FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC
It is clear to patients and becoming clearer to researchers that chiropractic care saves and preserves lives because of the effect it has on the central nervous system. It is cost-effective with virtually no side-effects. So why does everyone and their neighbour [...]
