This award winning presentation from a Chiropractic student is brilliant. Please watch, listen and learn …
These articles make informative reading also: [Chiropractic Misconceptions] and [Effectiveness and Popularity of Chiropractic Care].
CRACK – To break or split apart. To lose control under pressure.
CRUNCH – To chew with a noisy crunching sound. The critical or decisive moment.
MANIPULATE – to control or influence by artful, unfair or insidious means.
ADJUST – To regulate, correct or modify something, affecting a change or adaptation.
CHIROPRACTORS ADJUST SUBLUXATIONS. We don’t crack, crunch or [...]
Study finds patients who initially visited a chiropractor after a back injury had reduced odds of chronic disability.
Well, how about that!
I quote from http://www.orthosupersite.com : When investigators analyzed which health care providers patients saw first after their injury vs. disability at 1 year, “Clearly, patients whose first visit for the injury was to a chiropractor [...]
Well, there is actually a syndrome (which is a collection of symptoms) called “Failed Back Surgery Syndrome”.
Reference Wikipedia [link here]. Apparently the failure of back surgery is so common it has generated its own clinical description.
Now, don’t get me wrong; in cases of spinal trauma and actual injury, there is no alternative and it is [...]
Has anybody else noticed the increasing frequency of negative reports and news releases about alternative health therapies and modalities? Is it just me, or are certain groups feeling threatened, and need to lash out? Most people, if they disagree with something, just shrug their shoulders and move on. If you don’t like a particular dentist, [...]
Do you take anti-inflammatory drugs?
Why?
Are you aware that they are not an analgesic (pain killer) as such? They are designed to reduce the inflammation process due to an injury or similar. Inflammation is swelling and redness, usually because the blood supply to an area has increased in an effort to deal with an irritant and [...]
Here in Australia, it’s national Chiropractic Care Week May 18-24.
The focus this year is on the theme “It’s not just back pain. It’s the Big Picture.”
Visit the website of the Chiropractors’ Association of Australia [link here] to get more information.
Remember, poor spinal health can affect all areas of life.
Do I really need this surgery?
Well, that’s not for me to say.
But with people being more careful with their dollars, a lot of people are really looking at lower cost alternatives. They are actually thinking that there might be alternatives! Instead of just blindly allowing surgeries to be performed on them without fully understanding the [...]
Jaw pain! Clicking! Grinding noise! Clunking! Headaches! Face Pain! Jaw restriction! Also many reputed vague and indeterminate symptoms throughout the entire body such as ear pain or shoulder pain. All can be symptoms of a malfunctioning TMJ.
Trauma, biting on a hard object, being hit on the side of the face in the jaw joint region, [...]
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 [...]
