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The Annals of Internal Medicine (of all places) published the results of a survey of 232 people who had arthritis and were under a rheumatologists care.  Of those 63% responded to the survey by saying they were using some form of “complementary care” as named by the study.  Of those people 31% were using chiropractic.  These number may themselves be grossly under reported as only 45% of the patients told their doctor about using the other forms of care.

These reported numbers translate to over 19% of the public who is seeing a rheumatologists is also seeing a chiropractor.  And if less that half of the patients are telling their doctor about it the actual number may be twice as high.

Possibly the most impressive statistic was that 73% of those trying chiropractic found it helpful.  The reasons given why people said they tried the non-medical care was to control pain, because they heard it helps, because it is safe, because it helped someone they know, and because their prescription medication wasn’t working.

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Prescription Medications For Candida and Their Side Effects
by: Dr. Brian Martin

Pharmaceutical medications used to treat Candida, may cause patients to suffer from the following side effects: Hives, itching, swelling, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, rashes, or a drop in blood pressure. Reports have surfaced regarding the administration of pharmaceutical drugs such as: Diflucan, Mycostatin, Nilstat, Nystex, and Gemfibrozil.

Side effects are an unfortunate factor that can never be anticipated. Due to the fact that some of the medications

contain sugar, they may be unsuitable for diabetics. Additionally, some of the drugs listed above, can also increase the effects of other prescription drugs, resulting in dangerous side effects. As a result, while prescribing anticoagulants, insulin, oral diabetes medications or cholesterol-lowering drugs, a doctor must closely monitor a patient to make absolutely sure there are no contraindicative symptoms.

In addition to hazardous side effects from prescription drugs, which are used to treat Candida, many prescription drugs may actually contribute to the proliferation of Candida. The usage of steroids (cortisones), birth control pills, antacid, anti-ulcer medications, and antibiotics might cause the Candida yeast to multiply inside the body. Another factor to the growth of Candida is a diet extremely high in sugar. As sugar is rapidly metabolized by fungi (especially yeasts,) the growth of friendly bacteria is prevented.

Consultation with a medical doctor or holistic physician is really the only way to determine the best possible treatment for each individual. If traditional medicine fails to solve Candida, which is often a recurring problem—alternative treatment therapies are readily available.

DR. BRIAN MARTIN, D.C., F.I.A.M.A., IS A LICENSED CHIROPRACTOR AND ACUPUNCTURIST. WEBSITE: www.candidadoctor.com EMAIL: mpibizness@aol.com PHONE: 1-800-611-2001

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In the September 26, 2006 Research Update of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) comes a preliminary case study that reviews the process of a young boy with growing pains under chiropractic care.  In this case a 3 year old boy was suffering from complaints of leg pain and lower back pain. In addition, he experienced pain in both feet, headaches and recent bed wetting. He had received no prior treatment except for his parents massaging his legs.

The case study notes that the term growing pain has been used for approximately 150 years. The term was first coined by Duchamp in 1832 in his treatise, “Maladies de la Croissance.” Studies indicate that what is termed as “growing pains” occur in approximately 20% of children and may be as high as 37% and is slightly more prevalent in girls compared to boys.

The study notes that growing pains may begin in infancy with the greatest discomfort between the ages of 3-5 years and generally seem to disappear as the child matures. A number of conditions have been implicated (though not fully substantiated) as possible factors in growing pains such as rapid growth, overexertion, rheumatic conditions, infection, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, orthopedic defects, vague ill health, and psychological factors.

The diagnosis of this condition is usually made by excluding other conditions and therefore leaving only the idea that the pains are “growing pains”. In the case of this young boy, a chiropractic examination revealed the presence of subluxations and a course of care was initiated.

The care consisted of 15 visits over a 13 week period. After the first adjustment, the patient did not complain of leg pain for three days. After 7 visits, the mother reported that her son was sleeping through the night without leg pains. By the 15th visit, the child had become and remained symptom-free for almost 3 weeks.  The author’s conclusion of this study was, “This case report provides supporting evidence of the effectiveness of chiropractic care in children with growing pains.”

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In a recently passed bill, the US House and Senate agreed on language that sets up open access to chiropractic care in the VA (Veterans Administration). This new law, when enacted, will open access for all US military and veterans to receive chiropractic care under that program.  The details and implementation of the program have still to be worked out but the intent was clear. US Military and Veterans

The bill contains the following language, “at least one site for such program (chiropractic) in each geographic service area of the Veterans Health Administration” (VHA).  The chiropractic care specifically includes subluxation care, as well as a training program to orient the VHA personnel regarding the benefits of chiropractic care and services and employment of doctors of chiropractic.  This means that chiropractic care should be made available through the hiring of chiropractors at each geographic location that the VA has a health care facility.

Chiropractic organizations have been attempting get a law such as this passed that gave these benefits to US veterans since 1936. In response to the law passage, the International Chiropractors Association released the statement, “This represents a great victory for the chiropractic profession and the veteran beneficiary alike, and comes in the face of massive opposition from competing professions as well as agency bureaucrats who have opposed and obstructed any meaningful access for veterans to chiropractic services for decades.”

Although it is not entirely clear how the VHA will fully implement this new law, or how long it may take to be up and running, the language of the law does ensure that care will be provided. Probably one of the most telling portions of the law reads, “The chiropractic care and services available under the program shall include a variety of chiropractic care and services for neuro-musculoskeletal conditions, including subluxation complex.”

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Every medical office has dozens of routine tasks that are repeated throughout the work day. These include those having to do with digital medical image capturing, viewing, distributing and archiving of the digital images. The chiropractic office is no exception, but with a chiropractic digital x-ray system in place that utilizes the latest chiropractic PACS features, many of the repetitive tasks can be handled by the digital equipment, making your work day more efficient and saving you time.

In terms of Chiropractic X-ray, physicians may select from Chiropractic CR or Chiropractic DR
imaging systems. CR systems can be scaled to fit any size medical facility, including chiropractic offices. It is the most cost-efficient system for obtaining digital medical images in the dicom medical imaging format. DR systems cost a bit more, but they also offer a higher resolution quality. Both imaging systems can be used in mobile units as well. When these units are compared to all the work involved with taking film images, it is quickly apparent that the time savings are tremendous with digital medical imaging.

Once the medical images are captured in dicom format, they can be sent from the imaging equipment to your pacs appliance. With the pacs, you can view, send, receive and archive the dicom images. With a film image, no changes to the image could be made, so if the image was not a good one, it meant having to bring the patient back in for more x-rays. Now with digital imaging, many enhancements to the dicom images can be handled directly from a personal computer, resulting in better patient care.

If your workstations are online you can send and receive dicom images in a matter of seconds, rather than wait for images to arrive via postal mail. Storage of film images meant having actual rooms of storage space, as well as personnel, to handle labeling and filing of the medical images, but with today’s modern digital imaging systems you can save dicom images directly to CD or DVD, or even route them to an off-site server for long-term storage as well as safety in the event of a disaster.

A chiropractic PACS system can aid you in your workday by handling many routine tasks for you. You can set the software system to pre-fetch certain patient dicom records, and the system can also automatically store and save the dicom images as well. To fully optimize your system, you can add a RIS component to the PACS, so that documents such as reports and billing can be saved and worked with in the dicom format. Digital imaging systems such as these will eliminate the need for repetitive jobs that occur at a busy chiropractic office and help your day run more smoothly.

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A story appeared in the December 22, 2002, Newsday newspaper telling of an asthmatic woman named Vanessa.  On September 15, 2002, Vanessa had a severe asthma attack which caused her to stop breathing, suffer cardiac arrest, and slip into a coma. It was estimated that her heart had stopped for as much as 10 minutes before paramedics could restart it. At the hospital, her family was not given much hope. If she did pull through, they were told, the chances for severe brain damage were great.

Vanessa had been battling asthma all of her life. But this attack almost cost the young women her life.  Vanessa’s comawas severe. Although her eyes were opened, nobody saw any indication that she could see. Doctors speculated that thepart of her brain most likely to have been damaged by oxygen deprivation probably would render her blind. For herloved ones and family who stayed with her the coma was torturous and disturbing to observe. Vanessa clenched her fists. Her legs moved constantly, almost as if she were riding a bicycle.

Two of Vanessa’s relatives were patients of a chiropractor, Dr. Andy Forelli. They told Dr. Forelli of the heartbreaking story of Vanessa.  Being moved, Dr. Forelli offered to drive to see Vanessa, being unaware that Vanessa was in a hospital two and a half hours away.  The family accepted Dr. Forelli’s offer so he made the trip.

Dr. Forelli arrived to Vanessa’s room on the evening of Sept. 30.  There the family told him that the doctors had been talking that day about putting Vanessa in a nursing home. Vanessa’s mother Siobhan,  recalls what happened next, “He put his hands on Vanessa’s face and spoke to her,” Siobhan said, “and she looked right at him and furrowed her brow, as if to say, ‘Who the hell are you?’ At that moment, we knew that she could see. He adjusted her neck. She winced, and then she smiled. He went around to the other side of the bed, and she furrowed her brow again, and he adjusted her neck from that side, and she smiled, closed her eyes, and went to sleep. He and I then spoke for maybe 15 minutes, and he got in the car and drove back to New York.”

“That night, I called every two hours, and the nurses said she was really quiet, almost still,” Siobhan said. “The next morning, October 1st, she was sleeping, no agitated movements, no clenched fists. At 11 o’clock, the nurse came into bathe her. The nurse said to me, ‘I think she’s trying to talk to us.’ She said to Vanessa, ‘Do you know who that is? That’s your Mom.’”

Vanessa spent five more days in the hospital and 16 days in a Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Forelli saw her one more time, with again, remarkable results. Vanessa now has resumed her old life and is a regular patient of a local chiropractor closer to where she lives.  Siobhan summed up the situation at the end of the story by saying, “Her whole health system has done a complete turnaround.  She used to always carry a hand-held asthma medication called Preventil. She doesn’t even carry it any more.”

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Written by Nelson Thibodeaux
Medical professionals continue to battle insurance bureaucracy and speculate on an unpredictable health care future. Cash-based aesthetic treatments supplement practice revenue. Cosmetic treatments are no longer limited to the traditional plastic surgeon and dermatologist. From dentists to family practitioners, they are adding cosmetic treatments as the baby boomer market continues to expand.

It is becoming increasingly common for patients to receive injections of Botox® or Juviderm® type products, along with other invasive procedures, such as laser resurfacing, from a dentist or OB-Gyn’s office. While these services clearly fall outside their specialty, these doctors are taking advantage of vertical marketing opportunities from their existing patient base by offering aesthetic services.

Are aesthetic treatments a viable option for chiropractors? Limiting factors include that most states preclude chiropractors from giving injections or services that are invasive. So what’s left to offer?

Anti-aging supplements are offered by many chiropractors; however revenue seems negligible at best.

On the other hand, a number of chiropractors have integrated aesthetic treatments, not as a part of their practice per se, but as a separate business opportunity similar to MD‘s. Substantial growth is trending to non-invasive, natural solutions because of the cost invasive procedures in the exiting economy but, as importantly, the risk. The chiropractor patient base provides an equally, if not more lucrative, women dominated vertical marketing opportunity.

Chiropractors have, or can seize, a distinctive role in this vast market by relying on their own commitment to natural solutions coupled with numerous emerging products, equipment and techniques driven by the growing demand for effective but safer alternative cosmetic treatments.

One option is microcurrent, a low level of sub-sensory electrical current that mirrors the body’s own natural current. Proven and accepted properties range in application from wound healing, muscle rehabilitation, macular degeneration of the eye to lymphodema and lymes disease.
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There is no such thing as too young or too old for Chiropractic care. Chiropractic patients range in years from birth to old age. Regardless of age, vertebrae can become misaligned.  If a vertebrae become misaligned it can cause pressure or irritation to nerves thus causing them to malfunction.  This process is known as a “Subluxation”.   For example, the birth process may cause trauma to the neck and spine. If left uncorrected, the vertebral subluxation may disturb the delicate spinal cord and nerves which control the infants muscles and organs.  In some cases, an uncorrected subluxations may lead to a deformity of the spinal column. An early chiropractic checkup may detect subluxations while they are still easily correctable.

When should I start my child under Chiropractic care?
Your child should have a chiropractic examination as soon after birth as possible.  Spinal trauma to an infant’s or child’s spine can occur during the birth process as well as from any number of tumbles while learning to sit up or walk.  Your child’s spine grows almost 50% in length during that first year (the equivalent of a six-footer growing to nine feet in just 12 months!).  It’s this kind of tremendous growth and developmental changes which make continued chiropractic examinations so important in the early stages of your child’s life.

In Chiropractic we believe it’s much more important to prevent diseases than wait till some illness occurs. Through regular adjustments, as well as awareness on proper diet, exercise and posture, Chiropractic can help you raise a child free of subluxations whose body is structurally and functionally sound. Your child will also learn good health habits at an early age which can be very beneficial to him or her as an adult.

Youngsters suffer numerous accidents and falls while learning to walk, riding a bike, or even while jumping or running around. But after their tears have dried, underlying injuries could go undetected–such as a subluxation during the spine’s most formative period.

Regular Chiropractic spinal exams can provide corrective and preventive care for your son or daughter and peace of mind for you.

It is especially important to have your child under chiropractic care when your child takes part in athletic activities.  The “sack” of a young quarterback could twist a young spine.  A softball pitcher could throw a vertebra out of alignment.   In Chiropractic we can do more than correct these problems, we can also help improve performance on and off the field by helping the body function at its optimum level, naturally without stress and without drugs.

How effective is chiropractic care for children?
Doctors of Chiropractic have been providing safe and effective care or children for nearly 100 years. There are several published studies conducted by researchers in Germany, Australia, Denmark and the United States which confirm the effectiveness of chiropractic for a variety of childhood illnesses.  The scientific evidence is growing every day.  Find this and other like articles at http://www.chiropracticresearch.org

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According to a recent study commissioned by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, there are, right now, over 200,000 people living with spinal cord injuries caused by sporting and recreational accidents in the United States.

This summer, don’t put yourself at risk for serious injury by forgetting these simple safety tips.

Driving
- Buckle up… properly! Bottom strap across hips and shoulder strap across chest.
- Do not be distracted by other passengers, motorists, cell phones, radio, etc. Stay focused!
- Obey car and booster seat guidelines.

Swimming and diving
- Do not dive in less than nine feet of water. – No board, no diving!

Personal watercrafts
- Be watchful, defensive, obey speeds, and keep your distance.

Body boarding
- Hold board so it extends past head.

General Water Safety
- No re-dos; do not combine alcohol and water-related activities!
- Be aware of sandbars.
- Feet-first entry.

Bicycle Riding
- Wear a helmet… properly! A helmet should be worn snug, fitted, and level.
- Replace helmet after three to five years and/or if cracked.

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by: Vincent
Its common these days to see people buying up vitamin C tabs, pills, and chewables at the beginning of cold and flu season. While some swear by the immune system boosting properties some still question whether these supplements really help. There are many studies that definitively show Vitamin C is needed by the body for production of collagen and without it you will eventually die of scurvy. Other studies have found benefits of the vitamin in other areas, making use of its antioxidant properties. While some claim the vitamin can be used in high doses to cure the common cold or lessen the degree and severity of illnesses. First off Vitamin C has been studied as an aid in fighting cancer. One exciting, but preliminary study was performed on live cancer cells in a test tube environment. Scientists administered infusions of Vitamin C to a set of nine cancer cell cultures and four normal cell cultures. The cancer cells had a fifty percent decrease in survival rate, while the normal cells appeared to be unaffected. The vitamin C appeared to kill cancer cells in a laboratory environment. While this is promising it should be noted that this is not a study that was performed in humans and many things can be promising in the laboratory but some things just don’t work out in the real world trials. Diabetics may be interested to know that Vitamin C is being studied as a way to increase the body’s receptiveness to insulin. The disease is partly characterized by the blood vessels inability to respond Nitric Oxide (NO) which is secreted by the walls of the blood vessel and encourage the muscles to relax increasing blood flow to the areas of the body. The vessel walls don’t relax and thus contribute to the body’s insulin resistance. It’s been confirmed that injections of vitamin C have been shown to improve vessel wall reaction to NO in diabetic patients. The new study is going to observe the effectiveness of oral vitamin C in Diabetic patients. There were many, many studies performed to try and determine whether vitamin C can indeed prevent the common cold. In the seventies there were a series of trial run by a team headed by a Dr. Terrence Anderson at the University of Toronto. His studies found the same results as many other studies, that vitamin C though necessary in the body doesn’t prevent the common cold. It does seem to lessen the length of time you have a cold by half a day on average and there is no need to take really high doses to achieve this. It appears that you can get the same effect as a very high dosage of vitamin C in a higher than usual dosage of 250mg during a cold when the cold ends you should return to the recommended daily value of 60mg. Visit http://www.stanleybeautycare.com and find this article and others like it at http://www.e-healtharticles.com.
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