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CNN Reports: 'A deadly, 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, collapsing buildings, shattering major bridges and highways across a long swath of the country, and sending tsunami warnings along the entire Pacific basin.' As I wake up this morning to yet another natural disaster, it puts my soul in deep thought. How can I help? Chiropractors have been known to be part of the volunteer...
8/4/2010 10:37:33 AM
Chiropractors have been treating spinal problems and helping visceral issues in patients who needlessly suffer from a variety of disease. A big part of Chiropractic is education; to give the message of preventative and proactive care of the body. This education does not end with knowledge of the spine, posture, the nervous system and it's importance in overall health, but also significance of a healthy...
8/4/2010 10:37:07 AM
Aloe Vera extract is considered one of the best kept secrets when it comes to cancer treatment. Recent article: Dr. Ivan Danhoff, MD, PhD, was using Aloe Vera extracts in a cancer clinic in Texas and getting great results with his patients. He was in the process of going through hoops to obtain new drug status using his research on over 100 cancer victims who had gotten amazing results. The recovery...
8/4/2010 10:36:39 AM
The answer is NO, if you're going to just any chiropractor. ANY chiropractor can maintain and prevent your scoliosis from getting worse, increase motion into the areas of the spine that are fixated and not moving. Correcting or decreasing the angle of your scoliosis is another story. It takes a lot of rehabilitation, mirror image exercises, traction setups and home exercises. Only Chiropractors who...
8/4/2010 10:36:17 AM
The 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver Canada, will include chiropractic care inside the Olympic Village Polyclinic, a multi-disciplinary facility that offers comprehensive health care and medical services.Doctors of Chiropractic have historically been included on the medical staff for Olympic Games. Athletes now have access to Chiropractic Care to prepare them for winning their competitions. Olympic athletes...
8/4/2010 10:35:52 AM
Obesity is an epidemic in the United States. Artificial sweeteners play an important role in growing this epidemic that is associated with a large number of diseases and conditions. Your body uses the amount of real sugar you've taken as a way to calculate your calories for the day. In simple terms you use sweet taste to predict the caloric contents of foods. If you use sweet non-caloric substances,...
8/4/2010 10:35:23 AM
In 2004, one of the most comprehensive study came out and was published in the Internet Journal of Orthopedic Surgery in regards with improving the immune system with Chiropractic Care, and manipulations of the vertebrae in the spine. This study showed between %72-%88 improvement in patients who had asthma and dermatitis (skin rashes) and got Corrective Chiropractic Therapies to their spines. According...
8/4/2010 10:34:56 AM
.....Now being reported across the mainstream media is the fact that Dr.Reuben accepted a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to study Celebrex in 2005. His research, which was published in a medical journal, has since been quoted by hundreds of other doctors and researchers as "proof" that Celebrex helped reduce pain during post...-...surgical recovery. There's only one problem with all this: No patients were...
8/4/2010 10:34:30 AM
A research done by Internal Medicine Archives in July of 2008 showed that regular consumption of sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks is associated with obesity as well as an increased risk of type-2 diabetes mellitus in patients. While there has been increasing public awareness of the adverse health effects of soft drinks, little attention has been given to fruit drinks, which are often marketed...
8/4/2010 10:34:07 AM
The newest study on influenza vaccine and its effectiveness on children came out on October of 2008. This study was done for two continual seasons and involved over 5000 children between 6 and 59 months. This research was unable to show any significant effectiveness in preventing influenza in patients younger than 5 years old. The author of this study noted "the U.S. and several other countries have...
8/4/2010 10:33:42 AM