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Have You Used Our Search Tools Lately?

By Frank M. Painter|February 12, 2011|Search Strategy|

Have You Used Our Search Tools Lately?

Most of our search tools are now directory-specific, to make it that much easier to find what you want. Our website is so much more than just a Blog. We have been compiling materials into various sections since 1995, and no other chiropractic website has such a breadth and depth of material, conveniently arranged into topic pages, like the Low Back Pain Page, or the Chronic Neck Pain Page. Our LINKS Section is chocked full of many other pages of equal value. Look at the left-hand side of this page, and scroll down to RESOURCES to browse our Sections.

The Sectional Search Tools are very word specific, and can be adjusted to look for specific words, word strings, or even capitalizations. Please NOTE that each of the Sectional Search Tools only searches the directory they are named for. The Google tool searches all sections at once. (more…)

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New Study Ties Processed Foods To ADHD in 78% of Children

By Frank M. Painter|February 10, 2011|ADHD, Attention Deficit, Education, Food Sensitivity, Pediatrics, Processed Foods, Research, Supplementation|

New Study Ties Processed Foods To ADHD in 78% of Children

The Chiro.Org Blog

According to a new study, just published in Lancet Journal, a diet free of processed foods significantly reduces the symptoms of ADHD in 78% of 4-8 year old children. This 5-week study involving 100 subjects found that 63% of them experienced a relapse in ADHD symptoms upon re-introduction of problem foods into the diet.

This randomized crossover study was titled Effects of a Restricted Elimination Diet on the Behaviour of Children With Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (INCA study). Patients in the Netherlands and Belgium were enrolled via announcements in medical health centres and through media announcements. In the open-label phase (or first phase), children aged 4—8 years, who were diagnosed with ADHD, were randomly assigned to either 5 weeks of a restricted elimination diet (diet group) or to instructions for a healthy diet (control group). [1]

In the second phase, those children who responded positively (with an improvement of at least 40% on the ADHD rating scale) proceeded into the second phase, with a 4-week double-blind crossover food challenge, in which they were exposed to either a high-IgG or low-IgG food diet (classified on the basis of every child’s individual IgG blood test results).
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Chiropractors, Wellness, and Our Office Websites

By Frank M. Painter|February 7, 2011|Editorial|

Chiropractors, Wellness, and Our Office Websites

The Chiro.Org Blog

You know that feeling you get, when you read an article that rubs you the wrong way?

Well, I was all set to editorially unload on a new article, published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, titled:

Chiropractic Wellness on the Web: The Content and Quality of Information Related to Wellness and Primary Prevention on the Internet,

because it ragged on about the use of the word subluxation. That always sets me right off.

But instead of checking my brain at the door, I read the whole article a second time, and decided to take a look at their websites, to see if they practiced what they preached. (more…)

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Heart Attacks and Folic Acid

By stevev|February 6, 2011|Nutrition, Prevention, Supplementation|

Randomized trials have suggested that folic acid may not have any beneficial effects for preventing heart attacks especially a second episodes. However in a meta-analysis published Wednesday (2/2/11) Wald,et. al. suggest that previous studies have failed to account for the use of aspirin by study participants. The authors suggest folic acid could be a part of a preventative measure to reduce first attacks but not second due to the use of aspirin by those suffering from a previous attack.

The study was published online as part of the PLoS site, an open access peer reviewed site. You can download the study in its entirety here;

Wald DS, Morris JK, Wald NJ (2011) Reconciling the Evidence on Serum Homocysteine and Ischaemic Heart Disease: A Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16473. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016473

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Congress Moves to Expand Chiropractic Services to Veterans and Military Beneficiaries

By John Wiens DC|February 4, 2011|Health Care|

Chiropractic Profession Urged to Enlist Support from Local Members of Congress

Source The American Chiropractic Association

The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and the Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC) today expressed support for newly introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives designed to expand the availability of the services delivered by chiropractic physicians in the federal Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and to those who utilize the military’s health care delivery system, TRICARE, run by the Department of Defense (DoD).

Ranking member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.), has again introduced the Chiropractic Care to All Veterans Act (H.R. 329), a bill similar to legislation that was overwhelmingly passed by the entire House in 2010 but was not considered in the Senate. H.R. 329 would require the VA to have a chiropractic physician on staff at all major VA medical facilities by 2014. It would also amend the current statute, the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001, ensuring that chiropractic benefits are included in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations and therefore, cannot be denied. (more…)

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Chiropractic Care Plans for Common Low Back Conditions

By Frank M. Painter|February 3, 2011|Care Plans, Evidence-based Medicine, Low Back Pain, Research|

Chiropractic Care Plans for Common Low Back Conditions

The Chiro.Org Blog

SOURCE: Chiropractic Technique 1993 (Aug); 5 (3): 119-125

by Robert D. Mootz, D.C. and V. Thomas Waldorf, D.C.

Our thanks to Robert D. Mootz, D.C. and to Dana Lawrence, D.C., the editor of Chiropractic Technique, for permission to reprint this FULL-TEXT article article, and its extensive collection of Care Plans, exclusively at Chiro.Org

A detailed description of chiropractic care parameters used at a large occupational medicine center is presented. The algorithms were derived from clinical needs of the facility, expert opinion, and reviews of several contemporary written protocols. Twelve of the most common industrially related low back conditions are included. The algorithms are grouped according to nondiscogenic and discogenic conditions. The guidelines are consistent with many third party chiropractic review policies, as well as the recently published Chiropractic Quality Assurance Guidelines and Practice Parameters. The first algorithm is based on uncomplicated joint dysfunction, and is considered the base algorithm. Other, more complicated conditions follow, and a preface is included for each describing specific issues relevant to each condition. The purpose of these algorithms was to help standardize care in the clinic, to foster interdisciplinary communication, and to provide consistency in administration for research purposes.

Occupational Low back injuries make up a major component of industrial expenditures in the United States. [1] A number of retrospective studies have suggested that conservative chiropractic management may be more cost effective than other approaches. [2-3] Although a number of general practice guidelines have been developed [4-6], none have (yet) provided “condition specific” guidelines. (more…)

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