SOURCE: A Chiro.Org Editorial
Why is the FCER being disbanded?
I contacted them a few days ago, wondering about the publication of any papers from the Asthma study we had helped to fund, and received a post from Sheila Stielow, stating: “I’m not sure if you are aware but FCER is closed. This is a very recent decision”. I wrote back asking what she meant by their being closed, but I have yet to hear back from her. (more…)
SOURCE: A Chiro.Org Editorial
There is no more hotly debated topic in our profession than the huge variety of answers to the question:
“What is the Vertebral Subluxation Complex” (or VSC)? However, this is not the place to debate philosophy.
All of us have observed significant improvements in patient’s health when we adjust them. So, what are we to conclude when a patient, who has been diagnosed with asthma, and has been using steroid inhalants, suddenly does not need to use their meds any more? Did chiropractic *cure* asthma? NO! The reality is that the patient never had asthma to begin with! (more…)
SOURCE: Arch Phys Med & Rehabilitation 2005 (Jun); 86 (6)
You may enjoy reviewing this FULL TEXT article from the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, because Chiropractic scored the highest in reducing pain of 16 different modalities that were tested.
The authors wrote: Pain is a symptom that most clinicians would not typically associate with chronic Neuromuscular Disease (NMD). Most major texts on NMD do not list pain as a symptom of these diseases.
However, and consistent with previous research in other samples of persons with NMD our findings indicate that pain is a common problem in many patients with NMDs. (more…)
SOURCE: A Chiro.Org Editorial
The medical “debate” has been going on for years…is spinal adjusting (a.k.a manipulation) effective for Low Back Pain? The original Meade study (British Medical Journal 1990) demonstrated that chiropractic was much more effective for LBP than conventional medical care.
In 1993 the province of Ontario, Canada hired the esteemed health care economist Pran Manga, PhD to examine the benefits of chiropractic care for low back pain (LBP) and to make a set of recommendations on how to contain and reduce health care costs.
Manga’s report A Study to Examine the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Chiropractic Management of Low-Back Pain cited research demonstrating that:
(1) chiropractic manipulation is safer than medical management for LBP;
(2) that spinal manipulation is less safe and effective when performed by non-chiropractic professionals;
(3) that there is an overwhelming body of evidence indicating that chiropractic management of low-back pain is more cost-effective than medical management;
(4) and that there would be highly significant cost savings if more management of LBP was transferred from medical physicians to chiropractors. (more…)
For those who have forgotten, or for those who never knew, organized medicine spent decades and millions of dollars trying to discredit and destroy chiropractic. Today the vestiges of this suppression are still found on fringe web sites that ignore the body of peer-reviewed research supporting chiropractic care.
You may also explore the depths of medical arrogance in this in-depth review of the Wilk case.
SOURCE: Journal of Human Hypertension 2007 (May); 21 (5): 347–352
Bakris G, Dickholtz M, Meyer PM, Kravitz G, Avery E, Miller M, Brown J, Woodfield C, Bell B
Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Hypertension Center, Chicago, IL, USA
The Chiropractic and Blood Pressure Page reviews numerous studies that found that upper cervical adjusting reduces high blood pressure.
The study that received the most attention was done at Rush University in Chicago, and published in the Journal of Human Hypertension. This randomized trial assigned patients to either 2 blood pressure medicines, or to care from chiropractors who applied upper cervical specific adjusting. The results? Researchers found that restoration of Atlas alignment was associated with marked and sustained reductions in BP similar to the use of two-drug combination therapy. (more…)