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Welcome to our office newsletter. Please feel free to forward this or parts of it to friends and relatives. If you have ANY questions, please do not hesitate to call, e-mail me or ask on your next visit!
Easter Egg Hunt
What a successful Easter Egg Hunt! It was beautiful weather and a cooperative crowd of over 75 children who gathered up more than 1000 eggs from behind the office in Brunswick. We gave out more than $750 worth of prizes. Thank you to all the local businesses that contributed prizes and to our fantastic staff who organized and supervised the event and a special thank you to the Easter Bunny for being there. We know he had lots of other events to attend to. We hope to see more of you there next year.
MIGRAINE RELIEF
Approximately 157 million workdays are lost each year due to headaches. Surely some of those reported are just poor excuses, but if you suffer from migraine headaches, you know that it is no joke. Migraines are believed to be caused by pressure placed on nerve endings in the head. This leads to vascular changes in the blood supply to the head. Drugs often relieve and even control these headaches but never are able to reduce them. If you stop the medication, the headaches return with a vengeance. Plus, of course these medications have serious side effects. Chiropractic helps to correcting subluxations in the upper neck which are known to aggravate the nerves up into the head. Quite often, the cause of the repeated headaches can be corrected. Others seem to be brought on by diet so proper nutrition is crucial. See us at Coastal Chiropractic Clinics if you or someone you love has headache symptoms.
Military & Chiropractic
Slowly but surely, our active armed forces and veterans are beginning to get access to chiropractic care. On Jan. 23, 2002 Pres. Bush signed into law a bill mandating permanent chiropractic benefits for veterans. The Department of Defense has also completed a pilot study that found chiropractic care to be a positive and feasible benefit. This was signed into law by Pres. Clinton on Oct. 30, 2000 mandating chiropractic to all active duty military personnel by the end of a 5 year phase in period. The implementation and protocol are being arranged. We want the best and healthiest armed forces so it is about time that these services are provided.
Workers' Compensation
If your employer is not utilizing chiropractic care for on-the-job injuries, they are making a costly mistake. Study after study shows the cost savings of chiropractic care over medical care especially for musculoskeletal injuries, and these just happen to be the most common and most pricey injuries. Chiropractic care gets employees back to work faster and at less cost then traditional medical care, physical therapy alone or bed rest. Talk to your employer and have them contact us and place us on the companies' panel of physicians just in case someone injures themselves. We also provide safety lectures. A recent study in Florida showed that for industrial musculoskeletal injuries, chiropractic care demonstrates lower costs and shorter durations both in terms of reaching maximum medical improvement and return to work.("Topics in Clinical Chiropractic," 2002;9(4):33-53.)
What Is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a system of health care that releases a most serious form of stress from your body: spinal nerve stress , or what we call vertebral subluxation. Spinal nerve stress can affect your nerves, muscles, internal organs, discs, bones, brain and weaken your overall health. A doctor of chiropractic is specially trained to determine if you have vertebral subluxation, and to correct it using a simple, painless procedure known as a chiropractic adjustment.
Chiropractic has become the largest drugless health care profession in the world because it has helped millions of people recover from sickness, disease, and disability and minimize the use of drugs and surgery in their lives!
What is an Adjustment?
What exactly am I doing when I place my hands on your spine and give you a spinal adjustment? I am freeing your nerves from severe stress, balancing your spine, relaxing muscles, ligaments, discs and tendons; and permitting your body to heal - I am helping awaken your "inner doctor." This allows man 'physical' to connect with man 'spiritual.'
Chiropractors spend years mastering this procedure. I ask myself the following questions (among others) before giving you an adjustment:
- In which direction are the vertebrae out of alignment?
- What is the minimal amount of force necessary for realignment?
- Which is the best technique to use?
- Are there any factors which would prevent the adjustment?
- Are you relaxed and at ease?
Many chiropractors would also include in the checklist a certain "feeling" when an adjustment is just right. This "feeling" can't be put into words, some may call it intuition while others call it "experience."
Your Body is Always Trying
Your body is always trying to realign or adjust your spine. The back muscles are continuously working to pull the vertebra back to where it belongs. I don't actually put the vertebra back in place - I supply just the little bit of energy needed to free the vertebra so your body will realign it.
Want to live to be over a hundred?
With more people living past 100 researchers are now able to study them in greater numbers and they're finding interesting things. "Those who make it close to the 100 mark and beyond are the type who avoid hospitals and doctors whenever possible. When ill, they tend to be optimistic about recovery...[they have generally] good health habits. Most avoid smoking, watch their weight and exercise....their most common characteristic is a feisty spirit and a sense of independence.
"According to researcher Belle Boone Beard author of 'Centenarians' they have a tried and true individuality, tempered, like steel, under the heat and pressure of life over time.'
Centenarians also have been practicing preventive medicine all of their lives. Amazing as it sounds the majority studied by Beard had never seen a doctor. Thus, they avoided the iatrogenic (doctor-induced) diseases, accidents and overmedication that plague so many of the elderly."
Letter from the publisher. Journal of Longevity Vol. 6 No. 3 p. 3
Breast Feeding
"Study after study shows, for example, that babies who are not breastfed have higher rates of death, meningitis, childhood leukemia and other cancers, diabetes, respiratory illnesses, bacterial and viral infections, diarrheal diseases, otitis media (ear infection), allergies, obesity and developmental delays. Women who do not breastfeed demonstrate a higher risk for breast and ovarian cancers."
Grant, JT. Former Director of UNICEF. July/August 1994. Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Newsletter.
"Breastfed children are half as likely to have any illness during the first year of life."
Baldwin EN and Friedman KA New Beginnings Jan-Feb 1996.
Words of Wisdom
"The true nature of anything is the highest it can become." - Aristotle
"The arrival of a good clown exercises more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs." - Thomas Sydenham, 17th century physician
"It is impossible to separate between physical needs and spiritual needs. The spiritual transforms into physicality and the physical rises to become spiritual in a perpetual chemistry of exchange. Heal the soul and the body is renewed. Heal the body and the soul is empowered." - Lubavitcher Rebbe
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. - Albert Einstein
Chiropractic and Spinal Research
Did you know there are thousands of papers on the wonders of chiropractic. Please tell others about the power of chiropractic care - health without drugs or surgery. Any disease or condition you'd like to know about? Ask us.
Asthma and Chiropractic
47 asthma sufferers age 7 to 42 received chiropractic care for 4 to 8 weeks. All 47 showed significant improvements in symptoms (from 87 to 100 percent). Many of the patients were able to completely stop use of asthma medication.
At a two-year follow-up, all 47 of the patients also reported that they maintained the improvements they made at the beginning of the study.
Amalu WC. Chiropractic management of 47 asthma cases. Today's Chiropractic Vol. 29 No. 6 November/December 2000
Lumbar Discs and Spinal Care
Know anyone contemplating back surgery for a disc problem? Chiropractors have helped countless people avoid spinal surgery for over a century. Even medical journals are describing the success of spinal care. In one study, of 517 patients with protruded lumbar discs 76.8% had satisfactory results after they received spinal care.
Treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc protrusions by manipulation. Pang-Fu Kuo P, Loh Z. Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research, Feb. 1987; 215:47-55.
Anorexia Nervosa and Chiropractic
A.S. a 23 year old had been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa; chiropractic spinal analysis revealed vertebral subluxations in her upper and mid neck.
She received a single chiropractic adjustment, which resulted in complete resolution of her condition. A follow-up two years later showed that the condition never returned.
Burnier, A. The side-effects of the chiropractic adjustment. Chiropractic Pediatrics Vol. 1 No. 4 May 1995.
Enuresis, Toe Walking
A six year old boy with nightly nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting) and toe walking was brought for chiropractic care. The medical specialist recommended that both Achilles' tendons be cut and both ankles be broken to achieve normal posture and gait???!! Chiropractic findings included subluxation of atlas, occiput, sacrum and pelvis... At this writing, after 4 weeks of care, toe walking decreased 50% and bedwetting decreased to 2-3 times/week. His MD could not believe how chiropractic helped so much. Crystal, R. International Chiropractic Pediatric Association Newsletter May/June 1997.
Humor
A (politically incorrect hair color) woman named Brandi finds herself in dire trouble. Her business has gone bust and she's in serious financial straits. She's so desperate that she decides to ask God for
help. She begins to pray... "God, please help me. I've lost my business and if I don't get some money, I'm going to lose my house as well. Please let me win the lotto." Lotto night comes and somebody else wins it.
Brandi again prays... God, please let me win the lotto! I've lost my business, my house and I'm going to lose my car as well." Lotto night comes and Brandi still has no luck.
Once again, she prays... "My God, why have you forsaken me?? I've lost my business, my house, and my car. My children are starving. I don't often ask you for help, and I have always been a good servant
to you. PLEASE just let me win the lotto this one time so I can get my life back in order."
Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the heavens open and Brandi is confronted by the voice of God Himself... "Brandi, work with Me on this. Buy a ticket!"
That's all for now. Please write if you have any questions. We're always available. Remember, your family and friends need a healthy spine as much as you do, so below is a free coupon for you to forward to them. They can also write to us if they have any questions. And thank you for the privilege of helping us keep your life energy flowing without spinal nerve interference or subluxations.
Thanks again!
Hope you're having a powerful day!
Drs. Jeff & Michelle
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