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Senate Bill Includes Key Chiropractic Provisions

Here’s some good news from my favorite Blogger, Daniel Redwood, DC:
November 20, 2009
The Senate Democrats’ blended bill contains the nondiscrimination language championed by Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Christopher Dodd (D-CT), along with a couple of other steps forward.
Here’s today’s report from the American Chiropractic Association:
Reid’s Reform Bill Includes ACA Supported Provider Non-Discrimination Provision
Of [...]

LLLT and Neck Pain Literature Review By The Lancet

Interpretation
We show that LLLT reduces pain immediately after treatment in acute neck pain and up to 22 weeks after completion of treatment in patients with chronic neck pain.

Middle Ear Infections and Chiropractic

Following our recent theme that chiropractic can help children, here’s a link to a CBS News report on how chiropractic helps chronic ear infections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgxqfDECP4
You can also review our Chiropractic and Otitis Media Page for more on that topic.
You may wonder, how can chiropractic help reduce or eliminate that kind of infection? Great question!
Our nervous system [...]

Headaches in Infants

Chiropractic has a long history of success with headaches [1-3]. A newly published, retrospective case study, just published in JMPT, also emphasizes the benefits of chiropractic care for infants. [4]

This is a picture of an infant with a headache. This article details the case history of 13 infants (aged from 2 days old to 8.5 [...]

Pain Among Children and Adolescents

Musculoskeletal problems (NMS) in children are associated with both physical and psychologic consequences, and they can become barriers for participation in physical activity and sports, resulting in negative consequences for the individual’s health throughout life.
A recent study in Germany involved interviewing children (and their parents) to determine what percentage of them had NMS copmplaints. [...]

Medicine and the Overtreatment of Back Pain

I just read a fascinating article from the January edition of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, as it documents the massive increase in costs for medical management of chronic back pain, while no significant increases in patient outcomes or disability rates have been observed, and increases in post-intervention complications (including death) [...]

Do You Recommend Supplementation In Your Practice?

If you do, or wish you knew more, we have a variety of nutrition resources that you may find useful:
Our most extensive resource contains articles, arranged by condition, from the esteemed Alternative Medicine Review.
Our Nutrition Section begins with the Supplement Section, providing non-solicitous information regarding the benefits of various vitamins, minerals and herbals.
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What is the Vertebral Subluxation Complex?

Submitted for your approval is an article written by Joseph M. Flesia, D.C. that is archived on our Chiropractic Subluxation Page. I hope you will find it of interest!
The Vertebral Subluxation Complex Part II: An Outline
FROM:   ICA International Review of Chiropractic 1992 (Oct): 19-23
Many correlative and singular studies have been [...]