Friends & Family Day

The 2nd Tuesday of each month will be our friends and family day. On this day your friend's a family can get an exam and necessary x-rays at no charge to them. This is the perfect time for those who think they may need some help but are not hurting enough to do something about it. This offer is for new patients only.

Health Talks

Our next health talk for new and existing patients will be on Tuesday, May 1st at 6:30. Don't miss out on this chance to improve not only your health, but also that of your family and friends.

Craig's Corner

The kids get it, why don't the parents?

I like to use analogies to get my point across when talking with patients during their visits. Recently while performing a report of findings with a patient I decided to use my Superman analogy. I asked the patient what killed superman? The kids in the room had 2 answers, Doomsday and Kryptonite to which I responded yes, in the comic books (who the heck is Doomsday?). A pinched nerve is what killed Christopher Reeve, the man who played Superman in the movies.

Let this thought sink in for a moment. A severe "pinched nerve" can shut down every organ in your body if it occurs at the top of your neck. If a pinched nerve can do this, then what does a mild nerve irritation (subluxation) do if it's located at the top of your spine. It can cause dysfunction of the organs, glands, immune system, digestive system, and reproductive system, with no spinal symptoms. This is how I can help with constipation, by adjusting the spine. With bladder problems, by adjusting the spine. With sinus headaches, by adjusting the spine, the list goes on and on.
The kids then asked if they had a pinched nerve. I said I don't know, but let's check.

But doc, I feel fine!

That's what most people thought right before their first heart attack.

Stay on course, get your adjustments and take care of your body. Your family deserves it.

Many of our patients are unaware of the benefits of chiropractic care for children. There is also a lack of understanding of the potential benefit of the chiropractic adjustment on brain function. An extensive case series involving developmentally delayed children brings these two aspects of chiropractic care together. Drs. Cuthbert and Barras are to be congratulated for their excellent paper.

Chiropractic care is best known for helping active adults overcome back pain, neck pain and headaches. While drug-free pain relief is a valuable service, the chiropractic adjustment offers additional benefits your patients may not be aware of. These benefits may include improved mental function, as suggested by a recent study published in JMPT.1  Read More

Vitamin D for Cancer Prevention:

Global Perspective Annals of Epidemiology Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2009

Results/Conclusions

It is projected that raising the minimum year-around serum vitamin D3 level would prevent approximately 58,000 new cases of breast cancer and 49,000 new cases of colorectal cancer each year, and three fourths of deaths from these diseases in the US and Canada, based on observational studies combined with a randomized trial.

• Higher serum levels of vitamin D3 are associated with substantially lower incidence rates of colon, breast, ovarian, renal, pancreatic, aggressive prostate and other cancers.

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More Research Needed on Chiropractic

A new Cochrane systematic review of chiropractic treatment for low back pain was published this month (April 2010).  The review reflects favorably for chiropractic care and states that “Combined chiropractic interventions slightly improved pain and disability in the short-term and pain in the medium-term for acute and subacute low back pain.”  The review goes on to point out that there is a great need for future research including research that compares the relative efficacy of different interventions with chiropractic treatment.

Sugar Content of Common Foods

This Summer Tomato blog offers many eye-opening facts on the sugar content of common foods.

"Refined sugars and high-fructose corn syrup are considered by many experts to be the biggest contributors to obesity and poor health in Western civilization. In her book What To Eat, Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition at NYU, suggests that any food that contains more than 15 grams of sugar per serving is closer to dessert than anything else."

·        According to Dr. Richard Johnson, author of The Sugar Fix, about 25 percent of all Americans consume over ½ a pound of added sugars a day

·        One of the puzzle pieces you need to understand in order to really see the correlation between heart disease and sugar consumption is that dietary sugar raises your small, dense LDL cholesterol levels. This is the type of cholesterol that correlates with heart disease. Dietary fat, on the other hand, raises your large, buoyant LDL, which is harmless.

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U.S. Hospitals Fail to Improve Patient Safety and Injure and Kill Thousands Every Day

Posted by Dr. Mercola | April 13 2010

Nearly 1 million patient-safety incidents occurred among Medicare patients over the years 2006, 2007, and 2008 -- the figure remained virtually unchanged since last year’s annual study. In all, the incidents were associated with $8.9 billion in costs.

Some of the most common and most serious indicators even worsened, including decubitus ulcer (bed sores), iatrogenic pneumothorax (collapsed lung), post-operative hip fracture, post-operative physiologic and metabolic derangements, post-operative pulmonary embolism (potentially fatal blood clots forming in the lungs) or deep vein thrombosis (blood clots in the legs), post-operative sepsis, and transfusion reaction.

One in 10 patients -- almost 100,000 people all told -- experiencing a patient-safety incident died as a result.

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