Harvard Medical School’s (yes, that Harvard) new spinal care guidelines reinforce the importance of chiropractic care as the first line of treatment for low back pain. They’re just the latest to join a long line of mainstream medicine organizations that includes the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO5CsuzfRM&feature=youtu.be Seeing a chiropractor first saves United Health Care millions of dollars in the treatment of back pain. Optum Health has collected data over the past two years regarding the cost of treating back pain at the NASEM (National Academy of Sciences ) titled: “The Role of Nonpharmacological Approaches to Pain Management,” outlining [...]
Chronic stress is a common component to the daily life of most people in the American society. Low-grade chronic stress is a contributing element to all major diseases and current undesirable health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, depression, and others. How does chronic stress affect one’s nervous system and, importantly, can regular chiropractic care [...]
The above is the headline from an article which appeared on September 6, 2013, on the Toronto Star news website. The article features former NHL hockey player Gary Roberts who explains how chiropractic saved his professional hockey career. When Roberts was 30 years old and a left winger for the Calgary Flames, he suffered a [...]
A study in the Journal of Upper Cervical Chiropractic Research published on February 23, 201 5, documents the case of a boy suffering trigeminal and glossopharyngeal neuralgia being helped with chiropractic care. The Mayo Clinic website defines this condition by writing, "Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic pain condition that affects the trigeminal nerve, which carries [...]
The cause of migraines is still somewhat a mystery. Scientists have found a number of neurological and even genetic factors at play in regard to these often life-altering headaches, but haven’t yet identified a primary cause. Unfortunately, since the research is constantly changing, this essentially forces patients to accept treatments that temporarily ease their pain, [...]
