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		<title>Arthritis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE CHIROPRACTIC APPROACH Chiropractic is not a treatment for arthritis, but if you have arthritis you must have your spine checked for spinal nerve stress by a chiropracton Spinal nerve stress damages the nervous system, stresses the immune system, puts the body in a weakened state and can set the stage for sicknesses and diseases of all kinds &#8211; arthritis included. Chiropractors are specially trained to locate and free the body from spinal nerve stress. Research has shown that most patients with rheumatoid arthritis have severe spinal rnisalignments, especially in the upper neck area. Another study showed that nearly 90% of osteoartritis sufferers improved under chiropractic care. Many other studies have shown the benefit of spinal adjustments for arthritis sufferers. CONCLUSION Chiropractic teaches us to respect and work with the natural wisdom of the body and to improve our health by removing interferences to normal body function. Along with removing spinal nerve stress, you may need to change your eating habits, lose weight, quit smoking, exercise and deal with emotional stress differently. Search out the most natural, conservative methods before submitting to more dangerous (drug and medical) care. The body has a wisdom that far exceeds our own. It can cure diseases that have no known cure. It has done so in arthritis eases where thc disease simply disappears. ARTHRITIS,&#8221;RHEUMATISM,&#8221;&#38; CHIROPRACTIC A SYSTEMIC DISEASE Arthritis is a disease of the whole body (a systematic disease) that is most dramatically seen in the joints. The word &#8220;arthritis&#8221; may include more than 100 conditions, many that were formerly known as &#8220;rheumatism.&#8221; Very few people with arthritis are crippled. In fact, arthritis may have the condition for many years, even decades, and never know it! You may have some arthritis right now. OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA) Osteoarthritis or OA, also called degenerative joint disease, is the most common arthritis of all; almost everyone over the age of 50 has a touch of it. As one text says: &#8220;Arthritis is almost as inevitable&#8230;as graying of the hair.&#8221; In many people it causes pain and in some it causes partial or even total incapacitation. OA is considered the result of too much spinal stress that creates wear and tear on the joints. It is often a sign that the spinal column is unbalanced. Bone growths called &#8220;lipping&#8221; and &#8220;spurring; which are the signs that the body&#8217;s defense body is trying to strengthen the area by building up more bone. Sometimes the bony growth may compress nerves, cause pain and affect the health of internal organs. Recent research has shown that chiropractic care can reverse some of the effects of osteoarthritis &#8211; something previously considered impossible. RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA) This is the crippler that can destroy joints, affect the heart, blood vessels, eyes, skin, muscles and other organs. It&#8217;s accompanied by fatigue, weight loss and acute pain. It often appears suddenly in someone in their 30s or 40s &#8211; it may disappear just as suddenly! VERY FEW PEOPLE WITH ARTHRITIS ARE CRIPPLED. IN FACT, ARTHRITICS MAY HAVE THE CONDITION FOR MANY YEARS, EVEN DECADES AND NEVER KNOW IT! YOU MAY HAVE ARTHRITIS NOW! No one seems to know what causes it or why some recover and others do not. The best medical care can provide is physical therapy such as hot water baths and drugs for the pain and inflammation. Growing evidence has led many researchers to believe that RA is an immune system (autoimmune) disease; the body is attacking itself because the immune system is malfuctioning. JUVENILE RHEUMATOID (JRA) This is similar to adult RA except it occurs in children. In over half the cases the disease simply disappears. In less than one-sixth of the cases is there severe disability. Other organs can be affected, plus high fever, rash and pain in the joints. Again, no one knows its cause, cure, treatment, how it comes about or why it disappears in so many cases. It&#8217;s cause is being linked by some to childhood immunizations. There now exists a growing theoretical concern which Iink immunizations to the huge increase in recent decades this includes auto-immune diseases, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, lymphoma, and even leukemia. SOME OTHER TYPES OF ARTHRITIS Ankylosing spondylitis or Maric-Strumpell disease is a form of rheumatoid arthritis that can fuse the spine! A chiropractor/researcher analyzed the skeleton of a victim of this disease and showed severe is alignments that were preserved in death in the fused joints! Gout is an arthritis characterized by chemical crystals deposited in the large toe but it can spread to other joints. We should not get too hung up on the names of different forms of arthritis, as one researcher cautions us: &#8220;Too many doctors&#8230; spend wasted time naming the patient&#8217;s rheumatic diseases&#8230;. More time should be spent on conducting chiropractic analysis to identity subluxations&#8230;and carefully research a patient&#8217;s history to uncover personal habits that may have contributed to the development of the condition.&#8221; THE MEDICAL APPPROACH: TO ARTHRITIS The medical profession offers no cure for arthritis; the underlying cause is unknown. Therefore treatment of symptoms &#8211; a lifetime of taking drugs, heat, hot packs or exercises in warm water and similar treatments &#8211; are suggested. If a joint becomes severely deteriorated then surgery may be considered. Such as an Artificial knee replacement. Aspirin, while it may reduce pain, stiffness and inflammation, often requires eight to 24 tablets a day and can cause stomach irritation, bleeding and ulcers. Drugs such as TylenolJM, IndocinTM, Advill and NaprosynTM can cause kidney damage and hemorrhage of the esophagus,stom- ach, duodenum and small intestine. Approximately 10,000 arthritic sufferers die every year from the gastrointestinal complications of various arthritis drugs.&#8217; Steroids, with prolonged use, may cause thinning and weakening of the bones. Gold salts may cause skin rashes and mouth ulcers. Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. cautioned people to be wary of new arthritis drugs, &#8220;If you rush to take it, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a guinea pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic Fatigue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day you might begin to notice a lack of energy &#8211; you might, for example, become fatigued earlier in the day than usual. You might become aware of stress and tension in your neck, shoulders, or lower back or you might not. Sometimes the first symptoms of spinal nerve stress are subtle alterations in personality like moodiness, short attention span, sleeping problems, loss of temper, or depression. Why Wait? Why wait until you have a health problem to see a chiropractor? Why not practice preventive health maintenance, having your spinal column checked for spinal nerve stress before you get sick? Overt illness is often the last stage in a disease process. In any case, the true goal of the chiropractor is to keep people so healthy that they don&#8217;t get sick in the first place! Chiropractic is ideally a health-maintenance health care system. Usually the chiropractor is able to check the spinal column for health-destroying spinal nerve stress long before symptoms occur. What Is Health? True health does not mean merely being symptom-free &#8211; it&#8217;s having your body working right; having good spinal alignment, restful sleep, strength, and energy. If simply being free of symptoms were the only sign of good health, then aspirin, drugs, and other medicines would make you healthy, and the people taking the most drugs would be the healthiest. But &#8211; are they? Drugs don&#8217;t make you healthy. They may reduce or alter your symptoms, but that does not make you healthy. What makes you healthy? Life makes you healthy. Having 100% life flowing through you, having a body free of spinal nerve stress so the energies from the brain can travel freely to every part of your body is what health is all about. And that&#8217;s the goal of the Doctor of Chiropractic. O God, thou hast formed the body of man with infinite goodness. Thou hast united in him innumerable forces Thcessantly at work like so many instruments, so as to preserve in its entirety this beautiful house containing his immortal soul, and these forces act with all the order, concord and harmony imaginable. But if weakness or violent passion disturb this harmony, these forces set against one another and the body returns to the dust whence it came. Thou sendest then to man Thy messengers, the diseases which announce the approach of danger, and bid him prepare to overcome them. Code of Maimonides Your Grandchildren A chiropractor often sees people for the first time after they&#8217;ve been living in unhealthy bodies for many years.How often we wish that we could turn back the clock for patients who needed chiropractic care years or even decades ago but who first began care only today. The admonition you should have come here twenty years ago might hold truth but it doesn&#8217;t really help the latecomer to our offices. Hopefully this person will bring his/her children and grandchildren in for chiropractic spinal checkups so that in another 30 or 40 years they won&#8217;t be hobbling in to see the next generation of chiropractors and hear the same sad words of wisdom Why don&#8217;t more people come in for spinal health maintenance? Why do they live with uncorrected spinal nerve stress for years on end? Spinal Nerve Stress Uncorrected vertebral subluxations (spinal nerve stress) weaken the spinal muscles; and stretch and deform the spinal ligaments, cartilage, spinal discs, and vertebrae. This unbalances and weakens the body structure, causing lack of energy and vitality, chronic fatigue, and premature aging. But the most severe consequences of spinal nerve stress are stress and irritation of the nervous system, especially the brain stem, spinal cord, and spinal nerves. An irritated nervous system causes disease, or lack of health and wholeness, that results in a weakening of body harmony and a weakened immune system. A person with spinal nerve stress is physically and mentally functioning at less than his/her peak. This sets the stage for disease. Chiropractic Spinal Care Chiropractic spinal care helps balance the body structure; relieve stress upon the spinal column and nervous system; and give the body greater harmony, resistance to disease, and improved function. Irrespective of the disease or condition from which the patient is suffering, the chiropractor concentrates on the disease caused by spinal nerve stress. Whether or not the patient has skin problems; allergies; asthma; neck or back pain; headaches or insomnia; or other health problems &#8211; he/she needs a healthy spine. Often Unnoticed For Years You may suffer from spinal nerve stress for years before symptoms appear. You may feel no overt symptoms while nerves are damaged, life energies are unbalanced, and the very bones surrounding the nerves may be degenerating. By the time the first symptoms of dis-ease appear, your health may have been severely damaged. That is why chiropractors emphasize periodic spinal checkups even if you feel no symptoms. Why wait until your health is lost before you try to regain it? Like Dental Care A good analog to chiropractic care is dental care. We should see our dentist regularly to make sure there aren&#8217;t any conditions lurking beneath the surface like cavities or gum problems. If there are problems, we should get them corrected as early as possible so they won&#8217;t develop into something more serious. You shouldn&#8217;t wait until you&#8217;re in pain to see a dentist because dental cavities and other conditions develop slowly and silently, and it can be a long time before you have any symptoms like pain. It&#8217;s the same with the care of the spine. Early Signs of Spinal Stress There is an old Chinese saying: There wouldn&#8217;t be any major health problems if we paid attention to minor ones. Perhaps if we knew some of the early signs of spinal nerve stress we wouldn&#8217;t wait so long to visit our neighborhood chiropractor. If we knew what to look for we could bring our families in for care earlier, before serious health problems arose, so that they might be saved unnecessary suffering, pill taking, and even surgical [...]]]></description>
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