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Did you ever wonder how dancers and traveling entertainers are able to perform at a high physical level show after show? Don’t they suffer from things like sore knees, muscle pulls and sore backs? Toss in lots of late nights, brutal travel schedules and con­stant physical exertion and you have the formula for all sorts [...]

Now there is some actual proof that measurable changes to the body’s nervous system occur as a result of a Chiropractic adjustment.
“By stimulating the nervous system, we can improve the function of the whole body,” said Dr. Heidi Haavik-Taylor. “This is something that chiropractors and their patients have known for years, and now we have [...]

Some members of the U.S. Congress think that it is high time that chiropractors are appoint­ed to full commissions in the United States Armed Forces. Representatives Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), Thelma Drake (R-VA), Ron Paul (R-TX) and Robert Brady (D-PA) have all stepped for­ward to sponsor a Joint Resolution to push the idea forward through both [...]

Knowledge of the musculoskeletal system continues to be deficient in both working physicians and medical students. Many medical students, in particular, feel unprepared to deal with musculoskeletal complaints even though they rank learning to deal with such con­ditions to be of high importance.
The latest survey to reach this conclusion was conducted at Harvard Medical School. [...]

People who are involved in sports and recreational activities experience numerous injuries in the pursuit of enjoy­ment. One would think that the physical contact sports would be the ones producing most of these problems and a competitor would remain relatively uninjured in the more individual sports that involve no contact or collision with another person. [...]

Every once and awhile it seems that a new effort by someone or some group to discredit the effectiveness of Chiropractic springs up somewhere. While the source of such negative campaigns is not usually readily known, they likely emanate from those who feel threatened by the growing success and popularity of Chiropractic.
When some billboard display [...]

Two recently completed surveys bring more good news for the Chiropractic commu­nity. One had to do with the overall safety of Chiropractic adjustments to the neck region. The second showed the very positive effects of cervical adjustments in reducing high blood pressure. The results of both studies were published in October 2007.
The first study took [...]

One of the world’s fastest-paced games involving a great deal of potential body trauma is the sport of table tennis. Around the world it rivals soccer as an immensely popular sport with over 40 million registered competitive players. In the United States it is consid­ered more recreational, but up and coming with 600,000 competition players.
What [...]