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Chiropractic Success Brings Some Attacks


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 [...]

Acupressure Helps Students Stay Awake in Class!


Throughout the history of education, students have tried all sorts of remedies to stay atten­tive when a boring professor or lack of proper sleep sends them drifting off in a college class. Drinking coffee, taking commercially available tablets alleged to stop the dozing, or indulging in high-sugar snacks are just a few of them. Now, [...]

Electro-Acupuncture Helps Stroke Victims to Enjoy Restored Movement


A person who has suffered any type of a stroke and survived certainly faces a long road to recovery. A recent study shows that Acupuncture can play an important role in helping such a patient along the road to physical repair, rehabilitation and a useful life.
The study involving 23 patients was recently conducted to determine [...]

Continuing Chiropractic Care Shows Long-Term Benefits!


Chiropractic adjustments provide help and relief to thousands upon thousands of people daily. To get the most long-term benefit from their initial benefits received, patients would be well-advised to continue Chiropractic “maintenance adjustments” on a regular basis.
A study recently conducted and reported in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics shows that persons who received [...]

Study Demonstrates that Strokes are Not Brought on by Chiropractic


The Chiropractic profession recently received some very good news from an exten­sive 7-year study that focused on the neck region and on neck pain. The news had to do with study findings regarding Chiropractic adjustments and stroke. This comprehensive study determined that people who visit chiropractors for a neck adjustment are no more likely to [...]

The Evidence Continues to Mount for Chiropractors as Primary Care Providers


Research data continues to build in favor of chiropractors being the Primary Care Provider (PCP) of choice for Americans. The reason: when chiropractors serve as the gate keeper of a man­aged care network there are substantial cost savings and decreased utilization of additional med­ical services as compared to PCPs using conventional medicine alone.
This latest research [...]

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America


Over the past 50 years, there has been an astonishing increase in severe mental illness in the United States. The percentage of Americans disabled by mental illness has increased fivefold since 1955, when Thorazine-remembered today as psychiatry’s first “wonder” drug-was introduced into the market. The number of Americans disabled by mental ill­ness has nearly doubled [...]

Food Preservatives and Dyes Linked to Hyperactivity in Children


Researchers in Great Britain have demonstrated that there is a link between hyper­activity in children and the artificial colors and food preservatives in their diet. The study was commissioned by the British Food Standards Agency and carried out at Southhampton University.
The Agency’s Committee on Toxicity’s (COT) evaluation of the study has lead to an advisory [...]