Health
News-Spring ‘04
(A "Light-Force" Adjusting, Massage & Wellness Facility.)
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Health
News-Spring ‘04 (A "Light-Force" Adjusting, Massage & Wellness Facility.) |
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Table of Contents
· Work Injuries - Benefits are being cut?
· Water Needs - Are they met!
· Chronic Low Back Pain - Affecting your mind?
· Vitamin K - Can it help to prevent hip fractures?
· Menstrual Cramps - Prevented?
· Doctors Corner - Want to eliminate warts?
· Win A Free Massage
Work Injuries - Many changes without public input are being
made by CA legislators to supposedly curtail the high Workers' Comp costs. Unfortunately the medical
and insurance organizations have lobbyists
putting focus on cuts in chiropractic care. One such cut has been the limitation
put on chiropractic care. Now there is a 24-visit limit per injury on chiropractic
visits, which includes physiotherapy visits. Once reached, the insurance adjuster
may approve more, but is unlikely because of their medical orientation. This forces injured workers to turn to medications in
order to live with their pain and ending with surgery. The California
Chiropractic Association fought against this but was outgunned by
insurance lobbyists under the disguise of cutting costs to the employers. This
has not happened! Even though Governor Schwarzenegger may be pro-chiropractic,
conservative care cuts are being forced through congress. Help is needed by all patients
to write NOW their governor and congressmen stating success stories and
urging them to support the more cost effective chiropractic care.
Water Needed!
Again I point you to a fascinating book, "Your
Body’s Many Cries For Water" by
F. Batmanghelidj,
M.D., illustrating how vital drinking 2-1/2 quarts of water each & every day is after
dealing with many
diseases. He points out that: Morning Sickness is a fetus’ way of telling mom
she/he is thirsty! By the time our mouth gets dry, severe
dehydration has occurred. With aging the dry mouth tendency for
telling us the body is thirsty decreases.
Alzheimer’s disease may begin because an older person loses
the sensation to drink water and their brain dehydrates,
misfires, and shrivels up. Dry skin can also result from lack of
water. The brain
takes 20% of the water you drink for it’s own purposes. The
rest of the body is on a priority basis. The heart and
circulatory system have a higher priority for water than say our
skin. Drinking soda or coffee gradually leaches water out of your
system. Look at all the sodas people drink! The book poses an
interesting question. We’ve known forever that our bodies
are made of 75% water and 25% solid substance. This is not
"food" for thought, but water for life! Drink up!
(Changes our patients have noticed in just two weeks:
Elimination is smooth and easy; skin is no longer dry, but
very soft; and bumpy pimply skin on back of arm has disappeared.
Try it & be prepared to urinate frequently in the beginning
until the body realizes you are serious about having enough
water.)
Chronic Low Back Trouble
Affect Your Mind? Controlled studies have shown that if you keep ignoring that low
back pain, you might be damaging more than just your body. One such
study examined the association between cognitive
impairment (e.g., slow reaction times and reduced short-term
memory affecting certain motor tasks) and chronic low back
trouble. Patients' low back problems were assessed and analyzed
at the beginning of rehabilitation and six months later.
Measurement of cognitive impairment was accomplished by having
all subjects use a desktop computer mouse and special foot pedals
to react to arrow symbols flashed on the screen in random order
and at random intervals. The study concluded "chronic low
back trouble (i.e., pain, psychological distress, and general
disability) hampers the functioning of short-term memory, which
results in decreased speed of information processing among these
patients." Obviously, prevention is the key. Get spinal
check-ups before performance or memory permanently drops off!
Vitamin K Prevents Hip
Fractures – In a ten-year study at the Harvard
School of Public Health, some 270 hip fractures were analyzed in
relation to the vitamin K intake of the subjects. Lettuce is the
primary source of vitamin K. The results showed that women eating
lettuce more than once per week had a significantly lower risk of
hip fracture than women who ate lettuce less.
Cramps, be gone!
No need to
suffer from menstrual cramps. Over the past 25+ years, many of our female
patients have obtained relief by re-establishing
spinal alignment with adjustments and diathermy physiotherapy. If treated on the first
day of the menstrual cycle when pain is the highest, many times
the cramps are minimal or gone within the hour. Plus succeeding
months the cramps are minimal as long as spinal alignment is maintained.
DOCTOR’S
CORNER: Warts – Many people experience these annoying
skin conditions. To get rid of them, first determine what kind
they are, like common, plane or seborrheic types. Going to the library/internet or consulting with Dermatologist helps.
If found to be the benign type (most are), then normally it is
burned or frozen off by the Dermatologist. An alternative way is
to tie a string tightly around the base of the wart to cut off
the blood supply coming from the roots. One patient
found a big wart cluster on the tongue after sucking on old
lozenges. Within 6 days with the string tied tightly at
its base the wart fell off leaving a hole where the roots had
been. It took a week or two before the hole filled in with
tissue. This also worked on a patient with warts (tagged type)
under the arms. And it was painless and left no scars!
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