A feel-good story appeared in the March 8, 2006 issue of the Gwinnett Daily Post of Georgia that reported on a mission to Shivpuri, India to render chiropractic care to the people of that area. The story noted that in the span of 10 days, the American team of four doctors and 19 interns estimates
read moreA study published in the September 2004 issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal, “Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics” showed that chiropractic care was more cost effective than medical care for many workers compensation injuries. The study was a retrospective review of 96,627 closed injury claims between 1975 and 1994 that had been archived by
read moreIf you’re beginning to think that more and more people are going to a chiropractor, you’re right. Each time a new study is done the numbers of people going to chiropractors continues to rise. This rise is also closely correlated with the rise in usage of other non-medical forms of health care. In 1990, a
read moreAn international study was done involving hundreds of chiropractors and thousands of patients from around the world. The study was published in the June 2005 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. In the study, doctors and patients from Canada, United States, Mexico, Hong-Kong, Japan, Australia, and South Africa participated. Although the majority
read moreOn September 13, 2005, Medical News Today published the announcement of the creation of chiropractic guidelines for pediatric care. The guidelines “The Child Patient: A Matrix for Chiropractic Care” was originally released as a supplement to its peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Chiropractic Pediatrics (JCCP) Vol. 6, No.3, 2005. The release is noteworthy in two respects.
read moreBoth the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) and the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) have declared May to be an official month for good posture. To announce this event both organizations have issued press releases stressing the importance of posture and it’s relationship to good spinal and nervous system health. Robert J. Hoffman, DC, FICA, President of
read moreThe above is a December 24, 2006 headline of an article that appeared in an unlikely source, the Medical News Today. The article contains recommendations from a release from the American Chiropractic Association, (ACA). The Medical News Today article begins with great words to enter 2007, “Start the new year off right by committing to
read moreFrom the April 26, 2004 release of the peer-reviewed scientific journal, the “Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research” (JVSR), comes a very large literature review study showing the multiple benefits of chiropractic care on people who are not suffering from pain or other obvious problems. This literature review looked at more than twenty studies involving subjects
read moreFrom the August 3, 2002 issue of the Los Angeles Daily News comes an uplifting story that has been labeled by the paper as, “A Miracle on Hortense Street. The story is of 10-year-old, Laura Bibb, a developmentally delayed girl, who as the newspaper reported, “went from being the neighborhood pity to the neighborhood Rocky.”
read moreA November 7, 2001 report on a study conducted by the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association showed that a chiropractic technique known as the “Webster Breech Turning Technique” was statistically very successful in resolving breech pregnancies without medical procedures. A Breech pregnancy is when the baby is not properly positioned in the mother’s womb near the
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