Chiropractic Research
Read the latest news and research on how chiropractic care can benefit you and your family!
Allergies
People who suffer from allergies know how difficult it is to obtain relief from the symptoms that create a battle within your body. Regularly they search the internet and their local drug stores for anything that can help to make their day to day activities easier to manage. Being familiar with how your body handles allergic reactions and what causes allergies in the first place is usually a great start to bringing about relief. Anytime our body has an unknown presence in it, our immune system begins working hard to eradicate it. By going into overdrive, your immune system creates antibodies and histamines to counteract the invader so that the body is protected. Unfortunately, a large number of these reactions are to allergens that are not a threat to your body at all, so the battle never needed to happen in the first place. What can we do to prevent this from taking place? Typical Allergy Care When someone is suffering from allergies, the first method to deal with them in the United States is medication. If you search your local stores, there are myriads of medications like antihistamines, decongestants, and others that you can purchase to attempt to handle [...]
Addiction
For over 100 years Doctors of Chiropractic have said that subluxation causes the body to lose its ability to adapt to the environment and that adjustments restore the bodies natural ability to adapt. However, our detractors have always held that we can’t prove this tenet. Today’s research clearly demonstrates how Chiropractic adjustments help people that have lost their ability to properly adapt to the environment. People who are addicted to the use of recreational drugs will go through an often painful process of withdrawal when they stop using. This withdrawal process is the primary reason an addict will fall out of addiction treatment program and begin using again. The withdrawal process is a clear indication of a body that is not properly adapting to a changing environment. Chiropractic helps in treatment of addicts From the March 29, 2001 issue of the Miami Herald comes a story of how chiropractic care is helping those in a Miami drug addiction program. The story starts by explaining that patients in a residential drug-addiction program who received chiropractic care designed to realign their vertebrae completed the treatment program at a remarkable 100 percent rate. Ninety-eight patients at Miami’s Exodus drug-treatment program participated in the [...]