Abstract   Objective: To provide a detailed report of a patient with idiopathic scoliosis under upper cervical chiropractic care. Clinical Features: A 10 year old female presented to a private chiropractic practice with a chief complaint of migraine headache and a 35 degree thoracolumbar scoliosis. Intervention and Outcomes: Six upper cervical adjustments were delivered [...]
The results of two double-blinded, placebo-controlled trials described online on December 14, 2011 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition conclude a beneficial effect for calcium and vitamin D in reducing visceral adipose tissue—fat that accumulates in the abdomen which is associated with several metabolic disorders. A team from Massachusetts General Hospital randomized 88 overweight [...]
ABSTRACT: Study design. Retrospective radiographic study.Objective. To compare the gender differences in curve patterns and radiographic characteristics in patients who have adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). Summary of Background Data. Gender differences in AIS have been documented in the incidence of curve progression, response to bracing, and outcomes of surgical treatment. However, limited information is available [...]
Strontium: Breakthrough Against Osteoporosis by Ward Dean, MD Mention strontium to most people, and they will almost always immediately think of strontium-90, a highly dangerous, radioactive component of nuclear fallout produced during atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the 1950s. As a result of above-ground nuclear testing, radioactive strontium spread throughout the environment and contaminated [...]
Do chiropractors know ‘secret’ ways to reverse diabetes? Back specialists’ claims of reversing diabetes are raising some eyebrows. By heather may | The Salt Lake Tribune First Published Mar 14 2012 07:36 am • Last Updated Mar 14 2012 11:47 pm  Don Brown figured he’d be dead by now. His type II diabetes had [...]
As bacteria evolve to evade antibiotics, common infections could become deadly, according to Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization. Speaking at a conference in Copenhagen, Chan said antibiotic resistance could bring about "the end of modern medicine as we know it." "We are losing our first-line antimicrobials," she said Wednesday in [...]
In a study out this month, researchers interviewed a group of patients with idiopathic scoliosis ages 10-17, as well as their parents, to assess the amount of added emotional stress imposed by scoliosis brace treatment. In both the parents and the patients, bracing tended to increase their emotional stress more than simply having the scoliosis. [...]
Candida albicans is a typical gastrointestinal fungus that is a component of a normal GI environment that, when under certain conditions of GI stress or imbalance, can proliferate to the point of being pathogenic. One manifestation of this pathogenic overgrowth is the creation of barriers known as biofilms. Allicin, a powerful and active metabolite of [...]
Degenerative lumbar scoliosis (DLS) is a spinal deformity that develops after skeletal maturity with a Cobb angle of more than 10° in the coronal plane. As the life expectancy of our population increases, DLS becomes a prevalent health issue affecting the quality of life of the elderly. The degree of the scoliosis curvature affects not [...]
In a new study out in the European Spine Journal, researchers observed a significant decrease in the maximum oxygen intake in teenage girls with scoliosis curvatures between 25 and 40 degrees. Girls with a curvature including more than 9 vertebra in the curvature and those girls with a double curve scoliosis also demonstrated a significantly [...]
