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Healthy Living Chiropractic
Newsletter
DR Michael Taggart @ Lake
Washington Chiropractic |
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News and upcoming events at
LWC I want to thank
everyone who participated in our "Spring into
Health" Saturday event on April 22nd.
Kudos to Beth for creating such
an awesome flyer and poster for PR and inviting Christina Longo a reporter
from the Eastside Business Journal who covered our event and
interviewed me and two other patients about my practice. John
and Linda it looks like we will get our "15 minutes of fame" in the June
issue. We will keep you posted when we are published! A special
thanks also to Joy at Marvelous Massage
who donated her time providing chair
massages. She can be reached at 425-803-2978 she is extending an intro
session to all practice members for $29.95. That's a
deal!!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
• News and events |
Beth, Joy,Kathy
DR T at "Spring into Health"
What is up next is our “Heatlhy Bodies
Heatlhy Homes” workshop with Nancy Bombgardner presenting alternative
ways to get harsh chemicals out of the home. On May
24th from
“I was
surprised by what I learned and I was glad to have attended the
workshop. I now have the understanding of what is actually in
the everyday products that I use in my home. I particularly enjoyed the video
documentary about the increasing problem of chemical exposure in our homes. The
information has motivated me to start using non harsh chemical based products in
my home."
E.N. Kirkland
I will also discuss structural and emotional stress as
they relate to overall health. This is a great workshop for people who want to
know more about lifestyle changes that contribute to better
health.
Also coming up in May are our Health Fairs.
Most recently I participated in a Health fair at InfoSpace, a technology
company. We found a lot of people who work at the computer all day, and that
postural stress over time is really affecting them negatively.
With the care that we provide and good ergonomic advice I’m excited to
really help these people be more productive at their jobs. I will soon be part
of a health fair at Aerojet an aerospace company in
In addition to attending health fairs I also participate in
“Eastside Multicare”, a group of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals
who provide free information and health screeningsscreenings for companies who
are looking to promote health and safety in the work place, boost moral, and
show concern for their employees. If you know of any company
who would like to host a health fair please email me at lkwachiropractic@aol.com.
Last month we discussed the top two bones of your neck, your atlas (C1) and your axis (C2). You have seven neck (cervical) vertebrae in all. What are the names of the others? Simple: C3, C4, C5, C6 and C7.
When you have a subluxation of your neck vertebrae, certain nerves and areas are affected. Below are some of the more common findings.
C3: Nerves from C3 go to your cheeks, outer ear, face, teeth and lungs. Neuralgia, neuritis, acne, pimples, dry skin and other conditions are noted in C3 subluxations.
C4: Nerves from C4 go to your nose, lips, mouth, eustachian tube, mucus membranes and lung. Hay fever, hearing problems, tonsillitis and other conditions are noted in C4 subluxations.
C5: Nerves from C5 go to your vocal cords, neck glands, and pharynx. Laryngitis, hoarseness, throat conditions and other conditions are noted in C5 subluxations.
C6: Nerves from C6 go to your neck muscles, shoulders and tonsils. Stiff neck, pain in the upper arm, weakness in the arm, loss of grip strength and other conditions have been noted in C6 subluxations.
C7: Nerves from C7 go to your thyroid gland, shoulder bursa and elbows. Bursitis, thyroid, shoulder and
other conditions have been noted in C7 subluxations.
Make sure you see your chiropractor to ensure that your cervical spine (neck) is in proper alignment.
About a year ago a patient of mine came in to the office with subluxation of the upper neck (C2). A middle aged female she entered our office relating that she had experienced a mild to awful history of allergies since childhood, blocking her ability to breathe through her nose also causing her throat to become hoarse sometimes to the point of not being able to speak. Examination and X-ray revealed a subluxation of the neck at C2. After her first adjustment she reported she was able to breath through her right nostril for the first time in years! Later she also reported that her sinuses are doing great and her overall sense of well-being has been enhanced as a result of our care.
Chiropractic and Spinal Research
Do you know anyone ill, living on drugs or suffering? They may have years of uncorrected subluxations in their body. Please tell them about chiropractic care.
Bed-wetting (two case studies). Case #0991 is of a five-year-old female who had been wetting her bed for 6 months; she was prescribed antibiotics for what MDs diagnosed as a bladder infection. After the second chiropractic adjustment, she stopped wetting her bed for 3 weeks. She had a bad fall and began to wet her bed again. Following her next adjustment, she remained dry.
Case #0419 is of a nine-year-old male who wet his bed almost every day of his life. During his first 6 months of chiropractic he’d remain dry for 1 or 2 days after his adjustments. A change in adjustments to the sacrum resulted in greater improvement. He is now dry for one-half to two-thirds of the nights between adjustments. (1)
Urinary incontinence. A 12-year-old girl had left lower back and flank pain and involuntary urine loss after she fell backwards and landed on her coccyx. After her first adjustment her lower back pain decreased 50% and urine “leakage†improved. After a few months all back pain and all urinary incontinence disappeared. At follow-up 16 months later there was no return of symptoms. (2)
Heart disease. “Upper thoracic subluxations are common in heart patients; the subluxations appeared months or years before the cardiac symptoms. Koch reports that many heart patients reported heart disease following thoracic trauma with marked subjective and objective improvement following spinal care. Out of 150 cases, no cardiac deaths occurred during the spinal corrective program.†(3)
Early Antibiotics May Increase Asthma Risk
Chiropractors and other natural healers recommend no antibiotics except under extreme conditions (i.e. life or death situation). That is because antibiotics have many side effects, do not address the cause of lowered resistance, suppress illness and drive the condition deeper to create chronic disease.
There are numerous reports showing antibiotics (and vaccinations) cause asthma. In fact, asthma has increased dramatically over the last three decades while antibiotic and vaccine use have also increased.
In a study appearing in the medical journal Chest of 12,082 children, the likelihood of developing asthma doubled if they received antibiotics before age one. Every additional course of antibiotics during the first year of life increased asthma by 16%. (4)
Antibiotics Increase Chances of Getting Breast Cancer
Greater dangers of antibiotics were powerfully revealed in a study of more than 2,000 women with breast cancer. It was found that the risk of breast cancer increased with the amount of antibiotics used. Those who took the most antibiotics had the most, and most deadly, breast cancer. It didn’t matter what the antibiotics were prescribed for.
Happily, more people are pursuing alternatives to antibiotics. If you are prone to infection the problem is not with the germs (they are always there). The problem is you are out of balance or toxic. Healthcare providers such as chiropractors, naturopaths, nutritionists, homeopaths, herbalists and others work to rebalance your system and get to the cause of body malfunction. (5)
Words of Wisdom
Higher Organizing Principle
I have never been able to accept fully the idea that [life] is the result of molecular accidents.... I have always been seeking some higher organizing principle that is leading the living system towards improvement and adaptation.
– Albert-Szent Gyorgy, Ph.D. (Nobel Prize laureate discoverer of Vitamin C), from his essay, "What is life?"
Love and Cancer Survival
Love, relationships and connections have repeatedly been shown to offer protection against cancer. In one study 68 patients with malignant melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, were divided into two groups. Group A received regular medical care. Group B received regular medical care and also met with others in a support group.
Six years after the initial diagnosis only 3 of the 34 patients in Group B had died compared to 10 of the 34 in Group A – 60% less death, with about half the amount of recurrence. (7)
Humor
Problem Name
The famous Olympic skier
just an athlete...she is now a nurse currently working in the Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital. She is not permitted to answer the hospital telephones. It caused too much confusion when she would answer the phone and say. . ."Picabo, ICU".
(A good clean joke is hard to find these days - pass it on!)
No Honor Student Here
These are actual comments made on students' report cards by teachers in the
hool system. All teachers were reprimanded.
1. Since my last report, your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.
2. I would not allow this student to breed.
3. Your child has delusions of adequacy.
4. Your son is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
5. Your son sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
6. The student has a "full six-pack" but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together.
7. This child has been working with glue too much.
8. When your daughter's IQ reaches 50, she should sell.
9. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.
10. If this student were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.
11. It’s impossible to believe the sperm that created this child beat out 1,000,000 others.
12. The wheel is turning but the hamster is definitely dead.
See you next month. Want hard copies of this newsletter to give to your friends, co-workers and relatives? Perhaps you’d like us to include other e-mail addresses. Call us or stop by the office. Please remember that everyone needs to be free from subluxations so bring your friends and loved ones for a spinal checkup.
References
1. Marko RB. Bed-wetting; two case studies. Chiropractic Pediatrics. April 1994;1(1).
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3. Koch RS. A somatic component to heart disease. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. 1961;60:735-739.
4. Marra F, Lynd L, Coombes M et al. Does antibiotic exposure during infancy lead to development of asthma?: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Chest. 2006;129:610-618.
5. Velicer CM et al. Antibiotic use in relation to the risk of breast cancer. JAMA. 2004;291(7):880-881.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14970061
6. Johnson KC, Daviss BA. Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: Large prospective study in
7. Fawzy FI et al. Malignant melanoma: Effects of an early structured psychiatric intervention, coping and affective state on recurrence and survival 6 years later. Archives of General Psychiatry. 1993;50:681-689.