Friday, September 30, 2011

Chiropractic for children with headaches and neck pain

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patient Jack says that KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting not only alleviated the pain from his head injury, but he has found his adjustments very relaxing! We have many kids and young adults as patients here at Van Every Family Chiropractic ~ they love to get adjusted in our Jungle Room and know how much better they'll feel afterward!

Vaccinations and infant mortality

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Death after vaccination has been acknowledged in the medical literature since the 1930s. The US government has officially recognized this and will pay $50,000 if a child dies after vaccination. So far $billions have been paid out.

A recent paper in Human Experimental Toxicology by Neil Z. Miller and Gary S. Goldman revealed the following: "Nations that require more vaccine doses tend to have higher infant mortality rates." (1)

This tragic side of vaccination is acknowledged but rarely studied. Government agencies and pharmaceutical companies simply do not do the necessary research.

Hopefully this eye-opening study will not be ignored and will point the way for badly needed research on the safety of the vaccines most children receive. Sadly, you and millions of other parents and concerned people will not know about this study because it won’t be mentioned on the evening news nor will it be in your local papers.

Note: Neil Miller’s website is at 


www.thinktwice.com

References:
1. Miller N, Goldman G. Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity? Hum Exp Toxicol pub online 4 May 2011. http://het.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/05/04/0960327111407644.full.pdf+html

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Sciatic pain during pregnancy alleviated by KST, Koren Specific Technique

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patient Lindsey describes that KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting "actually worked amazingly, within the first two seconds" of getting adjusted! She had so much success with sciatic pain relief during her pregnancy, that she has brought her daughter in since birth to ensure that her spine is in proper alignment! That is a huge compliment to our office when our patients bring in their newborn babies for care, and we are very grateful for them.

Fibromyalgia sufferers may benefit from care at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Fibromyalgia
A 36-year-old woman with fibromyalgia-related symptoms presented for chiropractic care after she had been injured in a motor vehicle accident three days prior.

A chiropractic examination located vertebral subluxations. The patient began chiropractic care for subluxation correction and over a 12-week period a dramatic improvement in fibromyalgia symptoms followed. (4)

References:
4. Briggs L. Management of post-traumatic fibromyalgia in a female undergoing subluxation based chiropractic care for 15 years. Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research. April 6, 2011:9-14.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Shoulder injury and KST is a winning combination!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patient Dick says that he is "extremely impressed with the results" he saw on his shoulder injury after being treated with KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting! He said that it "made life a lot better!" We are so grateful to have had him as a patient for over twelve years!

Friday, September 23, 2011

Can chiropractic help patients with Parkinson's Disease?

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Parkinson’s Disease and Chiropractic
A 67-year-old woman with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease that included weakness, tremors, scoliosis and rigidity presented to a private chiropractic practice.

Examination revealed an atlas (upper neck) subluxation. Over a period of 6 months, the patient was seen 19 times and received 12 adjustments to her atlas. In addition to improvements in her X-ray findings and spinal muscle balance she reported improvements in Parkinson’s symptoms of weakness, tremors, rigidity and overall mobility. (5)

References:
5. Chung J, Brown J. Reduction in symptoms related to Parkinson's disease concomitant with subluxation reduction following upper cervical chiropractic care. Journal of Upper Cervical Chiropractic Research. March 14, 2011:18-21.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Sports, asthma and rib injuries + KST = feeling healthier!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patients Charlie and Ian tell how much better they feel in their sports and with asthma symptoms, and their mother Diana tells how much KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting has helped her rib injury! We are so grateful to consider them our patients. KST has helped so many patients with all types of conditions, and we are confident that it will help you too!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Van Every Family Chiropractic can help with problems stemming from a difficult childbirth

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Chiropractors release a serious stress (subluxations) from your body. This releases energy for healing, regeneration and growth.

All people (especially children) need bodies free of blockages and stress so they’ll live strong, happy and healthy lives. Below are some examples of what happens when chiropractors correct subluxations.

Birth-induced facial asymmetry
A four-day-old boy had facial asymmetry (distortion of the face) from a difficult birth. He also suffered from constipation, excess saliva and intestinal gas. Upon examination his chiropractor located vertebral and cranial subluxations.

Chiropractic care was implemented to reduce and eliminate the child’s subluxations. This was followed by a dramatic improvement in the child’s facial asymmetry, constipation and intestinal gas. (3)


References:
3. Généreux C, Alcantara J. Resolution of birth induced facial asymmetry following chiropractic care: a case report. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic. 2011;1:35-39.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Breech baby turned with KST chiropractic adjustment!

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Watch the following video and see why our patient Nikki says that KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting helped her baby to turn from her breech presentation, allowed a smooth delivery of her daughter, and relieved her two week old baby of torticollis! We are so grateful to share in this chiropractic success story!

Friday, September 16, 2011

Van Every Family Chiropractic Center can help ear infections and more!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Chiropractic is not a “treatment” for specific diseases or conditions but a way of releasing (or removing) interference, blockages, stresses and imbalances (subluxations) from the body. This releases energy for healing, regeneration and growth. The only true healer is the wisdom of your body. Chiropractic’s goal is to let it flow through you without interference.

All people (especially children) need a body free of blockages and stress so they’ll have strong, happy and healthy lives. Below are some examples of what happens when chiropractors correct subluxations.


Scoliosis. A 10-year-old female presented to a private chiropractic practice with a chief complaint of migraine headache and a 35° thoracolumbar scoliosis curve.

Chiropractic adjustments were directed to the upper neck (upper cervical) area. The patient received six such adjustments over a period of 11 visits and 25 weeks (the patient did not receive an adjustment at every visit). A 10° reduction in her scoliosis curve was independently assessed. (6)

Otitis media (ear infection), swollen adenoids, nasal congestion, hearing loss and speech difficulties. A 4-year-old boy suffering from otitis media with effusion (middle ear infection), adenoid hypertrophy, nasal congestion, bilateral hearing loss, speech difficulties, developmental delay and behavioral concerns was brought in for chiropractic care. Spinal analysis revealed vertebral subluxations at the upper cervical (neck) and upper thoracic (mid-back) vertebral levels.

Research:
6. Chung J, Salminen B. Reduction in scoliosis in a 10-year-old female undergoing upper Cervical chiropractic care: a case report. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic. 2011;1:23-30.
7. Pilsner R, Richardson M. Improvements in hearing, speech, development, and behavior following chiropractic in a 4-year-old male. Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health – Chiropractic. 2011;1:14-22.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Immune system boost with chiropractic!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patient Heidi says "I have been so much healthier since I started and maintained my care here; for me, it's made a great difference in my energy level and being able to sleep effectively, being able to go to work rested, calm and in general, just be a healthier person." She attributes all this to KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting! She also comments on how compassionate Van Every Family Chiropractic Center is to our patients who have special needs, including autistic children and adults. We are grateful for Heidi, and for sharing her unique chiropractic story!

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Chiropractic after car accidents? Yes, it helps!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patient Liz says "I am doing wonderfully well...and I have to attribute it to (Van Every Family Chiropractic Center)" and her husband Tom says they "feel rewarded with their treatment". They love the gentle KST, or Koren Specific Technique we utilize in our clinic, and as long-time chiropractic patients, love the results the technique provides them. They are two of our happy patients, and we are grateful for them!

Van Every Family Chiropractic Center asks, "Are prostate exams necessary?"

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

There are now many studies showing that PSA screenings are unnecessary and unreliable. Six studies involving 387,000 men who were randomly assigned to either regular screenings or no screenings at all to test the efficacy of PSA screenings were recently reviewed. The researchers found that while PSA tests detected about 20 cancers for every 1,000 men screened, those detections had zero impact on survival rates. Further, those 20 in 1,000 men diagnosed with cancer end up facing incontinence and impotence when they're treated for a disease that never would have hurt them so men typically die with rather than from prostate cancer. (5)

References:
5. Djulbegovic M, Beyth RJ, Neuberger MM, Stoffs TL, Vieweg J, Djulbegovic B,
Dahm P. Screening for prostate cancer: systematic review and metaanalysis of randomised controlled trial. British Medical Journal. 2010;341:c454.

Monday, September 12, 2011

"Immediately the (ankle) pain left, never to return again!"

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Watch the following video and see why our patient Jan explains how KST, the Koren Specific Technique, style of adjusting helped her ankle: "Immediately the pain left, never to return again!", and how it keeps her in working form all summer to successfully run her landscaping company. She is one of our many happy patients, and we are so grateful to share her story!

Friday, September 9, 2011

Increase your creativity at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Another reason to seek chiropractic care? Chiropractic is good for your brain. In fact, since chiropractic’s discovery the psychotherapeutic (mental health) benefits of chiropractic are well documented. For many years Doctors of Chiropractic founded and operated mental institutions and sanitaria where chiropractic care and natural healing were practiced. A higher cure rate was reported in the chiropractic institutions than that of the state mental hospitals (that used drugs, electric shock therapy and insulin shock therapy). (1)

For years patients have told their chiropractors that they felt “clearer” and more focused when they received chiropractic adjustments. There are clinical studies that have revealed that children concentrate better, have IQ improvement and have better behavior under chiropractic care. (2-3)

A relatively new clinical study has recently been published in the Chiropractic Journal of Australia.

In this study ten subjects between 10 and 62 years of age were adjusted for subluxations. They were tested before and after their adjustments. The majority of the subjects were found to have enhanced scores on the post-test showing a short-term improvement in creativity. It is not known if the improvements were due to less stress, increased blood to the brain or some other mechanism. (4)

References:
1. Schwartz HS. Mental Health and Chiropractic – a multidisciplinary approach. New Hyde Park, NY: Sessions Publishers,1973.
2. Walton EV. Chiropractic effectiveness with emotional, learning and behavioral impairments. International Review of Chiropractic. 1975;29:2-5;21-22.
3. Giesen JM, Center DB, Leach RA. An evaluation of chiropractic manipulation as a treatment of hyperactivity in children. JMPT. 1989;12:353-363.
4. Masarsky CS, Todres-Masarsky M. Effects of a single chiropractic adjustment on divergent thinking and creative output: a pilot study. Part 1. Chiropractic J of Australia. 2010;40:57-62.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Van Every Family Chiropractic reminds you to keep your laptop off your lap!

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

A new study finds that using your laptop computer where it was designed to be used (in your lap) can lower your sperm count. Researchers took the temperature in the testes of men working on their laptops. In just 10-15 minutes, the temperature down there rose to levels high enough to damage sperm production. (11)

References:
11. Sheynkin M. Protection from scrotal hyperthermia in laptop computer users. Fertility and Sterility. 2010;95(2):647-651.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Van Every Family Chiropractic shares some important research about depression and chiropractic care

We at Van Every Family Chiropractic Center of Royal Oak, Michigan, care about your health and well-being and strive to provide you with current information in a variety of health topics!

Depression, asthma, high stress … and chiropractic.

A 49-year-old woman with a history of depression, asthma, high stress, mood and gastrointestinal changes began chiropractic care.

She was checked and corrected for vertebral subluxations during a 7-month period. During that period she was re-evaluated and exhibited a considerable improvement in her physical, emotional and social well-being.

The researchers employed a Self-Rated Health/Wellness (SRHW) survey that was taken prior to care and at subsequent progress visits that assessed her physical state, emotional/mental state, her stress levels, life enjoyment and her Overall Quality of Life. (8)

Low back pain and urinary urgency. A 24-year-old soldier was suffering from low back pain and urinary urgency (needing to urinate 12-15 times per day). Medication to relieve the problem was unsuccessful. Chiropractic adjustments were applied to sites of vertebral subluxation resulting in an amelioration of the patient’s complaints. (9)

Pervasive developmental disorder. A three-year-old boy, who was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder by a pediatrician, had communication problems, apraxia and speech delay. The child received chiropractic care over the course of 5 months to his upper cervical (neck) and sacral regions.

The outcomes were measured by re-assessments, parental evaluation and health care provider and teacher reports. The child began making friends, became more interactive and less defiant and was reported to be an overall happier child following the introduction of chiropractic care. (10)

References: