By Dr. Joseph Mercola, M.D. The medical profession has a long history of opposing alternative healing professions. While always claiming public safety as its reason for the attacks, the true reasons often involve protecting their monopoly of the healthcare market. Medicine’s opposition to chiropractic was its strongest under the leadership of Morris Fishbein, Secretary of the American [...]
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By Dr. Joseph Mercola, M.D. Story at-a-glance The medical profession has a long history of opposing alternative healing professions. The rules of engagement have changed; as the AMA is finding new “legal” ways to discredit and limit practitioners of natural medicine Alternative healthcare professionals such as chiropractors, naturopaths, and midwives have been targeted by the [...]
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Strongman Bill Kazmaier: ‘Chiropractic really works!’ 10/10/2011 When three-time World’s Strongest Man title winner Bill “Kaz” Kazmaier visited Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Davenport Campus, he realized his 20-year dream: to visit Palmer College of Chiropractic. Called the “greatest powerlifter that ever lived,” Kaz included chiropractic care into his regimen. His chiropractor was a Palmer [...]
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VAHL CHIROPRACTIC WELLNESS CENTER www.vahlchiropractic.com History of Body Manipulation: The idea that hands on joint and body manipulation can help your body to heal goes as far back as the ancient Chinese and early Egyptians. Even the great Greek physician Hippocrates the “Father of Medicine” and his student Galen the Great, who became the most famous Roman [...]
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GENERAL HEALTH If you are a typical American, it is said that 50% of you are deficient in the mineral Calcium and 77% of you are deficient in vitamin D. Since, I just wrote an article for this Vahl Chiropractic Wellness Center Blog a couple of day’s ago on Calcium, I ‘ll concentrate more on vitamin D [...]
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Improvement in Symptoms Related to Depression, Anxiety and Pain in a Patient Undergoing Subluxation Based Chiropractic Care Michael Teytelbaum DC Bio Annals of Vertebral Subluxation Research ~ August 29, 2011 ~ Pages 84-91 Abstract Objective: To report the case of an elderly male with depressive and anxiety symptoms which improved while under chiropractic care for chronic shoulder [...]
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Low Back Pain: Chiropractic Adjustments vs. Muscle Relaxants by Mark Studin DC, FASBE(C), DAAPM, DAAMLP Chiropractic outperforms muscle relaxants by 24% If you are and/or have been a Chiropractic patient you already know much this. However, it is always good when scientific research backs it up. Low back pain is one of the most common maladies [...]
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CHIROPRACTIC, COMPLIMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE Dr. Richard J. Vahl, MSc, DC, Ph.D., DAAPM, FASBE, CCSP, CCIOHC, CMSC, CMSS, CMSN, CFSC. I was very active as a child climbing on many high things and jumping off of some very high places. I grew up in an industrial area in New York State. So, I got [...]
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