COMMON MEDICAL CONDITIONS
Controversy
(Keywords: Common Medical Conditions, chiropractic help, kegel exercises, chiropractic constipation, chest pain, infertility chiropractic ) On this Common Medical Conditions page we discuss some of the controversial aspects of the medical-chiropractic conflict, and some "medical" conditions that may respond to chiropractic treatment. Many chiropractors in the early twentieth century who were treating patients with back pain were jailed for 'practising medicine'. So, when is a condition 'medical' and when is it 'chiropractic'? If you have back pain, for example. Pure semantics, right? We could try and clarify things by saying if your back pain is caused by cancer, then you have a 'medical' condition. But if it's a sacro-iliac condition, then it's chiropractic. Plus a few controversial bits from the Medical Research. Did you know that medical doctors are seriously treating patients with auto-immune diseases like MS with intestinal worms! Is that medical?
Diseases of the Immune System are being treated with INTESTINAL WORMS ...
Frankly, so much nonsense as far as I'm concerned! Can gentle chiropractic play a role in cancer of the spine? Certainly! Now you have raised your eyebrow! Well, when my father's lung cancer (yes, he was a smoker and died eighteen years younger than his father) metastasized to his spine, he got more relief of his back pain from my gentle treatment than the morphine his doctor provided. Was I treating the cancer? No. Did chiropractic have a role to play? Certainly?
And does your doctor's medication which helps you get over the painful sacro-iliac syndrome have a place in this strictly 'chiropractic' condition. Certainly it may! To which I might add, that I like my patients to feel the pain. Then they don't go playing 'silly buggers'. Excuse the French, but I've learnt the hard way about what happens if you turn the pain off before common medical conditions or chiropractic conditions have healed. Pain is your friend. Ignore him at your peril...
ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS symptom
A medical disease that may respond well to Chiropractic. Ankylosing spondylitis symptom ...
URINARY INCONTINENCE
Leaking bladder in women and premature ejaculation in men: Kegel Exercises ...
MORTONS NEUROMA
Pain and tingling in the forefoot and toes. Mortons neuroma ...
CHEST PAIN and HEART ATTACK
It could be a heart attack, of course, but ... a rib subluxation also causes chest pain ...
HEART ATTACK ...
INFERTILITY CHIROPRACTIC
Ask any chiropractor and s/he will tell you that s/he has got a good few patients pregnant! INFERTILITY CHIROPRACTIC ...
TOMATO PROSTATE
A delicious friend. TOMATO PROSTATE ... Every man SHALL eat a tomato a day.
The Kegel exercises for a healthier prostate and bladder.
CAUSES OF OSTEOPOROSIS
A silent, nasty disease. Now is the time to read about the CAUSES OF OSTEOPOROSIS ...
Walking Benefits in the treatment of osteoporosis.
Diabetes OSTEOPOROSIS ... An important page for every diabetic.
Few things are more disturbing to a healthy doctor-patient relationship that a sense that your doctor / chiropractor is trying to squeeze more money out of you. It creates many tensions, and invites questions about what is ethical and what is clearly not when faced with common medical conditions.
You might enjoy this short story about how your chiropractor might be facing this issue.
A ten minute read. SELLING SICKNESS ...…
DYSLEXIA
Fish oil and Evening Primrose Oil for Dyslexia ...
More dyslexia ... A fun page for you and your child.
EXERCISE AND CHOLESTEROL
Simple ways to improve your cholesterol profile. EXERCISE and CHOLESTEROL ....
Aubergine lowers cholesterol. EGGPLANT RECIPES ...
THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE ...thankfully not a common medical conditions
The worst headache of my life. THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE ...
ARTHRITIS Over 100 disease rolled together under one name … OLIVE OIL BENEFITS include oleocanthal, a compound which acts as a natural anti-inflammatory compound. OMEGA-3 SALMON FISH OIL ... GLUCOSAMINE CHONDROITIN sulphate LOWER BACK EXERCISES benefit arthritis in the lumbar spine.
INFANTILE COLIC
Colic Chiropractic ... do you know the Rule of Three?…
CONSTIPATION
Really, it's easy to treat! Mostly it's not rocket science. TOSCANINI CELERY SOUP ...
Roast vegetables recipe ... a delish way to increase your fibre.
Apple diet is another simple way to add soluble fibre to your diet. An apple a day ...
FROM THE COAL FACE.
A few months ago a woman asked if I could help her twelve year old daughter's tummy ache, surely one of the most common medical conditions. I was dubious, but willing to try. The girl had had debilitating pain associated with constipation. Various tests by an internist proved negative, and she was placed on a regimen of prescription fibre. It helped in part, but she continued to have serious pain.Only two things were obvious. She had
a sacroiliac joint subluxation,
and her diet was dreadful. We addressed both, and within two weeks the child was a completely different girl. All we did was to add
plenty of delicious fibre to her diet ( BEETROOT CONSTIPATION ...)
and adjust her pelvis. Which helped? I don't know, but really, does it matter? Adjusting the fixation meant she was not going to get arthritis in the joint anyway, whether it helped the constipation of not. Getting her to eat some salad, apples and beetroot, tasty and healthful, provides her with the minerals and vitamins, enzymmes and anti-oxidants that she needs anyway. Win-win. It's really not rocket science. Chiropractic saved her medical insurance a packet in prescription medication, and it proved far more effective in any case. A year of misery when all she needed was a few simple changes in her lifestyle, and a few adjustments of her sacro-iliac joint. Yes, it's true. This is an unsubstantiated anecdote. It proves nothing. Try convincing Fleur that chiropractic has nothing to add to common medical conditions!
SACROILIAC JOINT INFLAMMATION ...
INDIGESTION HEARTBURN.
Indigestion, it's not rocket science. INDIGESTION HEARTBURN ...
CHIROPRACTIC SHINGLES
Shingles, there's no research, but my experience is that chiropractic helps. CHIROPRACTIC SHINGLES ....
TIC DOULOUREUX
Trigeminal neuralgia, severe pain in the face that may come from the jaw joint. TMJ EAR PAIN ...
VERTIGO AND DIZZINESS.
New treatment works like a treat. VERTIGO DIZZINESS ...
LEG PAIN, smoking, cholesterol, varicose veins, spider and snake bites Leg pain due to disruption of arterial blood Leg pain due to disruption of the venous supply - varicose veins in legs VARICOSE VEINS AND HERBS esp raw honey and beta-sitosterols A combination of smoking (did you know that smoking gives you four times the risk of Alzheimers?) and high cholesterol clogs the arteries in the next of our common medical conditions. If it's the artery that supplies the leg with blood, then it causes pain in the leg with exercise, a sort of "angina in the leg". Enjoy this short story about intermittent claudication that we winkled from Bernard Preston's third book: SOMETHING PREDICTABLE SOMETHING SURPRISING - short story about leg pain by Dr Bernard Preston, DC
MOTOR NEURON DISEASE (Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis)
ALS is the subject of our next fortunately less common medical conditions. It has to do with eating the right fats. For more, click here:
TINGLING IN ARMS AND HANDS ...
Why is margarine bad news? HYDROGENATED FOODS ...
IATROGENIC ILLNESS
The Chiropractic approach to disease, quite obviously, will not work all the time. Nothing works all the time. However, unlike medicine, Chiropractic has very few serious side-effects.Natural methods may take longer - though often, a very sore back for example, they are a good deal quicker - and may mean some changes in lifestyle that you don't care to make. Like start walking, or alterating your diet. However, these methods don't have the awful side-effects that medicines may have in the treatment of many common medical conditions. Did you know that about a quarter of a million people DIE every year in the USA from doctor-caused disease? Right now the Netherlands in confusion after THREE deaths in one week from vaccinations. For more information about iatrogenic illness,
click here. IATROGENIC ILLNESS ...
STROKE CHIROPRACTIC ...
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