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COMMON MEDICAL CONDITIONSControversyOn this Common Medical Conditions page we discuss some of the controversial aspects of the medical chiropractic conflict. Many early chiropractors 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. 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 from this nasty common medical condition) 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 a condition has healed. INFERTILITYAsk any chiropractor and s/he will tell you that he has got a good few patients pregnant!PROSTATEA delicious friend.OSTEOPOROSISA silent, nasty disease. Now is the time ... /Benefits of WalkingFew 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 was is clearly not. You might enjoy this short story about how your chiropractor might be facing this issue. A ten minute read, DYSLEXIAFish oil and Evening Primrose OilMore dyslexia. EXERCISE AND CHOLESTEROLSimple ways to improve your cholesterol profile. Auberine (eggplant) lowers cholesterol.ARTHRITISArthritis, over 100 diseases rolled into one name. /Olive oil contains oleocanthal, a compound which acts as a natural anti-inflammatory compound.INFANTILE COLICColic, do you know the Rule of Three?CONSTIPATIONConstipation, Really, it's easy to treat! Mostly.FROM THE COAL FACE.A few months ago a woman asked if I could help her twelve year old daughter's tummy ache. 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 sacro-iliac 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 natural fibre to her diet 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 ! INDIGESTION AND HEART BURN.Indigestion, it's not rocket science.SHINGLESShingles, there's no research, but my experience is that chiropractic helps.TIC DOULOUREUXTrigeminal neuralgia, severe pain in the face that may come from the jaw.VERTIGO AND DIZZINESS.Vertigo, New treatment works like a treat.LEG PAIN - ASSOCIATED WITH EXERCISEINTERMITENT CLAUDICATION - pain in the leg with exercise.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, Stones in my Clog. Motor Neuron Disease (Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis)ALS is the subject of our next fortunately less common medical diseases. It has to do with eating the right fats. For more, click here.To go from COMMON MEDICAL CONDITIONS to the CHIROPRACTIC COALFACE NewsletterSigned up yet for our monthly newsletter? Chock-a-block with chiropractic, nutrition, prevention, exercise and this and that. It's free.
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