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Speaking of love, wouldn’t this be a great day to share what you know about chiropractic with someone you care about?

Remember those Dual Ridge Metal Boutique™ tissue boxes sold at Bed, Bath & Beyond stores? They were found to be radioactive. Made with the extremely dangerous cobalt-60, they emit gamma rays that are known to cause both cancer and infertility. Manufactured in India, they were shipped to the U.S. and distributed to Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in 20 states. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre said that standing near one of these tissue holders for 30 minutes a day would expose you to the equivalent of “a couple of chest X-Rays” each year. It’s interesting to consider how tritely he brushed off the importance of avoiding all unnecessary radiation. It is very important to be our own health advocates and to remember that all exposure to radiation poses a cumulative threat to a person’s health. With that fact in mind it makes sense for people to actively attempt to limit their exposures to radiation.
Ed. Note: I am reminded how it raised such a furor a year or two ago when research revealed that the annual mammograms so many physicians were recommending may actually be more of a threat to cause cancer than being helpful in prolonging life. The take away message for all of us is to ask a lot more questions, especially where harmful radiation is involved. Source: Naturalnews.com/034659_Bed_Bath_&_Beyond_radioactive_products.html#ixzz1k2AoYAbm

Project Connect for the Homeless – January 29th from 8:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
The Catawba Area Coalition for the Homeless (CACH) and a number of related area agencies are hosting another Project Connect for area homeless persons today at First Assembly Church located at 1089 Edwards Street in Rock Hill. As a member of the CACH Board I am pleased to see this important service continue.

The event features a voluntary community outreach providing information and an array of services to the homeless. Over the past couple of years, this event has helped over 450 clients with much needed services like haircuts, chiropractic care, clothing, medical screenings and food. Joining me on Saturday will be Rock Hill colleague, Dr. Rhonda Werner. We and others will be providing services without charge for those attending the event.

Please note that the office will close early on Saturday, January 29th so that I may attend to folks at Project Connect.

An exploratory practice-based research study just published in the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health suggests that pregnant women with abnormal fetal positions may derive benefits from chiropractic care.
The study published by investigators, Dr. Joel Alcantara, et. al., found a relationship between chiropractic care and improvements in abnormal fetal pregnancies. They considered sociodemographic information, previous prenatal care and abnormal fetal positioning prior to care. According to the article, 70% of the subjects with abnormal fetal pregnancies reported a return to the vertex position.
Ordinary obstetricians generally are untrained about the benefits of chiropractic care during pregnancy and as a result women may need to become their own advocates regarding this valuable information. For more information click this link: http://youneedchiro.com/joomla/links?start=1 then scroll down about half way. Another link with quite a bit of related information is: http://icpa4kids.org/Chiropractic-Research/ADD/ADHD/

The International Chiropractors Association (ICA) will be hosting celebrity superstar athletes and those aspiring to greatness at the annual Natural Fitness Symposium scheduled for March 1 – 3 in Columbus, Ohio. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be its keynote speaker and the event will be held in conjunction with The Arnold Sports Festival.
Other speakers on the ICA program will include The Incredible Hulk, Lou Ferrigno, who often speaks about the benefits of chiropractic. He’ll be on hand to talk about his experience developing strength in the power athlete. Also featured will be 8 time “Mr. Olympia” winner, Lee Haney. Haney, who appreciates the value of chiropractic care, will be revealing his top ten strategies for strength, conditioning, injury prevention and nutrition. Information about attending the event is available at the link below: http://members.chiropractic.org/asset/docs/SymposiumFLRG201220HSpeakers.pdf

The office will be closed on Monday so that we can travel to Atlanta to see our daughter, Arianna. She’s driving from Florida back home to Iowa and Atlanta is as close as she’ll get to South Carolina, so Charlene and I will drive over there on Sunday, meet her for dinner and spend the night in an Atlanta hotel. We’ll come home on Monday evening and the office will be open early Tuesday morning.

Starting the new year off right means getting checked by the chiropractor because everything in the body works better when the communication system is functioning without interference. This isn’t just true for superstars, we all perform better when we get regular adjustments.

Only a few years back physicians and chiropractors were at odds over differing health philosophies. It got so bad that the United States Supreme Court found the American Medical Association guilty of an illegal conspiracy to eliminate chiropractic as a competitive art. But today more and more enlightened physicians are referring patients to chiropractors and of course availing themselves of the benefits of specific spinal adjustments.
In a Chicago Tribune article this month a Professor at Loyola University Medical Center, Dr. Aaron Michelfelder, notes that doctors live extraordinarily stressful lives. Dr. Michelfelder says, “We see a lot of bad things,” and pointed out that 300 to 400 physicians commit suicide each year. Although he laments that “Physicians are always the slowest to change,” he has discovered the benefits of chiropractic care for his own health and well-being.
Another Chicago area doctor, Dr. David Bilstrom, on staff at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, also uses chiropractic to maintain his good health. Dr. Bilstrom observes that, “Physicians tend to be terribly unhealthy people who die at a younger age than others, have terrible stress, work bad hours and eat on the run.”
Dr Bilstrom also advocates the use of untraditional techniques on his patients with chronic diseases who failed to obtain relief from traditional medicine. The Chicago Tribune article quotes him as saying, “The interesting thing…is the same things you do to help treat a person with a problem are exactly the same things you want to do for prevention,” said Bilstrom. “Many medications only target symptoms and not the disease or illness,” he said.
I’ve often thought that it was sad that physicians weren’t being taught about the benefits of chiropractic care, so it is encouraging to see this trend.

The office is open regular hours through Friday, December 23rd. We are closed on the 24th and will open again for regular hours on Monday morning, January 2nd at 8:30 a.m. Please be certain to get in during the next few days to get your adjustment so you are well prepared to perform at your best through the holidays.

Fear tactics are being used against parents and teenagers to benefit drug manufacturer, Merck according to videotaped testimony by an Iowa teenager who speaks out about how her life was ruined by a Gardasil shot. Another injured young girl pleads for the truth to be revealed so that the drug can be taken off the market before others are harmed the way she was. These clips are available to see at the web site of physician, Dr. Joseph Mercola (note: these girls show great emotion describing what happened to them so parents may wish to consider viewer discretion for small children).
As a chiropractor I don’t have a position on this great controversy, but I do remain suspicious when the experts disagree and big money is involved. As parents we all need to look at such matters with a more skeptical eye.