Conquering Osteoarthritis in Clinical Practice | Posted On:
04/15/2011
According to the World Health Organization, degenerative
joint disease (DJD) is one of the top 10 global disease burdens in the
world today. Approximately 1 in 3 adults in the US between 25 and 74
years of age have radiological evidence of Osteoarthritis (OA) in at
least one joint. In the US, 25% of all visits to primary care physicians
and half of all NSAIDs prescriptions are for Osteoarthritis.
However,
degenerative joint disease is not an inevitable consequence of growing
olde... Read
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The
Necessity of Nutrition in Modern Clinical Practice | Posted On:
05/01/2007
Patients have changed drastically, even over the last few
decades. They are less active and tend to follow a diet of
overconsumption and undernutrition. This creates the metabolic
dysfunction of Insulin Resistance, Systemic Inflammation and Oxidative
Stress that leads to our epidemic of: Obesity, Hypertension,
Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer and Diabetes.(1)(2) One out of every two
Americans now has or is developing Insulin Resistance, which helps
create this metabolic... Read
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Understanding Metabolic Syndrome or Syndrome X Part I | Posted On:
07/01/2007
The most common reason someone seeks the care of a
clinician is some form of recurring musculoskeletal pain. Specifically,
insulin resistance, also known as syndrome X or metabolic syndrome, is
the most common metabolic problem that individuals suffer from today.
The metabolic changes that take place with insulin resistance are
increased glucose intolerance, hyperinsulinemia; increased LDL's and
decreased HDL's leading to increased risk for diabetes, obesity,
hypertension and atheros... Read
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Understanding Metabolic Syndrome or Syndrome X Part II | Posted On:
07/15/2007
To properly treat metabolic syndrome, it is vital that you
improve your patients' insulin sensitivity by having them eat foods with
a low glycemic index. To begin, provide your patients with more
information on low glycemic foods by having them utilize quality
educational websites such as www.glycemicindex.com and www.whfoods.com.
In addition, have your patients eat at least five servings of
vegetables, and two t... Read
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The
Rediscovery of Vitamin D3 | Posted On: 08/01/2007
One very vital
component of a patient's metabolic tune-up, to heal chronic pain and
promote wellness, is Vitamin D3. Many clinicians commonly overlook the
newly rediscovered role in health and disease that this lowly
hormone-like vitamin plays today. This is very troubling for those who
suffer from chronic muscle and joint pain problems, for recent studies
have shown clearly how low serum levels of Vitamin D are associated with
chronic nonspecific musculoskeletal pain. However, Vitamin D defi... Read
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Systemic Inflammation, Pain and Degenerative Disease: Part I | Posted
On: 09/19/2007
The inflammatory response serves to protect, defend,
and repair our tissues. It begins by preparing damaged tissues for
repair and initiating the healing process. Therefore, if your patients
are taking drugs to inhibit the inflammatory healing response, such as
NSAIDs and other anti-inflammatory drugs, they are actually inhibiting
the healing process. If the inflammatory healing response of the
musculoskeletal system goes beyond the usual six weeks, and causes
recurrent pain for over three mo... Read
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Systemic Inflammation, Pain and Degenerative Disease: Part II | Posted
On: 01/03/2008
A major factor in the formation of chronic
inflammation in your patients’ tissues is the presence of free radicals
occurring in greater abundance than the body's ability to remove them.
This imbalanced condition is known as oxidative stress. The presence of
oxidative stress in your patients’ myofascial tissues will automatically
create an inflammatory response in their muscles and joints. This
inflammatory response will then cause the release of more free radicals
in the affected tissues, cre... Read
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Proper DIGESTION, the Root of Good Health! | Posted On: 02/23/2009
Over 100 million individuals suffer from digestive disorders such as
GERD, Gastritis, Peptic Ulcer, IBS, IBD and Colitis. Nearly 20 million
adults are diagnosed each year with digestive disorders. Now a
multibillion dollar a year business, there are more than 200
over-the-counter drugs for digestive complaints. Many of these
over-the-counter and prescription medications only serve to create other
digestive and general health problems. Why not offer your patients a
more natural and effective a... Read
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Restoring Health by Improving Mitochondrial Function | Posted On:
03/01/2010
What if the muscle and brain cells of your patients were
unable to produce sufficient levels of cellular ATP to handle their
active and even stressful lifestyles? How would they feel? Muscle cells
without adequate ATP become tender, achy and weak. It actually takes
more ATP to relax muscle cells than it does to contract them. Therefore,
when energy is insufficient, muscles become a mass of painful tight
knots, unable to let go. These myofascial trigger points keep firing
into the central ne... Read
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The Smoldering Fire of Chronic Pain and Disease | Posted On:
03/15/2010
As you well know, inflammation is not necessarily the “Bad
Guy”. All healing begins with the much-feared and maligned inflammatory
response, a response we try to stop in the U.S. by swallowing 30 billion
OTC NSAIDs each year. This of course is misdirected since the
inflammatory response allows the body to fight off infections, defeat
cancerous cells or heal a sprain or a muscle strain. It is easy to
recognize the signs of an acute inflammatory healing response in our
patients; pain, rednes... Read
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Our
Nervous Systems Under Siege! The Epidemic of ADHD, Autism, Depression
Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Disease - Part I | Posted On: 04/10/2009
Why is it important for the doctor chiropractic to understand the
importance of promoting neurologic health in today’s chiropractic
practice? Let us look at the facts.
Today the most common mental
health disorder in children is ADHD. In some cities, the incidence of
ADHD has reached an astounding rate of 10 to 15% of school-age
children.(1) Autism was relatively rare before 1990, after which its
prevalence skyrocketed by three to five times. The rate of aut... Read
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Restoring Your Patients' Health by Conquering Their Dysbiosis | Posted
On: 06/01/2010
Most patients today have some overt signs or symptoms
of gastrointestinal distress. Nearly 20 million adults are newly
diagnosed with digestive disorders each year and over 100 million
individuals suffer daily from digestive disorders such as: GERD,
gastritis, peptic ulcer, IBS, IBD and colitis. Furthermore, research now
links digestive dysfunction to disorders you see as a clinician on a
daily basis, such as: chronic muscle and joint pain, arthritis,
headaches, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigu... Read
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A
Natural Approach to Menopausal Symptoms | Posted On: 08/16/2010
Perimenopause and Menopause are natural events that affect every woman
at some point in life. It is a natural process and not an illness,
however, approximately 2/3 of all women will develop menopausal
symptoms. The most bothersome of these are the vasomotor symptoms of hot
flushes and night sweats. For a long time hormone therapy was considered
the first line of treatment for these symptoms. This is changing given
the results of the Women's Health Initiative. Now, many women are
reluctant to... Read
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Our Nervous Systems Under Siege!
The Epidemic of ADHD, Autism,
Depression
Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Disease - Part II | Posted
On: 09/18/2009
Do you treat brain health issues? You are if you see
patients who have reoccurring pain or mood issues. The primary reason
anyone sees a Health Practitioner is because of pain. A study in JMPT
found that nearly 80% of all patients treated by a Chiropractor were
being seen for a problem previously treated by that same Chiropractor;
i.e. chronic or recurrent conditions.(1) Individuals with reoccurring
low back pain on a functional MRI show sensitization of five brain
re... Read
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Managing High Blood Pressure | Posted On: 09/29/2009
The leading
cause of death today, out-pacing all others, is cardiovascular and
cerebral vascular disease, claiming well over three quarters of a
million individuals each year! One of the primary risk factors for
vascular disease is uncontrolled hypertension. Sadly, more than 1 in 3
adults have high blood pressure and 1/3 of them don’t know it!
Surprisingly only 27% of Americans with diagnosed hypertension are
effectively controlling their blood pressure.1 There are ... Read
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Controlling Blood Glucose Levels | Posted On: 09/30/2009
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than 2 out of 3
adults and 1 out of 3 children in the United States are overweight or
obese, and these numbers continue to climb. Our ‘Standard American
Diet’, high in refined carbohydrates and sugars, is creating a modern
plague of obesity and Type-2 Diabetes. There are nearly 21 million
Americans suffering from Diabetes and the National Institute of Health
estimates that as many as one-third of these individuals are unaware of
it. A... Read
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