Tag Archive | "Dr. Arthur"
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We absolutely love it when patients bring in or send us emails of articles they have read or info they have received from their doctor or other health care professionals. While we try to stay current on health events and topics, it always beneficial for us to see what other professionals are saying, good or [...]
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Ravenswood Run 5K! We are so PROUD of everyone who ran with us! The rain held up, the sun came out, and we had 18 brave souls join us for the 2010 Ravenswood Run. We are very proud of everyone who participated. It wasn’t easy, it was a definite challenge for some, but that is [...]
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We’re a little early but we couldn’t hold on tho this great story from our May Patients of the Month – Margarita, Ishmael, and Cecilia. Hear it in there own words!
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A couple of related research studies caught my eye this week. A study in the Annuals of General Psychiatry (as described here by NPR) details that moreAmericans, including children, than ever are being prescribed multiple psychiatric medications. The authors found that patients are commonly prescribed untested combinations of drugs, where the efficacy and possible side [...]
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Is Your Ab Workout Hurting Your Back? By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS This article pretty much sums it up. Many of you are working on deadbugs, birddogs, etc. core strengthening exercises. Stuart McGill, the expert quoted in the article, developed these exercises (and I stole them). The most important thing to take away is this: ab [...]
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The Wall Street Journal Health Blog today posted a couple of articles (here and here) on the costs and the effectiveness of preventative medicine in the US and Germany. The articles outline that despite their high costs, preventative medicine programs do not actually help to prevent any disease such as colon or breast cancer. In fact [...]
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MSNBC just posted an article on the upcoming FDA decision to approve new pyschiatric drugs for children. For this discussion I’m going to leave aside the questions of 1.) whether these drugs are safe and effective (many groups are questioning whether enough studies have been done to determine the long term effects of the drugs), and 2.) [...]
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As many of you know I was in Washington D.C. last week attending the Hope Awards presented by the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children. It was a very moving evening filled with inspirational stories of children fighting for their lives. One award recipient was Mary Katherine Smart, the sister of Elizabeth Smart. Many [...]
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Hey everyone, hope you’re having a great start to your week. If you’re like me your probably sick of hearing about the swine flu. Dr. McKinley wrote a great piece about it last week. In it he mentioned that one of the events that put Chiropractic on the map was the Flu epidemic of 1917-1918. [...]
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Hey everyone, I just wanted to post a release on the Flu and Chiropractic from Dr. Matthew McCoy, a chiropractic pediatric researcher and editor of the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal, and Family Health. He does a great job of outlining the research showing why people everywhere should be getting adjusted as part of their plan [...]
