Migraines consist of severe, painful headaches which can last for hours or days. The pain arrives accompanied by flashes of light, blind spots, tingling in the arms and legs, nausea, vomiting, and increased sensitivity to light and sound. Migraine headaches produce some of the worst pain that people ever endure. Millions of people suffer from migraines every day and experience an agonizing experience that extends far beyond head pain. Migraines literally shut down a person’s life and render them incapacitated. The medical community offers a migraine solution consisting of some of the most potent drugs available to human beings. The drugs never fully heal the migraines; they simply pump toxins through the body which mask the pain. A better healing solution exists.

Multiple factors contribute to the onset of a migraine. Nutrition, stress, and hormones play key roles in triggering or preventing an attack. The central nervous system engages with all three of these key elements. The brain and nervous system direct the control and function of the entire body. The connection between the brain and body explain why Chiropractic adjustments produce such amazing results for migraine sufferers. One research study determined that people who received upper cervical adjustments reduced their drug consumption by 80%! These same patients detailed a 97% reduction in the number of days spent each month suffering from migraines. The migraine solution led to complete pain relief and restored function in the majority of subjects suffering from migraine headaches.

The spine intimately connects to the central nervous system and regulates communication and hormone production. Proper movement and alignment of the spine allow for necessary and appropriate brain to body communication. Stress and trauma to the body alter spinal positioning and reduce the body’s ability to function and heal at full capacity. Spinal interference alters the brain’s ability to control blood vessels in the head, stress hormones, and other key factors which contribute to migraine onset. Chiropractic adjustments positively impact the body and contribute to optimal physiological performance. Chiropractic research and success stories impact millions of lives. Millions more simply need the benefit of learning more about how Chiropractic promotes health and well-being while freeing people like migraine sufferers from the burden of dark rooms and dangerous prescription drugs.

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“What are the benefits of Chiropractic Care?”

Many people will answer something to the effect of “chiropractic can help with back or neck pain.”
Many people enter our office with a back, neck, or headache complaint and most of our population believes this is the major benefit of a Chiropractic Adjustment.

THIS COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH!

Let me explain a few compelling stories that may help reveal the true value of Chiropractic and why we believe every man, woman, and child deserves to have a Chiropractor as part of their healthcare team.

In 1918 there was a Flu Pandemic that killed 20 million people worldwide. Over 500,000 died in the U.S. alone over an estimated 6 month period of time!

An up and coming profession called Chiropractic was only 23 years old at the time and just making its way on the scene. Documentation shows that people who were under Chiropractic Care had 1/40th the death rate of those who were not. It became well-known that Chiropractic helped prevent both the flu and/or death from the flu. This marked a huge growth in Chiropractic awareness and literally put the new healing profession on the map….For Immune System Issues!

Mahatma Gandhi had been suffering from blood pressure problems for a few years prior to getting his first adjustment in 1942. After that experience, paid the Chiropractor to come live with him for three months. His frequent adjustments over that 90 day period helped him overcome his blood pressure problems!

(By the way, wouldn’t you think Gandhi would have been one of the last people on earth to get high blood pressure problems?)

Napoleon Hill, one of the best-known authors of all time (from the book “Think and Grow Rich”) had a son who was born deaf and without ears. When his son turned 6, Napoleon took him to a Chiropractor. After weeks of adjustments, Hill’s son’s hearing had been restored up to sixty-five percent.  After this, Napoleon spent much of his time and resources trying to bring awareness to the true power of Chiropractic. He believed that not only his son’s recovery but also his own ability to live into his late 80’s with good health was because of Chiropractic care, and he wanted the world to know its benefits.

These are just small examples of some of the amazing testimonies people experience with Chiropractic Adjustments.

Many doctors, scientists, and professors have challenged the validity and scientific credibility of Chiropractic….Know this: Chiropractic stands up to the scrutiny over and over again.

Let me give you some examples of what the most cutting edge research in Chiropractic shows:
*Chiropractic helps reverse neuro-degeneration. (Diseases like Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s, MS, etc) (Lipton 1994 & 2011 Research)
*Chiropractic helps you express your DNA and can actually help change bad gene expression into good gene expression. (called epigenetics…Francis 2011 Research)
*Chiropractic can slow the aging of every organ in your body. (lengthens telomeres…Blackburn 2009 Research)
*Chiropractic improves brain activity and function. (2007 Neurophysiology Research)
*Chiropractic improves immune function. (2004 & 20011 Research)

Chiropractic is not best used as a pain reliever; Chiropractic is best used to help every man, woman, and child express their full physical, chemical, and emotional potential!

I often say this…

“Buying an iPhone just for the calculator is like using Chiropractic care just for pain!”

THIS IS WHY WE GET SO EXCITED ABOUT WHOLE FAMILIES GETTING CHECKED BY A CHIROPRACTOR REGULARLY!

WE BELIEVE IT’S NOT JUST OUR OPINION… IT’S OUR RESPONSIBILITY!

Help us teach and show the world the Power of Chiropractic!

IT STARTS WITH YOU!!

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In this issue, we will take a look at the reasons why chiropractors have been able to correct this problem when other treatments have failed. We will also look at the conflicting evidence presented in the scientific literature relating to the effectiveness of the chiropractor adjusting the child’s spine to correct this problem.

Most children wet the bed for the first few years of life, but by the age of 4 to 5 years old, most children should be able to establish proper bladder control. Enuresis refers to the inability of a child to establish this proper bladder control resulting in either daytime or nocturnal involuntary urination.

Primary enuresis occurs in a child over five years of age, who has never been able to establish proper bladder control. Secondary enuresis is the diagnosis for the child who has been able to establish proper bladder control, but who has since lapsed back to wetting the bed. Occasionally a pathological mechanism such as neurogenic bladder may be responsible, but usually, no such cause can be identified.

In most cases, bed-wetting is considered as just an unfortunate childhood problem, and no outside treatment is sought. The parents are frequently prepared to simply wait until the child grows out of it, and in most cases, these problems go untreated.  The thing that many outsiders do not realize is that it is taxing on the parents and very embarrassing to the child.

The traditional chiropractic approach to treating the child who is a bed-wetter is to adjust the spine, usually in the area of the lumbar spine or sacrum. A review of the anatomy and physiology of the bladder may help us understand why these areas are chosen as the prime target.

Bladder Anatomy and Physiology

Emptying of the urinary bladder is controlled by the detrusor and trigone muscles. The nerve supply to these muscles is via the sacral parasympathetic nerves from S2 to S4.

Appropriate bladder function is also controlled by the urogenital diaphragm which derives its nerve supply from the L2 spinal nerve.

Development of the Sacrum

The sacrum (or tailbone) develops as five separate segments. These segments remain separated until a child reaches puberty, at which time fusion of one sacral segment to another commences. Eventually, the sacrum will be one single bone with all five segments fused together, but this does not occur until the mid-20s.

Because the sacrum consists of separate segments during the early years of life, it is possible that misalignment of these segments can cause nerve irritation or facilitation. This nerve facilitation, especially to the area of the bladder, maybe the cause of the inappropriate bladder function associated with bed-wetting.

As we have seen, the developing sacrum in the early childhood years remains highly mobile, existing as separate spinal segments. During this period, the sacrum can be subjected to repeated trauma from childhood falls and early attempts at walking. This early trauma to the sacrum may be the major reason why bed-wetting in some patients ceases after the spine is adjusted.

Is the Spine the Cause of all Enuresis?

Adjustment of the sacral segments in the bed-wetter has an anecdotal history of effectiveness throughout the years. Recent studies, however, would appear to disagree with such claims. One such study from Australia concluded that spinal adjusting offered little help for enuresis, while another study suggested that good results could be obtained. This apparent disagreement may suggest nothing more than bed-wetting is due to several causes, one of which is spine related. Children with a spinal cause respond while those with other causes of bed-wetting do not.

The conclusion would therefore appear to be to have all children who are bed-wetters evaluated for the possibility of spinal problems as the underlying cause.  Coming from experience, the solution may not always be the most obvious but it is important to exhaust all efforts when caring for your children.

If you have any questions regarding your children, please give us a call at 918-940-4630 and Dr Ring would be happy to sit down to discuss the options of your particular case.  This is a condition that is very difficult to handle as a parent and a child, but it is one that often has a solution rooted in the spine.  Thank you for allowing us to be your chiropractor.

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