The below story appeared on March 27, 2015

A story for those practice members considering becoming a chiropractor.

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Chiropractic is simple in its concept and yet technical in its application. The human body is a self healing organism. It knows how to maintain health, IF there is no interference.

The key point is “NO INTERFERENCE”. Subluxations cause interference to the nervous system and therefore the control of the human body. Chiropractors deliver specific scientific chiropractic adjustments designed to correct subluxations and release the body’s innate ability to be healthy.

The application of chiropractic requires much work, time, and an exact scientific application, but the simplicity of the principle behind it, is the beauty of it.

Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Measured from 0 to 62 Percent
 
In the past three flu seasons, the CDC has claimed the flu vaccine’s overall effectiveness clocked in at between 47 and 62 percent while some experts have measured it at 0 to 7 percent. Other studies suggest that when children get a flu shot every year it can interfere with healthy immune responses and make them more likely to get influenza in certain flu seasons. Independent medical literature reviews document that flu shots don’t really prevent influenza or complications of influenza or influenza-like-illness (ILI) associated with other types of viruses that cause about 80% of all respiratory or gastrointestinal infections during any given flu season.
 
A car in which seatbelts and brakes only worked at best half the time is not a car Americans would choose to buy or drive. Car manufacturers profiting from selling that kind of defective product would be sued in civil court and rightly so.

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5 Vaccines To Never Give A Child
Posted by: TLB Staff

All vaccines should be avoided, but for those on the fence and still deciding whether to vaccinate your child, please review the following information on these 5 vaccines before blindly following the advice of any medical doctor. Knowledge is power and when you understand the uselessness of specific vaccines, the decision to vaccinate or not becomes a very easy one.

Read More here: http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2013/02/20/5-vaccines-to-never-give-a-child/

How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America

How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians’ provide, insurance companies that don’t demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm.

Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of The American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career. How We Do Harm pulls back the curtain on how medicine is really practiced in America. Brawley tells of doctors who select treatment based on payment they will receive, rather than on demonstrated scientific results; hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that seek out patients to treat even if they are not actually ill (but as long as their insurance will pay); a public primed to swallow the latest pill, no matter the cost; and rising healthcare costs for unnecessary—and often unproven—treatments that we all pay for. Brawley calls for rational healthcare, healthcare drawn from results-based, scientifically justifiable treatments, and not just the peddling of hot new drugs.

Brawley’s personal history – from a childhood in the gang-ridden streets of black Detroit, to the green hallways of Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest public hospital in the U.S., to the boardrooms of The American Cancer Society—results in a passionate view of medicine and the politics of illness in America - and a deep understanding of healthcare today. How We Do Harm is his well-reasoned manifesto for change.

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Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

A complex web of factors has created the phenomenon of overdiagnosis: the popular media promotes fear of disease and perpetuates the myth that early, aggressive treatment is always best; in an attempt to avoid lawsuits, doctors have begun to leave no test undone, no abnormality overlooked; and profits are being made from screenings, medical procedures, and pharmaceuticals. Revealing the social, medical, and economic ramifications of a health-care system that overdiagnoses and overtreats patients, Dr. H. Gilbert Welch makes a reasoned call for change that would save us pain, worry, and money.

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Ever wonder what's really in that shot?  See the graphic below and read the article.
Knowledge is HEALTHY !!!

http://www.naturalnews.com/045418_flu_shots_influenza_vaccines_mercury.html#

Come visit our Braile Chiropractic screening booth at the Artist Market on Marietta Square. These events are held twice a month on the 2nd and 4th saturday of each month through November. 

This is the perfect time to have family and friends get screened for free to see if they have vertebral subluxations. Then, if they decide to start chiropractic care, we always offer a very special deal for the initial visit to those who schedule an appointment at the Artist Market. 

ICA Review of Scientific Studies Highlights Chiropractic Safety

August 7, 2104, Falls Church, Virginia, US:   The International Chiropractors Association (ICA) has undertaken a review of the scientific and clinical literature addressing issues of the safety and effectiveness of chiropractic adjustive procedures and wishes to highlight the unique safety record enjoyed by the profession.  This is especially significant in light of frequents news stories, often from less than credible sources, that seek to link chiropractic procedures with some incidence of stroke.
 
“Medical researchers frequently misunderstand the critical differences between specific chiropractic adjustments and cervical manipulation,” said ICA President Dr. Michael S. McLean.  “Doctors of chiropractic are highly trained in the use of the adjustment, which is the specific and scientific application of directional force to facilitate the reduction of nerve interference. Manipulation is the forceful passive movement of a joint beyond its active limit of motion.  Since manipulation doesn't imply the use of precision, specificity or the correction of nerve interference, it is not synonymous with chiropractic adjustment.”   It is in this context that the ICA offers the following examples of compelling, credible research resources on the chiropractic safety issue:
 
·       A literature review published in the September 2013 issue of the  International Journal of Clinical Practice  and online at www.medscape.com  by P. Tuchin examined 18 studies discussing what the researchers termed "spinal manipulative therapy" (SMT) and stroke to determine if SMT was a causative or associative factor.  There have frequently been undocumented rumors of stroke following SMT. Reports not based upon any statistical evidence vary from 1 case in every 400,000 to 1 in 5.6 million. The prejudicial tendencies by some in the medical community toward chiropractic have created controversial, unjustified views of chiropractic SMT having a higher risk of stroke than other types of SMT.  
 
This literature review attempted to cut through the unfounded sensationalism and, "…assess any misconceptions or distortion of the results of studies on chiropractic and stroke."  This review noted that sixty percent of strokes occur due to an abnormal amount of lipids (cholesterol and/or fat) in the blood. Smoking, hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, types 1 & 2 diabetes, atrial fibrillation, migraines, heavy drinking, infections, contraceptives, sleep apnea, illicit drug use, and other factors also put a person at higher risk for stroke.  Chiropractic adjustments or SMTs are not listed in the scientific literature as a major factor in stroke. The researcher Tuchin explained, "The evidence for causality of vertebral artery dissection from chiropractic is weak."
 
·        The Canadian Medical Association Journal (2001) reviewed the malpractice data from the Canadian Chiropractic Protective Association (CCPA) between 1988 and 1997 on stroke claims following Chiropractic treatment. Results showed that 134 million adjustments were performed and only 23 cases involved stroke. "This most recent study establishes such an  extremely low degree of risk  that patients can feel confident about the safety of neck manipulations performed by chiropractors," according to Paul Carey, DC, lead author of the study and president of the CCPA.     Canadian Medical Association Journal , 2001, 165(7) 905-8. 
 
·       A study published in the  Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association  found 13 documented cerebrovascular accidents occurring in chiropractic patients over a five-year period with some 50 million cervical adjustments performed. The author concluded that a  reasonable estimate of risk was low  at only one per 3 million neck adjustments.  [i]
 
·       A review of more than a half-million treatments over a nine-year period at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College outpatient clinic  found no incidents of strokes . ("Vertebral Artery Syndrome" published in the book "Upper Cervical Syndrome: chiropractic diagnosis and treatment). [ii]
 
·        Not a single case of vertebral artery stroke was found  during a study which involved approximately 5 million cervical manipulations from 1965 to 1980 at the National College of Chiropractic Clinic in Chicago.  [iii]
 
ICA understands the emotion, the complexity and the confusion that surrounds these issues at times but believes that the research and actuarial record on this matter demonstrate the exemplary safety record of the chiropractic profession, and, that chiropractic adjustments administered by licensed doctors of chiropractic pose no demonstrable, significant risk of stroke.
 
All health care professionals must make consumer and patient safety a paramount concern.  When the level of risk is quantifiable and significant, providers have a responsibility to offer that data to patients and potential patients.  What constitutes a significant level of risk is open to a diverse range of opinions and interpretations; however, to pinpoint risk requires that exact data on causality needs to be present.   That causality factor is simply not present and even the coincidental occurrence of injury from upper cervical procedures applied by chiropractors is exceptionally rare, perhaps no more than one per 3 million neck adjustments. 
 
ICA strongly supports full-spine care, including upper cervical procedures as clinically indicated.  ICA has come to this position on the basis of an extensive review of both the clinical research record, the outcomes and safety data over the past several decades and the teaching experience offered at chiropractic colleges and in the post-graduate process through ICA’s Council on Upper Cervical Care. 
 
  [i]   Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association , 1993; 37 (2): 104-6

August 07, 2014 04:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Nearly Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Years Shares One Thing In Common,
And It Isn’t Weapons

Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and its not the weapons used.

The overwhelming evidence suggests the single largest common factor in all of these incidents is that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes. 

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