Linn City Chiropractic & Spinal Decompression

Cervical Traction

drmichael — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:28:39 +0000

What are the Indications for Cervical Traction?

Some of the most common indications are: A) Herniated disc; B) Radiculopathy; C) Any condition in which mobilization and stretching of soft tissue is desired; and D) Any condition in which opening the neural foramen is desired. Cervical traction has also been shown to relieve headaches and pain due to general soft tissue stiffness.

How Much Force Should Be Used For Cervical Traction?

Please refer to the evidence summary beginning on page 5.

We have found that 25-40 lbs of force for the mid and lower cervical spine is

often clinically effective in conditions where a separation of the intervertebral

space is desirable. Examples of these

conditions include radiculopathy caused

by herniated cervical disc, interforaminal

nerve root encroachment, degenerative

disc or joint disease or facet joint

impingement. In other conditions where

the muscles are primarily affected, less

force may be effective. Examples include

suboccipital or upper trapezius muscle

tension or shortening.

How much is too much? The Saunders

Traction device does not allow traction

forces of over 50 lbs, and we have

successfully used up to 50 lbs without

any adverse results when working up

to this level gradually, and no adverse

results with high force cervical traction

have been reported in the literature.

However, we have found that 50 lbs

is rarely needed for good clinical results,

and our experience and clinician

feedback confirms that 25-40 lbs is

typically an adequate and effective

force.

2,6,10

Liver Detox, what is affordable?

drmichael — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:38:30 +0000

The most affordable option is a liver detox supplement and a diet that supports normal liver health. Read on,…

I have two liver products that “DETOX” the liver, both are multi-formulations, all backed by research. I have a patient come in, she told me her liver enzymes were off (high), she tried it for 30 days, retested, and all her enzymes were in the normal range. Liver Detox by Protocol for life.

As far as liver detox, there is some things you can add to your diet as well.

Foods to Eat for Liver Health

There are certain foods that help to protect and detoxify the liver itself so that it can perform better to detox the entire body:

Apples contain pectin which helps to bind and excrete heavy metals right off the intestines. This directly helps to reduce the load of filtration on the liver.
Beets, carrots, red onions (your favorite) and aubergine contains flavonoids and beta-carotene which are potent antioxidants.
Garlic contains allicin, an antioxidant and the mineral selenium. It assists the removal of heavy metals from the liver.
Eggs, brown rice and whole grains, broccoli and spinach contain B-complex vitamins which improve liver function and promote liver decongestion. Vitamin B12 helps to metabolize fats and improves liver health.
Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and lettuce contain glucosinolates which help the liver produce enzymes for detoxification.
Grapefruits are rich in antioxidants and help in natural detoxification of liver.
Bitter vegetables such as bitter gourd, dandelion greens, mustard greens and chicory promote the production and flow of bile.

Many factors determine whether the liver performs its critical functions well. Too much pressure on the liver from overeating rich or poor-quality food, environmental stresses, overwork or emotional stress can cause liver overload, leading to a decreased ability to clear toxins and hormones and manufacture bile. Foods which contain high levels of antioxidants help to protect the liver and keep it healthy while other foods cleanse the liver.

Healthy benefits of Alkaline Water

drmichael — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:02:28 +0000

Alkaline Antioxidant Water – Neutral on the PH scale is around 7.0, which is what our blood is supposed to be. When the body becomes acidic, we start to get sick more easily, feel aches and pains more readily and this creates an environment for disease to flourish.

Alkaline water is water that has been run through a filter and alkalized to a PH over 7.0.

Decreases Joint Pain
Increases Energy
Fewer Prostate Problems
Weight Loss
Eliminates or Reduces Pain
Reduces Chemotherapy Symptoms
Improves Diabetes symptoms
Overcomes Depression
Eliminates Acid Reflux
Improves Energy
and so much more

Health tips to make your life better.

drmichael — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:53:52 +0000

WEEKLY HEALTH UPDATE
Week of: Monday, March 1st, 2010
Courtesy of:
Dr. Michael LoGiudice DC(503) 908-0122 – www.linncitychiro.com

Mental Attitude: Don’t Worry, Be Happy! Positive emotions protect against heart disease. People who are usually happy, enthusiastic and content are less likely to develop heart disease than those who tend not to be happy.
European Heart Journal, 2010Health Alert: Cancer Drugs Sky Rocket! US oncologic drug sales in 2008 were $19.2 billion. Sales increased more than 4-fold in the past 10 years, from less than $5 billion in 1998. IMS Health, 2009

Diet: Tea and Obesity. Research suggests drinking tea may have effects on body weight, fat accumulation and insulin activity. After three months of consumption of Green Tea extract by moderately obese patients, their body weight decreased by 4.6% and waist circumference decreased by 4.5%.
American Journal Clinical Nutrition. 1999. Phytomedicine, 2002

Exercise: Fitness tips to help you start a workout program - and stick with it. 1) Invest in a good pair of workout shoes. Make sure they have good cushioning and arch support and feel so good you’ll look forward to putting them on. Stay away from high-top shoes because too much ankle support over time can actually make the joints weaker. 2) Find a buddy, a class, or a group. Humans desire companionship. When someone is depending on you and striving for the same goals, this helps motivate you. Not only that, it makes exercise more fun. 3) Get back to basics. Don’t think you need fancy equipment to get a great workout. Gyms of the future will move away from elaborate exercise machines. Fitness trainers are going back to basic equipment like medicine balls, free weights and Swiss balls. Elaine Magee, MPH, RD

Chiropractic: Are You Shrinking? We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Why? Gravity and atmospheric pressure compresses your disks, causing you to shorten. After a good night’s sleep, the disks can regain their height because your body weight is not as great when lying down.
Guyton Physiology

Wellness/Prevention: Gum Disease. 3 out of 4 people suffer from gum disease — from mild cases of gingivitis, to periodontitis. Only 3% seek treatment for their gum disease. Research indicates gum disease may be linked to other diseases, including diabetes, heart disease and certain forms of cancer. Red, swollen and bleeding gums are an important sign of periodontal disease. If you notice bleeding while brushing or flossing, or when eating certain foods, you should visit your dental professional. Routine oral care, including brushing after every meal and before bed, and flossing at least once a day, is the best way to prevent gum disease. American Academy of Periodontology

Quote: “Be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth and wisdom.” ~ Aristotle

History and funding of hospitals?

drmichael — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:13:12 +0000

Hospitals

A hospital is an institution for health care, often but not always providing care for inpatients and outpatients. Today, hospitals are usually funded by the state, health organizations (for profit or non-profit), health insurances or charities, including direct charitable donations. In history, however, they were often founded and funded by religious orders or charitable individuals and leaders. Hospitals are nowadays staffed by professional physicians, surgeons and nurses, whereas in history, this work was usually done by the founding religious orders or by volunteers.
During the Middle Ages the hospital could serve other functions, such as almshouse for the poor, hostel for pilgrims, or hospital school. The name comes from Latin hospes (host), which is also the root for the English words hotel, hostel, and hospitality. The modern word hotel derives from the French word hostel, which featured a silent s, which was eventually removed from the word. (The circumflex on modern French hôtel hints at the vanished s.)

Types
Some patients in a hospital come just for diagnosis and/or therapy and then leave (‘outpatients’); while others are ‘admitted’ and stay overnight or for several weeks or months (‘inpatients’). Hospitals are usually distinguished from other types of medical facilities by their ability to admit and care for inpatients.

General hospitals
The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which is set up to deal with many kinds of disease and injury, and typically has an emergency ward to deal with immediate threats to health and the capacity to dispatch emergency medical services. A general hospital is typically the major health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care and long-term care; and specialized facilities for surgery, plastic surgery, childbirth, bioassay laboratories, and so forth. Larger cities may have many different hospitals of varying sizes and facilities.Specialized hospitals
Types of specialized hospitals include trauma centers, children’s hospitals, seniors’ (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric problems (see psychiatric hospital), certain disease categories, and so forth.

Clinics
A medical facility smaller than a hospital is called a clinic, and is often run by a government agency for health services or a private partnership of physicians (in nations where private practice is allowed). Clinics generally provide only outpatient services.Teaching hospital
A teaching hospital (or university hospital) is that who combines assistance to patients with teaching to medical students. Architecture hospital may be a single building or a campus. (Many hospitals with pre-20th-century origins began as one building and evolved into campuses.) Some hospitals are affiliated with universities for medical research and the training of medical personnel.
Modern hospital buildings are designed to minimize the effort of medical personnel and the possibility of contamination while maximizing the efficiency of the whole system. Travel time for personnel within the hospital and the transportation of patients between units is facilitated and minimized. The building also should be built to accommodate heavy departments such as radiology and operating rooms; while space for special wiring, plumbing and waste disposal must be allowed for in the design.However, the reality is that many hospitals, even those considered ‘modern’, are the product of continual, and often badly managed growth over decades or even centuries, with utilitarian new sections added on as needs and finances dictate. As a result, Dutch architectural historian Cor Wagenaar [1] has called many hospitals:

“…built catastrophes, anonymous institutional complexes run by vast bureaucracies, and totally unfit for the purpose they have been designed for… They are hardly ever functional, and instead of making patients feel at home, they produce stress and anxiety.”

Some newer hospital designs now try to reestablish design that takes the patient’s psychological needs into account, such as providing for more air, better views and more pleasant color schemes. These ideas harken back to the late 18th century, when the concept of providing fresh air and access to the ‘healing powers of nature’ were first employed by hospital architects in improving their buildings.Another major change which is still ongoing in many parts of the world is the change from a ward-based system (where patients are treated and accommodated in communal rooms, separated at best by movable partititions) to a room-based environment, where patients are accommodated in private rooms. The ward-based system has been described as very efficient, especially for the medical staff, but is considered to be more stressful for patients and detrimental to their privacy. A major constraint on providing all patients with their own rooms, is however found in the higher cost of building and operating such a hospital, which causes some to charge for the privilige of private rooms.

Hypertension? Increase Potassium, reduce sodium

drmichael — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:02:32 +0000

February 22, 2010 — Hypertension is a “neglected disease,” according to a report released today by the Institute of Medicine. Despite high blood pressure being the cause of death in 1 of 6 US adults, and the greatest single risk factor for deaths from cardiovascular disease, millions of Americans are developing, living with, and dying from hypertension. The decade from 1995 to 2005 saw a 25% increase in the death rate from high blood pressure.

“We are failing to translate our public health and clinical knowledge into effective prevention, treatment, and control programs,” observed the Committee on Public Health Priorities to Reduce and Control Hypertension in the US Population. Their report offers recommendations for changes by individuals, physicians, and policies to prevent and control high blood pressure and associated health problems.

It’s time to add hypertension to the list of neglected diseases, David W. Fleming, MD, chair of the Committee on Public Health Priorities to Reduce and Control Hypertension in the US Population, said during a February 22 briefing at the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, DC.

The committee’s recommendations include strengthening collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and related agencies to include hypertension among their lifestyle improvement efforts, monitoring and reducing sodium intake, improving the reporting of hypertension to determine general population and subgroup trends, and improving the quality of care and removing economic barriers to effective antihypertensive treatments.

Down With Sodium, Up With Potassium

The report notes that 87% of adults in the United States ingest more than 2400 mg/day of sodium (1500 mg/day is recommended for individuals middle-aged or older, blacks, or those with hypertension). A strategy recommended to the Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention is the use of potassium/sodium chloride combinations to simultaneously reduce sodium and increase potassium intakes.

Using estimates based on 31 trials of sodium reduction, and data indicating that 87% of the American population consumes excess sodium, the prevalence of hypertension can be expected to decrease 5% to 8% if everyone currently on a high-salt diet decreased their salt intake by about 4.5 g/day.

“Over 8 in 10 Americans eat more salt in their diet than is recommended. And almost everyone consumes too little potassium,” said Dr. Fleming. “The Committee recommends that CDC take a strong and active leadership role working with industry to implement strategies to reduce salt in our diet,…promote the intake of potassium-rich fruits and vegetables, and also consider advocating for the greater use of potassium/sodium salt combinations as a means of simultaneously reducing sodium and increasing potassium intake.”

The effects of potassium supplementation have varied across studies, but data indicate that if the entire population increased its potassium intake to 4700 mg/day, prevalence of hypertension could be reduced as much as 4% to 7%. The proportion of hypertension currently attributed to low potassium intake is around 17%.

High potassium intake can, however, itself be problematic. Lawrence J. Appel, MD, MPH, a member of the American Society of Hypertension and professor of medicine at John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, who attended the briefing, told Medscape Cardiology, “In general it appears that diets that are both low in sodium and rich in potassium are the best diets in terms of lowering blood pressure [and] controlling hypertension, [but] there are some caveats. There are patients with kidney disease, but it has to be pretty advanced before you get to problems with potassium. And there are patients with advanced heart failure where you’re concerned about it. Typically those are patients that are being cared for and monitored, so…certainly for the general population, but also even for most patients with hypertension who don’t have the problems I mentioned, you’re not going to get any problems from dietary potassium,” Dr. Appel said.

The committee recommends that the Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and related agencies focus on preventing hypertension by reducing overweight and obesity, increasing physical activity, reducing sodium intake, and increasing intake of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, especially foods rich in potassium.

Nonadherence as a Clinicians’ Problem

The Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention was also urged to identify better ways of analyzing and reporting data on hypertension over time, establishing norms for data collection analysis and reporting of these data, with a particular focus on children, elderly, minorities, and socioeconomic groups for whom fewer data are available.

Of particular interest were the IOM committee’s findings on patients’ nonadherence to treatment and physicians’ nonadherence to guidelines laid out by the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC). Although the JNC advises starting treatment when systolic blood pressure exceeds 140 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure exceeds 90 mm Hg, many physicians are much less aggressive. Most cases of uncontrolled hypertension were in older adults with mild systolic hypertension and with frequent contact with their physicians and access to healthcare.

“It was quite striking, actually, that clinicians do a pretty good job of controlling diastolic blood pressure. It’s systolic blood pressure that they’re not aggressively treating, and especially isolated systolic hypertension,” said committee member Corinne Husten, MD, MPH, former executive vice president for Program and Policy, Partnership for Prevention, Washington, DC. “There could be a variety of reasons. When I was in medical school we were taught, ‘You don’t treat a high top number because older people need that head of steam to get the blood through those hardened arteries. And the data since then have shown that’s really not true.”

Dr. Husten noted that clinicians may also be concerned about the adverse effects of medication in older people, and questions about whether full dosage should be used. It will be important to determine the reasons that physicians are not adhering to current guidelines, she said. No data currently address that issue.

Hypertension as a Sentinel for Healthcare Effectiveness

The IOM report also highlighted the financial barriers to lowering blood pressure. Studies have shown that cost of medications to patients is significantly related to patient adherence, especially evident in patients with low income, chronic illness, and multiple prescriptions. The committee recommendation advocates lowering or eliminating costs of antihypertension drugs under Medicare and Medicaid.

At the policy level, recommendations urge state and local public health agencies to emphasize populationwide approaches and to integrate hypertension prevention into programs to influence obesity prevention, increase physical activity, and encourage healthy diets.

On a more positive note, the IOM committee suggested that hypertension can serve as a “sentinel” for program evaluation in public health treatment of a chronic disease and reduction of healthcare disparities. Hypertension has the “advantages” of being objectively diagnosed and measured, low-cost treatments are available, results can be easily measured and reproduced, and the disease responds rapidly to interventions.

“Here is a place where, as a result of new work that has been done, we now not only think we can make a difference, but we have scientific studies in both the public health arena and in the clinical arena that show we can make a difference,” concluded Dr. Fleming.

Metabolic Syndrome! What’s that?

drmichael — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:37:30 +0000

High serum glucose. High cholesterol. High blood pressure. This is a trifecta you definitely don’t want to have. This combination of laboratory findings is known as metabolic syndrome, a new medical term that has been in existence for less than ten years. It’s well-known that there is an epidemic of obesity in America. Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. Thirty percent of American children are overweight or obese. The numbers continue to increase. The United States is also in the midst of an epidemic in diabetes. Eight percent of Americans over age 20 have diabetes – one in twelve people. Again, the numbers are increasing.

Recently, public health researchers discovered that people who were overweight and had diabetes also had high blood pressure – the combination of findings was termed metabolic syndrome. The implication is that if a person has one or more of these abnormal findings, he is at risk for the others. If a person has high blood glucose she is at risk for high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol. Being overweight increases the risk of developing diabetes and developing cardiovascular disease – heart attack and stroke. ^1,2,3

The statistics and medical conclusions are sobering, and yet there is good news. Each of these serious disorders – diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure – is a lifestyle disease. Lifestyle contributes significantly to developing any and all of these conditions. Making long-lasting changes in the way we live has long-lasting effects on our health and well-being. Lifestyle recommendations are not breaking news. Everyone knows about the benefits of healthy nutrition and regular vigorous exercise. Research has consistently shown that diet, exercise, and proper rest significantly improve one’s health. The great challenge is to cause people to engage in these activities which are in their own interest.

An additional important lifestyle change is to engage in regular chiropractic care. Chiropractic care ensures optimal functioning of the nerve system which ensures optimal functioning of all other body systems. If the nerve system is over- or understimulated, physiology will break down in various ways and disease will result. Chiropractic care balances nerve system activity via gentle manipulation of spinal joints. Proper function of the spine results, with normalization of nerve activity. Chiropractic care enhances all other lifestyle activities. Healthy nutrition and regular exercise can have maximum benefit when your spine and nerve system are functioning properly.

¹McNaughton SA, et al: Dietary patterns, insulin resistance, and incidence of type 2 diabetes in the Whitehall II Study. Diabetes Care 31(7):1343-1348, 2008
²Brunner EJ, et al: Dietary patterns and 15-y risks of major coronary events, diabetes, and mortality. Am J Clin Nutr 87(5):1414-1421, 2008
³Roman B, et al: Effectiveness of the Mediterranean diet in the elderly. Clin Interv Aging 3(1):97-109, 2008

What is right for me?

drmichael — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:36:05 +0000

What’s Right For You?

You might be thinking, “What’s right for me? I want to have a healthy diet. I want to do regular exercise. I want to get enough sleep. How do I know what’s right?”
First, what works for someone else may not necessarily achieve the same results for you.

One person may love the elliptical machine for aerobics. Another may say that running is the only way to go. Biking, fast walking, swimming timed laps – they all work. The exercise you want to do – the one you like and makes you feel good – that’s the one for you.

Likewise with rest. You may read that everyone needs 8 hours of sleep every night. Next month you may read about some hot-shot that thrives on 6 hours per night. What’s right? The amount that helps you feel active, alert, and well-rested. Some nights you need a little more. Sometimes you can get by on 5 or 6 hours.
Bottom line – what works for you works for you. The key is to be consistent and intend to want to be healthy and well.

Experiencing headaches!

drmichael — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:40:49 +0000

Experiencing Headaches?

If you have a headache, you’re not alone. Nine out of ten Americans suffer from headaches. Some are occasional, some frequent, some are dull and throbbing, and some cause debilitating pain and nausea.

What do you do when you suffer from a pounding headache? Do you grit your teeth and carry on? Lie down? Pop a pill and hope the pain goes away? There is a better alternative.

Research shows that spinal manipulation – the primary form of care provided by doctors of chiropractic – may be an effective treatment option for tension headaches and headaches that originate in the neck.

A report released in 2001 by researchers at the Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center in Durham, NC, found that spinal manipulation resulted in almost immediate improvement for those headaches that originate in the neck, and had significantly fewer side effects and longer-lasting relief of tension-type headache than a commonly prescribed medication.

Also, a 1995 study in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics found that spinal manipulative therapy is an effective treatment for tension headaches and that those who ceased chiropractic treatment after four weeks experienced a sustained therapeutic benefit in contrast with those patients who received a commonly prescribed medication.

Headache Triggers

But to get to the bottom of the problem, you first need to find out what is causing your pain. Headaches have many causes, or “triggers.” These may include foods, environmental stimuli (noises, lights, stress, etc.) and/or behaviors (insomnia, excessive exercise, blood sugar changes, etc.). About 5 percent of all headaches are warning signals caused by physical problems.

Ninety-five percent of headaches are primary headaches, such as tension, migraine, or cluster headaches. These types of headaches are not caused by disease. The headache itself is the primary concern.

What Can You Do?

If you spend a large amount of time in one fixed position, such as in front of a computer, on a sewing machine, typing or reading, take a break and stretch every 30 minutes to one hour. The stretches should take your head and neck through a comfortable range of motion.
Low-impact exercise may help relieve the pain associated with primary headaches. However, if you are prone to dull, throbbing headaches, avoid heavy exercise. Engage in such activities as walking and low-impact aerobics.
Avoid teeth clenching. The upper teeth should never touch the lowers, except when swallowing. This results in stress at the temporomandibular joints (TMJ) – the two joints that connect your jaw to your skull – leading to TMJ irritation and a form of tension headaches.
Drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day to help avoid dehydration, which can lead to headaches.

In addition, the ACA and its Council on Nutrition suggest you avoid the following food “triggers”:

Avoid caffeine. Foods such as chocolate, coffee, sodas and cocoa contain high levels of the stimulant.
Avoid foods with a high salt or sugar content. These foods may cause migraines, resulting in sensitivity to light, noise, or abrupt movements.
Avoid drinking alcoholic beverages. These drinks can dehydrate you and cause headache pain.
Other headache sufferers may want to avoid not only caffeine, but also high-protein foods, dairy products, red meat and salty foods.

What Can a Doctor of Chiropractic Do?

Chiropractors may do one or more of the following if you suffer from a primary headache:

Perform spinal manipulation or chiropractic adjustments to improve spinal function and alleviate the stress on your system.
Provide nutritional advice, recommending a change in diet and perhaps the addition of B complex vitamins.
Offer advice on posture, ergonomics (work postures), exercises and relaxation techniques. This advice should help to relieve the recurring joint irritation and tension in the muscles of the neck and upper back.

Doctors of chiropractic undergo extensive training to help their patients in many ways – not just back pain.

If your headache is symptomatic of a health problem that needs the care of another discipline, your doctor of chiropractic will refer you to an appropriate specialist.

Our body is a beautiful machine!

drmichael — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:28:56 +0000

Physicians and scientists have often called the human body a beautiful instrument. The sense in which this metaphor is applied is primarily mechanistic. The human body is a beautiful instrument in that its parts mesh properly and each component performs its function superbly.

The metaphor “beautiful instrument” can be also be interpreted from the perspective of music. Just as playing the piano, the cello, or the saxophone can create wonderful tones, harmonies, and melodies, the workings of the human body may also create beautiful music.

The movements of the planets, stars, and constellations have been termed the “music of the spheres”. Patterns of motion of the celestial bodies are precise, regular, and harmonious. These reliable patterns allow sailors to navigate safely and confidently on the open ocean, and allow farmers to determine their planting seasons with high levels of accuracy.

The human body, as awe-inspiring and as beautiful as the Eagle Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy, or the rings of Saturn, possesses internal mechanisms as precise and complex as those astronomers are able to observe in the deepest regions of space. The music the body creates is similarly as beautiful.

In music, a major chord is a simultaneous combination of three notes – the root, a major third, and a perfect fifth. If you want to play a C major chord you strike (or hold) a C, an E, and a G. If you’re playing an F major chord, you play an F, an A, and a C. In a sense, this system describes a musical code. Your body has many such codes.

The genetic code is one example. Every protein in your body is composed of a precise sequence of amino acids. Substitute glycine for valine or glutamine for serine and you’ve got a completely different protein. Precision in manufacture means your body works the way it is supposed to work, with no errors or failures.

Proteins such as hemoglobin or insulin are built exactly the same way every time. This level of 100% accuracy is made possible by the genetic code. Each amino acid that makes up hemoglobin or insulin has its own corresponding genetic sequence which is composed of three pieces of information – just like a major chord. ¹

We can say that wellness is a state of physiologic harmony. ^2,3 We become unwell when we’re “out of tune”. At such a time our internal chords aren’t being played properly – “notes” aren’t being put together properly or are being played out of sequence.
Chiropractic care can help restore musical balance.

By making sure the spine is in alignment, chiropractic care helps restore precision and harmony to all the functions of the body. Proteins are built properly, enzymes function at the right time and in the right proportion, biochemical reactions take place efficiently, and health and wellness is the result.

¹Martinez-Mekler G, et al: Universality of rank-ordering distributions in the arts and sciences. Public Library of Science (PLOS) Mar 19, 2009 (http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0004791)
²Heber D: An integrative view of obesity. Am J Clin Nutr Nov 18, 2009 (abstract online – http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2009.28473Bv1)
³Endler PC, et al: Sense of coherence and physical health. A “Copenhagen interpretation” of Antonovsky’s SOC concept. Sci World J 20(8):451-453, 2008