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Recommended Links & Other Resources
Use these recommended links to help you explore more about chiropractic care and the Gonstead technique.
The Gonstead Seminar for Chiropractic offers information about the history of Gonstead chiropractic as well as provides reasons why you should think about choosing a chiropractor who practices the Gonstead technique.
http://www.gonsteadseminar.com
Chiropractic and Health is an independent website that showcases the latest research news articles so you can stay up to date on chiropractic care.
http://www.chiropracticresearch.org/
The Gonstead Clinical Studies Society addresses the benefits of the Gonstead technique from proven research.
http://www.gonstead.com
Wondering how to choose your chiropractor? Spine-Health.com offers an article that explains the role of a chiropractor in your care and what to look for to find a chiropractor that fits you.
http://www.spine-health.com/topics/conserv/chiroselect/chiroselect01.html
Chiropractic care has made numerous advancements. When it comes to your health, it is important to stay explore the latest research findings.
Asthma and Antibiotics.
"Children during their first year of life are prescribed antibiotics for many reasons, primarily ear infections and respiratory infections. Many of these illnesses turn out to be viral in nature, and so the antibiotics are unnecessary. Now there may be another reason to avoid antibiotics.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia examined studies of data from more than 12,000 children and 1, 800 asthma cases and found that children who took at least one course of antibiotics when they were under one year old were more than twice as likely to develop asthma as children who never took antibiotics. When they analyzed the effect of the number of courses of antibiotics a child took on that child's developing asthma ("does-response"), they examined studies of data from more than 27, 000 children and 3,300 asthma cases and found that each additional course of antibiotics increased the odds for developing asthma by 16%. The researchers used prospective and retrospective studies that were published in English-language literature from the past thirty years." Sagall, Richard J., M.D. Pediatrics for Parents, 23, 2. Feb 2007.
The Windsor Autopsies.
Henry Winsor, M.D. questioned chiropractic care. "Chiropractors claim that by 'adjusting' vertebrae, they can relieve stomach troubles, ulcers, menstrual cramps, thyroid conditions, kidney disease, constipation, heart disease, lung and other diseases-but how?" He decided to perform an experiment: he dissected human and animal cadavers to see if there was a relationship between any diseased internal organs discovered on autopsy and the vertebrae and nerves that went to the organs.
The University of Pennsylvania gave Dr. Winsor permission to carry out his experiments. In a series of three studies he dissected a total of 75 human and 72 cat cadavers and round 221 structures other than the spine, were diseased. He found a nearly 100% correlation between "minor curvatures" of the vertebrae and diseases of the internal organs. Here are a list of his findings:
- Heart Disease: All 20 cases with heart and pericardium conditions had the upper five thoracic vertebrae misaligned (T1-5).
- Lung Disease: All 26 cases of lung disease had spinal misalignments in the upper thoracic area.
- Stomach Disease: All nine cases of spinal misalignment in the mid-thoracic (T5-9) area had stomach disease.
- Liver Disease: All 13 cases of liver disease had misalignments in the mid-thoracic area (T5-9).
- Gallbladder: All five cases with gallstone disease had spinal misalignments in the mid-thoracic area (T5-9).
- Pancreas: All three cases with pancreatic disease had spinal misalignments in the mid-thoracic area (T5-9).
- Spleen: All 11 cases with spleen disease had spinal misalignments in the mid-thoracic area (T5-9).
- Kidney: All 17 cases with kidney disease were out of alignment in the lower thoracic area (T10-12).
- Prostate and Bladder Disease: All eight cases with prostate and bladder disease had the lumbar vertebrae misaligned (L1-3).
- Uterus: The two cases with uterine conditions had the second lumbar misaligned.
Dr. Winsor's results were published in the The Medical Times. Other researchers have confirmed his discovery. Today medical literature contains many experiments proving chiropractic's theory and effectiveness. Dr. Henry Winsor's insights and research are valuable indeed.
Winsor, H. Sympathetic segmental disturbances - II. The evidence of the association, in dissected cadavers, of visceral disease with vertebrae deformities of the same sympathetic segments. Medical Times, Nov. 1921, 49, pp. 267-271.
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