Did You Know..?

Dr Paul Welton of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health states, “If a drug has some beneficial effect, it is likely to have some adverse effect.”
- USA Today 1994
Americans spend $70 billion per year on drugs and $73 billion to treat the side effects of the drugs.
-USA Today 1999
There’s nothing medical doctors can do that the human body can’t do by itself, given time.
-British Medical Journal, No. 7104 Volume 315, 1997
The movement of the spine generates 90% of the stimulation and nutrition to the brain. This would be analogous to a windmill generating electricity.
- Dr Roger Sperry, Noble prize recipient for brain research
“Health” is a condition of wholeness in which all the organs of the body function 100% all of the time.
- Webster’s Dictionary
Every function of the human body is under the control of the nervous system. Its function is to coordinate all the other organs and structures and to relate the individual to its environment.
- Grays Anatomy
Spinal manipulation is the best treatment for acute low back pain.
-Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Over 600 million patients in the past year (as of the end of 1998) have chosen to treat such ailments as back problems, anxiety, depression, sprains, strains, insomnia, etc. without medication. Instead these patients have chosen chiropractic.
- USA Today 2000
The cost for medical care is significantly higher for back injury than when treated by chiropractic care. - Journal of Occupational Medicine 1991
Medical treatment for a back injury in this country cost 8 ½ times more than chiropractic care for the same injury.
- US Department of Commerce 1996
Taking more than 1000 acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil) in a lifetime of more 365 per year appears to double the odds of developing kidney disease.
- New England Journal of Medicine
The neck plays an important, but largely ignored role in the manifestation of adult headaches.
- Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 1992
PMS affects 50% of women of childbearing age. Severe cases of PMS disappeared after chiropractic treatment.
- Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 1991
Case study after 11 chiropractic adjustments the frequency of hot flashes declined.
- Journal of Vertebral Subluxation 1996
63% of chronic arthritis sufferers use “complimentary and alternative medicine”. Chiropractic was the #1 choice of these therapies with 31% trying chiropractic at least once. 73% of the patients in the study found chiropractic helpful.
- Annals of Internal Medicine 1999
Consumer Report documents a study of 316 babies with infantile colic who were treated with spinal adjustments. “Almost all were better within two weeks.”
- Consumer Report
The chiropractic patient has a 200% greater immune-competency than people who had not received chiropractic care.
- Dr Ronald Pero, Ph.D, New York University
Scientists have found that stress can suppress the immune system. There is convincing evidence that the brain communicates with the immune system and the immune system talks with the brain.
- Lexing Herald-Leader, 1989
Regular adjustments can make pregnancy less stressful and delivery more comfortable.
- ACA Journal of Chiropractic, 1989
Posture is one of the most overlooked keys to better health. It improves our emotions, fitness, and ability to think. It can actually reverse the aging process.
- Newsday, 1995
Cause of subluxations: Birth process, trauma, stress (emotional, chemical, physical), poor nutrition, poor posture. Interference to the nervous system results in permanent damage in a short period of time and, therefore, chiropractic care should begin at birth on a preventative basis.
- Dr Apnad DeNagy, Rockefeller Institute
Intellegence is present everywhere in our bodies…our own intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.
- Deepak Chopra, MD
If you don’t take time in your life for exercise and health, then you have to take time later for illness and immobilization. The choice is yours.
- Dr Wayne Dyer
Many people spend the first half of their life making money and ignoring their health. In the second half of life, they spend this money trying to regain their health.
- Emmett Miller, MD