Startling News: Medical Error Misdiagnosis Kill Up To 80,000 People A Year
What a Sensational Eye Catching Headline, don’t you think? According to a study recently published in the March 11, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, misdiagnosis accounts for 40,000 to 80,000 deaths PER YEAR. misdiagnosis accounts for 40,000 to 80,000 deaths PER YEAR. And tort claims for diagnostic errors – defined as diagnoses that are missed, wrong, or delayed, are nearly twice as common as common claims for medication errors. Any way you want to look at it, that’s a lot of deaths. And when you add these deaths to the 1.5 million injuries and deaths per year caused by medication errors, you’ve got a huge problem. World Health Organization (WHO) ranks our health care system 37th Click To Tweet I bring this to your attention because a lot of people think our health care...
Read MoreThe Health Benefits of Red Wine
more proof that moderate red wine consumption is healthy. Red wine contains nutrients called polyphenols. For the past several years there have been reports about the health benefits of drinking red wine. Here is more proof that moderate red wine consumption is healthy. Red wine contains nutrients called polyphenols. And while some health conscious people take nutritional supplements to get these grape compounds, recent research is showing that the best way to get these nutrients is to drink red wine. The reason for this is red wine contains the entire group of polyphenol nutrients, a group that has been shown to work much better synergistically. Nutritional supplements on the other hand do not contain the entire group of polyphenols. One cool thing to know is that new research from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine is showing...
Read MoreThe Truth About Eggs And Cholesterol
The myth that eating eggs increases cholesterol levels has been busted! If you like eating eggs, then I’ve got good news for you! According to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Surrey and published in the Nutritional Bulletin of the British Heart Foundation, eating eggs has virtually no effect on cholesterol levels. In other words, eating eggs does not raise your cholesterol level. eating #eggs has virtually no effect on #cholesterol levels Click To Tweet The researchers reviewed several different studies on eggs and nutrition and concluded that eggs did not contribute to the body’s cholesterol levels. Although eggs are a high cholesterol food, the researchers note that only one-third of the body’s cholesterol comes from your diet. only one-third of the body’s #cholesterol comes from the #diet Click To Tweet Bruce Griffin, one of...
Read MoreNew Research on Chiropractic Care and Colic
Anglo-European College of Chiropractic has shown that chiropractic care provides a lot of benefit for children who have colic. crying was significantly reduced by about 2 hours on average. Four weeks later, colic had disappeared in 82% of the children (infants) undergoing chiropractic care. I was doing some research online the other day and found some information that I thought worthy to share with you. I know that many of my patients are either parents or grandparents, and if you aren’t, this is still important information to know. A recent study done late last year at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic has shown that chiropractic care provides a lot of benefit for children who have colic. If you’re not sure what colic is, it’s generally defined as persistent crying, not likely to be soothed by a caring parent, mainly...
Read MoreAdjusting Instrument Research part 5: Impulse VS Activator
The forces and time profile of the electromechanical devices resulted in a more uniform and greater energy dynamic frequency response in comparison to the spring-loaded mechanical adjusting instruments. #electromechanical #impulse #adjusting #instrument has better force time #acceleration than the… Click To Tweet OBJECTIVE: To quantify the force-time and force-delivery characteristics of six commonly used handheld chiropractic adjusting devices. METHODS: Four spring-loaded instruments, the Activator Adjusting Instrument; Activator II Adjusting Instrument, Activator III Adjusting Instrument, and Activator IV Adjusting Instrument, and two electromechanical devices, the Harrison Handheld Adjusting Instrument and Neuromechanical Impulse Adjusting Instrument, were applied to a dynamic load cell. A total of 10 force-time histories were obtained at each of three force excursion settings (minimum to maximum) for each of the six adjusting instruments at preload of approximately 20 N. RESULTS: The minimum-to-maximum force excursion settings for the...
Read MoreAdjusting Instrument Research part 4: Multiple Thrusts, More Spinal Motion
Impulse brand adjusting instrument have found that multiple impulse thrusts create more intersegmental spinal motion. Increased multiaxial lumbar spinal motion responses during multiple-impulse mechanical force manually assisted spinal manipulation. multiple #thrusts by #impulse #adjusting #instruments create more #spinalMotion Click To Tweet BACKGROUND: Spinal manipulation has been found to create demonstrable segmental and intersegmental spinal motion thought to be biomechanically related to its mechanisms. In the case of impulsive-type instrument device comparisons, significant differences in the force-time characteristics and concomitant motion responses of spinal manipulative instruments have been reported, but studies investigating the response to multiple thrusts (multiple impulse trains) have not been conducted. The purpose of this study was to determine multi-axial segmental and intersegmental spinal motion responses of ovine lumbar vertebrae to single impulse and multiple impulse spinal manipulative thrusts (SMTs). METHODS: Fifteen adolescent Merino sheep were examined....
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