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Explore                        Mike Headlee, D.C.

Chiropractic

Newsletter

223 Third Street NW                                       Phone: 218-333-8811

Bemidji, MN  56601                                        Fax:     218-333-8813

www.explorechiropractic.com

January 2007

Welcome to our office's Chiropractic newsletter. We'd like to entertain you, inform you and even inspire you a little. Our Mission is:  To foster, promote, and inspire health excellence to the people of Beltrami County.

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

– Charles Dickens

Have a wonderful New Year!

May this next year be a time for renewal, health, healing, peace and insight.  Thank you for joining our practice and letting us introduce you, your friends and family to the wonders of chiropractic and the world of natural healthcare.  If we haven’t seen you in a while please stop by for a checkup. Your body will thank you.

Chiropractic Continues to Grow in Popularity You are part of a growing trend. More people are visiting chiropractors and non-drug healthcare providers than ever and its use has especially caught on with younger people. For example, a Harvard Medical School study shows that non-medical and holistic healthcare is becoming a permanent part of our society. By age 33, 7 out of 10 people born between 1965 and 1979 used some form of drug-free healthcare. For people born before 1945, the number is 3 out of ten. Of the people who had tried a drug-free care, nearly 50% were still using it 11-20 years later. It’s not a passing fad. (1)

Your Parts are Connected to your Spine

Most of your internal organs, muscles and glands receive a nerve supply from your brain and spine. To stay at your healthiest, your spine needs to be balanced and free of spinal distortions that cause nerve stress. Do you have spinal nerve stress?

Chiropractors are especially trained to locate spinal nerve stress (called vertebral subluxations) and to correct subluxations using the science and art of the chiropractic spinal adjustment. In order for all your body parts to work at their fullest, for your resistance to disease to be high and for you to have the energy and strength to heal yourself fully, bring in your spine for a chiropractic spinal checkup. It’s a great thing for everyone to do – young and old. We adjust spines while you wait!

Breastfeeding
“Breast is best” is now accepted beyond all doubt as the best thing for babies. Studies show that it’s also a very good thing for mothers. In fact, mothers who breast-feed have a lower risk of getting breast cancer and (2) breast-fed babies have a decreased risk of getting breast cancer when they grow up. (3) Exposure to breast milk in infancy and the risk of breast cancer in infants who were exclusively breast-fed for 16 weeks or more had a 50% lower rate of acute otitis media. (4)

If breastfeeding is natural feeding then formula feeding is artificial feeding. Obstetrician Mayer Eisenstein writes: "Formula is no magic concoction. Anyone who reads the ingredients on a can of infant formula will see that it is simply a recipe of cow's milk, sugar and water." Although hospital personnel will assure you that pasteurized cow's milk, refined sugar, and chlorinated tap water is an adequate substitute for breast milk, there is no evidence (none) that this is true and mountains of evidence that infant formula can be detrimental to your baby's health.

Whiplash and Chiropractic

With all the slips, falls and auto accidents that occur this time of the year we should tell a little about whiplash. Whiplash is not really a disease like arthritis or high blood pressure but a description of how an injury occurred. When a person suffers a whiplash injury he or she is telling you that their spine, usually their head and neck, were unexpectedly thrown very quickly in one direction and then rebounded in the opposite direction. Their head was "whipped around" on their neck usually front to back, but it can also happen from a side to side motion of the neck as well. (5) To complicate matters, if their head is rotated even a slight bit to the right or left during the accident the effects of the injury are increased.
Where is Whiplash Damage? The vast majority of whiplash sufferers misalign their neck's spinal bones (cervical vertebrae) and cause nerve, joint, ligament, tendon, muscle and disc stress, irritation or damage.
Chiropractors have a special name to describe this type of condition – a vertebral subluxation. Research is revealing it to be the most common source of pain and discomfort from whiplash injuries. (6) Not too long ago a respected medical journal finally stated what chiropractors (and chiropractic patients) have known over a century: “Chiropractic is the only proven effective treatment in chronic cases.” (7)

References
1. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2001;135:262-268. 2. Neucomb et al. Lactation and reduced risk of pre menopausal breast cancer. New England J of Medicine. 1994;330(2):81-87. 3. Freudenheim M et al. Epidemiology. 1994;5:324-331. 4. Sheard. Breast-feeding protects against otitis media. Nutrition Reviews. 51(9):275-277. 5. Cailliet R. Neck and Arm Pain. Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Co. 1979:64.
6. Lord WM, Barnsley L, Wallis BJ, Bogduk N. Chronic cervical zygopophysial joint pain after whiplash: a placebo-controlled prevalence study. Spine. 1996;21:1737-1745.
7. S Kahn, J Cook, M Gargan, G Bannister. Asymptomatic classification of whiplash injury and the implications for the treatment. The Journal of Orthopedic Medicine. 1999;2(91).

Explore Chiropractic’s Mission:  To foster, promote, and inspire health excellence to the people of Beltrami County.

2011 Bemidji Wellness Challenge:

Sign up for this year’s Challenge today.  You don’t want to miss this amazing event that starts February 7^th at the BSU Rec center.  With your $99 registration fee you get:

• 3 workouts per week at BSU
• 10 Health related workshops
• 3 coaching sessions
• 10 meditation classes
• Yoga classes
• Qigong classes
• A way to improve your life and win $1000

Call us today 333-8811 or print off the registration form from our website at www.explorechiropractic.com