Bjork Family Chiropractic

Gentle Care for the Whole Family

Chiropractic, it’s not just for back pain.

Description:“Low-force chiropractic adjustment in the cervical and thoracic areas resulted in a consistent reduction of the body surface EMF after 4 weeks of active treatment.”

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Links to Interesting Articles (More links to come)

The Effect of Low Force Chiropractic Adjustments for 4 Weeks on Body Surface Electromagnetic Field

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Description:  21 Children with otitis media received 3-6 adjustments in two weeks and here is the result: After the low-force “chiropractic adjustment, the red and bulging tympanic membrane returned to normal in 95% of the children and a decrease in average oral temperature to 98.6oF ± 0.774.”

 

Description:  “Serum thiols are a measure of human health status. It is a surrogate estimate of DNA repair enzyme activity”  “Asymptomatic or primary wellness subjects under chiropractic care demonstrated higher mean serum thiol levels than patients with active disease and produced some values that were higher than normal wellness values.

Effect of the Low Force Chiropractic Adjustments for Children with Acute Otitis Media

Description:  “The average response of the treatment group showed statistically significant improvement in migraine frequency, duration, disability, and medication use.”  

Description:  “A study was conducted on 55 patients in the private office setting to assess the influence of upper cervical adjustments on pulmonary function… This study indicates that subjects show improved pulmonary function in FVC and FEV-1 after receiving chiropractic care for the correction of upper cervical vertebral subluxation.

Description:  In the article’s Summary and Discussion they write “...improvement in visual acuity appears to be linked to correction of vertebral subluxations.”

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Surrogate Indication of DNA Repair in Serum After Long Term Chiropractic Intervention – A Retrospective Study
A randomized controlled trial of chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy for migraine
Changes in Pulmonary Function Associated with Upper Cervical Specific Chiropractic Care
Changes in Visual Acuity in Patients Receiving Upper Cervical Specific Chiropractic Care

Description:  “The results indicate that palpation and vectored atlas adjustment causes a significant decrease in systolic blood pressure in patients with putative upper cervical subluxation/joint dysfunction in comparison with resting controls.”

Description:  25 Infants in the Chiropractic Adjustment group, 25 infants in the dimethicone treatment group… “From trial day 5 onward the manipulation group did significantly better that the dimethicone group…  Spinal manipulation is effective in relieving infantile colic. ”

Description:  Chiropractic and Infertility.  More and more case studies are being published noting a link between the two.  Further study needs to be done but these results are promising.

Description:  12 experienced golfers, wearing custom-fit orthotics for 6 weeks experienced “an approximate increase in CHV(Club Head Velocity) of between 3 and 5 mph… a 5-mph increase in CHV is equivalent to an approximate increase in golf ball travel distance of 15 yards. 

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Significant changes in systolic blood pressure post vectored upper cervical adjustment vs resting control groups: A possible effect of the cervicosympathetic and/or pressor reflex
The short-term effect of spinal manipulation in the treatment of infantile colic: A randomized controlled clinical trial with a blinded observer
Link to 12 article abstracts about chiropractic care and infertility
Effects of orthotic intervention and nine holes of simulated golf on club-head velocity in experienced golfers