Who Uses
Chiropractic?
Everyone! Chiropractic is helpful for
health maintenance, disease prevention, correction of dis-ease, and alleviation of symptoms (such as back
pains, headaches, etc.) across man's life span— from pregnancy to infancy to childhood, adulthood, and late
adulthood!
Chiropractic For Children
Chiropractors feel strongly that the
entire family can benefit by having spinal check-ups.
The children who have been under
regular chiropractic care get sick less often and less severely. They rarely miss days from school. Recent studies
have also shown that they have fewer emotional and learning disabilities and other neurological problems connected
with childhood.
In 1989, a study compared the patients
of two-hundred pediatricians with two-hundred children who had been under the care of chiropractors. Not only was
the overall health of the children superior to those who had known only medical treatment, but they also had fewer
ear infections, fewer allergies, lower incidence of tonsilitis, and less need to be given antibiotic
therapy.
Chiropractic For Elderly
Dr. Maria Fiatarone affiliated with Tufts University and Harvard
Medical School conducted a study in which nine seniors, ranging from age 86 to 96, worked out with a weight machine
3x a week. They increased the strength of their quadriceps by an average of 174%. As one 92-year-old woman said,
"They made a new person out of me."
Not only is physical health maintainable, but so is mental health. In
his best-selling book, Quantum Healing, Deepak Chopra states that:
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"Careful study of healthy elderly
people... has revealed that 80% of healthy Americans, barring psychological distress (such as
loneliness, depression, or lack of outside stimulation), suffer no significant memory loss as they
age. The ability to retain new information can decline... but the ability to remember past events,
called long-term memory, actually improves.
As long as a person stays mentally active,
he/she will remain as intelligent as in youth and middle age."
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Click this link to see Medical Approach
to Caring for Elderly.
Reference: Rondberg, T., Chiropractic First,
The Chiropractic Journal, 1998
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