Advanced Health Session(Your Next Level!)

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As your understanding grows, so do YOU!

• A core purpose that drives our office is educating our patients and community about their health.

• We encourage you to ask questions.• We encourage you to share this

information.• We appreciate you being here!

To Review from Our 1st Class

(the 7 secrets)

• Secret #1- Sick care is not health care. You must know the difference.

• Secret #2 – Pain, although unpleasant to experience, is a necessary biological process for survival and alerts us to the fact that something has changed.

• Secret #3 – The nervous system is the master system of our body - controlling all perceptions and functions. We live our lives through our nervous systems.

To review….• Secret #4 - Vertebral subluxations are a

sign of interference to the nervous system and are a primary focus of chiropractors. They can disturb the function of various systems of the body, reduce health status, and, if uncorrected, can lead to a serious decline in health.

• Secret #5 – Lifestyle stress in three dimensions (physical, biochemical and psychological) causes negative effects on our nervous systems.

• Secret #6 – Our chiropractic vision is to monitor the nervous system with the Insight technology – certified by the Space Foundation – adjust the spine to release patterns of subluxation when we find them, and make recommendations for better lifestyle choices so that you can reduce subluxations and nervous system stress. In addition, we have a passion to educate our patients and community to the unique benefits of chiropractic care so they may lead healthier, more fulfilling lives.

To review….

To review….• Secret #7 – The key to success in

regaining your health and/or living a healthy, age-defying life is for you to take responsibility for your health and well-being. Do not leave it in the hands of 3rd parties (like insurance companies) who don’t have your best interests at heart.

Let’s see what science

has shown!

Sick Care vs. Health Care

“Although the practice of medicine is a very valuable service to our culture, it is not health care, it is sick care. When you take sick care and apply it to society as health care, you end up with a sick society. This is why we have a health care crisis in our culture.”

Patrick Gentempo, Jr., DC CEO - Chiropractic Leadership Alliance

In the United States• There is a “health care crisis.”

• The number one killer – nearly 1 million deaths annually (National Vital Statistic Report) – in the country is cardiovascular disease, a very preventable LIFESTYLE disease.

• Many times the intervention kills us, rather than helps us. (i.e. Vioxx caused as many as 60,000 deaths) (David Graham, M.D. of the FDA)

• Over 100,000 people per year die as a result of prescription drugs that are properly prescribed. (JAMA)

The Economics of Illness• The crisis deals with more than the fact that

we are sicker as a culture - there is also a serious economic crisis.

• The U.S. spends over $2 trillion per year on sick care – that’s over $6,500 for every man, woman, and child.

• Over 50% of all personal bankruptcies are a result of health-related problems.

• Despite this soaring investment, the U.S. ranks 37th in the world regarding health system performance according to the W.H.O. (World Health Organization).

Diagnostic Findingsin 14 Common Symptoms

AMJ Med, 1989, 86(3): 262

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Where is the wisdom? David Eddy, M.D., Ph.D.

Only about 15% of medical interventions are supported by scientific evidence…this is partly because only 1% of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound.

BMJ, 1991, 303:798

Error in Medicine

“180,000 die each year partly as a result of iatrogenic injury, the equivalent of three jumbo-jet crashes every 2 days.”

Lucian L. Leape, M.D.

JAMA, December 21, 1994, Vol. 272, No. 23, p. 1851

The Incidence of Adverse Events

In its 2000 report, To Err is Human, the Institute of Medicine concluded that between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths per year occur in United States hospitals as a result of error. These data have resulted in calls for further research, regulatory interventions, third-party payer involvement, and health care organization initiatives to improve this situation. Studies of pediatric inpatients suggest that medication-related harm occurs at a rate as high as 11.1 per 100 admissions, and hospital-related harm occurs in high risk neonatal ICUs at a rate of 74 per 100 admissions.

Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94070, USA. psharek@lpch.org

Adverse Events and Preventable Adverse Events in Children

CONCLUSIONS: This data suggest that approximately 70,000 children hospitalized in the United States experience an adverse event each year; 60% of these events may be preventable. The epidemiology of adverse events and preventable adverse events in children is different than in adults. To reduce the adverse events that occur in hospitalized children, research should focus on adolescent hospitalized patients, birth-related medical care, and diagnostics in pediatric medicine.

Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 339 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, USA, woods@northwestern.edu

Pediatrics, Jan. 2005

JAMA, 1998, 279:1200 and 1216 • Medications, potentially life-saving when used against

illness, also can be dangerous and sometimes lethal. In this analysis, the investigators determine the proportion of patients hospitalized in the United States who are affected by serious or fatal drug reactions defined as a noxious, unintended, or undesired effect of a drug that occurs at therapeutic doses.

• The overall rate of serious adverse drug reactions (ADR's) was 6.7% of hospitalized patients. The authors estimated that in 1994 overall 2,216,000 hospitalized patients had serious ADR's and 106,000 had fatal ADR's, making these reactions the fifth leading cause of death.

Medical Care is the Third Leading Cause of Death in

the U.S. ALL THESE ARE DEATHS PER YEAR:

• 12,000 – unnecessary surgeries

• 7,000 – medication errors in hospitals

• 20,000 – other errors in hospitals

• 80,000 – infections in hospitals

• 106,000 – non-error, negative effects of drugs

These total 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes!!

JAMA, July 26, 2000

A SAMPLING OF CHIROPRACTIC

RESEARCH DATA

Blood Pressure

21 hypertensive patients

T1-T5 adjustments. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure decreased significantly in the adjusted group, but not in the placebo and control groups.

Yates RG, Lamping, DL, Abram NL, Wright C: Effects of chiropractic treatment on blood pressure and anxiety: a randomized, controlled trial. JMPT, 1988, 11(6):484

Significant Changes in Systolic Blood Pressure Post Vectored Upper Cervical Adjustment…

CONCLUSION: 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. JMPT, Feb. 2001

Ulcers11 ulcer patients received chiropractic care. They were compared to 24 cases treated medically. The chiropractic group experienced remission demonstrated endoscopically, and pain relief, an average of 10 days earlier than traditional care.

Pikalov AA, Kharin VV: Use of spinal manipulative therapy in the treatment of

duodenal ulcer: a pilot study. JMPT, 1994, 17(5):310.

Dysmenorrhea

45 subjects: Experimental and “sham” control group.

Conclusion: SMT (chiropractic adjustments) may be an effective and safe non-pharmacological alternative for relieving the pain and distress of primary dysmenorrhea.

Kokjohn K, Schmid DM, Triano JJ, Brennan PC: The effect of spinal manipulation on pain and prostoglandin levels in women with primary dysmenorrhea. JMPT, 1992, c15(5):279.

Infantile Colic

A satisfactory result occurred within 2 weeks in 94% of cases receiving chiropractic care.

Klougart N, Nilsson N, Jacobsen J: Infantile colic treated by chiropractors: a prospective study of 316 cases. JMPT, 1989, 12(4):281.

Senior Citizens Over 65 Years of Age

Had “maintenance care” for 5 years or longer:

• 50% fewer medical provider visits

• 31% of national average for health care services

• 95.8% felt care “considerably” or “extremely” valuable

Rupert, Manello and Sandefur. JMPT, 2000, 23(1):10.

Quality of Life

2,818 respondents in 156 practices:

• 95% reported their expectations had been met

• 99% wished to continue careBlanks, Shuster and Dobson. JVSR, 1997, 1(4):15.

Two Paradigms

Allopathic Chiropractic

Goal Prevention and early detection of disease

Maximize the expression of innate potential

Strategy Passive Active

Motive Fear Empowerment

Practitioner role Dominant Partner/Coach

How delivered Event Process

Temporal profile Episodic Lifetime

Criteria Based on "normal" values and epidemiologic data

Goals set by the individual

Basic Science

DNA Repair in Health & Risk Assessment

Oxidative Stress and DNA Repair

• Serum thiol levels reflect DNA repair capacity, since a key DNA repair enzyme, poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP), is thiol/disulfide redox regulated.

• Serum thiol - a surrogate predictor of DNA repair.

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Disease Controls Short term Long term

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Case StudyKevin came in with lack of energy, headaches, high blood pressure and aches and pain in his neck and low back. His initial NSFi score was 53.79. After 3 months of care, his NSFi improved to 81.48. Kevin’s headaches are gone. His blood pressure was lower. His energy was “as if he were 20 again” and he had much less discomfort in his neck and low back. He continues regular adjustments now on a wellness schedule.

There is Intelligence in the Universe… and in Your Body

Specificity - Improbability that a pattern occurs• Age of the Universe

1010 Years or 1018 Seconds• Specificity of hemoglobin

10650

• Specificity of DNA in a T4 cell

1078,000

David Foster, The Philosophical Scientists, 1993

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