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Chiropractic Care for Veterans: Are There Benefits?

Regardless of where you come from, National Service is both a national honour, a patriotic act, and a unique vocation in that there are specific ailments that make healthcare for veterans distinct from many other groups. A 2018 report listed the most common medically diagnosed symptoms for current and transitioned (retired or remustered) defence force…

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Towards Trauma Informed Chiropractic Care

In chiropractic circles, we often talk about trauma, toxins and stress as the core underlying substrates of the subluxation. While we recognise that these three things can be physical, chemical, emotional or mental, it isn’t often we stop to think about another factor: the trauma that arises from adverse events in childhood – collectively called…

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Reliable Detection of Subluxation: the Ultrasound Edition

In chiropractic circles, the topic of subluxation is core business. We check for subluxation. We adjust subluxation. We research its identification and impact. While some people believe it to be some mystical figment of the imagination, the truth is that subluxation is something that can be reliably detected using varying methods – and adjusting it…

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Mental Health

New Pilot Study Examines Chiropractic’s Effect on EEG in Adults with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease

Have you ever wondered if chiropractic adjustments could help people with brain conditions like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease? It’s a big question to ponder as we attempt to unlock the secrets of living longer and healthier. We know that neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are becoming increasingly prevalent due to aging populations, and…

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Retracing: What is it and Why Does it Occur?

Making progress in any area of life can often feel like taking one step forward and two steps back, and this can be true in chiropractic care too. This feeling of having to repeatedly achieve the same milestones in progress is referred to as “retracing”. Like many historical concepts, the mechanisms underpinning this phenomena haven’t…

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Torticollis in Adults? Can Chiropractic Help?

Torticollis is a condition we hear of a lot in chiropractic circles. It’s characterised by muscle spasms (or cramps) that cause your neck to pull to one side. In fact, that’s how it earned its colloquial name – “twisted neck.” While chiropractors are likely to attest that they hear of it regularly in clinical practice,…

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Sleep, mood and resilience: new case report asks, can chiropractic help?

As research starts to delve further and further into the world of non-musculoskeletal possibilities in the world of chiropractic, a new theme is taking its place under the proverbial microscope. This theme goes right to the heart of chiropractic – if chiropractic reduces subluxation so the nervous system can better self-heal and self-regulate, can this…

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Chiropractic and Paediatric Hearing Loss – new case report

While we have seen some evidence that chiropractic may assist in managing ear infections (technically called otitis media), with case reports and systematic reviews churning out varying levels of evidence of positive paediatric outcomes, hearing loss is a much more severe issue. On that, we have less evidence. Therefore, the question “Can chiropractic help with…

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New Study Measures the Force of Chiropractic Adjustments

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: chiropractors don’t ‘crack’ backs and necks. We carefully adjust, often in gentle ways (depending on the needs and nervous system of the person under care). But beyond the experience of getting adjusted, what can we actually say about the force measures used to deliver…

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Vertebral Subluxation and Systems Biology: Mammoth new paper takes on neuroendocrine and immune interface through chiropractic lens

How far can the effects of subluxation-based chiropractic care reach? It’s a question that goes to the heart of chiropractic as well as its philosophy, art, and science. It’s also been a highly political question, with some chiropractic peak bodies making controversial statements about whether chiropractic could support better immune function. It was a statement…

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Chiropractic and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: New Case Report

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is commonly defined as a “functional bowel condition” diagnosed based on various criteria, including the presence of abdominal pain and changes in bowel habits, with either predominantly diarrhoea (IBS-D), constipation (IBS-C), or a combination of both (IBS-M)both (IBS-M)M Currently, definitive biomarkers for diagnosis haven’t been identified, so diagnosis relies on clinical…

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