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Do Cortisone Shots Make Things Worse?

A major new article review recently published in The Lancet reveals what many in the natural health profession have suspected for a long time.  The review examined the results of over 40 randomized trials and over 2500 patients with tendon injuries. The reviewers found that cortisone injections did in fact provide fast and significant pain relief compared with doing nothing or partaking in physical therapy. However, cortisone shots did not heal the structural damage underlying the pain. Instead, they actually hindered the structural healing.

When patients who received cortisone injections were re-examined at 6 and 12 months, the results were alarming. Overall, people who received cortisone shots had a much lower rate of full recovery than those who did nothing or who underwent physical therapy. Continue reading “Do Cortisone Shots Make Things Worse?”

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True Health Care Reform

Patients’ Regular Utilization of Chiropractic Care REDUCES the need for:

HOSPITALIZATION by 60%

HOSPITAL DAYS by 59%

PHARMACEUTICAL USAGE by 85%

OUTPATIENT SURGERIES & PROCEDURES by 62%

OVERALL GLOBAL HEALTHCARE COST by 50%

Most importantly, these statistics come not from a chiropractic study done by chiropractors, this is according to a clinical and cost utilization study conducted by an independent physician association done over a 7-year period, that includes doctors of ALL licenses. (JMPT Volume 20, Issue 4, Pgs 263-269, by Richard Sarnat, M.D.) Continue reading “True Health Care Reform”

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ADHD: Change in Diet Helps More Than Drugs

A new study published in the Lancet, shows that a restrictive diet helps children with ADHD more than drugs.

The study’s lead author, Dr. Lidy Pelsser of the ADHD Research Centre in the Netherlands, writes in The Lancet that the disorder is triggered in many cases by external factors — and those can be treated through changes to one’s environment.

In an interview with NPR, she explains further:

“ADHD, it’s just a couple of symptoms — it’s not a disease,”According to Pelsser, 64 percent of children diagnosed with ADHD are actually experiencing a hypersensitivity to food. Researchers determined that by starting kids on a very elaborate diet, then restricting it over a few weeks’ time. Continue reading “ADHD: Change in Diet Helps More Than Drugs”

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Good Friends = Good Health

Not that you needed any more excuses to build that sweet man cave or to schedule a girls night out, but now new research shows that maintaining good friendships is actually good for your health. A recent story in the Washington Post looked at the relationship between having strong friendships and the impact on your health.

It turns out, strong social ties may help stave off memory loss as you age, reduce stress, boost immunity, help you lose weight and keep it off, and buffer against depression, among other health benefits.

There’s also a strong longevity link, says Carl Latkin, a professor of social and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: “If you have supportive relationships, you’re going to live longer.” A 2010 review of nearly 150 studies that was published in PLoS Medicine found that people with strong social ties had a 50 percent better chance of survival, regardless of age, sex, health status and cause of death, than those with weaker ties. Continue reading “Good Friends = Good Health”
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Diet Soda, Aspirin, & Your Health

"Pills with million side effects, Take them when the pain's felt. Wash them down with diet soda, killing off your brain cells" -Lupe Fiasco

A quote from a rapper – on a Health Blog? Lupe Fiasco is a rapper from Chicago whose words from the song, Words I Never Said just happen to fit perfectly for this post. Two recently published studies show how some of the seemingly innocent everyday choices we make (diet soda, aspirin) can have a tremendous impact on our health.

In the first study, published in the Journal of National Cancer Institute, researchers recently evaluated data on 114,000 women ages 22-85. The women were free from breast cancer when they enrolled in the study a decade ago. At that time, the women informed researchers how often and how long they used aspirin and ibuprofen. During a follow up period, some 2,400 women were diagnosed with breast cancer. Continue reading “Diet Soda, Aspirin, & Your Health”