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TABLE OF CONTENTS

· Intern Program a Success.

· Big fire at the clinic, Nina saves the day!

· Dr. Watson learns a few lessons from Kansas City Chiefs Chiropractor, Dr. Evan Mladenoff

· Chiropractic Patients Have Fewer Strokes

· Women Who Use Artificial Sweeteners Gain Weight

· The Beginning of the End of Vaccination

· Happy People Are Healthier

· Chiro Research on Headaches, Herniated discs, and Asthma.

· Humor

Many of you got to know Prisca Erni while she was an intern in our clinic.  Her last day was June 13th.  She will soon be Graduating from Western States Chiropractic College and will travel back to Switzerland to take her board examinations.  Prisca is a fine example of a caring doctor with healing hands.  By the end of her time at our clinic her confidence was greatly increased and she was a real pro in the X-ray department.  I wish her the best of luck and want to thank her for a internship well done.  Her performance was exemplary and she received high marks from me on her evaluation.

Fire at the clinic.

That's right we had a fire.  I believe it was June 6th.  I had seen my last patient of the day and was wrapping up my charting when Nina said "there's a fire!" and pointed out side towards our sign.  I couldn't believe my eyes at first.  It took me a second or two to register what was going on.  I was looking at a tower of flames about 15 feet high burning behind our sign.  I immediately called 911 and told them we had a large fire.  They asked me what was on fire.  I really had no idea what was burning so I told them it may be a gas main.  I hung up and started to calculate the situation.  I figured the flames were high enough to reach the tree next to our clinic and if they did the building would surely catch fire.  With the wood siding and 90 degree heat it was looking like a dangerous situation.  I have to admit I sort of ran around panicky looking for a garden hose and realized there was none.  That's when Nina said "get the fire extinguisher!".  I grabbed it and ran outside to a fire that I really had no idea what the source was.  When I got up on the fire I could see it was bushes that were burning. Thankfully, I had a large extinguisher and managed to get most of the fire out in few minutes.  The fire department showed up several minutes later.  I can honestly say, had Nina not been there to spot the fire and remember that we had a fire extinguisher we may have lost our building.  I ended up getting a big bouquet of flowers from the Marylhurst Medical Building owners since it was their bushes that were on fire as a thank you for putting out the fire but it was truly Nina who saved the day.  As a side note we do not know what started the fire, we assume someone threw a cigarette in the bushes.

Dr. Watson keeps learning new stuff.
Last Weekend I attended Dr. Evan Mladenoff's Acute Inflammation ecovery seminar in Seattle.  Dr. Mladenoff is the team chiropractor for the Kansas City Chiefs.  He has put together an incredible treatment protocol for treating acute sports injuries.  He he has only minutes before a player goes out on the field to get them ready for play and his treatment protocol must work well and work fast!  And boy does it!  I was really impressed.  I look forward to implementing this newly acquired knowledge with our hockey team the Portland Pioneers as well as at the Tae-Kwon-Do tournaments.  Dr. Mladenoff has formulated an incredible enzyme product called Pro-Infla-Zyme that literally works at the site of inflammation to block the precursors to inflammation.  Thank you Dr. Mladenoff for a grrrreat seminar.  Go Chiefs!

Chiropractic Patients Have Fewer Strokes

A literature review in the September 2001 Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research reports that patients under chiropractic care experience strokes at a considerably lower rate than people who are not under chiropractic care. The review found that people not under chiropractic care suffer strokes at a rate more than twice that of people who are under chiropractic care. Some of the studies reviewed put that number much higher saying non-chiropractic patients are 27,500 times more likely to have a stroke than chiropractic patients. (1) In another study, researchers found that the strain required to damage healthy vertebral arteries was approximately nine times greater than that produced by spinal adjustment. Indeed, many adjusting techniques are specific, using so little force that it is over 1/100th or 1/1000th the kind of force that can cause any problems. (2)

It may be just the beginning of a new trend. The San Francisco Chronicle in “Vaccination Backlash”, documents that over 50% of entering kinder-garteners in the Yuba River Charter School have opted out of vaccinations. The paper followed the story with a six-page weekend magazine. The parents interviewed see natural doctors, use midwives and acupuncturists and pursue a healthy lifestyle. Read the article at 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/25/CM171959.DTL

Chiropractic and Spinal Research

Chiropractic is the most popular natural, drug-free healthcare system in the world because of millions of success stories. If there is any condition you’d like to know about please write us.

Migraine Headache. Half of 127 migraine sufferers were given chiropractic adjustments for six months. The other migraine sufferers just had medical care. Subjects in the chiropractic group demonstrated statistically significant improvement in migraine frequency, headache duration, disability and medication use.  22% of those undergoing chiropractic care reported more than 90% reduction in migraines after two months. About 50% reported significant improvement in severity of migraine episodes. (4)

Herniated Cervical Disc. A 60-year-old woman with a herniated cervical disc diagnosed by MRI had deep, constant, burning aching and numbness in her left arm, severe neck and left shoulder pain and hand weakness. Surgery was recommended but she began chiropractic care instead. Within 5 months her pain and numbness disappeared and her grip-strength returned to normal. (5)

Asthma and Chiropractic. 81 asthmatic children were placed under chiropractic care. After 60 days of care 90.1% of the children reported improvement compared to their pre-chiropractic scores. 30.9% of them voluntarily decreased their dosage of medication by an average of 66.5%. 24 of the patients who reported asthma attacks 30 days prior to the study had significantly decreased attacks by an average of 44.9%. (6)

Little Harold was practicing the violin in the living room while his father was trying to read in the den. The family dog was lying in the den, and as the screeching sounds of little Harold's violin reached his ears, he began to howl loudly. The father listened to the dog and the violin as long as he could, then jumped up, slammed his paper to the floor and yelled above the noise, "For Pete's sake, can't you play something the dog doesn't know?!"

The District Attorney stared at the jury, unable to believe its verdict. Bitterly he asked, "What possible excuse could you have for acquitting this man?" The foreman answered, "Insanity."
The D.A. said, "All twelve of you?"

Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) On seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

1. Cohn A. A review of the literature regarding stroke and chiropractic. The Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research. 2001;4(3):42-59.

2. Symons BP, Leonard T, Herzog W. Internal forces sustained by the vertebral artery during spinal manipulative therapy. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. 2002;25(8): 504-510.

3. From a survey of 80,000 women conducted by the American Cancer Society reported in The Walking Magazine, 1990.

4. Tuchin PJ, Pollard H, Bonello R. A randomized controlled trial of chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy for migraine. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. 2000:23(2):91-95.

5. Brouillette DL, Gurske, DT. Chiropractic treatment of cervical radiculopathy caused by a herniated cervical disc. Journal of Manipulative and Physiologic Therapeutics. 1994;17(2):119-123.

6. Graham RL, Pistolese RA. An impairment rating analysis of asthmatic children under chiropractic care. Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research. 1997;1(4):1-8.