Running and Chiropractic

Hi Everyone,

I have been absent quite a while, I was on maternity leave. Now I'm back! I hope everyone had a great summer, and are now enjoying the fall colors.

I have new office hours. Go to www.kellychiropractic.com to see the new hours.

Today I have a case study of a five year old and how chiropractic changed her running gait.

http://www.chiroindex.org/?search_page=articles&action=&articleId=20390

Enjoy!

Hearing and Chiropractic

Hi Everyone,

Right now, there is a big snapping turtle in front of my office (larger than a cat, and some dogs). She is slowly wandering down the sidewalk toward the nature center's lake. It nested and left eggs in the parking lot a couple of weeks ago. I'm hoping that I'm around when they hatch, that would be fun to see.

As a chiropractic student one of the first things they tell you is about the story of the first chiropractic adjustment. Any good chiropractic student, or student of any science, would wonder if it was true, has it been studied. When I was a student I often wondered if anyone had tried to reproduce that outcome. I never did find any studies then. Chiropractic can be hard to study for several reasons, one of which is that the doctor will always know if the treatment given was real, or a sham. That makes it hard to do a double blind study.

So, is it possible that the first chiropractic adjustment helped a man hear? Click on the following link, and you decide.

http://www.chiropracticresearch.org/search2.php?aid=1163

Enjoy!

Depression and chiropractic

Hi Everyone,

It's been another crazy week. Have had trouble getting to the blog this week, but finally, here it is.

There have been some ideas about chiropractic care stimulating the release of neurotransmitters (NTS) (i.e. serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and many others) in the brain and throughout the body. I'd say that the research is not strong (yet), and in the beginning stages on that topic. It seems to me that serotonin is the starting point for this research. But I hope we get to see some well done large studies on that topic in the future. If someone could link serotonin release with chiropractic care, I hope the next questions asked would be about that connection and if there could be an effect on depression, weight issues, and many other health issues that involve NTS.

So the next thing I would naturally search for in the above line of thought is studies on depression. Here are a couple of studies on Chiropractic and Depression.

http://www.chiropracticresearch.org/search2.php?aid=1137 -I'd call this a pilot study.

http://www.chiropracticresearch.org/search2.php?aid=1137 -case study

http://www.jvsr.com/abstracts/index.asp?id=350- the same case study from above.

Enjoy,
Dr. Gwen

Low back pain, Yoga, pregnancy, chiropractic, running, movement times

This morning I found a few studies. There is quite a mix of topics. They all came up with a search of back pain and chiropractic.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792123/?tool=pmcentrez –yoga and low back pain.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647084/?tool=pmcentrez- Pregnancy and chiropractic

http://www.chiroindex.org/?search_page=articles&action=&articleId=20580 –low back pain and chiropractic RCT

http://www.chiroindex.org/?search_page=articles&action=&articleId=18965 –Chiropractic and movement time improvements. I had previously put a link to an article about this study. Here is the link to the actual abstract, I bumped into it today.

http://www.chiroindex.org/?search_page=articles&action=&articleId=20113 – Chiropractic, running, and hip extension…Dr. Gwen wonders what would happen if they tested long distance runners where a small improvement in hip movement would be more significant.

Enjoy!