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Alternative Medicine can be Scientific, Say Besieged Academics
By: VitalityLink Finder    Thursday, Feb 09, 2012
Alternative medicine can be scientific, say besieged academics Spicy debate: RMIT is researching the effectiveness of ginseng in improving lung function in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Flickr/wparadiso. RMIT University’s School of Health Sciences has rejected the suggestion that it peddles pseudo-scientific quackery via its courses in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Acting head of the school Dr Ray Myers has defended RMIT’s health science programs as “evidence-based education and practice”, citing collaboration in clinical research  ...Read More
Manual Therapies for Migraine: A Systematic Review
By: VitalityLink Finder    Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012
Conditions: migraine, headache, pain
Manual therapies for migraine: a systematic review from The Journal of Headache and Pain - Official Journal of the "European Headache Federation" and of "Lifting The Burden - The Global Campaign against Headache" © The Author(s) 2011 Aleksander Chaibi(1) , Peter J. Tuchin(2) and Michael Bjørn Russell(1,3) (1) Head and Neck Research Group, Research Centre,AkershusUniversityHospital, 1478 Lørenskog,Norway (2) Department of Chiropractic,MacquarieUniversity, Sydney, NSW, 2109,Australia (3) Institute of Clinical Medicine,AkershusUniversityHospital,UniversityofOslo, ...Read More
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
By: VitalityLink Finder    Sunday, Dec 25, 2011
Topic: Chronic Illness
Conditions: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, CFS
As the name says, chronic fatigue is a persistent or reoccurring fatigue (tiredness) that can last up to or longer than six months and often for years. This fatigue is generally accompanied by a combination of other symptoms, which may include headaches, poor concentration, short-term memory loss, muscle and joint pain, and sleep disturbances characterized by un-refreshing sleep. The severity of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome symptoms varies greatly among individual cases with more severe cases also showing more intense or changed patterns of headaches, tender lymph nodes and recurring sore ...Read More
Active Isolated Stretching: An Introduction
By: VitalityLink Finder    Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011
Topic: Relaxation and Stress Relief
Chiropractors have taken up the banner for pro-active health care. Adjustments to the spine play the most important role, yet again it is the holding of the adjustment for which we strive. Without flexibility training, patients tend to lose their adjustments faster. Physiologically, there doesn’t seem to be any better system of flexibility training than Active Isolated Stretching (AIS). The benefits of AIS are numerous. This system is derived from a need to “unglue” the effects of fascial sheath adhesions. The directional forces that are applied help to realign the collagen ...Read More
Benefits of Utilizing Nutrition in a Subluxation-Based Practice
By: VitalityLink Finder    Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011
Topic: Nutrition and Healthy Eating
We know that given the proper flow of energy, the body holds innate wisdom to heal itself. Why, then, do we witness such disparity in patient response? Is correction of subluxation the only means at our disposal to assist our patients in achieving health and healing? Throughout the early years of my practice, I saw this disparity many times. Patients with identical symptoms and identical subluxation patterns, showed an amazing diversity of response to treatment. So I asked myself, what else was impeding or interrupting the innate flow through the body? After years of practice, I found one of ...Read More
Are We Too Clean? The Hygiene Hypothesis
By: VitalityLink Finder    Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011
Topic: Asthma, Chronic Illness
The evolving theory of the “hygiene hypothesis” is receiving increasing attention by public health professionals, including epidemiologists who study patterns of health and disease in the population. The hygiene hypothesis contends that by early exposure to a wide variety of microbiological challenges (bacterial, viral, etc.) the immune system develops far more efficiently, thereby lessening the possibilities of numerous allergic, immunological and infectious disease problems throughout our lives. Proponents of the hygiene hypothesis contend that there is an inverse relationship ...Read More
Health vs. The Health Care Crisis
By: Camille Leon    Thursday, Feb 18, 2010
We’ve all heard a great deal about the health care crisis over the past few years. However, no one seems to be talking about the real cause – our poor health and the lifestyle choices that force us into emergency rooms so that they are overwhelmed. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (Reuters, 1/9/2009), 34% of Americans are obese and 32.7% are overweight. Combined with the fact that heart disease and cancer have been linked to poor eating habits and high stress levels, Americans are likely to have increasing needs for emergency-level health care and overpriced ...Read More