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Did You Know?
• Spinal stiffness was linked to visceral pathology with nearly
100% accuracy based upon sympathetic innervation. (Medical Times, 1921)
• 1,000 capsules of Tylenol in a lifetime doubles the risk of end
stage renal disease. (New England Journal of Medicine, 1994)
• The average time for a whiplash-injured patient to achieve
maximum improvement is 7 months 1 week. (Spine, 1994)
• 93% of patients with chronic whiplash pain who have failed
medical and physical therapy care improve with chiropractic adjustments.
(Injury, 1996)
• Taking the correct drug for the correct diagnoses in the correct
dose will kill about 106,000 Americans per year, making it the 4th most common
cause of death in the US . (Journal of the American Medical Association, 1998)
• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for rheumatoid and/or
osteoarthritis conservatively causes 16,500 Americans to bleed to death each
year, making that the 15th most common cause of death in the US . (New England
Journal of Medicine, 1999)
• Glutamate and aspartame can cause chronic pain sensitization, and
removing them from the diet for 4 consecutive months can eliminate all chronic
pain symptoms. (Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2002)
• Chiropractic spinal adjusting has been shown to be better than 5
times more effective than the NSAIDs Celebrex and Vioxx in the treatment of
chronic neck and low back pain. (Spine, 2003)
• In patients suffering from chronic pain subsequent to
degenerative spinal disease, 59% can eliminate the need for pain drugs by
consuming adequate levels of omega-3 essential fatty acids. (Surgical Neurology,
2006)
• Chiropractic adjustments have been shown to significantly lower
blood pressure. (Journal of Human Hypertension, 2007)
• The estimated incidence of chronic pain from whiplash trauma is
15-40%. (Journal of the Am Academy of Ortho Surg, 2007)
• Meniere’s Disease has been linked to a disorder of the upper
cervical spine facet joints. (International Tinnitus Jour, 2007)
• Supplementing with vitamin D3 has the potential to reduce cancer
deaths in America by 75%. (Ann of Epidemiology, 2009)
• Potentially, the largest exposure of Americans to the neurotoxin
mercury is through the consumption of products containing High Fructose Corn
Syrup. (Environmental Health, 2009)
• Those who consumed the highest amounts of nonsteroidal
anti-inflammatory pain drugs increased their risk of dementia, including
Alzheimer’s dementia, by 66%. (Neurology, 2009)
• The newest estimate incidence of autism is 1 in 91 children
(Pediatrics, 2009)
