Chiropractic and Cranial Adjusting

Headaches and other ailments can sometimesWelsh National School of Medicine conducted a
only be helped by Chiropractic and Cranialstudy of the efficacy of spinal adjustment in
Adjusting. When all else fails, I always check thealleviating neck and shoulder pain. The results,
position of the cranial plates. The skull is apublished in 1983, indicated that pain and
dynamic amazing structure that is not fused intodiscomfort improved significantly after
a piece of armor just to protect the brain. THeadjustment, as well as range of motion and
plates of the skull shift ever so slightly and canflexibility of the affected areas.
also become stuck into the incorrect position. MyA 1992 Netherlands study conducted by doctors
office manger was complaining of seversof medicine and other professionals investigated
headaches and terrible stomach pain that no onedifferent methods of treatment for patients with
could find the cause for. She went to her medicalchronic back and neck pain. After 12 weeks of
doctor several times, and I had even adjustedcare, manual therapy (which consisted of
away her subluxations numerous times withoutadjustment and mobilization of the spine) had
effect on her condition. One day I checked hershowed a "faster and larger improvement in
skull to find that things were out of place. Iphysical functioning" relative to the other types of
adjusted them and her problems vanishedtreatment such as massage, exercises, and
immediately. WOW.physical therapy.
Neck PainHead Pain
Approximately 19% of our patients come to usHeadaches, both tension and migraine, are the
with complaints of neck pain or discomfort. Thischief complaint for approximately 13% of our
pain can be caused by a variety of factors, suchpatients. Before you reach for your pain-reliever
as an accident, injury, overuse, etc. The mostof choice the next time a headache or migraine
common neck condition we address is whiplash.sneaks up on you, consider the following
The efficacy of chiropractic for neck pain hasinformation on the efficacy of chiropractic care
been well documented in numerous studiesfor head pain.
conducted in the United States, Canada, Wales,In a 1995 study conducted in Minnesota, the
and the Netherlands. In a joint U.S./Canadian studyeffectiveness of spinal adjustment relative to the
published in 1996, researchers from UCLA, theadministration of an antidepressant drug
West LA Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and(amitriptyline) for patients with chronic
two chiropractic colleges found that for sometension-type headaches was investigated. The
patients with sub-acute or chronic neck pain, spinalresearchers included doctors of chiropractic, a
adjustment proved to be a more effectivedoctor of medicine, and another professionals
treatment than mobilization or physical therapy.from Northwestern College of Chiropractic and
In a study conducted by the Canadian Memorialthe Pain Assessment and Rehabilitation Center,
Chiropractic College in Toronto in 1997,Ltd. They determined that, after four weeks of
researchers found spinal adjustments to improvetreatment, patients receiving spinal adjustment
neck mobility and decrease neck pain. Antherapy experienced a continued lack of
additional Canadian investigation published in 1997symptoms, whereas patients taking the
by the University of Calgary found spinalmedication returned to original, baseline conditions.
adjustments to improve neck mobility andCranial adjusting has been around for a while, so
decrease neck pain in patients having back and/ormy technique is just a new slant on an old
neck complaints.method - it does work!
General practitioners in private practice at the