Chiropractic Care for High Blood Pressure
Monday, May 25th, 2009 at
8:29 am
silva99gp asked:
A video from ABC news about the effects of chiropractic care on high blood pressure.
Tagged with: Abc News • Chiropractic Care • High Blood Pressure
Filed under: Blood Pressure
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“All” chiropractors (DC) perform upper cervical adjustments that lower high blood pressure.
“All” DC’s are trained in upper cervical technique(s). NUCCA not the only technique to reduce BP!
Go to DC, upper cervical x-ray and analysis, spinal adjustment, monitor BP.
Medical coresspondent suggests going to MD to see if candidate? LOL! a DC is a primary doctor, no referral required.
FYI: DC completes 500 hrs. “More” primary health care sciences (5000 hrs.) than MD (4500 hrs.).
It’s sad that so many unsuspecting people fall for this type of Snake Oil. Folks, Chiropractic is nothing more than an expensive massage. This is why there’s no scientific method behind it. This is why there are so many different versions of it (which version of Chiropractic are you getting?). It’s an alternative medicine with ZERO scientific research behind it. However, if you like expensive massages, by all means, enjoy!
thats the first thing i tried. These guys are hard to find. The vid says only a “handful” know this technique
google “chiropractors houston texas”
or use the yellow pages
if you could please use your intelligence and find where i could find one of these chiropractors i’d be pretty grateful. I live near houston, thats a good thing…
use your intelligence
Apparently I can’t post links here. Google ‘upcspine’ and go to the first listing. Here you can find a qualified upper cervical chiropractor and find research on the technique.
where the **** can i get this done
He does acknowledge that you’re correct but why does chiropractic need an MD’s acknowledgement is the point. We’ve all been led to believe that conventional medicine rules the roost, thats the real problem. This is blatent arrogance on part of ABC and Dr. Johnson. For the record I am not against conventional medicine, I thoroughly belive it has its place. However that place is not to criticise or police alternative practices. Besides, they have enough problems of their own to worry about.
He rightly acknowledges that the research is good (with limits) and provokes intrigue for further studies. He does not appear to be either anti or pro chiropractic, but gives a thoughtful and reasoned response.
The Doctor interviewed is quite correct in that more research is needed and that patients should see their family doctor first. MANY things could be causing the BP to be raised, some of which that will not respond to upper cervical manipulation, whether by a chiro, osteopath or a PT. However, I am surprised that you are anti-him!!
I don’t know where to start with this interview… It’s a chiropractic story, but instead of talking to a chiropractor who could actually give a structural explanation of the adjustment, they talk to an old-fashioned MD who knows absolutely nothing about it? Tim Johnson I believe has made an absolute fool of himself and has used arrogance to further fuel medicine’s reputation as being largely ignorant of health.
1. “Intriguing..the idea..manipulation of neck.. result lowering blood pressure.” Wrong – it is well established.
2. “Obvious limitations to the study…” Wrong – the study is more thorough than many of the studies which clear the drugs you would likely pump into your patients.
3. “Well the truth is we really don’t know.” Wrong – YOU don’t know. Chiropractors do. How the hell does Johnson think the adjustment method and the study was conceived?
4. “To a doctor, or to a chiropractor.” Wrong – chiropractors are also referred to as doctors. Stop thinking the term “doctor” is owned by the medical community.
5. “You wouldn’t really know unless you got an x-ray.” Wrong – disalignment can be detected using hands on the area… why do you think they feel around there?
6. “The medical world will pay attention to this because of the significant drop in blood pressure.” Wrong – the medical world will ignore anything that doesn’t involve the application of profitable synthetic chemicals. It is process-rich and outcome-poor.
7. “There’s a lot of unanswered questions…” Wrong – you could find out everything you claim to not know in this interview by talking to any chiropractor whom does not suffer from amnesia.
8. “Go to your family doctor and see if this is right for you.” How the hell would a GP know if this is right for you?
9. Unsurprisingly, the interview failed to mention that high blood pressure is a bodily function which is protection from an underlying, more dangerous cause. Blood pressure just restricts the self-regulation of high blood pressure and allows the more serious ailment to run rife in the body. While a chiropractor frees up the nervous system to heal the underlying cause and, in turn, the resulting hypertension.
I love how the MD medical advisor has to differentiate between the doctor and chiropractors, as if their both not doctors.
I have never seen someone squirm that much, haha!
If you are looking for research on what an UC adjustment can do look to Dr. Sweat, and Atlas Orthogonal. They seem to the most research within this profession.
great info! my chiropractor knows upper cervical as well as diversified so good news for me!
And like I say the chiros in this video are adjusting wrong and they are still getting results. And while being specific is great Innate Intelligence can do more with not so specific forces as people think, After all Innate Intelligence makes the adjustment..Not the chiro. So most of the time if you are on the correct side and give a decent toggle II can use that force to achieve adjustment. So don’t think 95% of chiros doing toggle cannot get good results. They can.
Well my friend the truth is that most of the upper cervical people no matter who they are are adjusting wrong anyway. Not the way BJ said to. And UC adjusting aint all that complex. People have just created new systems to sell. The proper way to adjust the atlas is with the patient prone or on a UC knee chest table with the head rotated. Not with the patient on their side. But anyway you can adjust on the side it is just not the right way. And like I said it is not rocket science.
well if you think learning recoil in a class for one semester is enough to practice upper cervical competently then I guess we have a problem within our profession. Go look at the tapes of BJ and his classes do toggle. The you have a toggle recoild worth talking about. Just cuz you manipulate the neck doesn’t make you UC. That is like saying if you can use a knife and cut someone you are a heart surgeon. Little more to it than just manipulationg some bones!!!!!!
Well yea. But the fact is that many DCs are trained in toggle recoil. Everyone from Palmer is, everyone from life and Sherman are so it is not like only a “few” are trained. I think this was the upper cervical chiros of a certain technique saying this. But we all know that upper cervical toggle recoil is taught to a great deal of the profession.
there is a big difference between a specific Upper cervical correction and a diversified manipulation in the upper neck.This does not mean that doing diverisfied on the neck cannot cause a change in blood pressure. However to say that regular chiropractic is the same as Upper Cervical is simply not true. While at this moment we have no research to prove this, in the coming years we will start to find out through research which technique gets superior results.