Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
The Righting Reflex
Your body's reaction to postural imbalance
When your head “isn’t on straight,” due to an atlas misalignment, you are viewing the world in a manner that is slightly askew. Physically we feel you are normal, but to your amazingly sensitive brain it is as if we are living our life on the side of a hill. It is common knowledge that you were not designed to live your life on the side of a hill, as was a mountain goat, but rather you were built for flat ground with a balanced center of gravity. So how does your innately intelligent body deal with life on a hill? Well fankly, it doesn’t.
Your brain will automatically react by attempting to move your body, more specifically your pelvis, underneath itself to support this new abnormal form of body balance. In order to achieve this altered posture, your brain will send signals to certain muscle groups commanding them to contract, pulling the rest of your body off center. This will result in one hip becoming higher which ultimately leads to one leg becoming shorter. It is now true that your eyes are now horizontally level, due to the brilliance of your brain, but this is not a posture that is conducive to healthy, normal living. This is called the righting reflex.
Imagine perfectly balancing a 12lb bowling ball on the end of thin, straight stick. Now imagine if a gust of wind were to come and push that bowling ball as small as ¾” off it’s perfect balance. The bowling ball will ultimately tip and fall off the stick unless you, who are holding the stick, react quickly in order to bring that bowling ball back to its perfect balance. Now imagine the human head, which also weighs an average of 12 lbs being loosely balanced at the top of your spine, which behaves in a manner similar to the stick mentioned before. Being even ¾” of an inch off it’s perfect balance has the potential to cause a catastrophic cascade of effects on the body unless that “bowling ball” is brought back to a perfect, and normal center of gravity. Overall the righting reflex is a neurological reaction to an unbalanced body.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Less Talk. More Medicine
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/less-talk-more-medicine/?ref=health"The switch from talk therapy to medications has swept psychiatric practices and hospitals, leaving many older psychiatrists feeling unhappy and inadequate. A 2005 government survey found that just 11 percent of psychiatrists provided talk therapy to all patients, a share that had been falling for years and has most likely fallen more since. Psychiatric hospitals that once offered patients months of talk therapy now discharge them within days with only pills."
November 20, 1986: Rod Matthews, 14, beat a classmate to death with a bat in the
woods near his house in Canton, Massachusetts. Though Rod was extremely
bright, he was put on Ritalin when he was in third grade.
September 26, 1988: 19-year-old James Wilson went on a shooting rampage at the
Greenwood Elementary School in South Carolina. Two children were killed and
seven others and two teachers were wounded. Wilson had been treated by
Greenwood psychiatrist, Willie Moseley. Since the age of 14, Wilson had been
given a mixture of psychiatric drugs. He was withdrawing from Xanax at the time
of the shooting spree.
October 17, 1995: Brian E. Pruitt, 16, fatally stabbed his grandparents. The
prosecutor in his murder trial said: “His intent was to kill, not just to cause great
bodily harm.” Pruitt had a history of psychiatric treatment and had been prescribed
“medication.”
February 19, 1996: Timmy Becton, 10, grabbed his three-year-old niece as a
shield and aimed a shotgun at a sheriff’s deputy who accompanied a truant officer
to his Florida home. Becton had been taken to a psychiatrist in January to cure his
dislike of school and was put on Prozac. His parents said that when the dosage of
the drug was increased, Timmy had violent mood swings and that he would “get
really angry....”
September 27, 1997: A 16-year-old, Jackson Township, New Jersey boy, Sam
Manzie raped and strangled to death an 11-year-old boy who was selling door-to-
door for the local Parent-Teacher Association. Manzie then took a “trophy photo”
of the dead boy, the cord from the clock radio still around his neck. Manzie was
under psychiatric care at the time and being “medicated.” He reportedly told his
mother, “I wasn’t killing that little boy. I was killing [my doctor] because he
didn’t listen to me.”
May 21, 1998: Before going on a wild shooting spree at his Springfield, Oregon
high school that left two dead and 22 injured, 14-year-old Kip Kinkel had been
attending anger control classes and was reportedly taking Prozac. He had also
reportedly taken Ritalin. Kinkel also shot his parents, killing them.
April 16, 1999: Shawn Cooper, 16, of Notus, Idaho, rode the bus to school with a
shotgun wrapped in a blanket. He pointed the gun at a secretary and students, then
shot twice into a door and at the floor. He had a death list, but told one girl he
wouldn’t hurt anyone. He surrendered. He was taking Ritalin.
April 20, 1999: While on Luvox, an SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake
Inhibitor, a type of antidepressant) antidepressant, 18-year-old Eric Harris
masterminded the killing of 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in
Littleton, Colorado. He and his partner, Dylan Klebold, 17, then shot themselves.
March 7, 2001: Elizabeth Bush took a loaded .22-caliber revolver to Bishop
Neumann Junior-Senior High School and sat through a Mass before she then went
to the school’s cafeteria and fired the gun at a fellow student, wounding her in the
right shoulder. Elizabeth was on Prozac.
March 22, 2001: At age 18, Jason Hoffman was on Effexor and Celexa, both
antidepressants, when he wounded one teacher and three students at California’s
Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, in 2001.
April 10, 2001: Sixteen-year-old Cory Baadsgaard, from Washington, took a rifle
to his high school and held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage. He had been
taking the antidepressant Effexor.
April 20, 2001: T.J. Solomon, 15, was on a mix of antidepressants when he shot
and wounded six at his Conyers, Georgia High School.
March 25, 2005: Jeff Weise, 16, shot dead his grandparents, then went to his
school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota where he killed 9 before
killing himself. He was taking Prozac.
October 10, 2007: 14-year-old Asa Coon from Cleveland, Ohio, stormed through his
school with a gun in each hand, shooting and wounding four before taking his own life.
Court records show Coon had been placed on the antidepressant Trazodone.
November 7, 2007: 18-year-old Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen had been taking
antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High
School in southern Finland, then committed suicide.
February 14, 2008: 27-year-old Steven Kazmierczak shot and killed five people and
wounded 16 others in Dekalb, Illinois before killing himself in a Northern Illinois
University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac,
Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amount of Xanax in
his system.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Eighty-One Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease Undergoing Upper Cervical Chiropractic Care to Correct Vertebral Subluxation: A Re
Why do we experience pain?
Pain is mental interpretation, at epipheral end of afferent nerve of
necessities at peripheral end of efferent nerve. Pain is mental
understanding of physical requirements in pathway of cycle of energy.
Pain is Innate’s mental comprehension of physical lacking function at
tissue cell. It is necessary, essential, and vital that Innate get impressions,
whether normal OR pain, to interpret and be able to know needs and
necessities of physical requirements of function at tissue cell.
It is easy to ease, deaden or kill pain. It is done medically with drugs
given many ways. It is done by drugless practitioners many ways. Our
father had the most practical, simplest, quickest, and most positive
method of “killing pain” anywhere within the body, we have ever
known or seen used. We know it. We never use it. We refuse to be a
party to “killing pain” in cases that are on the climb. The laborious
and tedious thing is to restore feeling and get Chiropractors to
understand that constant. We have consistently labored to RESTORE
sensation from below normal up to normal feeling which is no-feeling.
We know case wants “to get rid of pain”, but there are other things
more important, viz., restoration of normal 100 per cent feeling
function. Health cannot be restored without going thru process of pain.
Any Chiropractor who persists in “killing pain”, no matter how, makes
it impossible for Innate to know how to get that case well. No wonder
Chiropractors grope for constant, have it, and spend money to kick it
out of commission.