| Although,
many have known for a long time that chiropractic is effective for
muscle/joint and spine problems, what is less commonly known is that
chiropractic works because it affects your nervous system. Due to
the fact that your nervous system affects every function in your
body, chiropractic may work at many levels to affect your health.
Today, we can't say
definitively that chiropractic can treat non-musculoskeletal /
visceral conditions but, every chiropractor has had an experience
where a patient may say, "Doc, I don't know what you did but, my
stomach problems have gone away". Now, while we can't say
that we alleviated that problem with chiropractic we can say that we
affected your nervous system and your body did the rest!
As chiropractors we see your body as a
self-maintaining, self-healing organism.
The most commonly studied
non-musculoskeletal conditions with respect to chiropractic are
asthma and infantile colic.
While studies have been somewhat
inconclusive at this point, current studies have shown some positive
results. Most intriguing has been the effect of chiropractic on the
immune system.
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Chiropractic For Infantile Colic |
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The effects of spinal manipulation were
looked at and compared to the effects of the drug dimethicone for 2
weeks on a group of infants. The main outcome measure used was the
changes in daily hours of crying . By trial days 4 to 7, hours of
crying were reduced by 1 hour in the dimethicone group compared with
2.4 hours in the manipulation group. On days 8 to 11, crying was
reduced by 1 hour for the diemethicone group, whereas crying in the
manipulation group was reduced by 2.7 hours. From trial day 5 onward
the manipulation group did significantly better than the dimethicone
group. Conclusion: Spinal manipulation is effective in relieving
infantile colic.
Wiberg JM,
Nordsteen J, Nilsson N. The short-term effect of spinal manipulation
in the treatment of infantile colic: a randomized controlled clinical
trial with a blinded observer. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 1999
Oct;22(8):517-22.
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