iPad app for posture screenings

So, the group of office the we are out at the puyallup fair with this year has been using the Mobilr posture screen app for the iPad. After playing with the app for a few minutes, found that it was an easy to use app that is a great visual aid when talking to the people out at the fair, at health fairs, school talks.

After a little discussion, decided to get the iPad 2 so we can use the program as needed. I have been one that prefers the android or microsoft platforms better than the apple systems. But, I am liking the ease that the iPad allows me to post things quickly, check email without having to boot up the desktop in the morning.

I think that if the posture screen app was available on the droid tablets, I would have bought one instead of the iPad. But so far the wife likes the iPad too.

September 18, 1895

September 18

Today is the birthday of chiropractic.  1895, DD Palm made the first adjustment of Harvey Lillard.   116 years after that first adjustment, we are one of the most popular alternatives to allopathic medicine, yet we are only seeing a very small percentage of the population.  

People are inundated with pharmaceutical marketing on tv, in print and even online.   Our emails are bombarded with  messages about cheap deals on various medication.

How do you break past the mindset that everything that ills you can be solved by a pill.  The reality is that the medications may relieve your pains for a time, but it inevitably returns in force.   Many people live day to day popping over-the-counter pain medications like skittles.  Unaware of the continued degeneration progressing under these suppressed warning signs.

What if we could get more of these people in to see us to correct their poor posture, their fixated joints, their lost motion.   Even if we could only improve the quality of their daily life by 10 percent. Decreasing the amount of medication that they needed on a daily basis.  What a difference that could make in the world today.

If you have not seen a chiropractor, why not?   If you do, have you sent your family and friends to be checked?  Who do you know that needs to be seen? The need for corrective care is vast,  the need for maintenance is even greater.

Can Food Help Your Back Pain?

Back pain cost society more than 30 billion dollars! A ten fold increase since 1997.   Recent evidence shows that eating certain non-inflammatory foods can help decrease your pain.

 So what should we do to take advantage of this information?

Eat more:

• Cherries, or tart cherry juice
• Olive oil
• (such as in a salad dressing, drizzled over pasta or veggies.   less value if you use it for cooking)
• Canned salmon, sardines packed in water or olive oil, mackerel, albacore tuna (preferably wild caught)
• flaxseed
• Vegetable protein
• Vegetables and fruits of every color
• Nuts of all kinds
• Green Tea
• Ginger- try steeping some grated root with boiling water

Eat LESS:

• Corn oil, safflower, sunflower, cottonseed , or mixed vegetable oils
• Margarine and vegetable shortening
• Processed foods
• Products containing high fructose corn syrup
• Foods high in saturated fat, including meat, tropical oils and full fat dairy
• Foods made with trans fats

A lack of vitamin D may also contribute to low back pain.  In one study 80% of people who had chronic low back pain also were deficient in vitamin D. When they began taking supplemental D their back pain improved.

This anti-inflammatory way of eating is great for ANY inflammatory condition, aim to eat this way all of the time!

Springtime in the Pacific Northwest

Springtime in the Pacific Northwest

So, it is mid- April around the Puget Sound area.  The sun has broken through a few days and people are starting to knock down the winter’s growth of lawn and weeds.  Spring leagues for softball, baseball, soccer, and other sports are ramping up for their seasons. The golf course is drying out enough to make people want to get out for a round on the course.  These daily stresses can push the body to its limits. Yard-work, sports and activities that return your body’s use of those forgotten nerves and muscles put an abnormal amount of stress on bones, muscles, joints and nerves.

Various micro and macro trauma of the season:

• Full-speed collisions,
• Falls to the ground,
• Head and limbs being jammed,
• Body parts being pulled, pushed and twisted beyond their normal ranges,
• Even seemingly normal, easy, or moderate exercise.

What are some of the damaging effects of this punishment? How likely are you to develop problems or be seriously injured, and how can you be sure you are performing at your optimal level?

  

The development, growth, and function of our bodies is directed and controlled by the Nervous system.

Although the brain, spinal cord and spinal nerves are protected by the bones of the skull and spine, they can be damaged by slight misalignments; this creates pressure and interference to the spinal cord and nerves which can result in obscured growth, improper development, and poor function.

  

When the muscles and joints are not working properly you will become less flexible, weaker; making them more susceptible to injury; leading to arthritic and degenerative conditions. This pressure and interference causes decreased nerve supply to the tissues, organs, and systems of the body. This leads to impaired body functions, a loss of proper alertness, a lack of concentration, and lowered energy. These problems will slow down results in your exercise routine, cause poor performance in sports, the classroom, or at work.  A body functioning below normal capacity will have a lower resistance to infection and illness.  Many of these conditions may present as a subtle decreases in normal function, not presenting with identifiable symptoms. 

The Secret Response to All of These Problems is Chiropractic.  

Chiropractors analyze the spine for these spinal misalignments; we refer to this as a vertebral subluxation. A subluxated spine is out of its proper alignment and more prone to serious injury from a minor trauma. Chiropractic adjustments align the spine, and remove nerve interference, thus restoring proper health and optimal function. This keeps you free from illness, safer from injury, and allows you to perform at your best without the use of drugs or surgery. This is why top professional and Olympic athletes get adjusted and why millions of parents seek chiropractic for themselves and their families each year as a safe, natural form of health care.

Drugs that deplete vitamins

Drugs that deplete vitamins
When taken regularly, some frequently prescribed medications can diminish or deplete your body's stores of important vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. If you take any medications, talk with a nutrition-oriented medical professional about whether you should add certain supplements to your daily regimen.
TYPE OF DRUG	EXAMPLES - NAME BRANDS	NUTRIENTS DEPLETED
Antacids	Pepcid, Tagamet, Zantac	Vitamin B-12, folic acid, vitamin D, calcium, iron, zinc
	Prevacid, Prilosec	Vitamin B-12
Antibiotics	Amoxicillin, Erythromycin, Penicillin, Tetracycline	"Friendly" beneficial intestinal bacteria
Antidepressants	Adapin, Aventyl, Elavil, Tofranil	Vitamin B-2, coenzyme Q-10
Antidiabetic drugs	Dymelor, Micronase, Tolinase	Coenzyme Q-10
	Glucophage	Vitamin B-12
Anti-inflammatories	Aspirin	Vitamin C, folic acid, iron, potassium
	Advil, Aleve, Dolobid, Feldene, Indocin, Lodine, Motrin, Nalfon, Naprosyn, Orudis, Relafen, Voltaren	Folic acid
	Betamethasone, Budesonide, Cortisone, Dexamethasone, Hydrocortisone, Methylprednisolone, Prednisolone, Prednisone	Vitamin C, vitamin D, folic acid, calcium, magnesium, potassium, selenium, zinc
Blood pressure- lowering drugs	Apresoline	Vitamin B-6, coenzyme Q-10
	Bumex, Edecrin, Lasix	Vitamin B-1, vitamin B-6, vitamin C, magnesium, calcium, potassium, zinc
	Aquatensen, Lozol, Zaroxolyn	Coenzyme Q-10, magnesium, potassium, zinc
	Dyrenium	Folic acid, calcium, zinc
	Blocadren, Cartrol, Corguard, Inderal, Kerlone, Lopressor, Normodyne, Sectral, Tenormin, Viskin	Coenzyme Q-10
Cholesterol- lowering drugs	Baycol, Lescol, Lipitor, Mevacor, Zocor	Coenzyme Q-10
	Colestid, Questran	Vitamin A, beta-carotene, vitamin B-12, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, folic acid, iron
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)	Evista, Prempro, Premarin, Estratab	Vitamin B-2, vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12, folic acid, vitamin C, magnesium, zinc
Oral contraceptives	Estrastep, Norinyl, Ortho-Novem, Triphasil	Vitamin B-2, vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12, folic acid, vitamin C, magnesium, zinc
Tranquilizers	Ormazine, Mellaril, Prolixin, Thorazine	Vitamin B-2, coenzyme Q-10
	Haldol	Coenzyme Q-10
Source: Drug-Induced Nutrient Depletion Handbook, by R. Pelton et al.; Physician's Desk Reference

Reprinted from www.xmission.com/~total/temple/Program/datadir/FMS_Etiology/fmspres1pg88.php3

T'was a Chiropractic Christmas

Fri, December 24, 2010 4:56:10 PM

From Dr. Tim Gay

 

T'was a Chiropractic Christmas

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T'was a Chiropractic Christmas by Author Unknown T'was the day before Christmas, but there was no cheer. No jingle bells jingled, no sound of reindeer. The word had gone out that Santa was sick. There would be no visit from jolly St. Nick.    The people were sad; no gaiety sounded. For Christmas had come, but Santa was grounded. He drove down the road, and what should he see? But a sign for a doctor, who was a D.C.    Now Santa was not one to like a new tactic, But all else had failed, so he tried Chiropractic. He entered the office and saw at a glance, in a place such as this, illness hasn't a chance. The office staff smiled, the music was sappy, with all of the patients contented and happy. In a very short time, to judge by the clock, he was in the adjusting room, talking to Doc.    It must be the hurry, the tension and all, I simply can't seem to get on the ball. Life used to be easy; just kids, toys and whistles, now I dodge smog, spaceships and missiles.    And Doc, take a look at the size of this pack! Have you any idea what it does to my back? Poor Santa was miserable and just barely able, with the help of the Doctor, to get on the table.    The Doctor was gentle; without a fuss or a tussle he examined the vertebrae  and relaxed every muscle. He spotted trouble and then with a click, started aligning the spine of old St. Nick.    Santa felt aches and pains slipping away and in no time at all he began to feel gay. The air was a tingle with new fallen snow and a healthy Kris Kringle was rarin' to go. As he went out the door, he threw them a kiss; why, it had been centuries since he felt good as this! Then once more he shouldered the bag full of toys, his heart overflowing with true Christmas joys. Merry Christmas from Ultimate Parctice!

 

Good Nutrition & Lots of Exercise for Healthy Kids

Good Nutrition & Lots of Exercise for Healthy Kids
We're in the middle of a raging epidemic affecting America's youth - the obesity epidemic. The number of American adolescents who are obese increased 300% in the last 40 years. This is a problem that can potentially affect every family. The good news is that in almost all cases, obesity is a lifestyle disorder. In other words, children become obese because of behaviors learned from their friends and their parents. Healthy eating and regular exercise are the two critically important steps to take to help ensure your child retains an appropriate weight. With respect to healthy eating - Eliminate all trans fats from your children's diet - this includes almost all fast foods Cut down on sugary drinks (eliminate) Serve at least five portions of fresh fruits and vegetables every day Serve complex carbohydrates such as whole grains Serve lean meat, fish, and poultry Count calories! Children need at least an hour of physical activity every day. This includes outdoor play, sports, and calisthenics. Make sure your kids are getting enough exercise!!  use supplements to boost the nutritional value of the foods that are missing in your children diet.	!

Dr. Rodger Niemi
Renaissance Chiropractic Center
253-473-0300

The Tacoma Thursday Morning Healthy Edge Group Program

Randy Schroeder & Brian Thiel are the facilitators for the Health Edge in Tacoma.   They run a morning session at the Venue.  

This is  a program that helps to make little changes in you life to improve your overall health.  below is a summary of the course at the venue.

 The Tacoma Thursday Morning Healthy Edge Group Program Includes:

• - 8 weekly meetings facilitated by Healthy Edge Independent Facilitators
• - One-on-one coaching support
• - Initial coaching call to set goals
• - Weekly support through e-mails or phone calls
• - Healthy Edge meals prepared by Three Chicks Catering, Inc. each week. (Except week 2 (JUMPSTART WEEK))
• - 12 weeks of unlimited access to The Healthy Edge website (www.getthehealthyedge.com)
• - Full Healthy Edge program including videos, downloadable audios and notes and other support materials
• - Over 150 Healthy Edge recipes
• - BONUS GIFT: 1 month supply of top rated adult pharmaceutical grade supplements
• - Taking back control of your health and weight! FOREVER!
• * Spouse rates, Class Graduate rates, and children under 18 do not include all of the features listed above. Please discuss these features with the class Facilitators.
Tacoma Healthy Edge Course Outline8 Weeks to Your Healthy Edge Lifestyle:
• Week 1: Getting Started on The Healthy Edge – Congratulations on your commitment to yourself and your health. This program is intended to guide you in making lifestyle changes that will not only change your outer body size but you’re inside body as well. This first meeting, we will take your weight, measurements and before pictures. We will also lead you through what it takes to get ready for The Healthy Edge. This is really the beginning. Welcome to The Healthy Edge.
• Week 2: Insulin Resistance and The Glycemic Index – It may physically and mentally not be your fault for where you are in your health. Learn how to get rid of your carbohydrate cravings and get your insulin levels under control. What is Insulin Resistance? How does it adversely affects weight loss and your health? What is the role of blood sugar? What are the physical and emotional results of consuming low vs. high glycemic foods and meals? Learn why low glycemic shakes and bars will support you in overcoming insulin resistance and can jump start your new healthy lifestyle.
• Week 3: Eating Out and Eating at The Workplace – How do you take responsibility for your choices and live a life of freedom? How can you succeed living a healthy lifestyle at the workplace? Learn how to prepare your week and set up your environment at work to win. How do you stay on track when eating out? What are you really ordering? We will review the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of local restaurants menu’s.
• Week 4: Exercise – Most people know how to exercise so why don’t we? What is holding you back? Are your goals for exercise to get healthy, fit? How can strength training and circuit training dramatically increase the results you see? How do you know what is your target heart rate? How can you maximize the calories you burn for hours afterwards? Learn how exercise can really be fun.
• Week 5: Reading Food Labels Part I – Learn about the information found on food labels. What you need to know about carbohydrates, fiber, fats, and proteins to be empowered in your healthy lifestyle? What does low fat, no fat, low calories, etc. really mean when it comes to your weight and health? What is regulated on food labels and what is marketing? What should I be buying organic?
• Week 6: Reading Food Labels Part II – Know what is in your food and the effects of the 10 most common food additives. Most of these are in the diet foods that are being marketed for weight loss and in the foods you are buying for your children! Get empowered with knowledge! Bring pen and paper - we will review some cooking prep idea’s to make meals at home quick and easy.
• Week 7: Maximize Fat Loss – “I just have a slow metabolism” will never come out of your mouth again after this seminar! Learn how protein, fiber, and muscle mass can increase the fat and calories you burn daily and change your body! Discover the secret to how fiber and protein contribute to your fat release! Fine tune your Healthy Edge journey by evaluating your progress and identifying what is missing.
• Week 8: Where Do We Go From Here? - Congratulations! You are ready for the world, almost. Get your final pictures, weight and measurements and see how well you have done! Discuss your victories and challenges ahead and what how you can implement a lifestyle change from the education gained in the last seven weeks. Bring somebody special in your life to share your victory!

For mor information you can contact Randy and Brian through their Facebook page!!

http://www.facebook.com/healthyedgetacoma

Rodger Niemi DC

Renaissance Chiropractic Center

4902 Tacoma Mall Blvd. 

Tacoma WA 98409

253-473-0300

Use of Ice therapy to reduce inflammation

Use of Ice Pack

The use of ice packs helps to reduce swelling and inflammation, decrease pain from injury, and decrease the pain associated with muscle spasm and trigger points. When swelling is present, it helps to elevate the swollen area during the ice pack treatment.

The Gel packs are relatively inexpensive at any of the local drugstores. Many of them can also be used for heat therapy (but not all), make sure that you read the instructions if you plan on using one for heat as well as cold.

Never place the gel pack directly on bare skin. Always wrap the gel packs in a towel or washcloth. Gel packs can cause frostbite damage to the skin.

Place ice gel pack in freezer for about two hours.

Remove gel pack from freezer.

Place a flexible gel ice pack in a damp towel. (Crushed ice in a plastic bag may be substituted)

Place ice pack over the painful or swollen area. It may help to strap the pack on with an elastic strap.

Keep ice pack in place for approximately 20 minutes.

(Ice packs go through 3 stages, the area feels cold, the area feels “achy”, and finally the area feels numb. You want to leave the ice pack in place for about 5 minutes after reaching the numb stage.)

Remove ice pack.

This may be repeated if needed for relief of pain and/or swelling. You must wait at least 45-60 minutes for the area to re-warm itself before reapplying the ice pack.

Another alternative is to use a bag of frozen peas (or veggie of your choice) wrapped in a damp cloth.

1. Always use a washcloth or towel between the ice pack and skin.

2. Apply only for 10-20 minutes at a time.

3. Cold pack may be reapplied as often as needed as long as you wait at least 45-60 minutes between applications.

Dr Rodger Niemi
Renaissance Chiropractic Center 
http://www.chirotacoma.com
253-473-0300

Using Vitamin D to help boost the immune system

Another great article from Merola.com
Dr. Mercola provides great information to help fight off the coming flu season and keep your body healthy naturally. Take the few minutes to watch this video so that you are well informed before you make a decision on taking a flu shot.


Another influenza season is beginning, and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will strongly urge Americans to get a flu shot. In fact, the CDC mounts a well-orchestrated campaign each season to generate interest and demand for flu shots.

But a recent study published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children against the flu appeared to have no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during two recent flu seasons.

At first glance, the data did suggest that children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years derived some protection from vaccination in these years. But after adjusting for potentially relevant variables, the researchers concluded that "significant influenza vaccine effectiveness could not be demonstrated for any season, age, or setting" examined.

Additionally, a Group Health study found that flu shots do not protect elderly people against developing pneumonia -- the primary cause of death resulting as a complication of the flu. Others have questioned whether there is any mortality benefit with influenza vaccination. Vaccination coverage among the elderly increased from 15 percent in 1980 to 65 percent now, but there has been no decrease in deaths from influenza or pneumonia.

There is some evidence that flu shots cause Alzheimers disease, most likely as a result of combining mercury with aluminum and formaldehyde. Mercury in vaccines has also been implicated as a cause of autism.


Three other serious adverse reactions to the flu vaccine are joint inflammation and arthritis, anaphylactic shock (and other life-threatening allergic reactions), and Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralytic autoimmune disease.

One credible hypothesis that explains the seasonal nature of flu is that influenza is a vitamin D deficiency disease.

Vitamin D levels in your blood fall to their lowest point during flu seasons. Unable to be protected by the bodys own antibiotics (antimicrobial peptides) that are released by vitamin D, a person with a low vitamin D blood level is more vulnerable to contracting colds, influenza, and other respiratory infections.

Studies show that children with rickets, a vitamin D-deficient skeletal disorder, suffer from frequent respiratory infections, and children exposed to sunlight are less likely to get a cold. The increased number of deaths that occur in winter, largely from pneumonia and cardiovascular diseases, are most likely due to vitamin D deficiency.

Unfortunately, now, for the first time, flu vaccination is also being pushed for virtually all children -- not just those under 5.

This is a huge change. Previously, flu vaccine was recommended only for youngsters under 5, who can become dangerously ill from influenza. This year, the government is recommending that children from age 6 months to 18 years be vaccinated, expanding inoculations to 30 million more school-age children.

The government argues that while older children seldom get as sick as the younger ones, it's a bigger population that catches flu at higher rates, so the change should cut missed school, and parents' missed work when they catch the illness from their children.

Of course, this policy ignores the fact that a systematic review of 51 studies involving 260,000 children age 6 to 23 months found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo.

Sources:
LewRockwell.com October 3, 2008
EMS Responder September 9, 2008
WebMD October 6, 2008
Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine October 2008; 162(10):943-51

For more information visit:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/art...
http://www.mercola.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mercola

WHAT IS IN A VACCINE & WHY WOULD THESE SUBSTANCES CREATE PROBLEMS?

This was previously posted on the Renaissance Chiropractic group page.  I thought that since I am driving by at least 4 pharmacies everyday advertising flu shots on my way to and from the office, that I would share this again.  Again, Putting toxins into your body, whether by injection, pills, potions or lotions, is not good for your well being (my opinion).   Chiropractors want you to make good, informed choices for your well-being.   Knowing is half the battle.

Vaccination Content

WHAT IS IN A VACCINE & WHY WOULD THESE SUBSTANCES CREATE PROBLEMS?

Dis-ease - causing agents for vaccines are grown in putrid mixes of blood, tissue and other substances from: monkey kidneys, chicken and duck embryos; dog, horse, rabbit, mouse and cow tissues. Also, human tissue culture containing cells (notably from the uterine cancer of Henrietta Lack, an African American woman who died in the 1960's, and whose cancer cells were laboratory-proliferated and now contaminate cell lines in research labs around the globe) and increasingly human diploid cells obtained from the dissected organs of aborted fetuses. RNA & DNA from 11 species contaminate vaccines,

ALUMINUM: a neuro-toxin which has been associated w/ Alzheimers, dis-ease, dementia and seizures; aluminum is carcinogenic in laboratory mice and added to vaccines to "promote antibody response."

THIRMERSOL: a sodium salt derived from the deadly poison mercury and used as a disinfectant and preservative; thirmersal has been linked to brain and kidney damage as well as immune and neurological dis-orders; it is a component of vaccines for DPT, tetanus, hepatitius B and Hib.

FORMALDEHYDE: a major component of embalming fluid, which of course is pumped into dead people to keep them dead; a known cancer-causing chemical, this toxic substance is used to "inactivate" viruses and detoxify bacterial toxins; formaldehyde has also shown to be injurious to the liver and to trigger gene mutations.

CARBOLIC ACID (PHENOL): believed to cause gender mutation; a deadly poison used as a disinfectant, dye;

ANTI (AGAINST) BIOTICS (LIFE): Neomycin, Streptomycin and a variety of other drugs - to which increasing numbers of the population are demonstrating serious allergies and to which increasing numbers of microbes are developing genetically-transmitted tolerance;

ACETONE: used in fingernail polish remover and as a solvent;

ALUM: used as a preservative;

GLYCERIN: a tri-atomic alcohol extracted from natural fats which are putrefied and decomposed; toxic effects damage the kidneys, liver, lungs and "pronounced local tissue damage", gastrointestinal damage and death.

TOXIC CHEMICALS & DRUGS: trace elements of other chemicals such as sodium
hydroxide, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin, benzethonium chloride, methylparaben; some of which are known or suspected of causing cancer.

Information excerpted from the CONSCIOUS RASTA REPORT Vol. 3, No. 9: EPIDEMIC, and actual vaccine vials.

VACCINATION REFERENCES

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5615 Morningside Drive, Suite 222, Houston TX 77005, (888) 283-4116

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print), Eleanor McBean Ph.D., N.D.

Ida Honorof's "Report To The Consumer" Newsletter, PO Box 346, Cutten CA 95534

NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER & Dissatisfied Parents Together
(NVIC/DPT), 512 W. Maple Ave, Ste 206, Vienna VA 22180, 800-909-SHOT or (703)
938-DPT3
E-mail: nvic@mindspring.com http://www.909shot.com/

Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education (PROVE), Dawn Richardson
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"The Family Health Series", The Immunization Decision - A Guide For Parents,
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Homeopathic Educational Services, 2124 Kittredge ST, Berkeley CA 94704

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"Mothering", Immunization Pamphlet, PO Box 2208, Albuquerque NM 87103

"The People's Doctor" Vera Chatz, Assoc. Ed., PO Box 982, Evanstan IL 60204

The American Natural Hygiene Society, Inc., 698 Brooklawn AVE, Bridgeport CT
06604. Complete text of the current state statutes of all 50 states dealing
w/ compulsory immunizations.

The National Health Federation (NHF) Immunization Kit, PO Box 688, Monrovia CA
91016, (818) 357-2181 $5 includes P&H, V & MC. This kit deals w/ school vaccination exemption, compulsory immunizations; your right to refuse travel immunization in internat'l travel; a report on the ineffectiveness of measles vaccine, and the dangers of vaccinations.

Avoid Vaccines Legally "Your Personal Guide to Exemptions" G. Girdwain, 8320
S. Nashville, Burbank IL 60459-2333

Every Second Child, Dr. Archie Kalokerionos, 1974

National Center for Homeopathy, 1500 Massachusetts AVE NW, STE 41, Washington
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* DPT: A Shot In The Dark, Harris L. Coulter & Barbara Loe Fisher, Avery
Publishing Group, Inc. Garden City Park NY

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*Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality, Harris L. Coulter

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Speak, IMMUNIZATIONS: Theory vs. Reality, Neil Z. Miller, New Atlantean Press,
PO Box 9638-925, Santa Fe, NM 87504, PH (505) 983-1856.

Thinktwice GlobalVaccine Institute, http://www.new-atlantean.com/global/vaccine.html or
http://www.thinktwice.com/ E-mail: global@thinktwice.com

VACCINE LAWS, A copy of the Vaccine Laws of YOUR state are available for $4
postpaid - New Atlantean Press.

*Mass Immunization A Point In Question, Trevor Gunn

*What About Immunizations? Exposing The Vaccine Philosophy, Cynthia Cournoyer

* - Available from the American Natural Hygiene Society (ANHS), PO Box 30630
Tampa, FL 33630, (813) 855-6607

Vaccines Are Dangerous - A Warning To The Black Community. Curtis Cost A&B Book Publishers, Brooklyn, NY 11201

"Before You Vaccinate...Investigate", "VACCINES- An Ounce of Prevention? or
a Pound of DEATH?, "OUTRAGE - How Black & Brown Babies Were Used As Guinea
Pigs In A Los Angeles County Vaccine Experiment", "Another Loaded Needle"
and more... Keidi Obi Awadu, aka K. Howard "The Conscious Rasta Perspective"
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AIDS Made In The U.S.A., Ancestor Zears Miles, Jr., 2300 W. El Segundo BLVD,
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77005-3218, (713) 393-3404, $35 (includes S&H). A potpourri of Vaccination &
Inoculation Articles, Propaganda Materials, Bibliography, Resources and Letters of Exemption.

Jon Rappoport's "VACCINES" 9 part audio tape series. This 3 tape package is
available through ACWB, INC. $30 (includes S&H). If purchased w/ THE VACC
PAK, the total package is $45.

EDUCATE-YOURSELF
http://educate-yourself.org/vaccinedangersindex.html

Last Updated 6/27/02
IMMUNE DEFICIENCY RESOURCES

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5615 Morningside Dr., #222, Houston ,TX 77005, (888) 283-4116

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Before You Vaccinate...Investigate, VACCINES: An Ounce of Prevention or a
Pound of Death?, Epidemic, OUTRAGE, Population Wars, AIDS EXPOSED, Another
Loaded Needle: The SPf66 Malaria Vaccine & The Conspiracy to Decimate the
Population of Africa, Keidi Obi Awadu "The Conscious Rasta Perspective", PO Box 7683, Long Beach, CA 90807-0683, (310) 403-2921;
http://www.Africa2000.com/; E-mail : consrast@ix.netcom.com

Poison Needle, Eleanor McBean Ph.D., N.D., CPA Book Publisher,m PO Box 596,
Boring, OR 97009

Ida Honorof's "Report To The Consumer" Newsletter, PO Box 346, Cutten, CA 95534

Vaccination - The Silent Killer, Ida Honorof & Eleanor McBean Ph.D., N.D.

MURDER By INJECTION - The Story of the Medical Conspiracy Against America,
Eustace Mullins, CPA Book Publisher, PO Box 596, Boring, OR 97009

Medical Mafia, The Trial of The Medical Mafia, What The Hell Am I Doing Here
Anyway? Ghislaine Saint-Pierre Lanctot, M.D.

Here's The Key Inc. P.O. Box 309 Waterloo, Quebec, Canada J0E 2NO TEL: 450. 297.3930; FAX 450.297.0233 http://www.personocratia.com/ E-mail: personocratie@yahoo.fr or PO Box 223, Morgan ,VT 05853, 802.895.4914; 802.895.4669 (fax)

Steven Ransom Website: http://www.aidsmyth.com/, E-mail: stev1@ontel.net.uk

Citizens Commission on Human Rights (800) 869-2247 & E-Mail: humanrights@cchr.org

William Trebling, D.C. with the Anti Vaccination League, http://www.vaccinealert/. He offers a referral to a lawyer in N.Y. - James Filenbaum, PH 845.357.0020. Website is http://www.immunizationattorney.com/top/html.

Eczema

Eczema is a form of atopic dermatitis that manifests itself in the form of dry, rough skin that can or cannot be covered in a red and intensely itchy rash. According to renowned pediatrician Dr. Sears, eczema affects approximately 10 percent of infants and children. "The cause is mainly genetic," says Dr. Sears. "It is the result of an inborn tendency toward dry skin and allergies." The key to successful treatment is finding a way to moisturize and treat the allergies simultaneously.

Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic treatment may be effective in treating eczema. The theory is that eczema is a manifestation of an attack on the immune system, which is linked to the central nervous system. Chiropractic treatments correct subluxations (or misalignment) in the spine that adversely affect these systems' abilities to function normally. In other words, a subluxation blocks optimal blood flow to the skin, making it more vulnerable to attack, as seen in the form of eczema.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/95924-treatment-eczema-children/#ixzz11GWy3GaB

The above paragraphs are from the livestrong.com site.  While there may be a genetic component to Eczema,  very few thing are strictly a genetic problem.  most conditions require an environmental stimulus to trigger the genetic response.   Eczema, psoriasis  and other skin conditions have a neurological component as well.  when the nerves to an area are impaired; circulation, sensation and sub-dermal muscles can be affected.  This can impact the severity of the skin conditions and their response to other interventions.   one text suggest the mid-cervical region (C3), mid thoracic region (T4,T6 &T9) and the mid lumbar region (L4) are the culprit areas that need to be checked and adjusted for Eczema outbreaks.


CHIROPRACTIC CARE CAN HELP WITH THESE CONDITIONS. How much we can help varies from patient to patient.   


Dr Rodger Niemi
Renaissance Chiropractic Center
253-473-0300

Who is responsible for your health???

"There are few things more frustrating than finding a health care treatment that works for you — a chiropractic adjustment that relieves nagging lower back pain or a yoga class that helps reduce anxiety — only to find that your insurance won't pay for it."

Who is responsible for your health???

With the current state of the health care market, we are seeing more and more restrictions and denials from  insurance companies for chiropractic care.  The denials may be basis on the number of visits that you have had; the type of adjustments you receive (Aetna has denied claims when we have only used the activator instrument to adjust).  Claims have been denied for children based on their age, deemed as experimental care.  Some of the insurance companies have begun to use assessment surveys to establish when they will deny a claim. these surveys are focused on neck pain and back pain; only a small part of why you may seek to use chiropractic care. 

 All of these are as frustrating for us as it is for you. 

One thing to consider; "health" insurance is not intended to make you healthier than you are (or have been), it is intended as a benefit to manage disease or dysfunction.  They are not going to pay for your vitamins, organic foods, gym membership, etc.....  investing in these things and more are an investment in your health and well being!!!!! 

 

Recently we have a situation in which we needed to take my wife into the local emergeny room. The cost of this one nights visit to the hospital were incredible.  just to sign in at the ER was as much as some patients entire care with me.  $1500 just for the emergency room services.  you add the emergency room doctor, imaging, examination  and other miscellaneous charges and this trip to the emergency room was nearly $4,000.  All to confirm what I already knew without doing any test and to tell us to go home.   Very often, extended chiropractic care will cost you less than half just one visit to the ER.     

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 Dr. Mike Long, Renaissance Chiropractic Center, Tacoma WA
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5 Ways Poor Posture Can Limit Height Growth

Article from Dr. Randy Baze's newsletter by Rodney Williams 
when your spine deviates from the idea curvatures, your body movement dynamic changes.  when your change the dynamics of body motion, you effect the nervous system.  when you change the nervous system, you effect to function of every cell in the body.  It changes the way your body chemistry is functioning and this can have an overall effect on your health.

Dr Rodger Niemi
Renaissance Chiropractic Center 
4902 Tacoma Mall Blvd
Tacoma WA 98409
253-473-0300

5 Ways Poor Posture Can Limit Height Growth
Rodney Williams

Many posture problems exist that people pick up over the years and may not even realize they have. These could lead to pain, especially back pain, and as far as height is concerned, can make us not only physically shorter, but appear shorter as well. Some of the most common posture problems are looked at below.

1. Walking posture - This is an easy one to get into bad habits with, probably the one which is the hardest to break, and also the one which is discussed the least of the three major ones, the other two of which are looked at next. It's often assumed that proper sitting posture and to a lesser extent, sleeping posture, can be taught, while walking is just something we naturally do, and cannot be changed or critiqued. Poor walking posture is quite common for this reason.
Breaking this habit can be difficult, and will take a concerted effort to break. The subject should practice walking with their shoulders tensed and forcibly held back, head held high, making a mental note of where their eye level is. Getting in the practice of doing this should make it easier to recognize when they're walking improperly, at which point they can consciously correct it until it becomes second nature and replaces the old, bad habit.

2. Sitting Posture - These posture issues are also very common, and as more and more people sit behind a computer for a living, their possible consequences and reach grows. The computer monitor, keyboard and chair should all be set in positions that all but force the user to sit in an upright position. LCD monitors are good for this, as they force a consistent eye level be maintained to get a good view of the screen. Any slouching and the user should know it immediately.

3. Sleeping Posture - The one people would generally be the least aware of, and also the one that would seemingly be the most difficult to break, though this isn't the case. By properly utilizing pillows, by removing them when sleeping on one's back and by sticking them between the legs when sleeping on the side, bad sleeping posture can be limited with little effort.

4. Bow Legs and Knock Knees - These conditions develop early, and are not as easily cured. A doctor visit will probably be necessary, at which point special insoles or footwear that can help break the problem will probably be prescribed.

5. Scoliosis - This is a serious condition, in which the spine is severely curved, resulting in a drastic loss of height, as well as other health ailments. In mild cases, Scoliosis can be corrected with the proper stretching exercises. In extreme cases, surgery may be needed to correct it.

Improved posture can not only result in increased height, it can improve our health in other areas, and proper posture also makes you appear more professional to others. Snap out of your bad habits today, and kick them to the curb.

Whiplash - Getting Well Naturally

The following is from an article posted on our website.   Whiplash injuries can happen whenever the head is shifted forward and/or backward rapidly or unexpectedly.   symptoms for these types if injuries can be felt with in minutes in some cases, in other cases the symptoms may not be felt for several weeks or even months after the injury.  forces as little as 4 MPH can effect the spine and cause permanent changes to the spine.  Falls, car accidents, fights are among some if the events that can cause a whiplash injury.   

if you have had and injury like this YOU NEED TO BE CHECKED BY A CHIROPRACTOR!!!!!!!    


Dr Rodger Niemi
Renaissance Chiropractic Center
253-473-0300     Call for an appointment today!!!!
 
  Whiplash - Getting Well Naturally

You're driving to work and stop for a red light. You're minding your own business and - bam! - your car rocks forward and backward, slammed in the rear by another car driven by some guy yakking on his cell phone. Or you're a passenger in a Seattle taxi. The driver's cruising down Denny Way when a teenager suddenly dashes into the intersection, running across the street against the light. The cabbie slams on the brakes and your head rocks forcefully backward and forward.

Or for reasons known only to yourself you decide it's a good idea to go bungee jumping. You dive into space, the cord extends, and finally the cord is fully played out. Significant physical forces blast through your body as you helplessly bounce back and forth, dangling in the air like a gaffed flying fish.
The result of each of these demonstrations of Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion? Later that day, or possibly within several days, you begin to experience neck pain. You might also have shoulder pain, headache, nausea, dizziness, and pain or numbness traveling down one or both arms. You have whiplash - a traumatic injury to the muscles, ligaments, and spinal joints of your neck and upper back.^1,2

If you're lucky you'll get better in a few days. If the injuries are moderate or severe the various complaints will linger and may even get worse. As with any injury or illness, if you're not getting better right away you need to see your doctor. As you've suffered an injury to your head and neck, it may be a good idea to see your doctor as soon as you can, in any case, even if you think the injury is mild.

Your chiropractor is an excellent choice for examination and evaluation of injuries due to whiplash. She will be able to determine the nature and extent of the damage to muscle, ligament, and bone. Taking an x-ray series is a very important part of the evaluation of whiplash, as even seemingly modest forces can result in fracture of one or more vertebras in your neck. Evaluation of nerve function, including both spinal nerves and cranial nerves, is critically important. Pain and/or numbness radiating into one or both arms suggests injury to a cervical nerve root and needs to be thoroughly assessed.

If no fractures have been identified, chiropractic treatment can begin immediately. Over time, chiropractic treatment helps reduce inflammation of injured muscles and ligaments. Over time, chiropractic treatment helps restore normal ranges of motion to your neck and upper back. With this natural form of healing you begin to make incremental, steady progress, recovering the ability to participate in all your daily activities with reduced levels of pain and discomfort.

Chiropractic treatment provides optimal therapy for whiplash injuries, allowing your body to recover and return to normal by utilizing its own restorative powers.<sup>3


1</sup>Kasch H, et al: Clinical assessment of prognostic factors for long-term pain and handicap after whiplash injury: a 1-year prospective study. Eur J Neurol 15(11):1222-1230, 2008
²Chen HB, et al: Biomechanics of whiplash injury. Chin J Traumatol 12(5):305-314, 2009
³Michaleff ZA, et al: A randomised clinical trial of a comprehensive exercise program for chronic whiplash: trial protocol. BMC Musculoskeletal Disord 10:149, 2009 (12/2/09)