Archive for June 2013
June 28, 2013
[originally published in KCN, May 2008]
The word “Plastic” means different things to different people. We all probably relate to the countless plastic products and materials that we have come to rely on. Everything from drinking cups to dashboards — rain gear to baby toys — traffic cones to sunglasses. Still others might reach for their wallets to show off their “plastic.” And sometimes plastic is the perfect word to describe something that is fake or artificial. But ask a scientist, engineer, or artist to define the word plastic, and you just might be in for an answer that you have never heard before. For these professional fields have definitions of plastic that revolve around a material’s ability to change in shape — much like plastic does when it is heated. Specifically however, when “plastic” is used in the biological sciences it refers to an organism’s ability to “exhibit adaptability to change or variety in the environment.”
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Categories: adjustment, animal, chronic
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, chiropractic, chiropractic animal study, chiropractor, chronic pain, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Kingston, Kitsap, neuroplasticity, nueronal plasticity
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June 21, 2013
[originally published in KCN, January 2008]
In our ever changing healthcare environment, doctors are constantly learning — so much so, that the treatments they hold fast to today, may be surpassed by another, more effective means tomorrow. To not recognize this would be like freezing a physician in a time capsule with his dated professional diploma. In an effort to stay abreast of the latest research regarding effective treatments for the myriad of conditions out there, doctors will often turn to the latest published practice guideline to assist them in their decision making process. Why am I telling you all this? Because a fresh set of guidelines just crossed my desk for Low Back Pain. And chiropractic — as it has in guidelines past — has managed to find itself a comfortable spot in this set of recommendations, even if it was written for doctors of internal medicine.
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Categories: low back pain
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, back pain, chiropractic, chiropractor, clinical guidelines, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Kingston, Kitsap, low back pain, lower, practice guidelines, treatment guidelines
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June 14, 2013
[originally published in KCN, December 2007]
Chiropractors have long known that spinal adjustments can help stave off, slow down, and sometimes reverse the devastating effects of osteoarthritis — but it took a group of rats to prove it.
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Categories: adjustment, animal, arthritis, chronic, low back pain, mid back pain, neck pain, subluxation
Tags: Anchor Chiropractic, arthritis, chiropractic, chiropractic animal study, chiropractor, degenerative arthritis, Dr. Thomas Lamar, Kingston, Kitsap, osteoarthritis
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June 7, 2013
[originally published in KCN, September 2007]
It is estimated, that at any given time, 15% of the female population and 10% of the male population is suffering from chronic neck pain. It’s one thing to have had a short-lived kink in the neck, but having neck pain that goes on for months and months without any intention of going away, well, is truly a “pain in the neck.”
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