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Chiropractic and the Opioid Epidemic

11/4/2017

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The American opioid epidemic has just recently been officially recognized as a national emergency by President Trump. Hopefully this declaration will result in serious and effective steps toward addressing the problem of this massive deadly addiction in America.

The sad truth in the matter is that most of the victims of opioid addiction could have avoided drugs completely if they had been under chiropractic care. Current research shows that chiropractic is more effective at relieving pain and disability, while being less expensive and much safer than drug prescriptions and surgery.
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Spread the word about chiropractic today to help combat the opioid epidemic! 
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Pain-Free, Drug-Free... Naturally!

1/3/2017

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​As you likely have heard in the news, America is officially experiencing an opioid epidemic. An exponential increase of prescription drug-related deaths has unfolded over the past decade, with tragedies that have infiltrated even the smallest rural American communities,  involving adolescents and adults alike. Since 1999, prescription opioid drug sales and deaths have quadrupled, killing 165,000 people and counting. 

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​Oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, fentanyl and others are stupefyingly potent pain-relieving drugs that, when administered carefully for short durations, have a warranted use under dire circumstances. However, they pose a serious threat to public health due to their highly addictive and  deadly qualities, and often lead users to turn to heroin which is easier to procure when prescriptions run out, despite its illegal status.. All too often, people in pain visit their medical doctors seeking help, and walk away with a prescription poison that is intended to reduce pain, while giving rise to more health problems dubbed "side effects" and never fixing the problem that caused the pain in the first place.
 
When the patient continues taking these medications, their body physically degenerates while their brain is chemically reprogrammed to depend upon more and more drugs until their death, via overdose or poor health induced by a chronic toxic state.

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Pain is the sensation interpreted by the brain when sufficient quantities of action potentials, or nerve impulses, reach the brain from their origination in pain receptors, or nociceptors, located throughout the body. The job of nociceptors is to spare the body from harm by notifying the brain of excessive hot, cold, chemical or physical stress. Thankfully, the body is also equipped with its own arsenal of painkilling chemical compounds that are several times more potent than anything made by man, including morphine, with no negative side effects and an added bonus of euphoria along with absolute pain relief. In fact, the only reason that opiate drugs can work in the human body is because they interact with the body's endogenous opiate receptors- locations that interact with self made, or endogenous, opiate peptides like dynorphins, enkephalins, endomorphins and endorphins- all of which are produced in the brain or spinal cord in response to pain and stress, but also with pleasurable stimuli like excitement, delicious food, love, vigorous exercise, and chiropractic adjustments.
 
Chiropractic not only induces relief by the body’s natural painkillers, but more importantly restores the normal position of joints, allowing normal function and movement in the spine, ribs, pelvis, and limbs. This eliminates the cause of pain, and over time, allows the body to heal and remodel itself properly.

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Chiropractic is safe, effective and appropriate for all body types, ages, and stages of pain or disease, provides immediate and long lasting relief of pain, and costs less than traditional medical management by drugs and surgery. Painkilling opioid drugs do not treat the cause of pain, are not effective and appropriate for all users, have dozens of uncomfortable and deadly side effects including death, addiction, severe constipation, behavioral and cognitive changes, and more… while allowing users to physically destroy their body without feeling it. The choice is obvious: choose chiropractic for yourself, your family, and your community!

Reference:
  • Opioid Addiction Facts & Figures 2016 http://www.asam.org
  • Chiropractic: A Safer Strategy than Opioids www.f4cp.com/f4cp_opioid_white_paper.pdf
  • Endogenous Opioids: Their Physiological Role and Receptors http://idosi.org/gjp/3(3)09/7.pdf
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Chiropractic Kids

10/22/2016

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As we all know, children seem to grow like weeds, heal incredibly fast, and have bodies that can bounce off the floor without injury- to our amazement! And it seems that way because its true on a basic physiological, cellular level. Children have more stem cells than adults, which are able to change into, and multiply as any kind of cell the body requires for healing, growth, and increased performance. Children's cells also divide more rapidly, allowing the child to quickly heal wounds and recover from illness and injury, and grow and mature physically, cognitively, and emotionally.
But does that mean they don't need the same chiropractic care that greatly benefits older adults who most commonly seek chiropractic care to find relief? On the contrary, children need and benefit from chiropractic even more! Thankfully, many parents already know this. According to a 2007 report in Pediatrics journal, children benefited from chiropractic care 30 million times a year. In 2008 and 2012, the CDC reported that chiropractic adjustments were the most utilized form of complementary health care for children.
Subluxations are most devastating to rapidly developing bodies, as nerve impulses from the brain direct the tissue cells how to function and multiply correctly for proper growth and health, and as more cells are created in childhood growth, proper nerve function is that much more important. If allowed to persist for months or years, poor health and development may incur as a result. Infant colic, difficulty nursing, earaches, and constipation are just a few of the common ailments that are relieved by chiropractic care, as shown by a wealth of research, and even more important are more serious diseases prevented by chiropractic care.
Children who grow up with a healthy spine and nervous system get sick less often and develop closer to their full potential. Regular spinal adjustments coupled with lifestyle, exercise, and nutritional advice from your chiropractor will help your entire family, from newborns to grandparents, to grow, develop, heal, and maximize life while losing less time and money to sickness and disease. If you've never visited a doctor of chiropractor, schedule a consultation today! If you are a patient but never considered bring your children or grandchildren- do so! They will thank you someday!

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Sleep for Health!

10/5/2016

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Keep the Power On

8/28/2016

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The human body is a marvelous thing. It performs an myriad of heroic feats every day, around the clock, unconsciously and perfectly when allowed to do so. It grows, repairs and replaces its cells constantly. It maintains homeostasis (constant conditions within the body) in diverse and changing environments, responds to stimuli appropriately, adapts to ensure survival, and perhaps most incredibly, reproduces new life when in union with another. So why is it that so many people suffer discomfort, disease, and despair when the human body is designed to maintain itself perfectly?

Every one of the more than 50 trillion cells of the human body has a specific purpose within the grand symphony of the body's interdependent neural, endocrine, visceral, cardiovascular, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems. Every cell in every tissue in every part of the body depends on information transmitted via electrical signals called action potentials to direct them, directly from nerves or through complex "second messenger" pathways involving various chains of molecules that trigger specific responses from tissue cells to "carry out the orders" that originated from action potentials in nerves that trace their origin from the brain.

Every movement that you make requires precise and sufficient numbers of action potentials to excite muscle fibers, while inhibiting others and recruiting muscles of your hips, trunk and neck for body balance, eye coordination and preparation for the next movement. The frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex  sends instructions for voluntary movement on a circuitous route by shooting action potentials to other centers of the brain for integration and coordination, then down the spinal cord and out to your hands or feet through increasingly smaller and more specific nerves, with increasingly more specific tasks but generally falling into the categories of initiating movement, perceiving sensations, or promoting the "fight or flight" reflexes. The same basic concept applies to  every organ system as well, and it has been pretty well mapped out by anatomists as to which muscle, joint, organ, or area of skin is supplied by which exact nerve or combination of nerves, which all trace their origin to the spinal nerves that branch off of the spinal cord, which lives in and is protected by the bones of your spine, or vertebrae. 

If at this point you are thinking, "Great, but who cares?" consider this: What happens if these signals, these action potentials fail to reach the liver? The colon? The uterus? And for a long time? What happens if action potentials are altered on their way to the hand, foot, mouth, or otherwise? What happens if action potentials carrying sensory information back to brain are altered, interrupted, or blocked? Quite obviously one cannot definitively deduce every possible outcome, but what can be concluded is that a change will occur. A change that moves the body away from normal, away from homeostasis, and away from health.

The human brain floats in a nutritious, weight-reducing bath of "cerebrospinal fluid" and is encased in the skull by various layers of tough tissue, and this arrangement follows the spinal cord as it descends to your lower back in the middle of this wonderful spinal canal protected on all sides by a strong yet flexible column of wonderfully shaped bones called vertebrae, and aside from traumatic injuries, this arrangement tends to work quite nicely. However, when spinal nerves branch off that big beautiful cord, things can get a little tricky as they weave through narrow spaces between adjacent vertebrae as they exit, and with less protection enter tissues full of obstacles. On top of this, systemic or local inflammation can physically or chemically alter their function and ability to transmit information to the body from the brain, or from the body to the brain. After an extensive amount of time under such conditions, nerves may wither or die off, wreaking havoc on the body. An interruption or interference with nerve flow due to pressure from misaligned vertebrae or swollen tissues is called a subluxation, and can result from a variety of daily stressors, physical, mental, or chemical. 

If you are still reading and feeling discouraged, don't be, because untold millions of people, for over 120 years, have already benefited from an affordable, effective, and safe approach to maintaining a healthy nervous system and body, with sometime miraculous results. I'm sure you already know what its called, and thats why you're here. Its called Chiropractic, and simply put- is the art, science and philosophy of finding and removing subluxations, and allowing the body to heal itself. 
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    Dr. Bradley J Brown

    Doctor of Chiropractic
    Brown Chiropractic
    Oelwein, Iowa

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