Or is it? However you choose to scoot around on your two wheels - on-road, off-road, for fun or in competition - the bicycle you use to do it has to be tailored not just to those needs, but also to your body, physicality, and health considerations. You wouldn’t enter a road-race on a kid’s...
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Scoliosis is a progressive spinal disease that affects the entire skeletal system including the spine, ribs, and pelvis. It impacts neurological, hormonal and digestive systems and damages the body’s major organs including the heart and lungs. It also severely depletes the body’s nutritional resources.
Surgical rods that fuse the spine do nothing to address the many biological and physiological aspects of scoliosis. In fact, an invasive surgical procedure can merely arrest scoliotic progression.
The Copes Scoliosis Treatment Recovery System(TRS) is a multifaceted treatment plan. It not only arrests spinal curvature, it corrects it — much like orthodontic braces correct teeth.
Spinal curvatures are reversed while the entire system is carefully re-educated to hold the correction.
Chiropractic care is vital to the success of the Copes TRS, and is typically administered 2-3 times per week during the first 12 months of the Copes TRS. Thereafter, the frequency of chiropractic care is often reduced in accordance with the patient’s overall response to treatment.
Chiropractic physicians correct areas of spinal dysfunction via segmental adjustments and flexion distraction therapy. Heel lifts, tissue analysis and CLF board therapy are also administered by the treating chiropractic physician under the Copes TRS.
There will always be some bright spark inventing a new-fangled way to exercise. Strange machines and contraptions and weird exercise routines. If that sort of thing appeals, then fine - so long as it does what it’s meant to do. One thing you may not have considered, though, is simply getting back to basics in...
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Patients often find that Chiropractic is more successful than medical care, for treating a wide range of conditions and diseases. According to nationwide surveys, results show the popularity of Chiropractic care is at an all-time high. Nearly 30% of the U.S. population, aged 18 and older, have used Chiropractic. 90% of Chiropractic patients felt their...
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There are 10 million new cases every year of otitis media, aka your common-or-garden ear infection. It is so common, in fact, that ear infections account for 35% of all pediatric visits, making them the number one reason for visiting the pediatrician and the most recorded illness in babies and young children. If you’ve ever...
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Nowadays, Derise Rawls visits chiropractor Dr. Chris Beckwith on a regular basis for knee pain. She started seeing him after a tear in the cartilage of her knee had kept her in pain for two years. “I couldn’t walk my grandchildren outside. I couldn’t walk with my husband,” Derise said. She tried the usual avenue...
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Not many people like doing housework. For most, it’s a real pain in the aaah … what’s the word? Sacroiliac. But it’s not just the disruption it causes to your longed-for life of leisure; it really can be a pain. Literally. The activities you carry out around the house may not seem too physically demanding,...
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Every form of health care can contain some risk and the media often sensationalize those risks and create fear. But what are the real numbers? The following shows a comparison between spinal manipulation, spinal surgery, and anti-inflammatory drugs (non-steroidal). Your patients need to know these statistics. Cervical Spine Manipulation: Complication 2.09 per million Death .268...
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Americans with developmental disabilities or autism will soon have a major new resource dedicated to providing a comprehensive array of services and support programs. On October 1, 2009, the Training, Education & Research Institute (TERI, Inc.) broke ground on the construction of the Charles R. Cono Center for Research & Life Planning. Located in North...
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Good computer ergonomics – our posture when we sit at our workstations – is important for children as well as for adults. According to a New York Times article, over 70% of America's 30 million elementary school students use computers. With the IT world we live in, the 30% that don’t soon will. While this...
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