Bedford Chiropractic Clinic

What To Expect When You're In Chiropractic Care Welcome You are joining many of your neighbours who have made the 21st century healthcare choice - the natural, drug-less approach to healing and optimal health: Chiropractic. What Can I Expect Chiropractic To Do For Me? Expect to see people with many different health goals and challenges in the waiting room of a typical doctor of chiropractic. Some of them might surprise you. Of course you'll find many people with "musculoskeletal" problems - back, neck, disc, arm, shoulder, leg, hip, joint, nerve and muscle pain or pain, discomfort or poor unction. However, you'll also find people seeking chiropractic care for headaches; fatigue; high blood pressure; ear infection; skin conditions; PMS; menstrual cramps; colic; arthritis; asthma; sinus trouble; digestive problems; scoliosis; fibromyalgia; nervous stress; emotional disorders; fevers; bed-wetting; colic; and ear, eye, nose and throat problems. ...

The Best Reason To Continue Chiropractic Care! Most likely, you were born in perfect health. But perfect health can be hard to maintain. Childhood falls, major or minor accidents, birth stress, family stresses, work complications, financial concerns, food choices and life in general can all slowly take their toll. You haven't been feeling as well as you'd like. Perhaps you've been diagnosed with a disease or condition. What do you do? How do you recover your health? How do you optimise your health? Where To Turn? Many people turn to drugs when they have a health problem. While drugs may be necessary at times, in many cases drugs merely cover up or suppress symptoms. In other words, drugs do not promote healing. You may feel a little better but you are still sick - you aren't just experiencing the pain or other warning signs your body is giving you. If drugs healed people, then those who took the most drugs would be the healthiest. But aren't they the si...

Coughs, Stuffy Noses, Fevers, and the Flu…  How Chiropractic Can Help! It’s the time of the year when coughs, fevers, stuffy noses, and tummy aches become the norm in both kids and adults. Millions of missed school and work days occur because of the stress of sickness. The spread of these conditions runs rampant at the start of the new year. Strategies which improve immune function are sought by parents to help avoid or fight nasty influenza and cold viruses. The body is resilient, but immunity can be compromised by stress. One specific but less known strategy to improve immunity is chiropractic. This study from 2010 evaluated the relationship between an adjustment and immunity. The findings were as follows:  • 74 age and sex-matched healthy asymptomatic subjects were studied. • The subjects were assigned randomly to three groups. A control group, a spinal adjustive treatment without cavitation group, and a spinal adjustive treatment with cavitation group. • Blo...

Chiropractic Catching Fire for Many Reasons Since the early 1900’s, science and research have helped explain why so many benefits are achieved with a chiropractic adjustment. The spine’s connection to the nervous system help make chiropractic adjustments improve many aspects of health, function, and human performance. Because of this, chiropractic is utilised by more kids, adults, and the elderly for a variety of purposes. This 2017 study looked at the predominant reasons why most chiropractic patients begin care and the unique results reported while under care. The results were fascinating and as follows:  • The aim of this study was to investigate the lifetime and 12-month prevalence, patterns, and predictors of chiropractic utilisation in the US general population.  • There is a growing trend of chiropractic use among US adults from 2002 to 2012.  • 55 million adults in the US have been to a Chiropractor  • 19 million adults in the US have consulted...

                                                 (Chiropractic Neck Stretches & Tips) Many people overlook minor injuries and whiplash caused during a low speed or impact accident. But many people are also surprised by the amount of degeneration or wear and tear in their spine, as they could not isolate their problems to a specific event that was severe enough in their mind to have created such problems as disc degeneration, bulges or protrusions.  However, research shows that even low-impact motor vehicle accidents will still produce significant negative changes in the spine. MRI findings were used to compare cervical spinal conditions of normal subjects to those who had been in a low impact motor vehicle accident 12-14 weeks earlier. THE FINDINGS ARE REMARKABLE! FINDINGS The cervical spines of 100 consecutive uninjured normal a...

Chiropractic: Getting to the Cause of Your Problem Chiropractic has survived as a profession for over one-hundred and twenty years despite many setbacks and opposition from medical counterparts. Not only has chiropractic survived, it has thrived through many obstacles by focusing on one primary goal of getting results for patients. Chiropractors differentiate their care by seeking to address the cause instead of just treating symptoms. This study evaluated the results for subjects with chronic spinal pain comparing chiropractic spinal manipulation, NSAID drugs, and acupuncture. The results were remarkable, and a follow-up study was published two years later observing the progression of results initially achieved from the first study. The results from the studies were as follows:   Spine Journal 2003: Chronic Spinal Pain:  A Randomised Clinical Trial Comparing Medication, Acupuncture, and Spinal Manipulation  • The study was designed to assess the long-...

Avoid the Heart Attack Holiday Season The holiday season is not so merry for many who end up in the hospital or worse due to heart problems. An unfortunate stunning relationship occurs between the holiday season and heart attacks for both men and women. According to a study from the Journal of Circulation, “The number of cardiac deaths is higher on December 25 than on any other day of the year, second highest on December 26, and third highest on January 1.” CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS HELP STRESS  Chiropractic adjustments are proven to enable the body’s ability to deal with stress. A key indicator to lowering stress while improving health and longevity is an increase in heart rate variability.  This study evaluated the effects of spinal adjustive care on autonomic function through the assessment of changes observed in the heart rate variability of nineteen healthy young adult subjects.  THE STUDY This study was designed to determine the acute eff...