Happy Sunday everyone! I have pictures!!! Things are coming along at a pretty good pace in the new Sanger office. The Spine Studio’s official opening in this Tuesday March 3rd, 2009. With Walk-in adjustments only $25 anytime the studio is open and no appointment needed…everyone can now afford great chiropractic care. And for those who know the want more regular care we have even more affordable care plans. I look forward to seeing everyone here.
Well, Here it is again. After much poking and prodding, I’ve hunted down my e-book of home remedies and have agreed to make it available for a short time. This book is really a series of newsletters I sent to practice members several years ago focusing on a different home remedy each issue. I think you’ll enjoy it!
It’s not as bad as it sounds. This short video was recorded during on of my Wellness Workshops a while back. It is the last couple of minutes of the workshop and I briefly explain my approach to chiropractic philosophy. It really is short and to the point.
Hope you enjoyed it. See you around downtown soon!
Montel Williams shares his experience with chiropractic and the significant impact it has had on his life in the short video.
Our new chiropractic adjusting studio will soon be open in beautiful downtown Sanger, Texas at 416 Bolivar. The Studio is located just east of the daycare by the stop light at 5th and Bolivar. The number will be 940-458-7706. Walk-ins are welcome anytime we’re open and we accept and file most major insurance and medicare.
For a limited time your first visit is only $47. We’ll discuss your situation and what you’d like to accomplish with your care. We’ll do an analysis of your spine to see how we can best help. And, We’ll get you started with treatment, if appropriate, or I’ll tell you who I think you need to see to get better. No pressure here!
We’ll Talk… I’ll evaluate… I’ll recommend… You’ll Decide… and We’ll both be happy with your decision.
See you soon!
Dr. Tim Henderson, Family Chiropractor
416 Bolivar Street, Suite 100 in Beautiful Downtown Sanger, Texas
A recent study shows how focusing adjusting on a certain area of the neck can help manage high blood pressure (hypertension). See what Good Morning America has to say on the topic in the video below.
WebMD also has an interesting article on the topic as well.
Chiropractic Cuts Blood Pressure:Study Finds Special ‘Atlas Adjustment’ Lowers Blood Pressure by Daniel J. DeNoon
March 16, 2007- A special chiropractic adjustment can significantly lower high blood pressure, a placebo-controlled study suggests.
“This procedure has the effect of not one, but two blood-pressure medications given in combination,” study leader George Bakris, MD, tells WebMD. “And it seems to be adverse-event free. We saw no side effects and no problems,” adds Bakris, director of the University of Chicago hypertension center.
Eight weeks after undergoing the procedure, 25 patients with early-stage high blood pressure had significantly lower blood pressure than 25 similar patients who underwent a sham chiropractic adjustment. Because patients can’t feel the technique, they were unable to tell which group they were in.
X-rays showed that the procedure realigned the Atlas vertebra — the doughnut-like bone at the very top of the spine — with the spine in the treated patients, but not in the sham-treated patients.
Compared to the sham-treated patients, those who got the real procedure saw an average 14 mm Hg greater drop in systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure count), and an average 8 mm Hg greater drop in diastolic blood pressure (the bottom blood pressure number).
None of the patients took blood pressure medicine during the eight-week study.
“When the statistician brought me the data, I actually didn’t believe it. It was way too good to be true,” Bakris says. “The statistician said, ‘I don’t even believe it.’ But we checked for everything, and there it was.”
Bakris and colleagues report their findings in the advance online issue of the Journal of Human Hypertension.
Atlas Adjustment and Hypertension
The procedure calls for adjustment of the C-1 vertebra. It’s called the Atlas vertebra because it holds up the head, just as the titan Atlas holds up the world in Greek mythology.
Marshall Dickholtz Sr., DC, of the Chiropractic Health Center, in Chicago, is the 84-year-old chiropractor who performed all the procedures in the study. He calls the Atlas vertebra “the fuse box to the body.”
“At the base of the brain are two centers that control all the muscles of the body. If you pinch the base of the brain — if the Atlas gets locked in a position as little as a half a millimeter out of line — it doesn’t cause any pain but it upsets these centers,” Dickholtz tells WebMD.
The subtle adjustment is practiced by the very small subgroup of chiropractors certified in National Upper Cervical Chiropractic (NUCCA) techniques. The procedure employs precise measurements to determine a patient’s Atlas vertebra alignment. If realignment is deemed necessary, the chiropractor uses his or her hands to gently manipulate the vertebra.
“We are not doctors. We are spinal engineers,” Dickholtz says. “We use mathematics, geometry, and physics to learn how to slide everything back into place.”
What does this have to do with high blood pressure pressure?
Bakris notes that some researchers have suggested that injury to the Atlas vertebra can affect blood flow in the arteries at the base of the skull. Dickholtz thinks the misaligned Atlas triggers release of signals that make the arteries contract. Whether the procedure actually fixes such injuries is unknown, Bakris says.
Bakris began the study after a fellow doctor told him that something strange was happening in his family practice. The doctor had been sending some of his patients to a chiropractor. Some of these patients had high blood pressure.
Yet after seeing the chiropractor, the patients’ blood pressure had normalized — and a few of them were able to stop taking their blood pressure medications.
So Bakris, then at Rush University, designed the pilot study with 50 patients. He’s now organizing a much bigger clinical trial.
“Is it going to be for everybody with high blood pressure? No,” Bakris says. “We clearly need to identify those who can benefit. It is pretty clear that some kind of head or neck trauma early in life is related to this. This is really a work in progress. It is certainly in the early stages of research.”
Dickholtz has been teaching, practicing, and studying the NUCCA technique for 50 years. He says high blood pressure is far from the only thing an Atlas misalignment causes.
“On the other hand, if people have high blood pressure, there is a tremendous possibility they need an Atlas adjustment,” he says.
Our downtown Sanger, Texas office should be open next week at 416 Bolivar, Suite #100 right by the day care at 5th and Bolivar.
Yeah! I’m finally going to have a place to adjust all of you that doesn’t require you drive to my Lake Kiowa Office. And I will have a hydrotherapy table available too! But its not where you think it would be.
So here’s the deal…
Progress on our building at 212 Bolivar has slowed to a crawl for various reasons. Construction delays, road improvements… always with the challenges on this thing. Anyway, John Springer is working with me to get things rolling downtown and has been kind enough to lease me a small space at 416 Bolivar, Suite 100, right by the daycare at 5th and Bolivar. It’s such a neat space I may never want to move from it. It has polished concrete floors and an exposed brick wall…the colors are pretty good, too. It has a very “lofty: feel about it. The bottom line is I really like the space and we’ll be able to help a lot of folks from here.
So, we can really get serious about get you folks “back in line” so to speak. I will not have radiology services in this office due to space concerns but they are available at Henderson Chiropractic at Lake Kiowa (25 minutes north) OR there are several imaging centers in Denton we can use. Either way, if we need films we can get them.
I’m so excited about being here in Sanger and being especially downtown. I can look out the office window at the square. IT IS SO COOL!
Here are the Basics:
I am a preferred provider for Blue Cross/ Blue Shield, Aetna, United Healthcare, Guardian, and most other major insurance. Medicare and Medicaid both cover chiropractic adjustments but no therapies and Medicaid only allows 12 visits per year. I provide care for all the whole family…from infants to great, great grandparents. I am trained in several different way to adjust from activator, impulse and low force techniques to more traditional style hands-on adjusting. The thing is…we’ll find what makes you comfortable and what works best for you.
Yes, I know I ramble a bit on here. You all know I like to travel and I work to keep up on better ways to do it. That last statement should be read as “How to do it on the cheap!” Anyway I came across this article to day and I thought I’d share. It’s Good reading!
A quick update this icy North Texas morning. In this short video, Jerry Rice of NFL and Dancing with the Stars fame, relates how chiropractic impacted his life and his career and the lives of many of his teammates. I’ll let Jerry tell you the rest!
Doc
hendersonchiropractic.com
Icy weather got you looking for someplace warm? Read what Barbie and Dick Parks have to say about living in a tropical paradise right here
Yes, I know it’s a little different topic for us. Many of you know I had the privilege to serve in Central America while I was in the Army. I enjoyed the people, the pace and for the most part the climate. Renada and I have been on a few trips to Mexico over the years and have enjoyed them all. On cold, icy days like today I think, “What would it be like to live there…full time?”
I’m not the only one who asks that question. Daily, I have conversations with practice members, clients and patrons about life in Central america and Mexico. Seems like everyone is looking for away to find more time and make their money go further. Especially those quickly facing retirement. Many people talk about such things, but few actually take action. Barbie and Dick Parks have actually taken the step and have been living their dreams in Mexico.
In fact Barbie has written a couple of books that explain their experiences and show others how they can make the move to a better life themselves. Her site provides tons of useful information on the subject whether you buy her books or not. If your interested you can learn more at HTTP://tinyurl.com/cbk89s
This has nothing to do with the post but it is a cool pic...Yes?
So finally it looks like the sceptics, naysayers and dreamkillers are getting on board. The harder we look at these data the more we see that “alternative” forms of healthcare should be more correctly named “Appropriate”. Diet, Lifestyle management, stress reduction, chiropractic, acupuncture, chi gong…all help address the big lifestyle killers in our country. See what the Wall Street Journal has to say about the subject
I’ll be adjusting at the Lake Kiowa Office this week during regular hours. Call Doni at 940-665-3521to get your time established. More info at www.hendersonchiropractic.com
