Chiropractic Before Medication and No-Bully Week Review :)

To touch on Wednesday's post, here is more on how chiropractic can be another option before medication.  Thanks to our guest blogger, Josh Barney...

More and more parents of children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are looking for new options to get their children well. There are a number of reasons for this change. First, many parents don’t like the idea of their children taking medication to resolve the disorder. Another cause is that research suggests that up to 30% of psychostimulants (the first line of therapy) do not show clinically significant outcomes (Karpouzis, 2010). As it stands, psychostimulants are still the most effective treatment for the disorder. However, as stated, up to 30% are not receiving the benefits they were hoping for. This leaves the door open to look elsewhere for treatment.

Chiropractic care has shown improvement in a number of studies done on adolescent patients diagnosed with AD/HD. The chiropractor uses his or her hands to adjust the spine in order to restore normal mobility of the spinal column and maintain/restore the function of the spinal cord and nerves that are adjacent. There are a number of causes that may have previously resulted in a problem within the spine of the child. Chiropractic philosophy identifies three sources: Physical Trauma, Inadequate Nutrition, and Emotional Distress. As you can see, those three can make an almost endless list of everyday causes for dysfunction. There may be a problem lying within the spinal column that needs to be attended to by a chiropractic physician.

Keep in mind that all research done on the results of chiropractic are still in the preliminary stages, and are in need of further testing. As Giesen et al. have stated “chiropractic manipulation has the potential to become an important nondrug intervention for children with hyperactivity. Further investigation in this area is certainly warranted.”

Anthony V. Bastecki, Deed E. Harrison, Jason W. Haas, Cervical Kyphosis I a Possible Link to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, Volume 27, Issue 8, October 2004, Page 525, ISSN 0161-4754, 10.1016/j.jmpt.2004.08.2007
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161475404001642)

Giesen JM, Center DB, Leach RA. An evaluation of chiropractic manipulation as a treatment of hyperactivity in children. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1989 Oct; 12 (5) :353-63. Pub Med PMID: 2607226.

Karpouzis F, Bonello R, Pollard H. Chiropractic care for paediatric and adolescent Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A systematic review. Chiropr Osteopat. 2010 Jun 2;18:13. PubMed PMID: 20525195; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2891800.

Also,
No Bully week was a success! The kids got so much out of it and were so brave to share their personal stories.  They are motivated to "Be The Change" that will stop bullying in our schools.  So inspirational :)

"Haven't I commanded you? Strength! Courage! Don't be timid; don't get discouraged.  God, your God, is with you every step you take." 
Joshua 1, 9