Family Chiropractic Center 4910 LaVista Road Tucker, Georgia 30084 770-491-3639 Chiropractic News From: Dr. Margolies First. We are having a charity drive this Thanksgiving with the Atlanta Food Bank. We have a decorative barrel in our office that will welcome your non perishable food items or a donation to the Food Bank. Whenever you place an item in the barrel you have a chance at a drawing for a Turkey Dinner. As usual .. this is your opportunity to help others learn more about themselves and chiropractic. Through November 21 .. we will give a Turkey to everyone that refers in two adults for an evaluation. Hopefully after reading the letter below you幢l consider inviting your family and friends. We幢l evaluate their spine for free for their donation of a food item .. . If they need care .. we寮 be happy to assist them here or refer them to a chiropractor closer to their work or home. I send a weekly e-mail newsletter to over 800 chiropractors in many of our states and to eleven countries. These e-mails concern various topics for the chiropractor and their interested patients. The following was sent this past weekend (November 8) and I寮 like to share it with you. But, before reading it .. please realize that as a chiropractor .. I am faced with two problems. One .. the vast majority of our society have never been evaluated or adjusted by a chiropractor .. Two .. many of our chiropractic patient廣 utilize chiropractic incorrectly. After spending four years in post graduate chiropractic college .. and being in practice since 1978 .. I影e seen my share of chiropractic miracles. There are patient廣 who come just for pain relief .. and that廣 fine. Some patient廣 decide, after reviewing the reality of their specific structural instability and nerve root irritation that some form of corrective care is necessary. In any case .. care with some regularity is important. Don廠 forget your maintenance care .. make it a monthly habit at least. As you will read from my report below .. we are always prone to structural and soft tissue injury. Your children from birth have had delicate supportive tissue exposed to physical irritation. Birth itself can be overwhelming for a new spine .. especially the neck and lower back. Toddlers falling through sports activity common with teens .. from gymnastics to football .. it all takes it廣 toll during these crucial formative years. To leave your children home without ever having their spine checked is far more dangerous than letting their teeth rot without ever having a dental check-up. You can always purchase false teeth .. not so for a new spine. Also why not discuss chiropractic with your spouse or friend rather than waiting for a crisis. Backaches may be considered a pain in the you know where .. but that same nerve may have a functional portion with no pain response .. not having a backache is a poor barometer of wellness. Okay .. the e-mail message I sent is below: The media trial of the month has been the au pair trial .. seems a 19 year old British au pair came to Boston hoping to spend time in the USA while making a few bucks watching two young kids for two medical physicians. To make a long story short .. for those who are unaware of this trial .. this au pair was accused of beating an 8 month old to death. There was a skull fracture .. and what廣 called the shaken child syndrome. The skull of an infant is so heavy in relationship with the supportive cervical spine and adjunctive soft tissue .. that the results of gross shaking .. to quiet or restrain a child .. may be macro tears of the tissues ... blood leakage .. neurological insult .. etc. Shall we call this a gross SUBLUXATION. Reading the papers since this trial has been in the news was quite interesting .. I read recently, in local papers and periodicals, that children who have succumbed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome may have died at the expense of neglectful parents and sitters. I also read that far too many cases of shaken children go undetected .. some 50% .. and are at the hands of others. Scary .. but what is more scary is how close the media came to acknowledging the subluxation .. the results of it .. with all its gross dangers. Listen .. is it not possible that the meningeal ring surrounding the delicate spine .. from birth to old age .. can be in a state of constant aggravation .. that minor injuries .. skate board falls ..trampolining .. throwing youngsters in the air for a laugh or two .. auto collisions .. football practice .. hours of study .. constant reaching and lifting .. could produce instant and long term shaken child syndrome .. the child within us all. As chiropractors we see the results of long term subluxations .. wear and tear .. the original problem years in the making. Gross results such as sub arachnoid hematomas .. are rare .. but chronic reactions .. such as visceral insult from spinal nerve root damage .. a subluxation .. is very real and should be addressed as the threat it is. The media was so close to addressing this .. so close to realizing that each of us have had our spine shaken .. our supportive tissue in defense .. our internal world in turmoil from one shake too many with no compensation .. such as an adjustment. Once again the collective chiropractic community had no spine to respond .. I guess politically it was the only thing to do .................. The chiropractic world is like a sleeping giant. When we awake .. it幢l be due to demands that ease is far superior to dis-ease .. that what we were handed at birth .. health .. is primary and that secondary reactions such as illness is foreign in a world where form and function meet in harmony .. that an adjustment is just that .. correction. The consumer .. faced with continued pharmaceutical intervention .. increased radical procedures .. will demand to get back to nature .. to search for causes .. biomechanical insults .. Just a thought.