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Welcome to our October newsletter. Hope everyone is enjoying the fall and partaking in outdoors activities.
Please use caution with all the fall clean up activities and make sure you warm up and use proper lifting techniques in your yard.
Until next month, stay healthy and enjoy all the scary ghouls and goblins on Halloween night.
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American Chiropractic Association Offers Tips to Prevent Injuries in the Workplace
Workplace injuries affect millions of Americans each year-whether they're the result of lifting and delivering heavy boxes or sitting in front of a computer all day. This October, during National Chiropractic Month, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is offering simple advice to prevent the most common on-the-job musculoskeletal injuries that cause pain and loss of productivity.
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"May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
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Delmore Schwartz |
Antibiotics Not Needed for Most Ear Infections
A study published in the September 13, 2006 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that "watchful waiting" is better than using antibiotics for the treatment of ear infections known as Acute Otitis Media (AOM). The study starts off by noting that AOM is the most common diagnosis for which antibiotics are prescribed to children.
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Behavioral Changes and Chiropractic Care, A Case Study
A documented case study published in the October 4, 2006 issue of the peer reviewed publication, the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR), describes the results of chiropractic care on an 8-year-old boy with many learning and behavioral disorders. Additionally, his mother reported that the boy also suffered from, severe headaches, neck pain, constant "blood shot" eyes, stomach pains, an inability to sit still, incoordination, behavioral problems and learning difficulties. She noted that the child`s medical doctor had no explanation for these problems.
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Drug Effects on Kids Uncertain
A study published in the September 13, 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) starts off with a chilling statement. "Much of pediatric drug use is off-label because appropriate pediatric studies have not been conducted and the drugs have not been labeled by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in children." In other words, according to the authors in JAMA, most of the drugs being sold for children have not been approved by the FDA for use in children.
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