WHAT
IS CHIROPRACTIC?
Chiropractic is a system of health care involving the relationship
of the vertebral column, brain and central nervous system
with the muscles and organs of the body. Chiropractors are
specialists in keeping the spinal column and other joints
in the body aligned and freely moving to facilitate optimum
functioning of the nervous system, which controls and coordinates
all structures and functions in the human body. Misalignment
of the spinal vertebra and joints is called a subluxation.
Also, a fixation is when two or more vertebra
no longer move individually but are locked up together and
move as a unit, which is best described as stiffness and
loss of range of motion. Both subluxations and fixations
interfere with the normal nerve and blood supply to muscles
and organs thereby causing dysfunction, pain (sharp, dull,
achy, throbbing, soreness, colic...), less flexibility,
weakness, numbness, fatigue, headaches, organ problems and
other symptoms. Chiropractors are experts in correcting
subluxations and fixations to restore the normal functions
of all the body.
WHEN A PATIENT
COMES IN FOR CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT,
WHAT DO YOU DO?
The patient provides the doctor of chiropractic with information
about their past health, called a case history. Patients
are asked specific questions regarding their work and lifestyle
habits. Physical and orthopedic examination help to reveal
clues about the patient’s presenting problem and general
health. Diagnostic x-rays are utilized to visualize the
vertebral column and other joints in the body. The examination
findings are correlated and recommendations are made for
specific treatment and also improvement in general health,
and each patient is asked if they wish to participate.
Dr. Crow utilizes the method known as
therapeutic trial treatment protocol, in which
the patient is treated with chiropractic adjustments usually
once a week for a period of six weeks. Sometimes, if the
condition is more severe and requires more recovery time,
chiropractic treatment is extended for a longer period.
At each subsequent visit, the patient’s symptoms,
complaints, improvement and objective findings are reviewed.
If the patient is improving as anticipated, weekly treatment
is continued until all symptoms are resolved and all underlying
causes are explored, at which time, a preventive care schedule
specific for the patient is developed. Preventative care
includes recommendations for lifestyle changes and adjustments
occasionally, usually one a month, to prevent subluxations
and fixations from reoccurring and to prevent a future crisis.
Individuals that put an increased demand upon their body
will require more care.
On the other hand, if the patient is not
improving as expected, update examinations, including radiographs
or magnetic resonance imaging, are considered along with
possible referral to other health care providers. Patients
are encouraged to follow through with chiropractic treatment
over a number of weeks to allow the body time to heal. However
rare, if a particular patient is not responding to care,
treatment is discontinued and the patient is referred to
other doctors.
IS CHIROPRACTIC
SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN?
Yes. The practice of chiropractic has been researched for
decades by independent and government researchers around
the world. The consensus is that when compared to medical
doctors, osteopaths and physical therapists, chiropractors
are the best trained and most competent professionals of
the spine and joints of the body. Workers Compensation studies
in twenty states agree that chiropractors generally return
the patient back to work quicker and at less cost than medicine
or surgery. The government recently reported that chiropractic
should be considered first over drugs and surgery.
The internet maintains the “Chiro
Lars” database, which has archived every published
document regarding chiropractic and non-chiropractic treatment
since the early 1900s. Published research abounds confirming
the validity and effectiveness of chiriopractic spinal manipulation.
Research is ongoing in chiropractic colleges and elsewhere.
All statements made in this FAQs document are from referenced
sources.
IS CHIROPRACTIC
SAFE?
Very. Hundreds of thousands of chiropractic adjustments
are safely performed daily all over the world by doctors
of chiropractic. Is chiropractic safe for you? Dr. Crow
examines each patient on an individual basis using physical
and orthopedic examinations, x-ray imaging, and other diagnostic
tools to determine if chiropractic is safe and appropriate.
In the last 100 years, there have been
only 107 cases of stroke following osteopathic, chiropractic
and lay manipulation of the bones of the neck caused by
a pre-existing vascular problem or lack of training. Less
than half of the cases involved chiropractors. Considering
the hundreds of thousands of chiropractic adjustments performed
each day and every year, the published odds for risk of
stroke has ranged from 1 in 2,000,000 to 1 in 10,000,000.
In ten years of practice, Dr. Crow has never had a patient
incur a stroke from adjusting the neck.
The odds of causing an intervertebral disc
herniation by adjustments are equally rare. Many patients
with intervertebral disc bulge or herniation are successfully
and safely treated using chiropractic care. Dr. Crow utilizes
orthopedic examination and magnetic resonance imaging to
determine which disc patients are best served with chiropractic
and which patients should be referred to the orthopedic
surgeon.
Osteoporosis, taking cortisone, or other
steroid type drugs or hormone replacement therapy drugs
(estrogen) weaken and make the vertebra and ribs brittle.
The x-ray image of the spine and ribs helps to determine
if chiropractic adjustments are safe to perform using gentle
techniques.
Many patients at risk for stroke, disc
injuries or rib fracture have pre-existing conditions. Stroke
risk is higher in people with history of hypertension, smoking,
high fat diets and aneurysm (weakness of blood vessel walls).
Intervertebral disc injuries are at risk in patients with
spinal osteoarthritis and previous surgeries to the spine.
Rib fracture risk is increased in patients taking steroid
drugs, history of hysterectomy and taking estrogen. The
point is...injuries could happen...but
probably will not. The odds have been estimated to be about
1 in 2,000,000 to 1 in 10,000,000.
DOES IT HURT?
That depends. Do you already hurt? Do you have places that
hurt you are not aware of? If so, then you probably will
experience some pain and soreness during or after the adjustment
process.
Usually, chiropractic adjustments don’t
hurt at all. What often happens is that a patient comes
with back and joint muscles that are inflamed, swollen and
stiff. Chiropractic treatment helps to eliminate the inflammation,
swelling, subluxations, and fixations that cause pain and
lack of flexibility. Patients mostly report that adjustments
are painless, feel good, speed up their recovery, and help
them feel better over time.
WHY DO CHIROPRACTORS
TAKE X-RAYS?
The x-ray machine is a necessary tool in any doctors office.
The x-ray image clearly shows if the bones are misaligned,
broken, worn, brittle, arthritic, osteoporotic or cancerous.
X-rays also show if the bones have been previously injured.
Radiographs are necessary to document an injury and to make
sure adjustments are safe to perform. Other reasons include
tracking the healing phase of bone, scoliosis research,
and legal requirements. Medical doctors, veterinarians,
dentists, osteopaths, and chiropractors all use radiographic
equipment.
HOW ARE CHIROPRACTORS
DIFFERENT FROM MEDICAL DOCTORS?
Medical doctors focus on crisis and disease care after the
person has already become sick or injured. They use drugs
to treat symptoms which often cover up the underlying causes
of health problems. They excel in emergency treatment of
broken bones, injuries and surgery, but are not generally
recognized as successful in treating acute and chronic neck,
back, joint and muscle problems and lifestyle related chronic
degenerative diseases. Medical schools provide little or
no training in nutrition, wellness lifestyles and natural
therapies.
Chiropractors focus on both preventive
care and treatment of acute and chronic neck, back, joint
and muscle problems. Chiropractors teach patients to recognize
early warning signs of dis-health and to utilize chiropractic
care on a regular basis and improve lifestyle to help prevent
most physical and medical crisis conditions. Chiropractic
colleges provide education in Orthomolecular Medicine, nutrition,
and stress preventive health care methods.
Antibiotic prescriptions are a common
treatment of the medical doctor. Medical doctors believe
that most all sickness and disease are caused by virus,
bacteria and protozoan “attacks” upon the body.
You have been taught that if you are around a sick person,
you are probably going to get sick yourself and that you
should take antibiotics to kill the germs. But did you know
that 60% of all antibiotics are misprescribed and that 80%
of childhood ear problems are caused, not
cured by antibiotics, and that, as a result, antibiotic
resistant illnesses are increasing at an alarming rate (Schmidt,
1993)?
Chiropractors believe that your chance
of getting sick or catching an infection is directly related
to the strength of your immune system and advocate chiropractic
adjustments and a wellness lifestyle to specifically strengthen
immune response. Dr. Crow teaches his patients how to improve
their immune system to prevent catching colds, flu and infection
even when you are exposed to individuals that are sick.
Medical doctors view the body mechanistically
as a collection of individual parts and organs. If the organ
fails, drug it or remove it, irregardless of the consequences
upon the rest of the body. This can partly explain why up
to 50% of all surgery and up to 80% of hysterectomy, gall
bladder removal, tonsillectomy, and thyroidectomy have been
found unnecessary, killing up to 83,000 people a year in
the United States alone (Schneider, 1982). In addition,
the Office of Technology Assessment reports that 10 to 20%
of all procedures currently used in medical practice have
been shown to be unnecessary by controlled trial. Furthermore,
injuries and diseases that were caused by the treatments
administered by medical doctors and hosptitals have been
steadily on the increase, reportedly as high as 36% at one
University Hospital (New England Journal of Medicine, 1981).
Chiropractors advocate strengthening and
healing the whole body to allow the body
to repair its own tissues. Dr. Crow realizes the body has
the ability to heal itself if given the time, opportunity,
proper nutrition and mental outlook. Chiropractors do not
treat diseased organs. We treat spinal subluxations\fixations
which can interfere with the nervous system’s ability
to control and coordinate the whole body. Patients are taught
to not allow themselves to get so down that drugs, surgery
and medical crisis care become their only option.
Compare medical treatment with chiropractic
treatment of, for example, osteoarthritis in the spine first
started by a falling accident as a child. Typically, the
medical doctor would x-ray the spine after the accident
to check for fractures. He would prescribe pain medication,
but does not examine the patient for muscle spasm, spinal
subluxations\ fixations or loss of joint function. Then,
twenty years later, when the patient seeks medical attention
for back pain, his x-rays would, no doubt, find degenerative
arthritis originally caused by the childhood falling accident.
He is likely to prescribe more pain medication or NSAID
medication, known to cause increased arthritic degenerative
changes (Brandt, 1987, Shield, 1993, Brooks, 1982). He is
likely to say that osteoarthritis is “part of the
normal aging process”. In reality, if the patient
had received chiropractic examination and treatments immediately
after the childhood injury, the osteoarthritis and degeneration
of the spine could have been completely avoided.
Chiropractors, on the other hand, will
agree that osteoarthritis is wear and tear often caused
by childhood injuries but that most of the damage is preventable.
Using the same example of a falling accident, but this time,
the child was not taken to a medical doctor. Instead, he
was taken to his family chiropractor. He would likely have
taken x-rays, done a hands-on examination, and treated the
patient to relieve muscle spasms, subluxations and fixations.
Continued adjustments, physical therapy and exercises wouild
be used until the muscles relaxed, the spine moved freely
and full function was restored. Following this treatment
plan, x-rays taken 20 years later would not show any osteoarthritis
because the doctor of chiropractic had corrected all of
the original problems before they had a chance of developing
into degenerative arthritis.
The medical profession commonly relies
on drugs and surgery as their primary treatment for all
disorders of the body. On the other hand, the chiropractic
profession’s central interest is identifying and correcting
the cause of muscle spasms, spinal misalignment and fixation.
Our job is to restore proper function in the spinal vertebrae
and normal nerve and blood supply to all tissues and organs.
This allows the whole body to function to its greatest potential.
MY MEDICAL DOCTOR TOLD ME NEVER
GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR. WHY?
Unfortunately, many medical doctors know very little about
chiropractic and may feel threatened when they hear about
the success of chiropractic in treating neck, back, joint
and a variety of health problems. For over a hundred years,
medical doctors were taught in their medical schools that
chiropractors were “quacks”. As a result of
viewing chiropractic as competition, the American Medical
Association, in the 1950’s, began suppressing the
chiropractic profession by misleading doctors and patients,
and as a consequence, the AMA was found guilty in a court
of law on several counts of conspiring to eliminate the
chiropractic profession. (Wilks vs AMA, 1990). Fortunately,
this ignorance and bias is fading away. Today, the chiropractic
profession and the medical profession are working to cooperate
more for the benefit of all patients. Chiropractors refer
patients to medical doctors and medical doctors refer patients
to chiropractors. The key is that both professions have
their specialties and are learning to recognize each other’s
limitations and strengths.
I HEARD THAT ONCE YOU GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR,
YOU HAVE TO KEEP GOING BACK FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
This is the number one question or misconception
about chiropractic. While it is true that many medical doctors
and insurance companies, in an effort to protect their own
turf, will say this only to keep you away from chiropractors
all together and while it is true that some chiropractors
may recommend too many repeat treatments for minor problems,
most chiropractors do not keep you coming back for no good
reason.
However, a very good reason for seeing your chiropractor
for the rest of your life is preventative care. People soon
discover that if they take chiropractic adjustments occasionally,
it prevents them from falling into a painful crisis and
helps strengthen their immune system.
Dr. Crow recommends that you come in for a chiropractic
treatment once a week when you have pain and stiffness or
are sick until you feel better and then continue treatment
as needed. On an ongoing basis, some patients may require
treatment more often, but in general, Dr. Crow recommends
chiropractic treatment once a month to keep the body tuned
up and to catch health problems in their infancy before
they can become a crisis.
WHY DO CHIROPRACTORS
ADJUST CHILDREN?
Just like adults, children have spines, and they VERY frequently
incur subluxations and fixations, which can develop into
serious problems later in life if not corrected. Difficult
or forcepts delivery during birth commonly causes neck,
shoulder, arm and leg problems.
Dr. Crow provides safe, gentle chiropractic
treatment consisting of light finger pressure and range
of motion movements (no radical twisting of the neck and
low back) for infants, toddlers and children of all ages
for symptoms ranging from back or neck pain, stuffy noses,
earaches, colic, asthma, allergies and other health problems.
Let me make this next point very clear.
Chiropractors do not claim to cure child and adult colds
and other health problems, but they do correct any spine
or joint malfunction to normalize the nerve and blood supply
to every tissue and organ to allow the body’s innate
intelligence and immune system to heal itself.
Currently, the published standard of care
for children is:
Six visits per year from the time of birth until the
first year
Two visits per year from year one until year five.
Three visits per year from five years to twelve years.
Four visits per year from twelve years to eighteen
years.
More visits are indicated if the patient is symptomatic
or ill.
It has been my experience that toddlers
(age 1-5) need more chiropractic care, because they can
be rowdy and will bulldoze with their heads. A toddler and
any person of any age should be examined anytime when there
has been a substantial impact on any part of the body.
Dr. Crow networks and shares information
regarding pediatric care with other chiropractors and doctors.
He subscribe to a periodical that addresses the unique needs
of the infant patient and the mother, and he likes to teach
parents and children how to properly care for their bodies.
One last thought, adjustments for babies are not vigorous.
They are gentle and non-threatening. Dr. Crow has used chiropractic
on his own children since birth.
CAN CHIROPRACTIC
BE PERFORMED SAFELY ON PREGNANT WOMEN?
Yes, from the day of conception right up to the day of delivery
and afterwards too, chiropractic adjustments are safe and
beneficial. Despite what you may have been told by your
obstetrician, adjustments will not harm your baby and do
not cause spontaneous delivery. The baby is protected by
the mother’s bony spine, and muscles of the back and
stomach. Also, the baby is even further protected by the
cushioning effect of the embryonic fluids inside the mother’s
womb.
Later in gestation, when the abdomen gets
considerably larger, Dr. Crow has a special function on
his adjusting tables which completely drops and locks out
the abdominal cushion allowing the mother to lie comfortably
face down during treatment.
Pregnant women, who get chiropractic treatment,
report great relief from lower back pain and less pain and
easier child delivery. It is VERY important to make sure
their is no interference in the mother’s nervous system
in the lower back during this very critical time in the
baby’s development, because the mother’s nervous
system in the lower back and sacral region helps to coordinate
and control the growth and health of the infant within.
Dr. Crow has been treating pregnant patients (including
his own wife, Tina) for years with no complications whatsoever
to the mother or child.
HOW DOES CHIROPRACTIC AFFECT PAIN
OR NUMBNESS IN MY ARMS OR LEGS?
The brain and nervous system controls and coordinates every
single cell in the body including your arms and legs. Large
groups of nerves, called a plexus, branch off the upper
and lower spinal cord and run down into the arms and legs.
The brachial plexus contains a group of nerves that pass
through vertebrae in your lower neck and extend out across
the top of the shoulders and run deep down into the arms,
forearms, hands and terminate in the fingers. The lumbar
plexus nerves pass through the vertebrae of the lower back
and sacrum bones and run down to the buttocks, hips, thighs,
legs and feet.
Often, a medical doctor will examine only
the hand or foot and then provide diagnosis and symptomatic
treatment, as if it were only a local problem. Patients
under only medical care for carpal tunnel syndrome for the
wrist, for example, need to consult a chiropractor, who
will examine and treat the wrist, arm, elbows, shoulders,
neck and any spinal subluxations and fixations, which may
be causing nerve and blood supply interference and slow
healing and recovery. How can a wrist or ankle problem improve
when the nerves and blood to the area are dysfunctional
at the spinal cord level as a result of vertebral subluxations
and fixations?
WHY DO SOME
CHIROPRACTORS PRACTICE DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHERS?
The doctor of chiropractic is provided the freedom of choice
by state and federal licensing bodies to practice health
care in a wide array of techniques: the Meric System, Gonstead,
Diversified, Activator, Motion Palpation Method, Extremity
Methods, Cranial Adjusting, etc. There are literally hundreds
of styles of chiropractic available for study by the doctor
of chiropractic.
Usually, the chiropractor will study many
methods over the years and create his own style of treatment
unique to himself and his patients. This allows the chiropractor
the freedom to study many innovative wholistic types of
health care to benefit his patients.
CAN CHIROPRACTIC
CAUSE ARTHRITIS?
Research into this question concludes that it does not.
On the other hand, there is ample medical research showing
that anti-inflammatory (NSAID) drugs actually increase arthritic
degeneration. It has been proven in chiropractic research
that spinal adjustments improve joint function in the spine
and skeletal system, and thus decrease the onset of certain
forms of arthritis, including osteoarthritis, also known
as degenerative joint disease. Chiropractic adjustments\manipulation
can also be performed on most people who already have arthritis
in the spine. Dr. Crow’s patients have reported that
chiropractic adjustments have, in some cases, dramatically
decreased arthritic type pain, which had been present for
many years. In addition to chiropractic adjustments, other
arthritic patients may need to try various lifestyle changes
and metabolic treatment.
WHY DO SOME CHIROPRACTORS SELL VITAMINS
AND HERBS AND OTHER HEALTH PRODUCTS?
Preventive health care goes hand in hand with chiropractic.
As a result of eating processed and junk foods grown in
depleted and chemicalized soil, most people suffer from
nutritional deficiencies. This problem can easily and
inexpensively be corrected with wholistic vitamin, mineral
and herbal therapy. This practice is often scorned by under-educated
medical doctors and the pharmaceutical industry to protect
their drug sales. However, the research has been published
and accepted by health care providers in many fields including
medicine, that nutritional supplementation works and is
highly effective at treating health disorders. Dr. Crow
provides supplements and health products in his office for
the convenience of the patient. He continues to stay current
regarding the latest nutritional research involving vitamin\mineral\herbal
therapies and other educational topics regarding wholistic
health care.
WHY DOESN’T CROW CHIROPRACTIC
OFFICE TAKE INSURANCE OR MEDICARE?
Dr. Crow keeps the costs of his services down and affordable
for his patients by not handling the insurance paperwork.
He has determined that it would double and probably triple
his business costs to handle insurance as a result of hiring
more staff to process the mountain of paperwork and continually
chase the insurance companies to get paid. If you have ever
had trouble handling claims with your insurance company,
consider what that would be like for the chiropractor in
an unfair system designed to limit and penalize chiropractors
and other wholistic practitioners. Dr. Crow simply prefers
to focus on his patients instead of insurance problems.
Nowadays, health maintenance organizations
(HMOs) and preferred provider networks (PPOs) are taking
over medical health care, all in the wrong ways by dictating
the amount and type of treatment. Doctors dependant upon
the insurance industry must compromise their methods to
stay in favor of the insurance giants, whereas wholistic
doctors refuse to give up personal control of how patients
are treated. Also, they require that the chiropractors’
private patient records must become the property of their
business and can therefore demand your private patient information
and health records without your consent. Dr. Crow works
for his patients, not an insurance company, and he keeps
your privacy intact.
Dr. Crow does offer to provide an itemized
statement for the patient to give to their insurance company.
This statement will have all the information your insurance
company will need to process a claim. If the insurance company
wants more information, he will get your permission to provide
copies of records or a narrative report and bill the insurance
company an additional fee for the records.
CAN CHIROPRACTIC BE USED SAFELY
ON BACK SURGERY AND HEART BYPASS SURGERY PATIENTS?
Yes. Chiropractors do not adjust or
interfere with the area of the spine that has been surgically
changed but do treat, massage and adjust other levels of
the spine and body involving compensatory stiffness and
pain. Chiropractic treatment can loosen and free up post
surgery scar tissue to help keep the spinal articulations
movable and less stiff and painful.
Heart bypass surgery patients have special
needs because the ribs were spread to expose the heart during
surgery, tearing the fibrous and ligamentous structures
of the joint between the ribs and spine (costo-vertebral
and costo-sternum articulations). After the surgery, scar
tissue develops in the costo-vertebral joints and can degenerate
into arthritic type pain and bony fusion of the ribs and
spine causing stiffening of the thoracic spine and ribs
and limiting expansion of your chest during respiration.
Chiropractic treatment and adjustments are necessary to
prevent this bony fusion process from occurring in your
body. Examination of the patient as soon as possible after
heart bypass surgery is recommended to determine the level
of rib involvement and to begin safe corrective treatment
and adjustments according to each person’s condition,
tolerance and improvement. Heart Frauds, The Misapplication
of High Technology in Heart Disease by Charles T. McGee,
M.D. (MediPress, 1717 Lincoln Way #108, Coeur d’Alene,
Idaho 83814) is highly recommended reading to avoid bypass
surgery whenever possible.
OK DOCTOR, I CAME IN FOR MY FIRST
ADJUSTMENT AND NOW IT HURTS MORE AND EVEN NEW PLACES ARE PAINFUL.
WHAT’S GOING ON?
This
is normal. After your first visit to the chiropractor, you
MAY experience a temporary worsening of symptoms for a few
days, called a healing crisis. It is very common. Chiropractic
treatment, massage, adjustments and lifestyle changes can
activate pre-existing chronic problems and pain in the body,
which is often masked and hidden from your awareness. Chiropractic
treatment removes nervous system interference, wakes up
unconscious pain centers and allows your body to communicate
with your brain.
After chiropractic treatment, an increase
in soreness or stiffness in the body is anticipated and
expected. This “healing crisis phenomenon” usually
lasts 2-3 days after the chiropractic treatment. Dr. Crow
stresses to his patients to not be alarmed by this reaction
to the spinal adjustment treatment. Hot showers and massage
therapy are recommended by Dr. Crow to minimize the healing
crisis condition.
The analogy of a kinked garden hose may
help you understand your situation: Water pressure builds
up behind the blockage in the hose, and when you remove
the kink, high pressure water comes shooting out until the
back pressure is relieved and normal flow resumes. The few
days of reaction and hypersensitivity to the adjustment
is just like the back pressure, excuse the pun. Once the
swelling and the problems fade, normal nervous system and
spinal and joint function occurs. This phenomenon usually
just occurs after the first adjustment. It may happen again
if you ignore subluxations and fixations and let them build
up inflammation, swelling and pressure in the nervous system
and spinal muscles and vertebrae and other joints in the
body.
I’M AFRAID YOU MIGHT BREAK
MY BONES IF YOU GIVE ME AN ADJUSTMENT!
Dr. Crow is sensitive, gentle and careful and has learned
how to vary the force used to adjust patients and immediately
adapt to each patient’s needs. He has ten years experience
successfully and safely treating pain sensitive patients,
fragile babies and infants, and patients with osteoporosis
and disc problems. Keep in mind that the medical community
has wrongfully condemned the chiropractic profession for over
one hundred years, which continues today and includes self-serving
false warnings that chiropractic adjustments will hurt or
kill you. Wrong! Chiropractic is safe and right for you and
the best approach is to talk to friends who have received
chiropractic care, especially from Dr. Crow, who explains
why and how he adjusts a particular area and then requests
your approval to proceed.
Yes. Continuing education and the individuality
of the doctor of chiropractic determines the scope of practice.
Some chiropractors prefer to focus on one aspect of chiropractic
treatment, traditionally the vertebral adjustment. Other
chiropractors use a wide variety of diagnostic procedures
and treatment methods. This freedom of choice helps to explain
why patients find so much variety between different chiropractors.
There are forty-three different alternative
wholistic therapies listed in the book, Alternative
Medicine, The Definitive Guide (Future Medicine
Publishing 5009 Pacific Hwy. E, Suite 6, Fife. Washington
98424). Chiropractors enjoy the opportunity to widen their
education after college and learn other fascinating and
wonderful ways to treat and help heal the human body, mind
and spirit.
In twenty years of practice, Dr. Crow currently
has used traditional and alternative wholistic chiropractic
diagnostic and treatment techniques on the spine, shoulder,
elbow, wrist, hand, fingers, hip, knee, ankle, foot, toes,
jawbones, the TMJ and other joints of the body. The examination
and treatment of sports injuries and chronic joint dysfunction
has been his focus during his last twenty years of practice.
Chiropractic adjustments and treatment, the foundation of
his practice, are phenomenally effective. Dr. Crow is pursuing
study and practice in the following subjects:
Sports Medicine: Acute injury joint
stabilization and treatment techniques
Bodywork: Many methods of muscle,
tendon and joint therapy, including massage therapy
Orthomolecular Medicine: Use of
vitamin, mineral, and amino acid supplements
Acupuncture and Herbology: Using
Traditional and Contemporary Chinese and American Indian
medicine, herbs and acupuncture to clear blockages in
energy pathways in the body.
Detoxification Therapy * Metabolic Disorders
* Diet and Nutrition Counseling * Environmental Medicine
* Fasting * Juice Therapy * Mind-Body Medicine * Neuro-Linguistic
Programming * Aromatherapy * Yoga *
Qi-Gong
