Why You Must Be Precise With Upper Cervical X-rays
November 5, 2009 by drhambrick
Filed under Upper Cervical Forest
Great recoveries happening all over in UC offices. Check out this case in Dr. Drew Hall’s office:
ok so a 28 year old male comes in……fell head first into a coffee table at age five….His entire life he has had suicidal depression. In fact I talked with his mom and she said five years ago she was sure that he was going to kill himself…..He had major trouble cognitively in school, headaches.etc etc etc….The only thing that helped him to this point was neuro feedback. His frontal lobes showed a 20 percent coherence on the neuro feedback tests. They were able to get him up to 40 percent which helped his depression. After a bilateral AS correction his frontal lobe coherence was tested one day later at 85! His neuro feedback specialist was completely astounded. We will be going to lunch soon!
Second case just happened this am..We did a dinner with doc and a man of 65 came in. He has had 18 orthopedic surgeries. His wife is an RN and during the dinner with doc had her arms folded the entire time and prior to arriving the husband told me that she thought we were quacks. I thought better of telling him what I thought of her profession and went through with the dinner with doc!!!He came in this am post adj and is on fire. His energy has rocketed. Insomnia has cleared . His entire body which listed way off to the left is now erect. He was like a deer in headlights. He did not really know what to say. I told him now tell your wife about how you feel every ten minutes for me ok!!!!! Upper Cervical is the truth! If you can’t get the result then look in the mirror!!!! Unfortunately I have had to look in the mirror many times over the past year. But I harp on the point over and over and over……….and I will harp on this point at Palmer College in a few days!! The chiropractic principle is the undeniable truth! If the sick do not get well it is the chiropractor NOT the principle!! Most will not like to swallow that pill…..but the fact remains that the principle is unwavering and undeniable……release innate and YOU WILL see miracles…..fail to do so and you will be frustrated, and so will your patients be!(FOR YOU PALMER STUDENTS WHO HAVE NOT HEARD DREW SPEAK, THIS IS TYPICAL OF WHAT YOU WILL BE HEARING TOMORROW AT LYCEUM HALL…ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT!!!)BTW, Dr. Ohlsen, I expect you to drive over from Geneseo to hear Drew!
Second case just happened this am..We did a dinner with doc and a man of 65 came in. He has had 18 orthopedic surgeries. His wife is an RN and during the dinner with doc had her arms folded the entire time and prior to arriving the husband told me that she thought we were quacks. I thought better of telling him what I thought of her profession and went through with the dinner with doc!!!He came in this am post adj and is on fire. His energy has rocketed. Insomnia has cleared . His entire body which listed way off to the left is now erect. He was like a deer in headlights. He did not really know what to say. I told him now tell your wife about how you feel every ten minutes for me ok!!!!! Upper Cervical is the truth! If you can’t get the result then look in the mirror!!!! Unfortunately I have had to look in the mirror many times over the past year. But I harp on the point over and over and over……….and I will harp on this point at Palmer College in a few days!! The chiropractic principle is the undeniable truth! If the sick do not get well it is the chiropractor NOT the principle!! Most will not like to swallow that pill…..but the fact remains that the principle is unwavering and undeniable……release innate and YOU WILL see miracles…..fail to do so and you will be frustrated, and so will your patients be!(FOR YOU PALMER STUDENTS WHO HAVE NOT HEARD DREW SPEAK, THIS IS TYPICAL OF WHAT YOU WILL BE HEARING TOMORROW AT LYCEUM HALL…ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT!!!)BTW, Dr. Ohlsen, I expect you to drive over from Geneseo to hear Drew!
Fellow UCHC doc, Dr. Chad McIntyre produces an excellent Weekly Well-Being he sends out to his patients. I have attached this weeks issue as I really feel the subject is something we have all faced. It starts out: It seems that wherever I go, when someone finds out that I’m a chiropractor, a joke about back popping or bone cracking comes about. These repeated scenarios have inspired me to tell you a little bit about the word, profession, and purpose of chiropractic. Let’s get right to it…
Got an e-mail from Dr. Heidi Grant, the UC doc in London. I guess we aren’t the only continent having problems with the Atlas Profilax people. Here is what she wrote:I was going through this newsletter and I the email you had received from Dr. Mindy Drake regarding a acupuncturist doing atlas profilax caught my eye. This is something I’ve been dealing with here in London, as atlas profilax practitioners are more prevalent here in the EU. I’ve had to fix their mistakes, and I get really angry when I hear and see their promotional material, it’s a total rip-off of chiropractic. So if any of you have discovered a way to combat these ‘posers’, let me know so I can pass the info onto Dr. Grant. I am very worried that a wrong manipulation by these unqualified laypersons could result in severe neurological damage and start an anti-neck manipulation campaign, which is a wildfire that is almost impossible to extinguish!!!
I know I am preaching to the choir about the need to be precise when dealing with the UC spine. One of our new patients who started yesterday commented that 20 years ago he flew over the handlebars on his motorcycle landing on his head and shoulder. Guess what the x-rays showed? His left atlas transverse was snapped in two and the distal end is now sitting 90 degrees upward to the rest of the tp. That would be pretty handy information to have before you thrust on that transverse!!!
Well, while I’m being negative, why not bring this case up. As you may recall, Dr. Brent “Jake”Hollowell left my office for the sunny beaches of Sicily, to open the 1st Upper Cervical clinic in Italy. (His fellow UCHC doc, Dr. Kevin Leach, opened in San Marino…which technically isn’t Italy, even though it sits in the middle of that country!) All of Jake’s patients transferred over to me and one asked me last week if UC could help her nephew. When the nephew was two he knew his numbers and alphabet…then he was vaccinated. He is now 10, and for the past 8 years he has had hydrocephalus (left side of head 30% enlarged), epilepsy (10 grand mal seizures a day), and his left arm is rigid against his chest). The GP readily admits that is was probably the vaccine that caused the problem, but proper medical protocol calls for a ‘risk versus benefit’ judgment and this child just turned out to be RISK!!!
OK, back to the positive. Life West president, Dr. Gerry Clum came up with a very innovative plan to introduce the entire student body to various UC technique in a core curriculum series. Those who pass the class and show a desire to learn more of an individual technique can then choose to take an elective class. One problem we have had at the college is the need to take both ‘orthogonal’ and ‘articular’ x-rays. Here is what my Blair co-instructor, Dr. Hari Khalsa, reports regarding that issue:We have a new American unit with 2 buckeys.
We are just waiting for the Blair Headclamps, & we need a Blair chair…the new unit is very nice So now they can take the orthogonal x-rays on one side of the room, flip the tube, and take articular x-rays on the other. Just like my patients, if they are clearing, I just flip them over….NOT!!!
We are just waiting for the Blair Headclamps, & we need a Blair chair…the new unit is very nice So now they can take the orthogonal x-rays on one side of the room, flip the tube, and take articular x-rays on the other. Just like my patients, if they are clearing, I just flip them over….NOT!!!
One of the instructors at Life West is the internationally known Dr. Dan Murphy. Dan used to practice two blocks from me but got tired of me removing the doorknob from his office front door! Anyway, check out his latest article in the October 2009 American Journal of Clinical Chiropractic which is based on The Cervicogenic Oto-ocular Syndrome, a suspected forerunner of Meniere’s disease, International Tinnitus Journal Vol. 5, No. 2 1999 pp. 125-30 A couple facts from the article:
(1) The authors propose that there is a functional relationship between the upper cervical spine, the pupil of the eye, and the inner ear.
(1) The authors propose that there is a functional relationship between the upper cervical spine, the pupil of the eye, and the inner ear.
(2) Nearly every patient suffering from ear fullness, episodic vertigo, fluctuating vertigo and tinnitus also suffer from neck and/or back symptoms and 60% will have a history of whiplash injury.
(3) “The functional disorder of the upper cervical spine is regarded as a potential threat to the Eustachian tube,” leading to a dysfunction that upsets the function of the inner ear.
Got any extra UC equipment? Dr. Andy Gibson just graduated from Palmer and is thinking of heading back to his home state of Pennsylvania. He needs Blair headclamps, side posture table, Tytron,… You can contact Andy at agibson.dc@gmail.com
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We are extremely excited to bring you the fourth annual Upper Cervical Evolution Conference. Join us from April 8-10, 2010 in Charlotte, NC for a glimpse into the future. See how technology will play a major role in patient education, subluxation analysis, and research to authenticate what we already know to be true. You are sure to be motivated, inspired and excited about the future of Upper Cervical (see attachment)
In Closing, try to keep your fees affordable. Taking care of only one member of a family instead of multiple family members because the fees are too high, doesn’t really help us accomplish BJ’s vision. A sad story was in the Sacramento paper yesterday of a Sacramento State student who was beaten to death in his dormitory. He was in the hospital 5 minutes before he died and the grieving family got a bill a couple days later for $29,000!!!
Take care-
Tom
BTW-for you California docs, it was announced in the paper last week that due to California’s dire financial situation, the tax board has decided to go after MD’s, DC’s, PT’s, acupuncturists,…for not collecting state taxes on cervical pillows, cervical collars, BioFreeze,… Most of these adjuncts could only be bought at a doctor’s office which is why many DC’s would provide it. Now your patients can get it all cheaper online, so you might want to rethink carrying those products. Remember that most other states start to copy what we do in California, so look out!!!
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