CEO Newsletter 07 number 27

Chiropractic Equity Offices Inc
Home of Neurologically Based Chiropractic (NBC) and the "InVision"

Contents
1. A True Christmas Story of Hope!
2. Getting Inside Their Heads
3. Thoughts from Dr. White
4. New Science Behind Chiropractic Care

1. A True Christmas Story of Hope! -A true story from Australia -Thanks Toni!

Jim called not knowing what chiropractic could do or how it could help, but he knew from his own experience of regular care it had helped him!

Jim was calling for his mother Rosa this time, and his voice sounded strained and worried. Jim had brought his mum to live with him, as she was unable to maintain her independence.

Rosa was really struggling, she was not only in pain, but could no longer look after her personal hygiene, toileting, and could barely communicate.

Jim was so sad and frustrated, his mum had always been so independent, but he knew if he couldn’t do something, then a nursing home was going to be the only future for his mum Rosa.

Jim said, “ I’m not sure if you can even help her, but if we can just get mum out of pain, then at least her comfort might be improved”. Jim held little hope for his mum, but he did wish in the back of his mind he could at least have one last Christmas with her.

When Jim brought mum in, he assisted her walking, she was slow and bent over, and although tidy in appearance personal hygiene was poor and she omitted a strong body odour and urine smell. The initial tests were carried out and a report of findings was presented to Jim and Rosa.

The Chiropractor told Jim that he could improve the quality of Rosa’s life. So Jim agreed on behalf of his mum to give chiropractic a try, and diligently brought her in for Chiropractic care three times per week, as asked by the Chiropractor.

Each time Rosa came in, you could notice small but subtle changes, not just in Rosa, but also in Jim. Chiropractic care had given Jim hope, and for his dear mum it was giving her back her life! Jim reported, “She can now have a shower, go to the toilet and dress herself again, unassisted!”

As the weeks went by Rosa began to walk ahead of Jim, couldn’t wait to get in to see the Chiropractor. She was blossoming before our eyes. Her ‘life light’ had been switched back on and everyone could see it. She could communicate and socialise, smiling and making jokes while she happily waited in reception in anticipation of her adjustment. Rosa was sharing with everyone how fantastic she was feeling, and her appearance echoed that.

Rosa is now living independently back in her own Sydney apartment and Jim travels up weekly to visit and take mum to the chiropractor near her home. Rosa has her quality of life back and Jim has his mum for this Christmas and many Christmases to come!

NB: Names have been altered to maintain privacy of the clients.

Editor’s notes: This Christmas story is the exact reason I support open room adjusting and the CEO procedures of patients sharing goals and victories. I remember a DC friend returning from a Parker seminar with a new sign for his office. We have all either seen it or said it – “Chiropractic - the world’s best kept secret!” It is time to let the secret out – Follow the CEO procedures and it happens!!!

2. GETTING INSIDE THEIR HEADS By Daniel G. Amen MD LA TIMES Op-Ed December 5, 2007

What do Rudy Giuliani’s messy personal life, John McCain’s temper and Hillary Clinton’s inability to seem authentic have in common? Maybe nothing. They just may be overblown issues in the otherwise normal lives of candidates under the political microscope. Such symptoms, however, may mean a lot — such as evidence of underlying brain dysfunction. Sometimes people with messy personal lives have low prefrontal cortex activity associated with poor judgment; sometimes people with temper problems have brain damage and impulse control problems; sometimes people who struggle with authenticity have trouble really seeing things from someone else’s perspective.

Is the brain health of a presidential candidate a fair topic in an election year? Certainly Dick Cheney’s heart condition wasn’t off-limits in 2000, nor have questions about McCain’s age been considered out of bounds. The White House issues a complete medical history of the president each year — detailing everything from his seasonal allergic rhinitis to his adenomatous colon polyps. Clearly we care about the health outlook for our elected leaders. Should we go so far as to do brain scans? Of candidates for the Oval Office? Some people might consider discussing brain health a ridiculous idea. Not me. As a neuropsychiatrist and brain-imaging expert, I want our elected leaders to be some of the “brain healthiest people” in the land. How do you know about the brain health of a presidential candidate unless you look? The brain is involved in everything humans do: how we think, how we feel, how we get along with others, how we negotiate, how we pay attention in meetings and how we turn away the advances of White House interns or decide to invade a country based on contradictory intelligence.

Three of the last four presidents have shown clear brain pathology. President Reagan’s Alzheimer’s disease was evident during his second term in office. Non- elected people were covering up his forgetfulness and directing the country’s business. Few people knew it, but we had a national crisis. Brain studies have been shown to predict Alzheimer’s five to nine years before people have their first symptoms. President Clinton’s moral lapses and problems with bad judgment and excitement-seeking behavior — indicative of problems in the prefrontal cortex — eventually led to his impeachment and a poisonous political divisiveness in the U.S. The prefrontal cortex houses the brain’s supervisor, involved with conscience, forethought, planning, attention span and judgment. One could argue that our current president’s struggles with language and emotional rigidity are symptoms of temporal lobe pathology. The temporal lobes, underneath your temples and behind your eyes, are involved with language, mood stability, reading social cues and emotional flexibility. A national leader with brain problems can potentially cost millions of people their lives. Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein give us recent historical examples. Both of Milosevic’s parents committed suicide, he had serious bouts of depression and reportedly drank heavily — all signs that point to brain problems. He was found to be unreasonable and unreliable in negotiations and heartless as a political leader. Hussein was described as paranoid and without empathy, also symptoms pointing to poor brain function. His mother suffered severe bouts of depression and attempted suicide while pregnant with him, which is known to affect a baby’s developing brain. He was physically and emotionally abused by his stepfather. All of these stresses must have been involved in shaping his paranoid brain into a mind that could torture dissenters, murder relatives and launch chemical attacks that killed thousands. Functional scans, such as Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, provide a window into the brain. Doctors can now see healthy or dysfunctional brain patterns, much as we can assess the strength of a heart or measure hormone levels, and recognize trouble. All doctors might not agree on the interpretation, but there is a growing body of scientific literature establishing what these scans mean, such as a Attention Deficit Disorder or a predisposition for Alzheimer’s. Ensuring that our president has a healthy brain may be more than an interesting topic of conversation. It can be important information to put into the election equation. A president with brain problems could wreak havoc on the U.S. and the world at large. Maybe we shouldn’t leave the health of our president’s brain to chance. We have the tools, shouldn’t we look?

Editor’s notes: The only people to oppose this need to be tested! I’m with you Dr. Amen!!

3. Thoughts From Dr. White
The age old clash between mechanism and vitalism is now more than ever affecting every one of us in the chiropractic profession. From public/medical scrutiny to third party reimbursement for care rendered, chiropractic has been taking it on the chin far too often and far too long now. And these heated debates will continue as they have in the past with little or no positive outcome or result. This particular debate has raged on for my entire tenure as a chiropractic practitioner. One would think that there would be some positive movement forward in 26 years but I have yet to see any. Each day I awaken I am greeted with virtually the same challenges I had when I first graduated from PCC.
The time has now come that this once proud profession must make a choice and a decision as to what track it is going to take if it is to survive into the next millennium. Maybe its time to rethink our strategy and get off the VSC merry-go-round. For chiropractic to continue to focus on a purely linear restorative healing (VSC) model,(there is a place for this type of care however it is limited, narrow and uninspired,) we may witness the death of a profession. Versus what I believe chiropractic to be as a non-linear reorganisational healing model, a model that will allow for growth and expansion and vision. VSC does not fit into the non-linear classification: never has and never will. It is high time to shed this noose that has been dangling around our necks. VSC has served a purpose in getting the profession to where it is today and thank you to Dr. Joseph Flesia for providing this vehicle.......time for a new vehicle though.
Sorry boys and girls this age old (VSC) model needs to be replaced to keep pace with the works of researchers concentrating on the non-linear function of the human body. Look to Candice Pert, PhD, Bruce Lipton, PhD, and others for an insight to the new understanding of whom and what we represent in the physical.
By replacing the current thoughts and concepts with the model described in detail by Dr. Richard Barwell, chiropractic will prosper and survive. His visionary and audacious call for change joins another voice in Donny Epstein, (my apologies to the others that may share their passion and views, however these are the boys putting their necks out for all to see, condemn and scrutinise,) who sees the survival of the profession as dependant upon this very thing. Change. It will not be easy, but necessary as the foundations of the profession are upgraded to meet the standards of today’s understanding and knowledge regarding our mere existence in our reality which we call our world. Either we direct and control how we change or it will be done for us; one thing sure it will happen with or without your participation and efforts.
Our future is in our hands, not the hands of professional leaders, schools or colleagues with antiquated belief systems, (Dogma,) nor is it in the hands of the insurance industry or the medical profession. Your actions and yours alone will determine the outcome as to whether we thrive or die. What is your destiny?
If you have your doubts I suggest you ring Dr. Richard Barwell and speak to him one on one and have him help you resolve the struggle that exists in your mind!
Dr. Scott D. White - 26-28 Holywood Rd. Belfast BT4 1NT, Northern Ireland

Editor’s notes: Thanks for the vote of confidence Scott, when you have one it is a concept; when you have two, it is a movement!

4. New Science Behind Chiropractic Care - Press Release: NZ Chiropractors Association, 23 November 2007 Ground-breaking research has, for the first time, identified the actual changes that occur in the body, the nervous system and the brain during chiropractic spinal adjustments.
The study was conducted by award-winning Auckland researcher, Dr Heidi Haavik-Taylor. It demonstrates that chiropractic care sends signals to the brain that change the way the brain controls muscles.
“The process of a spinal adjustment is like rebooting a computer. The signals that these adjustments send to the brain, via the nervous system, reset muscle behaviour patterns,” said Dr Haavik-Taylor.
“By stimulating the nervous system we can improve the function of the whole body. This is something that chiropractors and their patients have known for years; and now we have some scientific evidence to prove it.”
Research findingsDr Haavik-Taylor has spent the last seven years researching the effects of chiropractic adjustments on the nervous system. However, in her latest research, carried out in conjunction with fellow New Zealander, Dr Bernadette Murphy, she was able to measure how brain waves are altered before and after spinal adjustments.
“This is the first time that anyone has used EEGs to prove that there are definite changes to the way the brain processes information after chiropractic care.”
International awardsDr Haavik-Taylor recently gained international recognition by winning an award from the World Federation of Chiropractic Research.
She has also just been awarded two grants from the Australian Spinal Research Foundation to further her studies on how chiropractic care affects the function of the nervous system and alters muscle function.
Earlier this year Dr Haavik-Taylor was recognised by her peers and awarded the New Zealand College of Chiropractic Alumni Chiropractor of the Year 2007 in recognition of her research and her passion for the discipline.
“Heidi’s work is ground-breaking on an international level by proving that chiropractic adjustments do alter and benefit the nervous system,” said Dr James Burt, president of the New Zealand Chiropractors Association.
Haavik Taylor H and Murphy B. (2007). World Federation of Chiropractic’s 9th Biennial Congress Award Winning Paper (3rd Prize): Altered sensorimotor integration with cervical spine manipulation. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, in press.

Editor’s notes: Nice work in the research but a bit of an oversight here. I did my EEG and Chiropractic work several years ago and my paper has been available for years now. The above is not the first and it would have been nice and proper to have this acknowledged. I am aware that Dr. Jay Holder, Dr. Donny Epstein and at least one other did some EEG and the adjustment studies several years ago as well. The big difference is that the equipment has improved to the point where the data is much better.
The most important news here is that we now have EEG and other neurological parameters available for use in Chiropractic practices today. In fact, it has been on the market for at least three years and we have sold over 70 units to Chiropractors worldwide.
I presented the information about Chiropractic and EEG application at the New Zealand College this Spring. While no one mentioned there was some similar research going on, I am pleased to see that others in Chiropractic are now starting to understand what we has been saying for many years. The primary effect of the Adjustment is in/on the Central Nervous System and we can now prove it!
Neurological Based Chiropractic is and has been the foundation of Chiropractic Equity Offices (CEO) for the last 9 years. Our program and the instrument we developed, called the “InVision”, continue to demonstrate that this is the future of the profession. Want to catch up? – Visit the website listed below and contact CEO about your options!

The Best of the Season to all and watch for the big news on the web site. We are planning some changes in the site over Christmas.
We have now agreed to link with another major Chiropractic group. This is great news and we are looking to 2008 as the year of break through for the Profession.

Ad Summum Nitamur!