Ignoring the Science on Mammograms

Here is a great article by an emergency medicine doc that discusses the most recent study showing that over the last 30 years mammograms have not reduced the number of advanced cancers. He then goes on to discuss why so much of the medical profession is ignoring the scientific evidence on mammograms and other cancer screening. Does this surprise any of you?http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/ignoring-the-science-on-mammograms/?src=rechp

Foundation for Chiropractic Progress Position Paper Responds to Deadly Epidural Steroid Injections, Overuse of Prescription Drugs and Back Surgery to Relieve Back Pain

Foundation for Chiropractic Progress Position Paper Responds to Deadly Epidural Steroid Injections, Overuse of Prescription Drugs and Back Surgery to Relieve Back Pain. The paper also points to overuse of cortisone injections, dangers of ad

diction to prescription drugs such as Methadone and other narcotics for musculoskeletal problems such as back pain and arthritis, as well as mounting evidence that for many patients, surgery is no better at relieving pain than non-invasive care options.

Foundation for Chiropractic Progress Position Paper Responds to Deadly Epidural Steroid Injections, Overuse of Prescription Drugs and Back Surgery to Relieve Back Pain

Every year 30 million people in the US and two million people in Illinois use chiropractic services and it is the most popular form of natural healthcare in the world. Gov. Quinn has signed a proclamation naming October, 2012 Chiropractic Healthcare Month in Illinois! Here is a link to the proclamation.

Chiropractic Healthcare Month in Illinois Proclamation

Dr. Steven Santolin Attends Seminar on Diagnosis and Management of Common Shoulder Disorders

Dr. Steven Santolin recently attended a three-hour Illinois continuing education seminar by Dr. Chadwick Prodromos of the Illinois Sports Medicine And Orthopedic Centers on the diagnosis and treatment of common shoulder disorders. This included management of rotator cuff tears, labral cartilage tears, frozen shoulder, shoulder arthritis, acromioclavicular joint separations and disorders, bicep tendon tears sternoclavicular joint dislocations.

I spend much time and effort motivating my patients to become or stay more active.
Two new studies with one from the British Journal of Sports Medicine had several surprising findings including that every hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes. Also “highest sedentary behavior,” meaning those who sat the most, had a 112 percent increase in their relative risk of developing diabetes; a 147 percent increase in their risk for cardiovascular disease; and a 49 percent greater risk of dying prematurely — even if they regularly exercised.
So the take home message is get regular activity and cut down on the amount of sitting.

Get Up. Get Out. Don’t Sit.

I would think that everyone is aware of the 14 unfortunate deaths from the fungal infected epidural cortisone injections causing meningitis. I am aware that epidurals are often ineffective or only give temporary relief while having possible

 very significant side effects, so I only send patients for them very infrequently when the patient is severely disabled by a pinched nerve and not getting relief with anything else.
I guess we learn something everyday because I was not aware that cortisone is not approved by the FDA for injection into the epidural space of the spinal canal.

Before a Wave of Meningitis, Shots Were Tied to Risks

Dr. Santolin attends Illinois Chiropractic Society convention

Dr. Steven Santolin recently attended the Illinois Chiropractic Society convention and receive 15 education in the topics of evidence-based examination, prevention of medical errors, and common conditions affecting the cervical spine including vertebral basilar dissection.

Dr.Steven Santolin attends spinal manipulation (adjustment) continuing education seminar

Dr. Steven Santolin, Chiropractic physician, recently attended a 12 hour continuing education seminar at the National University of Health Sciences to learn the latest diagnostic and treatment techniques in spinal manipulative therapy. 

Congressional Committee Calls Chiropractic "Key Benefit" Within Department of Defense Health Care System

"Congressional Committee Calls Chiropractic "Key Benefit" Within Department of Defense Health Care System, Urges Pay Equity System". The Congress has been urging the DOD for ten years to integrate chiropractic care into the military and the DOD has unfortunately very slow in doing this adding this benefit for our military. This is another effort by Congress to speed up this process.

Congressional Committee Calls Chiropractic "Key Benefit" Within Department of Defense Health Care System

Medical Inc.

Here is a trailer for the soon to be released documentary Medical Inc. I have heard many good reviews of this movie. Any comments of the info in the trailer?

Medical Inc.

Military Heroes and Chiropractic

This ex-Navy Seal Howard Wasdin who was injured in the battle in Somalia in 1993 experienced so much improvement form his injuries from Chiropractic care that he became a doctor of chiropractic!

Military Heroes and Chiropractic

Dr. Phil recently interviewed his former and his current chiropractor. It is the first time he had a segment on chiropractic care! His former doctor took over as president of Parker Chiropractic College and has a recently published book.

Talking Chiropractic on the "Dr. Phil" Show

Here is a video by Wayne Dyer, the long time author who is most known for his book Your Erroneous Zones.

Wayne Dyer Chiropractic

Derrick Rose's chiropractor gets shout-out

Short story about the chiropractor for Bull's star Derrick Rose after Rose
thanked him on national TV :-)


Derrick Rose's chiropractor gets shout-out

Many people are not aware that many pro, college and other amateur teams have team chiropractors.
Here is a New York television station story on the the chiropractic physician for the New York Giants!

The story is titled NE Patriots and NY Giants: The Essential Role of Chiropractic Care to Super Bowl LVI

http://chiropracticcareinformation.com/?cat=42

Dr. Santolin Answers the Four Most Common Questions of New Chiropractic Patients

I have finally produced an informational video after considering this

for almost two years! In it I try to answer what I have found to be the

four most common questions of new chiropractic patients. Those are

"is chiropractic new", "does it work", "what causes back neck and joint

pain and disorders", and "what is the solution".

Dr. Steven Santolin The Four Questions of New Chiropractic Patients

This is another benefit from the new healthcare law. I think it will be very beneficial as many researchers have found evidence that such payments can influence doctors’ treatment decisions and contribute to higher costs by encouraging the use of more expensive drugs and medical devices which also cause more harm to patients.

U.S. to Force Drug Firms to Report Money Paid to Doctors