Great site for reviews of media medical articles

I have been reading Health News Review for about six months and found it to be an excellent site. They grade popular media articles on 10 criteria and unfortunately most of the articles do not meet the 10 criteria. I would highly recommend you to read and learn from this free site as it will help you significantly in making your healthcare decisions. Please let me know if you find any info on the site that surprises you.

Healthnewsreview.org

Football Hall of Fame legend and Dancing With the Stars winner Jerry Rice speaks of the benefits of chiropractic care in his career.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Po60mb9e4

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.