Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Childbirth

Childbirth & the One Person that Matters the Most


I came across this article; and thought it would be nice to share with you all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/25/obstetrician-frederick-leboyer-childbirth

The writer who previously was a obstetrician who left this field due to the dismay that the most important thing about pregnancy and childbirth was being completely overlooked. The most important thing being the child. He released a book that at its time was at the forefront of groundbreaking thinking for the time; which at first was met with resistance from the medical community, He placed more on the health and wellbeing of the child during the whole process and highlighted the importance of less medical intervention when not needed.

Patrick Ryder – Masters in Chiro

Monday, June 20, 2011

Headaches

Headaches


Headaches are a very common occurrence that will at some point affect us all too some degree. New research has found that especially migraines are on the rise. It is a very common condition that patients present with.

There has been extensive research into the effectiveness of chiropractic treatment of headaches. A new review is just about to be released in the next Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT). It supports in its research the chiropractic adjustment being used in the management of migraine and cervicogenic headaches with another chiropractic technique called Mobilization being effective in the treatment of tension-type and cervicogenic headaches.

A new study into long term tension type headaches compared conventional medical treatment to chiropractic treatment and concluded that;

“Manual therapy is more effective than usual GP care in the short- and longer term in reducing symptoms of CTTH.”



Patrick Ryder
Masters in Chiropractic