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Here’s a link to the actual article, but I’ve collected what I feel is the most important bits of information in the article to share with you…interesting how the public is now accepting Chiropractic, yet it still has a bad rep. Hopefully, with articles, research, and surveys like this one, Chiropractic will continue to grow in acceptance within the field of health care and general public.

to read the entire article, click here.

Who helped the most?

The percentage of people highly (completely or very) satisfied with their back-pain treatments and advice varied by practitioner visited.
Professional Highly satisfied
Chiropractor 59%
Physical therapist 55%
Acupuncturist 53%
Physician, specialist 44%
Physician, primary-care doctor 34%
Source: Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center

Patients with lower-back pain are faced with a confusing list of options. Our survey respondents tried an average of five or six different treatments over the course of just a year. We asked them to rate a comprehensive list of remedies (available to subscribers) and had enough data to rate 23 treatments. We analyzed the medical evidence for each and came up with recommendations and cautions. Here are some highlights from our survey findings:

* Hands-on treatments were rated by lower-back-pain sufferers as very helpful. Survey respondents favored chiropractic treatments (58 percent), massage (48 percent), and physical therapy (46 percent) (available to subscribers)—another testament to the healing power of touch.

* Spinal injections were rated just below chiropractic treatments by those who took our survey. Fifty-one percent of the respondents found them to be very helpful, although the techniques their doctors used varied.

In an attempt to find something good about “What is Chiropractic” or “Introduction to Chiropractic”, I spent a number of hours on the internet only to find old and antiquated chiropractic education videos or self promoting docs focused more on selling themselves rather that promoting the profession.

I finally came upon this video gem that is about a year old, and stars my daughter, Dr. Ainsley, who is attempting to bless us with our first lesson in human anatomy. The greatest part of the video is the principle of promoting the wonders of the human body rather than promoting herself as an aspiring chiropractor, or nurse, or dance teacher (by her own account). After watching it for almost an hour, I made the executive decision to make this the first post about chiropractic education. And now I know where my bladder is. And that my tummy is right there. And that my hips look kinda like a butterfly

This is awsome…there’s nothing like a celebrity testimonial to help promote your profession. Check out this promotional video on how Chiropractic helped Jerry Rice stay healthy and more information on both The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress and Jerry Rice.

About the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress: (from www.foundation4cp.com)
Since July 2006, the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, a 501 c 6 not for profit corporation, has been advertising in national newspapers and magazines providing positive testimonials regarding the Chiropractic profession. Mr. Jerry Rice, future NFL Hall of Famer and Dancing with the Stars celebrity has joined the advertising campaign providing his positive story about chiropractic and how it made him the most durable and feared wide receiver in the history of the NFL and then later as a finalist in the Stars program. His testimonial has already appeared in the December 15th issue of ESPN, the magazine; January 12th issue of Sport’s illustrated; the January/February issue of Women’s Health; the January 15th issue of USA Today; and the February issue of Men’s Fitness.

About Jerry Rice: (from www.jerryricefootball.com)
• A 13-time Pro Bowl wide receiver who holds records for nearly every career receiving category.
• Owns 38 career records, according to the NFL’s Record & Fact Book (16 regular season, 9 postseason, 11 Super Bowl and 2 Pro Bowl).
• Won three Super Bowls (XXIII, XXIV, XXIX) during 16 years (1985-2000) with San Francisco and advanced to one Super Bowl (XXXVII) in three full seasons (2001-03) with Oakland.
• Selected by San Francisco in the first round (16th overall) of the 1985 NFL Draft after setting 18 NCAA Division II records at Mississippi Valley State University.

NFL Records
Rice held the following NFL records at the time of his retirement:

Regular Season
Receptions (1,549)
Receiving yards (22,895)
Touchdown receptions(198)
All-purpose yards (23,540)
Touchdowns (208)
Receiving yards gained in a single season (1,848)
Touchdown receptions in a single season (22)
Seasons with at least 50 receptions (17)
Seasons with at least 1,000 receiving yards (14)
Games with at least 100 receiving yards (76)
Consecutive games with at least one reception (274)
Consecutive games with at least one touchdown reception (13)

Postseason
Games played (28)
Touchdowns (22)
Receptions (151)
Yards receiving (2,245)
Touchdown receptions in a single game (3, three times; 10 others have had 3 in a game once)
Games with at least 100 receiving yards (8)
Consecutive games with at least one reception (28)

Super Bowl
Receptions (33)
Yards receiving (589)
All-purpose yards (604)
Touchdown receptions (8)
Points scored (48)
Receptions in a single game (11)
Yards receiving in a single game (215)
Touchdown receptions in a single game (3, twice)
Points scored in a single game (18, twice)

Accomplishments

Pro Bowls 13

Awards
1995 Pro Bowl MVP
1993 AP Offensive Player of the Year
1988 Super Bowl MVP
1987 AP Offensive Player of the Year
1988 PFWA MVP
1988 UPI NFC Offensive Player of the Year
1985 UPI NFC Rookie of the Year

Honors
NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team
NFL 1990s All-Decade Team
NFL 1980s All-Decade Team

Here are a couple of excerpts from Dan O’Brien’s bio on Wikipedia:

Daniel (“Dan”) Dion O’Brien (born July 18, 1966 in Portland, Oregon) is a former American decathlete. He was deemed one of the best decathlon athletes of the 1990s, winning an Olympic gold medal after winning three consecutive world titles.

O’Brien won the Olympic gold medal for decathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and also won gold medals at the 1991, 1993, and 1995 World Championships in Athletics.

In 1992 he set a world record of 8,891 points, and appeared with U.S. rival Dave Johnson in a popular TV advertising campaign for Reebok. The series of commercials, entitled “Dan & Dave,” were meant to build interest in Reebok and the decathletes, culminating in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. At the U.S. Olympic trials at Tad Gormley Stadium in New Orleans, O’Brien voluntarily passed on the lower heights in the pole vault, then failed in his first three attempts, resulting in no points for the event, and ultimately, did not qualify for the Olympic team. His unexpected failure received considerable attention; Reebok adjusted by running new ads featuring him cheering on Dave, who went on to win the bronze medal.

In the late 1990s, Dan O’Brien appeared in ads for Italian designer Versace. He was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2005, along with Dave Johnson. [1] [2] and was inducted into the University of Idaho Sports Hall of Fame with the large inaugural class of 2007.

Just as I suspected…not only is drinking soda the biggest rip off at a restaurant, but those empty calories don’t satisfy hunger, keeping the weight on our waistlines. A new research study has been published outlining how reducing your waistline means minimizing your intake of your favorite sugary drinks.

“Weight loss from liquid calories is greater than loss of calorie intake from solid food,” concluded lead researcher Dr. Liwei Chen, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans.

The researchers found that sugar-sweetened drinks accounted for 37 percent of all the liquid calories people in the study consumed. Among beverages, sugar-sweetened beverages were the only type of beverage type significantly associated with weight change at both the 6 and 18 months, the researchers noted. Drinking fewer sugary drinks was more important than eating less for losing weight, the researchers found. In fact, drinking one less serving of a soft drink was associated with just over one pound of weight loss at six months and an additional weight loss of more than 1.4 pounds at 18 months.

The study “supports what many have suspected — liquid calories don’t satisfy,” said Connie Diekman, director of university nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis. “In addition, the identification that [sugar-sweetened beverages] can impact weight gain more than other liquids is an important message as Americans continue to work to lower their calories.”

And if you get thirsty? “Drink water,” Chen said.