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HEALTHBEAT SHOW NOTES .... Episode #111 - Recorded August 24, 2007Hello
and welcome to this week’s edition of HealthBeat, Chiropractic OnLine Today’s
Health, News and informational Podcast. In
this week’s news:
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For HealthBeat, This is Dr. Todd Eglow. Welcome to HealthBeat Podcast #111, recorded August 24, 2007. HealthBeat is Chiropractic OnLine Today’s radio program, providing current news and commentary about Chiropractic and Health. This week’s Episode is sponsored by DaVinci Laboratories. Please surf to our web site at www.ChiropracticRadio.com and click on the DaVinci link for your Health and Nutritional needs. If you are interested in creating personalized Healthbeat podcasts for your office or website, to help attract new patients, please surf to our web site and send us an Email …. …. or Skype us by typing in “healthbeat”, all in small letters. Next, we would like to send out a big Thank You to those of you who are linking our Podcast to your home pages.... We do request that you also include a link to our main Podcast Page at www.ChiropracticRadio.com Finally, Chiropractic OnLine Today has always provided our news and education content for free and plan on continuing this policy. However, we do request that if you are enjoying these podcasts, that you surf to ChiropracticRadio.com and consider clicking on our PayPal link to make a donation to keep these Podcasts airing. We thank everyone for their continued support. And Now for some news …. Primary
headaches and painful spontaneous cervical artery dissection The relation between primary headaches
(PH) and pain related to spontaneous cervical artery dissection (SCAD) is still
unclear, as well as the progress of primary headaches after dissection. To investigate this relation, the
characteristics of pain related to spontaneous cervical artery dissection and
changes in primary headaches patterns after spontaneous cervical artery
dissection, the authors of the study evaluated 54 consecutive patients. Previous primary headaches did not
influence the presence of pain at spontaneous cervical artery dissection onset.
Twenty-six (74%) patients with primary headaches reported improvement in PH
pattern after a mean follow-up of 32 months. These results suggest that mechanisms
underlying primary headaches do not modulate dissection-related pain. Disruption
of perivascular afferents may be involved in improvement of primary headaches
patterns after spontaneous cervical artery dissection. For more information, surf to the June
2007 issue of The Journal of Headache and Pain. Brainstem
Dysfunction in Chronic Migraine as Evidence by Neurophysiological and Positron
Emission Tomography Studies The pathophysiology of chronic
migraine (CM) is not fully understood. The authors of a study published in the
July/August 2007 issue of the journal Headache, aimed to examine transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS) indices of cortical excitability in patients with
chronic migraine and also performed PET studies to ascertain if there were any
areas of activation and inhibition for possible correlation. The study concluded that patients with
Chronic Migraine appear to be characterized by reduced visual suppression
correlating with high cortical excitability. In a cohort of these subjects there
was brainstem activation and inhibition in certain areas of the cortex
suggesting a potential dysfunction in the inhibitory pathways. Surf to our Show Notes for a link to
this study - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.00853.x CCGPP In
our ongoing coverage of evidence based chiropractic care, nearly fifteen months
after the release of the first draft of the low back evidence stratification for
public comment, the Council on Chiropractic Guidelines and Practice Parameters
(CCGPP) is poised to release additional components of the Chiropractic Clinical
Compass beginning immediately with the Preface, a revised Introduction, and a
newly created chapter on Methodology. The
next draft of evidence stratification scheduled for release for public comment
is Wellness, Non-musculoskeletal and Special Populations, which will be posted
at www.ccgpp.org
on September 1, 2007. CCGPP anticipates the release of one additional draft
approximately every 30 days beginning with "Upper Extremity
Conditions" on October 1 followed by Low Back Part A, Cervical Spine, Soft
Tissue, Thoracic Spine, and Lower Extremities. As
was done previously, drafts will be posted on the CCGPP website for 60 days of
comment. Notification of each release and instructions for submitting comments
will be distributed to stakeholders prior to posting via traditional
communication outlets. Interested constituent members are urged to organize
review efforts now. Surf
to www.ccgpp.org
for more information. The
scope of chiropractic practice: A survey of chiropractors in the UK In
the UK, chiropractic has undergone significant change in recent years,
particularly with the advent of statutory regulation and an increasing emphasis
on evidence-based and multidisciplinary health care. Little is known about what
effect, if any, such changes have had on the profession's view of its scope of
practice. The
goal of this current study was to ascertain the opinion of UK chiropractors
regarding chiropractic beliefs and philosophy, the benefit of chiropractic
intervention in pediatric, adolescent and adult conditions and its relationship
with the National Health Service (NHS). Differences
in opinion between chiropractors from different UK chiropractic associations -
the British Chiropractic Association (BCA), McTimoney Chiropractic Association
(MCA), the Scottish Chiropractic Association (SCA) and the United Chiropractic
Association (UCA) - were also investigated. The
conclusion found that the chiropractors in this study may not view themselves as
neuromusculoskeletal (NMS) specialists only. Respondents reported treating
visceral/organic conditions and expressed a belief that patients with these
complaints can benefit from chiropractic. Differences in opinion appear to
remain between the professional associations, particularly in relation to
treatment benefits for viscero-somatic conditions and philosophical relevance.
However, these findings need to be explored in a more representative sample. Surf
to the journal Clinical Chiropractic for more information.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/14792354 As always, please surf to our Podcast Show Notes at ChiropractiRadio.com for a full listing of web references mentioned in today’s show. And remember - COT’s Healthbeat always recommends discussing any nutritional or exercise lifestyle modifications with a qualified healthcare professional. Thank you for listening…. As always, We Want to hear from you. Please send us emails…. Simply surf to our Web Site at ChiropracticRadio.com and click on the Email link. You can also leave us Voice Mail…. Simply open up your Skype and type in “healthbeat”, all in small letters. If you have an idea for a future Health Segment, please feel free to contact me directly via email …. The address is: healthbeat@chiropracticradio.com We also would appreciate your votes both at Podcastalley.com and at podcasts.yahoo.com. If you are enjoying these podcasts, please surf to our HealthBeat homepage and click on the Podcast Alley link and Yahoo links. If you have a Web Site for your practice and you would like to add content to help attract more patients, please consider adding a Personalized HealthBeat segments to your site. Many listeners are finding this a useful content addition to an Office’s Web Site. For more information, please send me an Email at healthbeat@chiropracticradio.com While at our Web Site, please remember to consider making a donation to help keep these Podcasts airing. Listener support such as yours, via our PayPal link, does help in allowing us to bring these Podcasts to you weekly. And please remember to support our sponsors by clicking their links located at ChiropracticRadio.com Finally,
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