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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007There’s lots of chiropractors all over the world that have still not gotten their office information into various online directories. A chiropractor practicing in Seattle, Lawrence Clayman, already had a website but did not have much of a presence in other online spaces.
There are so many directories out there that chiropractors can get listed in, [...]
Chiropractors advised to watch out for scams
Friday, June 22nd, 2007by Vera Arteaga
A post made to the popular chiropractic website, chiropractic blogs, advises chiropractors to be wary of parties and individuals marketing shady internet services, geared towards attracting new consumers from local communities.
There is no doubt more people are searching for doctors of chiropractic online. While it is important for all chiropractors to have some [...]
Chiropractic History and Chiropractor Faces
Thursday, June 21st, 2007by Michael Dorausch, DC
Today we are celebrating nine years of delivering Chiropractic News online. These past few days I was taking a look at our news image archives and I saw the many faces of chiropractors that have had a part in making planet chiropractic a successful destination on the Internet. Not that many web sites can tout nine years of continuous original content development, and there’s no way planet chiropractic would’ve done this without the support received by thousands of chiropractors, chiropractic students, and advocates of chiropracticly based lifestyles. We’d like to thank everyone who has ever submitted an article (especially those that have written a significant amount of content), forwarded chiropractic news stories, and taken an active role helping us become the success we are today. Many blessings to you!
There is a whole bunch of photos in the archives of chiropractic authors and influencers that have had something to do with our chiropractic news over the past nine years. Maybe by this time next year we will have archived the image folders so that all those pictures would be available for you to view without having to browse through the entire website. Below are four individuals that we are honoring today. The discoverer, the developer, and two influencers, all who have affected the lives of many.
Let’s start with DD Palmer, the man who discovered chiropractic in September of 1895. If it were not for this gentleman I’d maybe be writing to you today about some technological advancement in widget design on some corporate web site. Maybe I’d be doing some Internet marketing and/or research for the pharmaceutical industry. Thank God for DD! Here’s a news archive article that was added to the web site on September 18, 2000.
The Father of Chiropractic - Daniel David Palmer. “Palmer was interested in finding the true cause(s) of disease. He wanted to know why two people who lived in the same house, drank the same water, breathed the same air and often had the same parents, could have two dramatically different constitutions, one being healthy and free of disease and the other sickly. Palmer felt that there must be something other than environmental factors influencing an individuals health. His theory, was that this internal factor was the function of the nervous system. On September 18, 1895, D.D. Palmer would have the chance to prove his theory.”
B.J. Palmer would be the next obvious photograph to be listed here. BJ is known as the developer of chiropractic, and to this day, he has done more to promote and preserve the principles of chiropractic than any other to enter the profession. B.J. was the son of D.D., and he was President of the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa from 1906-1961. I often think if BJ had a web site it would definitely be a blog and there would be volumes of information available. Palmer was a voracious writer and he published some 39 volumes of chiropractic “green books” that were published from 1906 to 1963. Original editions have become rather valuable and these chiropractic texts are still read by chiropractors today. BJ would’ve loved the Internet and there is no doubt he would have taken full advantage of the opportunity to spread the message of chiropractic worldwide. BJ was well-known for epigrams and chiropractic web sites all over the Internet display many of his quotes. My favorite being… “You never know how far reaching something you think, say or do today, will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.”
Next we have Reggie Gold. Reggie was speaking in the lobby at Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los Angeles, California in January of 1995. I was chiropractic student at the time and I’d never heard him speak. I could have been considered your typical chiropractic student, walking through the lobby with my lunch bag from Burger King, and this long-haired ponytailed guy is speaking in the lobby with a group of students and faculty listening in.
Today, I couldn’t tell you a thing Reggie said but I could tell you that it was a pivotal event in my life. The event was solidified later that day when I returned to a chiropractic classroom with great enthusiasm about my future in chiropractic. The classroom instructor overheard my comments about Reggie’s idea of chiropractic and she assured me that I’d never get any information in school like I did from that “nut” of a chiropractor. I’m glad she cleared that up because from that moment forward I knew not to confuse what was taught in chiropractic school with chiropractic. Here’s an article from December of 2000 about Reggie’s visit to Orange County California… Chiropractic, Sex & Reggie
Here’s a photo of Dr. James Sigafoose taken in in a civic gymnasium (I think it was owned by the Lions Club) in Costa Rica. Besides Reggie, Sigafoose (as he is known to many) could easily be the most influential (yet often under recognized) chiropractor the profession has ever seen. Sigafoose and I shared a hotel room during the chiropractic mission trip in which this photo was taken. He is a known cookie thief so make sure you don’t have any snacks lying around that you don’t want to be disappearing.
Sigafoose has been lecturing to chiropractors and chiropractic patients for years. I spent some time in his Pennsylvania home (which is now owned by his eldest daughter Tina) in the late 1990s. I slept in a room that used to be his chiropractic office. It was about the size of a two-car garage and it was right off of his living room and kitchen. When in chiropractic practice, Sigafoose was one of those chiropractors seeing massive amounts of volume. He had days in which more than 500 people per day would come to his office for an adjustment. I saw some photos from the 1970s when I was at the house. There were pictures of Reggie Gold and James Sigafoose working together. They were young chiropractors then. It was incredibly inspirational to see photos of these two out on the lawn with megaphones, crowds of people, and lines of cars, on the property where he practiced chiropractic. This man without a doubt has been the most influential chiropractic individual in my life. Here’s a link for some articles either authored by Sigafoose or written about him… sigafoose news search
Thanks again to everyone that has worked to make planet chiropractic such a great success. We love and appreciate you!
Unbalanced autism mercury vaccine trial coverage
Thursday, June 21st, 2007by Michael Dorausch. DC
More e-mails came in from parents regarding a vaccine related article (in my opinion, it was more of a freedom of speech related article) that was published last week on planetchiropractic, and distributed through various news channels across the Internet. The posting of the article brought to light some pretty eye-opening discoveries [...]
A fish out of water
Thursday, June 21st, 2007by Darrel Crain, DC
Water, water, everywhere?
A fish out of water and a human without water are not so very different. A fish can survive outside water for a few minutes, while a human being can last only a matter of days without fresh drinking water. Our need for water is more immediate than our need for food, because we can live for thirty days or more without eating. Only air is more critical to short term survival than water.
“Without water anyone will run into problems pretty quickly. Their blood volume will shrink and their water and electrolyte balance will be upset. Eventually the body will just go into shock,” says Professor Martha Stipanuk of Cornell University, quoted in the Guardian newspaper.
We must not forget that we never get any “new” water on planet Earth, we earthlings drink and swim in the same stuff over and over. Humans are said to be about 65 percent water; yes, the very same water that has percolated through numerous creatures, including dinosaurs and dogs, bugs and birds, popes and pirates. The very same water has floated over the deserts of the world, and fallen on rainforests, mountaintops and oceans; it has flowed downstream in creeks and rivers both fast and slow for an incomprehensibly long time, always running back to the sea.
Most of the water on our planet is saltwater, about 97 percent. That leaves only 3 percent left as freshwater, two-thirds of which is currently frozen solid in glaciers and ice fields (global heating notwithstanding). This means only about 1 percent of all the water on the planet is left to meet the needs of every single living plant and animal on the face of the earth, including the humans.
Humans require about two and a half quarts of water per day, although the average person in the United States is said to use 125 gallons daily. The average American household uses 107,000 gallons of water per year, and only two percent of the homes in the U.S. go without running water.
In order to quench human water needs, ever-greater portions of river water are diverted to cities and groundwater is being pumped like there is no tomorrow. Within the last hundred years human activity has been using up the earth’s stores of underground water much faster than it can possibly be regenerated. About 340 billion gallons of water are used every single day in the U.S. for irrigation, agriculture, industry, fire fighting, street cleaning; virtually every need we have requires water at some point.
An African proverb reminds us, “Filthy water cannot be washed.” The earth has a remarkable natural filtration process, but even this marvelous recycling system is incapable of breaking down man-made toxins, so much of it remains in the water.
Water has an extraordinary ability to attract and carry traces of absolutely everything it finds in the environment. In water can be found microbes of every description, industrial and power plant pollutants, pesticides and herbicides, toxic cocktails leaching out of landfills, and 75,000 or so synthetic chemicals, including antibiotics and personal care products, just to name a few.
Fish are exquisitely sensitive to waterborne toxins, and this sensitivity is now being harnessed to help us monitor our water. Bluegill fish are now helping us assess our water safety by acting as “biomonitors” that provide instantaneous feedback about water quality as it is released from municipal treatment plants. Discharge water is continuously pumped through special fish tanks that register changes in the fishes’ breathing, heart rate, swimming patterns and (I am not making this up) coughing.
Brigades of bluegills have so far detected at least 30 toxic chemicals including cyanide, heavy metals, pesticides and petroleum products. In New York a bluegill biomonitor system reportedly detected a diesel spill in the water supply two hours before standard electronic devices registered the problem.
Ironically, municipal water as it comes out of the average kitchen tap would probably kill the bluegills straight off because of leftover disinfectant chemicals. To solve this minor problem, the lucky test fish get water that has already been de-chlorinated. Chlorine was first used in the United States to kill bacteria in city water in 1908 and is considered one of the great advances in public health. Unfortunately, chlorine’s toxic action against microbes negatively affects every living organism it contacts on some level.
Alternatives to chlorination, such as chloramines, are also being used, but the leftover toxic compounds are reportedly even worse. Now in a distinct class of toxins all their own, disinfection byproducts (DBPs) such as chlorine, chloramine and the others are being investigated for their relationship to developmental disorders and cancer.
What about well water? It is estimated that 48 million people in the U.S. obtain their drinking water from private or household wells. If you get your water from a well, you are basically on your own when it comes to ensuring your water quality.
Groundwater is susceptible to pollutants that are carried down through the soil with contaminated surface water. Pesticides, fertilizers, road salt, toxic runoff from mining sites, used motor oil recklessly dumped on the ground, septic tank seepage and toxic chemicals from underground storage tanks are included on the list of possible contaminants for water wells. Naturally, a prudent course is to periodically test the water from your well.
What happens if you find a problem? Investing in a water filtration system can be a wise choice regardless of the water’s source. Which system is best for a given circumstance? There is no simple answer. Wise water consumers will jump in with both feet and immerse themselves in a personal quest to learn how to supply the whole family with pure drinking water.
The long history of supplying civilization with safe water is rich with passionate and lively debate that continues to this day. Over the millennia serious problems have been overlooked from time to time, mistakes have been made. Who can forget the lead pipe system of water delivery in Ancient Rome that supplied a persistent dose of lead to the city?s inhabitants? I?m guessing that the water experts of the day assured the citizens that a little lead in the water was harmless.
Out here in the West where imported water is a fact of life we have a saying, “Water flows uphill towards money.” Ultimately, the quality of our water depends on the quality of the soil that grows our food and the quality of the air we breathe. This can be summed up in two words, wise stewardship.
“Man ‘despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments’ owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains,” according to an anonymous author.
When it comes to the health of our water supply, fish are the new canaries in coalmine. However, I do not suggest we all bring home a couple of bluegills to be biomonitors for our drinking water. In essence we are all bluegills, we are every one of us a biomonitor in need of pure water to keep us healthy.
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Dr. Darrel Crain practices chiropractic in Alpine, California.
Some of his other articles published on Planet Chiropractic include…
The doctor of the future & Thomas Edisons prediction
Pre-Medicine for Pre-Problems - a Chiropractic Report
Cocaine in the water
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Whiplash Relief as Wellness Chiropractic Care
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Is whiplash and injury pain relief part of wellness chiropractic care?
Several months ago someone presented a demo to me of a marketing campaign they were thinking of rolling out in my area. They showed me some slides, pretty graphics, a mini commercial, and gave me a pitch that the world is moving towards wellness so [...]
More Chiropractic Internet Service Scams
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007by Michael Dorausch, DC
They pop up like weeds, offers to chiropractors to get you “top” in search engines with magic search engine techniques and “soon to be” high traffic domain destinations. They use fear, your “territory” is still available but it will soon be gone, act now, send us your money, we are going to [...]
Trimester Seven Chiropractic Student on Technique
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Dr. Darrel Crain has been a contributing author to planet chiropractic news for the past few years. He’s done an incredible job and has continued to provide some great content for the web site. He gets quite a bit of e-mail from those reading his articles. An e-mail was sent to me which I forwarded [...]
Vaccine Court Autism Article Fuels Comments
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Planet Chiropractic last week published a news article regarding the topic of vaccinations, a concern from parents about a possible link to autism, and a group of court hearings that began on Monday, June 11, 2007 in Arizona. Like nearly every news article published on planetc1.com since 2002, the piece appeared in Google News, along [...]
chiro web site development
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007In our last post we got into the discussion of the importance of having description tags created for your chiropractic website. Description tags are part of something called meta tags. Search through this site or browse some of the articles to get some more information.
When starting out or hiring to do the work for you [...]