Dear Patients and Friends,
According to Sports Illustrated, October 3, 2011, star hockey player Sidney Crosby, after
being seriously concussed was unable to play because of headaches, dizziness, and sensitivity to light. He was treated at
the University of Pittsburg Medical Center. In August, still unable to read, and unsuccessfully treated at the “gold
standard” in vestibular therapy, he was examined by chiropractic neurologist Dr. Ted Carrick. That was in August, and
by September, Mr. Crosby was starting skating workouts. He is actively playing today.
According to
the Chicago Sun-Times, October 23, 2011, Jerry Rice, Hall of Fame football player and Dancing With the Stars champion,
credited his own positive chiropractic experience with keeping him playing for 20 NFL seasons.
Good press. While the media reaction was there, it was, as usual, guarded. Disclaimers
about “more mainstream medicine” and “placebo effect” were reported from spokespeople from the Medical
Centers that are supposedly the “gold standards” in treatment of brain trauma treatment. The Sun-Times
headlined that, “Snap, Crackle, Pop kept Rice crisp.” Very clever.
When I started
chiropractic practice 50 years ago, neurology was just a book subject, with diseases named after neurologists. No treatments,
no cures. Then along came Doman in the fifties, Kandel in the sixties, Pert in the seventies, and Carrick in the eighties.
Learning about nerve function and rehabilitation. Teaching about the brain. Plasticity. Hemisphericity. Frequency of firing.
Nerve threshold. Hyper and hypo tonicity. Normalizing brain function.
I started out fifty years ago adjusting spines to help people get rid of back and neck pain. During their
course of care, their headaches, dizziness stomach disorders, allergies, and all varieties of dis-ease cleared up.
I still primarily adjust spines, only now I have more of a clue how it happens that the other stuff clears
up.
If
some other practitioner starting out fifty years ago had never seen that happen, it would be extremely difficult for him or
her to grasp the meaning of the spinal adjustment, namely that adjusting the spine has a positive effect on spinal cord tracts
that interrelate with the vestibulospinal and corticospinal tracts.
That
is the reason the first chiropractic patient regained his hearing. That is how Mr. Crosby got well, and Mr. Rice maintained
his extraordinary health. That’s how you, too, can benefit from chiropractic care.
J. M. Nyuli, D.C.