Article #1 (Article #2 is just below the pictures).
SOLID RESEARCH FROM ajpm
Postural and Respiratory Modulation of Autonomic Function,
Pain, and Health
John Lennon, BM,MM, C. Norman Sheeley, M.D.,
Roger K. Cady, MD, William Matta, Ph.D., Richard Cox, Ph.D.
and William F. Simpson, Ph.D.
AJPM 1994; 4:36-39 (American Journal of Pain Management)
Despite considerable
evidence that posture affects physiology and function, the
significant influence of posture on health is not addressed
by most physicians. In fact, neither comprehensive postural
nor structural evaluation is a routine part of training in
physical diagnosis, and most osteopathic physicians do not
describe postural/spinal mechanics in their usual patient
evaluations.
Observation of the striking influence of postural mechanics
on function and symptomatology have led to our hypothesis
that posture affects and moderates every physiologic
function from breathing to normal hormonal production.
Spinal pain, headache, mood, blood pressure, pulse, and lung
capacity are among the functions most easily influenced by
posture. The most significant influences of posture are
upon respiration, oxygenation, and sympathetic function.
Ultimately, it appears that homeostasis and autonomic
regulation are intimately connected with posture. The
corollary these observations that many symptoms, including
pain, maybe moderated or eliminated by improved posture.
The reason doctors most
often do not evaluate posture and cover its effects with
their patients is that the doctors cannot do anything about
patients’ postures on a consistent and predictable basis.
   Yet,
the scientifically researched bottom line is that if you
are doing structural
health care and not correcting your patients’ postures
immediately, you are not really correcting them and might
not be helping them but just shifting their mechanics and
where they have body difficulties.
ONLY
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consistently and predictably gets the changes you
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highly noticeable by the patient on the very first visit.
No one else even claims to
do it.
It is no wonder that
doctors using
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get a 92+% rate of patients buying and staying for a long
term body correction program.
These
patients
KNOW
they are relaxed in those after pictures. So will
your patients. Therefore, they can see and feel for
themselves from the first visit that
ABCTM
actually does work to change their
bodies by improving their posture and relieving their pain
and just about everything else they want from a chiropractor
starting from day 1. That
older woman never thought her posture would change. She
thought she was stuck living bent forward for the rest of
her life. She sent in over 30 people after visit #2.
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Article #2
MORE
SOLID RESEARCH
Why is
Advanced BioStructural Correction™
so important to you and your patients?
Check this article from the:
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Volume 52 Issue 10 Page 1662 - October 2004
Hyperkyphotic Posture
Predicts Mortality in Older Community-Dwelling Men and Women:
A Prospective Study
Deborah
M. Kado, MD, MS, Mei-Hua Huang, DrPH, Arun S. Karlamangla, MD,
PhD, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD and Gail A. Greendale, MD
FROM ABSTRACT:
Objectives:
To determine the association between hyperkyphotic posture and
rate of mortality and cause-specific mortality in older
persons.
Design: Prospective cohort
study.
Participants: Subjects were 1,353 participants from the Rancho
Bernardo Study who had measurements of kyphotic posture.
Measures:
Kyphotic posture was measured as the number of 1.7-cm blocks
that needed to be placed under the participant's head to
achieve a neutral head position when lying supine on a
radiology table.
Demographic and clinical
characteristics and health behaviors
were assessed at a clinic
visit using standard questionnaires. Participants were
followed for an average of 4.2 years, with mortality and cause
of death confirmed using review of death certificates.
Results:
Hyperkyphotic posture, defined
as requiring one or more blocks under the occiput to achieve a
neutral head position while lying supine, was more common in
men than women (44% in men, 22% of women). [Wow, more common
in men. Not what they say on TV to scare women into buying
hormones!]
In age- and sex-adjusted
analyses, persons with hyperkyphotic posture had a 1.44
greater rate of mortality. [144%] In multiply adjusted
models, the increased rate of death associated with
hyperkyphotic posture remained significant. In
cause-specific mortality analyses, hyperkyphotic posture was
specifically associated with an increased rate of death due to
atherosclerosis.
Conclusion:
Older men and women with
hyperkyphotic posture have higher mortality rates.
THESE AUTHORS ALSO NOTE:
Hyperkyphosis,
commonly known as the dowager's hump, is frequently observed
in older persons.
(easily handled with
ABC™
, usually within 4
or 5 visits if there are no compression fractures.)
“Hyperkyphosis is
associated with restrictive pulmonary disease and poor
physical function, suggesting that hyperkyphosis might be
associated with other adverse health outcomes.”
This study “hypothesized that
hyperkyphosis, assessed using a simple clinical measurement of
the occiput-to-table distance (when lying supine on an
examination table), would be associated with increased
mortality in older men and women.”
Kyphotic posture was measured
with participants lying recumbent on an x-ray table and the
distance from the occiput to table was measured by adding
1.7-cm blocks under the participants' heads. [About
3/4 inch]
Individuals with hyperkyphosis
cannot lie flat with their heads touching a flat surface
unless they hyperextend their necks.
[Using
ABC™
BY ACTUAL TEST, hyperkyphosis were reduced in 2 to 5 visit
even in senior aged men and woman.]
The greater the number of
blocks1.7-cm blocks required for the subject to reach a
neutral head position, the greater the amount of hyperkyphotic
posture. “Subjects were defined as hyperkyphotic if they
required one or more blocks to achieve a neutral head position
while lying flat.” The kyphosis measurement ranged from zero
to 10 blocks (17 cm).
These authors then determine
the association between hyperkyphotic posture and subsequent
mortality.
“To assess for a possible
dose-response relation between hyperkyphotic posture and
mortality, subjects were also classified into four groups:
those who required no blocks (referent group), one block, two
blocks, and three or more blocks.”
RESULTS
“In age-and sex-adjusted
analyses, persons with hyperkyphosis defined as needing one
block to achieve a neutral head position had a 1.44 times
greater rate of mortality than those without hyperkyphotic
posture.” [44% increase death rate with 1.7-cm of
hyperkyphosis.]
“With increasing kyphotic
posture, there was a trend towards greater mortality.”
“Men with hyperkyphosis had
the lowest overall survival rates.”
“In the multivariable
analyses, hyperkyphosis remained a significant predictor of
increased all-cause mortality.”
“In models adjusted for age
and sex, hyperkyphosis was significantly associated only with
deaths due to atherosclerosis.”
“For deaths due to
atherosclerosis, even in the full model, participants with
hyperkyphotic posture had a significant 2.4 times greater rate
of death.” [WOW!]
Remember:
No One
Else but
Advanced BioStructural CorrectionTM
even claims to make corrections to posture and health
consistently and predictably. With
ABCTM
you can see it for yourself immediately and so can your
patients.
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