Clinical & Chiropractic Techniques

Feature | Headaches. Just about everyone has experienced them at some point, and many people are afflicted with them on a recurring basis.The popular solution when confronted with a headache is to opt for a quick fix in the form of a pill, an approach that follows an alarming nationwide trend of opioid overuse and abuse. Fortunately, chiropractors are adopting treatment strategies that rely less on medication to address the pain and more on a holistic approach that seeks out and corrects the root of the problem.

Tech Talk | Lasers have evolved and improved over the last few decades. However, there are still many myths about what a laser is, how a laser works, and how much energy is needed to induce biological effects to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and initiate tissue repair.

Clinical Concerns | There is a noteworthy paper describing the needling of a single acupuncture point: Stomach 34 (also called Liangqiu).1 For those who haven’t studied acupuncture (or don’t remember the terminology) this point is located on the thigh. In other words, it is in the vastus lateralis, the largest and most powerful portion of the quadriceps.

Feature | A family-oriented chiropractic practice differs from other practices with targeted clientele in that it attracts and cares for generations of individuals and families for crisis, acute, and lifestyle care. There are two types of families—the traditional nuclear to extended family and the inner-circle family, which could be composed of a church family, sports team, group of employees, musical group, and so forth.

Feature Big things are going on at Ohio State University. And for once they have nothing to do with football on the campus of 50,000 students and several thousand more faculty, staff, and other employees. Not even a stone’s throw from Woody Hayes Drive and just across the Olentangy River from the university’s most famous building — Ohio Stadium — sits a less descript structure, but one where exciting things are happening — the OSU Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM). The center can be likened to a supersized shopping center.