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the symptom called asthma-a case study
Recently, a 5-year old girl presented to my office with the symptoms medics call asthma. They call it a disease. The child has been diagnosed with asthma since the age of 1. She has been taking all the asthma drugs, including "rescue inhalers" since age 1. She has had multiple trips to the emergency room to get under an oxygen tent. The drugs never cured the problem. She could not run and play, participate in gymnastics with her friends, or exert herself much at all going into breathing distress. Her mother reported she was anxious and hyperactive following the administration of the asthma drugs.
Physical examination from a chiropractic perspective demonstrated what we call "lock-stress pattern" in the para-musculature of the cervical\thoracic region. That is-her neck and shoulder musculature were chronically hyper-contracted, with never any muscle relief. Her mother reported she stayed tense like this all the time. Deeper study of the spine yielded multiple levels of vertebral subluxation-a condition more easily described as hyper-tight & hyper-stuck in the functionality of the spine.
We began treatment for this child by specifically adjusting (bonesetting) the cervical & thoracic spine at the specific levels that were stuck. Easy and gentle. No drama. No adverse reaction from the child. She loved it. "It felt good" was her comment. We taught the child and her mother how to routinely massage the musculature of the neck\back\shoulders\chest. We taught the mother and child the acupoints to massage that are classical for lung impairment (lung channel: Lu 1, Lu 11, Lu 7, Lu associated point, CV 14 & CV 17). That was it. We repeated this treatment one time per week for the last 4 weeks.
The results have been fantastic. The child was used to daily impairment and crisis. That no longer happens for the first time in this little girl's life. She is breathing normal and her mother took her off all the expensive & addictive drugs. She can run and play with her friends now no problem. She can do gymnastics without having to quit and sit down. She is healing and overcoming the symptom called asthma disease.
BTW: This girl was a referral from another mom & daughter, same age, who had the same problem a few months ago. She got better too. She CURED herself of asthma, got off the drugs, and is now leading a normal drug-free life. She referred this latest child to the office.
If you dive, suffer from the symptoms of asthma, and are concerned the problem can impair or prevent you from diving, try this treatment approach. It works over and over. We do this all the time in this office. It's fun to get the kids and adults off the drugs and healing their breathing problems. It's a kick!
At the same time this is going on, I encountered a 25 year old man that has been doing the asthma drugs since he was a child. 20+ years on many different drugs, never got better, always has breathing crisis, changes drugs as the makers keep changing the forumulas, with the promise that this new drug will work better. They never do. In addition to the asthma drugs, he's been on prednisone for over 20 years for the diagnosis of lupus. Recently, he stepped off a curb hard, and both quads muscules blew out and ripped apart. Body degeneration and failure secondary to chronic drug consumption.
Some divers give up the sport because they are afraid they will run out of air at depth, due to "their asthma". If you have this problem, try the methods I suggested with someone in your own town and see what happens.
I wish you all well fellow divers.
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Recently, a 5-year old girl presented to my office with the symptoms medics call asthma. They call it a disease. The child has been diagnosed with asthma since the age of 1. She has been taking all the asthma drugs, including "rescue inhalers" since age 1. She has had multiple trips to the emergency room to get under an oxygen tent. The drugs never cured the problem. She could not run and play, participate in gymnastics with her friends, or exert herself much at all going into breathing distress. Her mother reported she was anxious and hyperactive following the administration of the asthma drugs.
Physical examination from a chiropractic perspective demonstrated what we call "lock-stress pattern" in the para-musculature of the cervical\thoracic region. That is-her neck and shoulder musculature were chronically hyper-contracted, with never any muscle relief. Her mother reported she stayed tense like this all the time. Deeper study of the spine yielded multiple levels of vertebral subluxation-a condition more easily described as hyper-tight & hyper-stuck in the functionality of the spine.
We began treatment for this child by specifically adjusting (bonesetting) the cervical & thoracic spine at the specific levels that were stuck. Easy and gentle. No drama. No adverse reaction from the child. She loved it. "It felt good" was her comment. We taught the child and her mother how to routinely massage the musculature of the neck\back\shoulders\chest. We taught the mother and child the acupoints to massage that are classical for lung impairment (lung channel: Lu 1, Lu 11, Lu 7, Lu associated point, CV 14 & CV 17). That was it. We repeated this treatment one time per week for the last 4 weeks.
The results have been fantastic. The child was used to daily impairment and crisis. That no longer happens for the first time in this little girl's life. She is breathing normal and her mother took her off all the expensive & addictive drugs. She can run and play with her friends now no problem. She can do gymnastics without having to quit and sit down. She is healing and overcoming the symptom called asthma disease.
BTW: This girl was a referral from another mom & daughter, same age, who had the same problem a few months ago. She got better too. She CURED herself of asthma, got off the drugs, and is now leading a normal drug-free life. She referred this latest child to the office.
If you dive, suffer from the symptoms of asthma, and are concerned the problem can impair or prevent you from diving, try this treatment approach. It works over and over. We do this all the time in this office. It's fun to get the kids and adults off the drugs and healing their breathing problems. It's a kick!
At the same time this is going on, I encountered a 25 year old man that has been doing the asthma drugs since he was a child. 20+ years on many different drugs, never got better, always has breathing crisis, changes drugs as the makers keep changing the forumulas, with the promise that this new drug will work better. They never do. In addition to the asthma drugs, he's been on prednisone for over 20 years for the diagnosis of lupus. Recently, he stepped off a curb hard, and both quads muscules blew out and ripped apart. Body degeneration and failure secondary to chronic drug consumption.
Some divers give up the sport because they are afraid they will run out of air at depth, due to "their asthma". If you have this problem, try the methods I suggested with someone in your own town and see what happens.
I wish you all well fellow divers.
page crow DC
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