I was asked by a old friend today if I remember where I was sixteen years ago today. Once I thought for a moment, I remembered that it was the day we walked across the stage to to receive our diplomas to become official Doctors of Chiropractic. We stand on strong shoulders that persevered through adversity and attack to bring the absolute best system of health care delivery to the masses. I know that I may not be anything special, but have hundreds of testimonials and people who's lives were dramatically altered for the better because we removed the stress from the nervous system to let their body work the way it was designed to do.
I was introduced by a patient who is a professor at CSU-P to a fellow professor who is a nurse and she asked what kind of doctor I was when I told her she quickly responded, " Oh, I don't believe in Chiropractic." I responded, "that's funny I don't believe in nursing or gravity either." It made her stop and realize what an absurd statement she just made. I let her down easy, and helped her see I was a doctor based on science just like a nurse, physicist, MD, DO or even rocket scientist. Just because we don't understand it doesn't mean we should reject it before we understand it. So I was prepared for a can of worms to be released and asked, what had happened in her life to have so strongly hold such an opinion. (I was clear to say opinion as if this statement were based on the essentials of life or even the traditions that were established it may be worth an argument, but opinions are nothing more than our perceptions and should be discussed over coffee, never to loose a friend over:-) She shared that one of the medical doctors she worked with at one point in her career had a negative opinion of a chiropractor he knew, so openly shared this with his staff. So I asked what was his opinion based on, was it something professional, personal, etc.? She had no idea. So I asked so have you ever had any personal experience with Chiropractic or a Doctor of Chiropractic. She said she had none. (So she had based her strong opinion based on someone else's opinion and based on no real facts. So I asked if she had any health concerns that her system of health care was struggling to resolve. Well I get headaches just like everyone else. (No assumptions in that statement:-) Well I have treated hundreds of patients that either never have or no longer get headaches at all, what are you doing for it. She shared with me some pretty strong prescription medications and said the best they can do is make them not as bad. So I asked, well how does this affect your life, do you loose work or time with family as a result of these headaches? She said she looses the ability to go to her kids games, and has lost some time from work over the past couple months. So what if these get worse I inquired. Well, I could loose my job, she replied, miss out with my kids she added. Well what would life be like if they got better or even better went away completely? She perked up and said, that would be awesome, but then as quickly as she perked up, she withdrew to say, but that's not going to happen as I am doing all that can be done. Really I asked? What if there was a way to see if the cause of your pain could be identified, would you be interested?
And from a almost hostile nurse to a new patient in our clinic, from giving people the freedom to have opinions not judging them, but making them have to defend them; and when it is based on no real facts, be willing to alter that opinion when the reality is not what you had been perceiving it as being. She came in for an evaluation, and has already seen a significant reduction in her headache frequency and severity.
Who does this story make you think of? Who has been holding on to inaccurate opinions of the world or whether there is hope for them and their health concerns? Send them to this blog, have them research our blog or website and who knows you may change a life forever because you cared enough to tell them the truth.
Until next time...
Dr. Busch
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Heathcare Costs & Offense!
You have heard for months about the rising cost of health care, well it should be clarified and given to us in realistic terms. My daughter had an ER visit that I was sent a $7500 bill and my wife had a 24 hour hospital stay and the tests she was put in to have done was canceled at the last minute and sent home told to take a medication which had nothing to do with her condition, so I know I won't get a refund on the day wasted and the most expensive hotel on the planet. Let me give you some real looks at where costs for us all can be saved.
In 2009, Russo, Weir, and Elixhauser in their peer reviewed article stated that people 55-64 years of age, 3.9 hospitalizations of every 1000 people was for lower back pain. It was actually ranked as #8 as the reason for hospital admissions for this age range. Number 2 is osteoarthritis which is treatable and preventable with the use of Chiropractic care and is only covered up with the use of medications.
In a similar study by Leoretta in 2004 compared 1.7 million insured patients looking for treatment for lower back pain. In the outcome it was revealed that when chiropractic care was pursued the treatment cost was reduced by 28%, hospitalizations were reduced 41%, back surgery reduced 32%, and diagnostic imaging such as MRI, CT scans, etc. were reduced by 37%. So how did it help? Well 95% of these people said they were satisfied with their treatment. When was the last time an MD or a hospital had that kind of success record? Putting this together in real money, if people would use chiropractic as their first option for back pain, it would save the US health care system $28 BILLION EVERY SINGLE YEAR!
So why isn't this the case? It is similar to the search for the cure for cancer, there isn't one, there is a search for more profitable and effective treatments for cancer, not a cure. When you look at insurance companies hiring more risk managers are working full-time to deny or limit care in Chiropractic, but spending Billions on care which is often unnecessary and more often ineffective.
As we look to improve our health in 2011, remember the definition of Insanity, doing the same thing you have always done and expect different results. We keep going to the drug & surgery pushing Medical and Osteopathic Doctors who's best treatment is only 38-45% effective, where Chiropractic has been documented to be over 70% effective and more commonly 86%. If a patient comes to our clinic and thousands like it across the country, they are evaluated to see if they are a Chiropractic case that if accepted can be helped. We also get lots of cases that I know soon into the consultation that this is a condition that medicine would be more effective, they are promptly referred to a competent MD for evaluation. This unfortunately is not the case in most medical clinics, they think they have a treatment for everything. So according to the a study by the Dean of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona concluded that 40-60% of all prescriptions are written off-label. This means that we have already tried Bottle "A, B, & C" with no results so lets try Bottle "D" which may not have even been tested for efficacy to the condition you have, but you demand a treatment even if it is the wrong one or the one that will kill you. This is since over 110,000 people die every year for taking the right drug for the right problem, these are all "on-label" prescriptions. A couple years ago it was reported that we spent $74 Billion dollars on primary use medication. We spent an additional $76 Billion dollars to treat the side-effects of the drugs used in the first $74 Billion. This is just another definition of insanity and it is disguised as normal in the world...
...Look to chiropractic care first, for nearly every problem you have, what you will find, that if the cause of the problem can be identified and removed the problem is gone. Opposed to the patients that tell me they don't have stomach problems anymore because they take the "purple pill." I say, well if it's cured, then stop taking it and see how your stomach problem comes back. We are just covering up the problems and not working to correct the cause and thus we are ranked dead last among the 37 industrialized nations. Let's be smart with our money, restore sanity to health care and schedule your evaluation today, waiting is just covering up the oil light on the dashboard of the car "hoping it will go away."
Until next time...
In 2009, Russo, Weir, and Elixhauser in their peer reviewed article stated that people 55-64 years of age, 3.9 hospitalizations of every 1000 people was for lower back pain. It was actually ranked as #8 as the reason for hospital admissions for this age range. Number 2 is osteoarthritis which is treatable and preventable with the use of Chiropractic care and is only covered up with the use of medications.
In a similar study by Leoretta in 2004 compared 1.7 million insured patients looking for treatment for lower back pain. In the outcome it was revealed that when chiropractic care was pursued the treatment cost was reduced by 28%, hospitalizations were reduced 41%, back surgery reduced 32%, and diagnostic imaging such as MRI, CT scans, etc. were reduced by 37%. So how did it help? Well 95% of these people said they were satisfied with their treatment. When was the last time an MD or a hospital had that kind of success record? Putting this together in real money, if people would use chiropractic as their first option for back pain, it would save the US health care system $28 BILLION EVERY SINGLE YEAR!
So why isn't this the case? It is similar to the search for the cure for cancer, there isn't one, there is a search for more profitable and effective treatments for cancer, not a cure. When you look at insurance companies hiring more risk managers are working full-time to deny or limit care in Chiropractic, but spending Billions on care which is often unnecessary and more often ineffective.
As we look to improve our health in 2011, remember the definition of Insanity, doing the same thing you have always done and expect different results. We keep going to the drug & surgery pushing Medical and Osteopathic Doctors who's best treatment is only 38-45% effective, where Chiropractic has been documented to be over 70% effective and more commonly 86%. If a patient comes to our clinic and thousands like it across the country, they are evaluated to see if they are a Chiropractic case that if accepted can be helped. We also get lots of cases that I know soon into the consultation that this is a condition that medicine would be more effective, they are promptly referred to a competent MD for evaluation. This unfortunately is not the case in most medical clinics, they think they have a treatment for everything. So according to the a study by the Dean of Pharmacology at the University of Arizona concluded that 40-60% of all prescriptions are written off-label. This means that we have already tried Bottle "A, B, & C" with no results so lets try Bottle "D" which may not have even been tested for efficacy to the condition you have, but you demand a treatment even if it is the wrong one or the one that will kill you. This is since over 110,000 people die every year for taking the right drug for the right problem, these are all "on-label" prescriptions. A couple years ago it was reported that we spent $74 Billion dollars on primary use medication. We spent an additional $76 Billion dollars to treat the side-effects of the drugs used in the first $74 Billion. This is just another definition of insanity and it is disguised as normal in the world...
...Look to chiropractic care first, for nearly every problem you have, what you will find, that if the cause of the problem can be identified and removed the problem is gone. Opposed to the patients that tell me they don't have stomach problems anymore because they take the "purple pill." I say, well if it's cured, then stop taking it and see how your stomach problem comes back. We are just covering up the problems and not working to correct the cause and thus we are ranked dead last among the 37 industrialized nations. Let's be smart with our money, restore sanity to health care and schedule your evaluation today, waiting is just covering up the oil light on the dashboard of the car "hoping it will go away."
Until next time...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Patient Appreciation Days - Nov 2nd & 4th
This is probably some of my favorite times of the year. With the exception of the shorter days and lack of adequate sunshine for a boy who grew-up in Phoenix, the expression of charity and gratitude is unlike any other time of the year. On November 2nd, we have a special day set aside for our existing patient base, where for this one day they can come in for a completely no-charge treatment, just for our way of saying Thank you entrusting us with health of your family. We will be collecting things that will be beneficial to all the men and women in our military who are deployed with some comforts of home.
Here is just a small list of the the encouraged donation of $5-10 worth of the following:
Individual Powdered Drink Mixes
Chewing Gum Soap
DVD’s Movies Shampoo
Hand-held games For Females:
Clean-n-go Wipes Body Sprays
Shaving cream Hygiene wipes
Shaving Razors Long-distance Calling Cards
Deodorant Beef Jerky
Toothpaste Little Debbie snacks
Noxzema Wipes Cash Donations will be used for gift card & shipping
Air Fresheners *Please nothing that crumbles, or melts as it will be a mess by
the time it gets half-way around the world.
This is also a great opportunity for those who have never experienced the health giving effects for Brain-based therapy for chronic pain and/or chiropractic care from babies to seniors. For the same donation for our troops, we will provide at no charge a thorough consultation, a complete examination, x-rays if indicated and a report of findings. And they will always have our pledge we have given for 14+ years, "If we can help them we will tell them; if we can't we will tell them that too & let them know who can!"
If you have someone you know and care for who is serving overseas, please join us as we improve the health of our community and the morale of our fighting men and women. You can't ask for a better win/win situation
Here is just a small list of the the encouraged donation of $5-10 worth of the following:
Individual Powdered Drink Mixes
Chewing Gum Soap
DVD’s Movies Shampoo
Hand-held games For Females:
Clean-n-go Wipes Body Sprays
Shaving cream Hygiene wipes
Shaving Razors Long-distance Calling Cards
Deodorant Beef Jerky
Toothpaste Little Debbie snacks
Noxzema Wipes Cash Donations will be used for gift card & shipping
Air Fresheners *Please nothing that crumbles, or melts as it will be a mess by
the time it gets half-way around the world.
This is also a great opportunity for those who have never experienced the health giving effects for Brain-based therapy for chronic pain and/or chiropractic care from babies to seniors. For the same donation for our troops, we will provide at no charge a thorough consultation, a complete examination, x-rays if indicated and a report of findings. And they will always have our pledge we have given for 14+ years, "If we can help them we will tell them; if we can't we will tell them that too & let them know who can!"
If you have someone you know and care for who is serving overseas, please join us as we improve the health of our community and the morale of our fighting men and women. You can't ask for a better win/win situation
Monday, May 17, 2010
What gets you out of bed...
Today is the result of a couple weeks of 'one of those days.' My wife joked recently, 'well if something bad is going to happen, it might as well as happen to us, we can handle it' Well in spite of stuff that we go through on a daily basis, let me share with you something that has happened that will encourage me for time to come:
A young mom was referred into our clinic about three months ago suffering from lower back pain and neck pain. She had her work cut out for her as like so many young mom's these days her husband is deployed overseas so she gets to be mom, dad, maid, etc. etc. etc. You get the picture. Well after she started receiving care, I noticed one of her children had a significant heel lift built into the shoe and when you watched this kid run and play it was clear, the body that was given to work with was not too coordinated and of course siblings can irritate this by pushing the limitation buttons, but kids are kids and this kid didn't have the future that every parent wanted for their child. When she submitted her child for care we took some good x-rays and revealed a Posterior rotated pelvis of 25mm and internally or laterally rotated 20mm with a short leg of 28mm on the right. Well the mom had commented to me that her child no longer wanted to wear the specially made shoes that were quite expensive, and had to console by saying, 'well wouldn't be better if you didn't have to buy those specially 'priced' shoes for the rest of your time as a parent?' It encouraged, but we were all a bit having some nervous anxiety as it was time for Uncle Sam to move them to their next home, so we took the proper follow-up films after just under six weeks of care. Well the change is remarkable, so that is why I am taking the time to share it with all of you, not to brag, but to share with you the power of chiropractic and why it in certain applications can and is the only thing that can save people from a life of less than peak performance.
Enough with the suspense, after military medicine spending thousands of dollars on therapy, MRI's CT scans, etc. 6 weeks of complimentary care has produced a young little one with now only 10mm of posterior rotation, 4mm of lateral rotation and only a 6mm short leg on the right. Now when you realize what this means, those nerves that leave that area control this little one's bowel, bladder, reproductive organs and kidney's and beyond that having to grow being made fun by all the other kids that make fun of the kid that can't walk straight or runs into walls, or having to tilt your head to the side to ask for a date? Was it heroic medicine to swoop in and save the day, which would be there in 20 years with Harrington rods and spinal surgeries, but today we gave hope, we gave health and we gave the future back to a little person who may not appreciate what he was saved from, but we can sit back and watch him shine!
Until next time...
A young mom was referred into our clinic about three months ago suffering from lower back pain and neck pain. She had her work cut out for her as like so many young mom's these days her husband is deployed overseas so she gets to be mom, dad, maid, etc. etc. etc. You get the picture. Well after she started receiving care, I noticed one of her children had a significant heel lift built into the shoe and when you watched this kid run and play it was clear, the body that was given to work with was not too coordinated and of course siblings can irritate this by pushing the limitation buttons, but kids are kids and this kid didn't have the future that every parent wanted for their child. When she submitted her child for care we took some good x-rays and revealed a Posterior rotated pelvis of 25mm and internally or laterally rotated 20mm with a short leg of 28mm on the right. Well the mom had commented to me that her child no longer wanted to wear the specially made shoes that were quite expensive, and had to console by saying, 'well wouldn't be better if you didn't have to buy those specially 'priced' shoes for the rest of your time as a parent?' It encouraged, but we were all a bit having some nervous anxiety as it was time for Uncle Sam to move them to their next home, so we took the proper follow-up films after just under six weeks of care. Well the change is remarkable, so that is why I am taking the time to share it with all of you, not to brag, but to share with you the power of chiropractic and why it in certain applications can and is the only thing that can save people from a life of less than peak performance.
Enough with the suspense, after military medicine spending thousands of dollars on therapy, MRI's CT scans, etc. 6 weeks of complimentary care has produced a young little one with now only 10mm of posterior rotation, 4mm of lateral rotation and only a 6mm short leg on the right. Now when you realize what this means, those nerves that leave that area control this little one's bowel, bladder, reproductive organs and kidney's and beyond that having to grow being made fun by all the other kids that make fun of the kid that can't walk straight or runs into walls, or having to tilt your head to the side to ask for a date? Was it heroic medicine to swoop in and save the day, which would be there in 20 years with Harrington rods and spinal surgeries, but today we gave hope, we gave health and we gave the future back to a little person who may not appreciate what he was saved from, but we can sit back and watch him shine!
Until next time...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Headaches Part 2
INJECTIONS OR SURGERY.
Nerve block injections used to treat cervicogenic headaches can include: injections above the eyebrows to treat that region of the head.
injections into the back of the neck to treat pain going up the back of the head. injections into the side of the neck.
In more serious cases, surgery to treat cervicogenic headaches can include: heat to burn selected nerves of the small joints of the neck which connect each vertebrae burning nerves with heat about the face and neck fusion (removing a disc responsible for sending pain signals)
But Here’s The Good News...
While many patients who are diagnosed with cervicogenic headaches have the traditional symptoms of tension headaches, some of the patients who have the traditional symptoms of migraine (and cluster migraine) headaches also respond to cervicogenic headache diagnosis and treatment.
Now, there are headaches that don’t respond to specific, low force chiropractic care; high blood pressure, low blood sugar, hormonal changes, hangovers, dental problems, etc. These, however, are small in number in comparison with headaches that are caused by tension of the neck and head muscles, and irritation to the nerves. (The cervicogenic headache.)
Most Headache Sufferers, After Learning This Relatively New Information Regarding The Benefit Of Proper Chiropractic Care For Cervicogenic Causes Of Headaches, Wonder…
“How Do I Find A Doctor Trained In Providing This Care?”
So, my best advice is to ask the chiropractic doctor the following questions...
“Do you treat headaches?”
Some Doctors of Chiropractic do not focus on specific conditions. So ask the Chiropractor if he or she treats headaches that may originate from the neck. Some do not.
“Do you take x-rays?”
Call their office and check and see if they either have the facilities in their office to take films, or if they refer it out. Either answer is acceptable. Do not get evaluated by any chiropractor who doesn’t look at neck x-rays before rendering care.
Do you accept payment plans?
Nowadays, patients are either going with the “managed care doctor” and hoping and praying that they’ll get quality care, or paying out-of-pocket for their services. So, in response, there are many caring dentists, medical doctors, chiropractors, podiatrists, and other health care professionals that are giving patients comfortable payment options. Even though chiropractic care is inexpensive compared to most care, ask the office if they’d consider putting you on a payment plan.
If you live in the area, call our office at 719-544-7744 and schedule your free check-up! We DO treat headaches, we DO properly take x-ray pictures of the structures of the neck before care, and we DO have payment plans.
For Your FREE HEADACHE EVALUATION, Call 544-7744 Now And Reserve Your Earliest Appointment. The Longer You Wait To Call Us, The Longer You’ll Have To Wait For An Appointment!
Here’s What Your FREE CHECK-UP Includes…
1. Headache Consultation – I have a list of specific questions that will help discover the cause of your headache. This is also an opportunity for me to have a thorough understanding of your headaches and what you’ve been going through.
2. Examination – Aside from typical exam procedures like blood pressure, cranial nerve testing, reflexes, and vital signs, you will also receive a multi-plane head and neck range of motion study, palpatory examination, and specific orthopedic and neurological tests.
3. Static “EMG” Testing – Our office is one of the few, if not only office, that has this electronic Neurocalometer instrument. This is an important test. This painless procedure determines if there’s abnormal function of the neck nerves that communicate to your head and helps me pinpoint where your problem is.
4. Neck X-Ray – If, after the consultation, examination, and static “NCG”, it is found that x-rays are needed of the bones, discs, and soft tissue of your neck, they will be taken at this visit. In order to get a good view of all the supporting structures, at least two views will be taken; one of the front view and one of the side view.
SCHEDULE YOUR FREE HEADACHE EVALUATION TODAY
CALL 544-7744
On behalf of everyone at Pueblo Headache Relief Center, I look forward to meeting you to discover if I can help you! Remember, you haven’t tried everything until you’ve at least had a headache evaluation at my office! And since it’s free and there’s absolutely no obligation, you have nothing to lose! (Except your headaches of course!)
Sincerely,
Dr. J. Douglas Busch
Pueblo Headache Relief Center
Div. of CMC, Inc.
P.S. – After I evaluate your headache, I will tell you if I can help you or not. And if so, how long it will take and how much it will cost. Then you can start care, or go home and think about it! We are a busy office and there will be absolutely no pressure to begin care!
P.S.S. - There Is A Waiting List! For the soonest free appointment, it is advised that you schedule your appointment right away.
Pueblo Headache Relief Center 1300 Fortino Blvd., Suite A (Look for the American Flag flying out front) Pueblo, CO 81008 719-544-7744
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Chronic Headaches - Hope & Relief
Headaches are NOT normal! They’re a sign that something is wrong.
Your body is designed to be free of pain. Feeling good is the normal state. Feeling throbbing, pounding pain in your skull that doesn't seem to want to go away like a bad house guest is not normal.
Neither is the nauseous feelings that come whenever you go out on a sunny day or see a bright light, laying awake at night praying your headaches will disappear, feeling and looking miserable, irritable, and older than you really are, and the frustration of knowing that your friends and family just don’t understand what you are going through.
And thanks to those clever headache pain relief commercials, medicine cabinets, purses, and glove compartments all over the country that are fully stocked with medication for the “normal” headache.
So, if you are one of the millions of Americans who suffer from annoying, pestering, mind-numbing headaches, then please keep reading this report, because as you are about to discover, headaches are not normal.
Hi, I’m Dr. Busch. When I discovered that one in six Americans are chronic headache victims, I nearly fell out of my chair! I couldn't believe that so many Americans suffer day in and day out when they really don’t have to any more...and chances are, neither do you! “That’s why I decided to step forward and write this simple, yet informative report. So please, for your own sake, carefully read every word of this report… It may be the most important message you will ever hear.”
O.K., let’s get started!
If you REALLY want to get rid of your headaches and start living a “normal” life in a short period of time, then you need to first be aware of…
Six Headache Relief Misconceptions:
1. Over-The-Counter Medication Treat The Cause Of Your Headache
It’s almost criminal that drug companies are hiding from you that the headache relieving drugs they advertise don’t actually target the real cause of your headaches.
Here’s the real deal…These pills cover up your headache by simply disabling your brain's ability to feel your headache. That's why your headache comes back when the pills wear off!
If you broke your leg and just took pills so you didn’t have to feel the pain, the pain would come back when the pills wore off.
If these drugs actually treated the real cause of your headaches, then shouldn’t your headaches go away permanently? But they don't.
These pills only sweep your pain under the rug. The REAL cause of your headaches remains untreated and that's why you keep suffering.
2. Headache Medication Can’t Harm You
One thing many headache sufferers don't know about the drugs they take is that these pills are not 100% safe. In fact, a lot of the side effects you may experience are far worse than the headaches you're trying to cover up for a measly four hours of relief.
You see, the way these pills disable your ability to feel headaches is to disable a little hormone in your body that acts like a messenger to your brain. Of course, our bodies, being the highly tuned machines they are, have figured out how to use these hormones for more jobs than one. So if you disable the hormone from doing just one job, it will also not do all the other jobs in your body.
This can lead to all sorts of problems. You can get something as minor as a rash, or you can have sudden liver failure or kidney problems. Even aspirin has been linked to causing unknowing users to suffer from deadly hemoragghic strokes.
It gets worse…you see, the more often you take these medications, the more your risk will skyrocket!
Also, medication seldom increases your body’s ability to respond to stress appropriately, and it usually decreases your body’s natural ability to fight disease!
3. Stress Causes Headaches
Yes, stress is a part of living, but it is not the cause of headaches.
Have you ever heard of that saying, “only the strong survive” or “survival of the fittest”? It’s how your body adapts to stress that determines if “stress” will affect your health or how you feel.So, in a minute, I will explain how you can quickly and easily increase your body’s ability to adapt to stress.
4. Headaches Go Away On Their Own
Tony Robbins has a saying, "The definition of insanity is doing the same things and expecting different results." If you truly want to get rid of your headaches, then you're going to have to try something different; something natural, and hopefully drug free…and equally important, something that is proven to work.
Obviously, you wouldn’t still be reading this report if you weren’t concerned about your headaches. So please, for your sake, don’t drop the ball and not take action; because as you will in a moment discover, you will have a chance to get your headache evaluated, without any cost or obligation.
5. All Doctors Know How To Treat Headaches
There’s a saying that goes something like this…
“If You’re A Hammer, All You See Is Nails”
Hammers hit nails…M.D.’s prescribe medication.
Expecting a different approach from your medical doctor will only lead to disappointment. That’s why I wrote this report - to help headache sufferers like you.
Before we go any further, let me stress to you that there is a place for medication, but more importantly, the cause of the problem must be identified because the wrong diagnosis = wrong care. And, if your doctor's treatment fails, you'll probably get even stronger medications or, in an extreme case, your doctor will recommend surgery. Personally, I think there are times when surgery is the only option, but in terms of headaches, there are natural alternatives that many times, work a lot better without the risks associated with invasive treatments. In fact, if you really want great results without all the risk of drugs, doesn’t it make sense to try a natural solution first?
Your Problem Is Always Where Your Pain Is.
Even though you may be feeling your headaches in your sinuses or on the top of your head, that doesn’t necessarily mean that is where the cause of the problem is located. For instance, oftentimes people with a disc problem in their lower back get pain, numbness, or weakness in their legs, even if there's nothing physically wrong with their legs.
One of the most common causes of headaches that do NOT originate in the head is called a “Cervicogenic” headache. "The Cervicogenic headache is a big word for a headache which has its origin in the area of the neck. The source of pain is found in structures around the neck which have been damaged. These structures can include joints, ligaments, muscles, and cervical discs, all of which have complex nerve endings. When these structures are damaged, the nerve endings send pain signals up the pathway from the upper nerves of the neck to the brain. During this process, they intermingle with the nerve fibers of the trigeminal nerve. Since the trigeminal nerve is responsible for the perception of head pain, the patient therefore experiences the symptoms of a headache."
- Dr. Peter Rothbart, M.D.
You May Have A “Cervicogenic Headache” !
If you answer “Yes” to any of these SIX questions…
“Has your neck ever experienced trauma?”
“Have you ever been in a car accident?”
“Have you ever played football or any other contact
sports?”
“Have you experienced many ‘minor’ injuries?”
“Is your neck stiff or, at times, difficult to move?”
“As a child, did you experience a fall off the swing,
porch, down stairs, or any other ‘minor’ incident?”
If you answered “YES” to at least ONE of the following questions, your headache may be caused by a hidden problem in your neck but there’s good news.
There is an amazing type of drugless, non-surgical care that may help you. You might be asking yourself what this amazing treatment is.
Well, studies have shown that the safest, most natural neck treatment for most cervicogenic headaches is:
Conservative Chiropractic Care!
That's right! What used to be considered "just a treatment for bad backs" has been proven to be very effective in the treatment of cervicogenic headaches.
TO SEE IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM A “CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE”, SIMPLY CALL OUR OFFICE AND, AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE YOU A FREE, NO-OBLIGATION HEADACHE EVALUATION. CALL 719-544-7744 TODAY!It's in your best interest to get your neck evaluated soon, because if you wait too late, your condition may get to a point where you can’t be helped with this type of care and your only option may be…
INJECTIONS OR SURGERY.
Nerve block injections used to treat cervicogenic headaches can include: injections above the eyebrows to treat that region of the head.
injections into the back of the neck to treat pain going up the back of the head. injections into the side of the neck.
In more serious cases, surgery to treat cervicogenic headaches can include: heat to burn selected nerves of the small joints of the neck which connect each vertebrae burning nerves with heat about the face and neck fusion (removing a disc responsible for sending pain signals)
But Here’s The Good News...
While many patients who are diagnosed with cervicogenic headaches have the traditional symptoms of tension headaches, some of the patients who have the traditional symptoms of migraine (and cluster migraine) headaches also respond to cervicogenic headache diagnosis and treatment.
Now, there are headaches that don’t respond to specific, low force chiropractic care; high blood pressure, low blood sugar, hormonal changes, hangovers, dental problems, etc. These, however, are small in number in comparison with headaches that are caused by tension of the neck and head muscles, and irritation to the nerves. (The cervicogenic headache.)
Most Headache Sufferers, After Learning This Relatively New Information Regarding The Benefit Of Proper Chiropractic Care For Cervicogenic Causes Of Headaches, Wonder…
Next time we will explore more aspects of the how Brain Based Therapy with Chiropractic care can be the hope prayed for so many fibromyalgia and chronic headache sufferers.
Until next time...
Friday, January 8, 2010
Faithful in this Moment!
Faithful is the kind of word that only comes up when we are at church or when talking about some bozo who wasn't faithful. There are a lot of other terms that could be used, such as Present in the moment, Attentive in the moment, Focused on the moment and they are all true to the similar point, except one. Faithfulness is being true to your core convictions and having you words be in line with those convictions, but faithfulness in the moment something that has hit me square between the eyes recently. Let me paint a picture for you:
My wonderful wife Tabetha was talking to me about this next semester with schedules and where kids are going and how we would juggle the changes and like 'Doug' (the dog from the movie, 'Up') I saw something that was outside and was like the dog saying 'squirel!' and I bolted out the door to see what was going on outside. I came back in not even realizing what I had done, I hurt my wife's heart because I was not faithful to her conversation. I had to appologize and earn back trust that I should have never taken.
What's the point? I heard someone ask 'How do I stay focused with everything going on in my life?' The answer wasn't the typical, 'Just like you eat an elephant, one bite at a time.' I heard wisdom that pierced my heart, 'Be faithful in the moment.' When they world is swirling all around and my son asks, 'Dad, how does this work?' Stop and focus not on everything at once, but be faithful in the moment and answer to the best of my ability. When my wife starts talking to me, ignore the 'squirels' and give her this moment, and giver her everything for this moment. When I walk into a consultation with a patient and I've read the chart, I've seen this so many times before, I slow down and make no assumptions and listen, and the world may crash all around outside, but for those moments, this patient, this condition is all that matters, this life, this mom, dad, sister, brother, for this moment I am faithful to them.
A old friend of mine, since back in the days of college taught me something in his drafty old Victorian home in freezing winter after I just got back from a pre-marital counseling session that I found out I had no mercy whatsoever. I was concerned that how was I going to go into health care and I'm as hard as a rock. My friend, now Dr. Miller said, 'when you walk into that room, just remember that's somebody's mother, that's somebody's father, sister, brother, child.' I've used that often when I have been helping to improve lives for 14 years, when I put my hand on the doorknob, nothing else matters once I turn that knob and walk in.
This is really a matter of focus, what we choose, yes I did say 'choose.' For years I would have tried to argue about right now, but from a hyperactive out of control little boy to being in a big boy's body, it is the choices we make that make us. Yes, somethings get thrown at us beyond our control, but when we pause to react, and choose how to respond, we start to understand focus. When any of you are in the clinic and if you ever think I am not being faithful in the moment, I give you permission to bring it to my attention. I just heard half of you say, wow, you must be looking for criticism, but I bet you may be disappointed.
Focus and being faithful in the moments we are given is like the difference of white light and red lasers. White light contain all the wavelengths that are moving is all kinds of directions, but when the wavelengths are put in parallel with each other & going the same direction they can cut through steel. We want to have a life without the craziness, with health, peace and love. I can't tell you everyday will be a bed of roses, actually I can probably bet more of the opposite, but instead of running from trouble, embrace it and know that each moment you are in this moment and not the ones that haven't gotten here yet and not the ones that are in the past.
Each moment you have to be faithful to the people in front of you, Pour your heart into them, don't suck the life out of them. Be in the moment and be faithful to who you choose to be in advance!
Until next time...
My wonderful wife Tabetha was talking to me about this next semester with schedules and where kids are going and how we would juggle the changes and like 'Doug' (the dog from the movie, 'Up') I saw something that was outside and was like the dog saying 'squirel!' and I bolted out the door to see what was going on outside. I came back in not even realizing what I had done, I hurt my wife's heart because I was not faithful to her conversation. I had to appologize and earn back trust that I should have never taken.
What's the point? I heard someone ask 'How do I stay focused with everything going on in my life?' The answer wasn't the typical, 'Just like you eat an elephant, one bite at a time.' I heard wisdom that pierced my heart, 'Be faithful in the moment.' When they world is swirling all around and my son asks, 'Dad, how does this work?' Stop and focus not on everything at once, but be faithful in the moment and answer to the best of my ability. When my wife starts talking to me, ignore the 'squirels' and give her this moment, and giver her everything for this moment. When I walk into a consultation with a patient and I've read the chart, I've seen this so many times before, I slow down and make no assumptions and listen, and the world may crash all around outside, but for those moments, this patient, this condition is all that matters, this life, this mom, dad, sister, brother, for this moment I am faithful to them.
A old friend of mine, since back in the days of college taught me something in his drafty old Victorian home in freezing winter after I just got back from a pre-marital counseling session that I found out I had no mercy whatsoever. I was concerned that how was I going to go into health care and I'm as hard as a rock. My friend, now Dr. Miller said, 'when you walk into that room, just remember that's somebody's mother, that's somebody's father, sister, brother, child.' I've used that often when I have been helping to improve lives for 14 years, when I put my hand on the doorknob, nothing else matters once I turn that knob and walk in.
This is really a matter of focus, what we choose, yes I did say 'choose.' For years I would have tried to argue about right now, but from a hyperactive out of control little boy to being in a big boy's body, it is the choices we make that make us. Yes, somethings get thrown at us beyond our control, but when we pause to react, and choose how to respond, we start to understand focus. When any of you are in the clinic and if you ever think I am not being faithful in the moment, I give you permission to bring it to my attention. I just heard half of you say, wow, you must be looking for criticism, but I bet you may be disappointed.
Focus and being faithful in the moments we are given is like the difference of white light and red lasers. White light contain all the wavelengths that are moving is all kinds of directions, but when the wavelengths are put in parallel with each other & going the same direction they can cut through steel. We want to have a life without the craziness, with health, peace and love. I can't tell you everyday will be a bed of roses, actually I can probably bet more of the opposite, but instead of running from trouble, embrace it and know that each moment you are in this moment and not the ones that haven't gotten here yet and not the ones that are in the past.
Each moment you have to be faithful to the people in front of you, Pour your heart into them, don't suck the life out of them. Be in the moment and be faithful to who you choose to be in advance!
Until next time...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Babies, Chiropractic & Health...
I had the honor of treating the child of a young man I was fortunate of helping to mentor a few years ago, who is now off and impacting the next generations. In the same morning I was able to examine and treat his two month old baby along with mom, dad who were all involved in an accident a week or so ago. It was an interesting experience and you take the pressure off the nervous system of one who has only a small amount of experiences and able to improve their lives today and potentially for a lifetime. It's interesting what we do and say today, how it will affect people to depths we may never know.
I meet with a group of guys for breakfast every Wednesday morning, many of which are pastors some young, some retired. I look up to everyone of these guys and admire their character and wisdom and the families they have produced and got a little taken back today. I had the eldest and retired pastor tell me of how, in me introducing him to a concept of making markers through life for young men so they have rights of passage to manhood, he has passed it onto another father he meets with and how this concept has brought healing and reconciliation to a strained father-son relationship. I obviously take absolutely no credit for this, but it does bring this to a point I hope we can focus on today and the days going forward.
Let me tell you about the starfish story. There was a man walking along the beach in the early morning hours and in the distance he saw a shape of what looked like someone dancing on the beach. as he approached closer he noticed that it was a boy flinging starfish out in to the ocean. When he looked around he saw litteraly hundreds of starfish that had washed up on the shore from the evening's high tide. He went to the boy and and said, 'Son what are you doing, there is no way you can possible to save all of these starfish.' The boy responded, 'That doesn't really matter, but it does matter to this one.' as he took the starfish in his hand and flung in out in to the ocean.
Let me paraphrase a famous poem written by Dr. Palmer 'The biggness of the fellow within': We remove the pressure off the nerve of a baby, their heart, lungs, stomach, etc. will work better, you multiply that by time and we have potentially years without so many of the ailments, disorders, etc. which plague our society today. Then multiply that baby by the millions of babies born every day, and now you can positively affect the well-being of a generation. Now let's look at the ripple effect, caring for sick kids is so amazingly hard on parents, marriages and other relationships. You help restore health to a sick or prevent a sickness in a child, you positively affect men and women to not have so much strife in their homes, and you may just maybe, even if it is only one, saved a marriage or a future.
I recall a story involving a mom of two teenage boys who had gone to four medical doctors, three chiropractors, half a dozen therapist and still suffered with almost constant migraine headaches. She came in with a large stack of notes and told me this was her records and in there was all I needed to know to help her. I politely slid the stack to the side, and said, 'Isn't this a stack of all that didn't work? How about we take a fresh approach and look for the cause of this ailment?' I have to admit, I wanted to look at the stack to see if the easy answer might just be there, but I contended to give the best, expect the best and let the chips fall where they may. Within a few weeks she was completely headache free and she referred to our clinic her son, Steven. After one of his adjustments, he stopped me at the door, and said, 'Hey Dr. Busch, I want to say Thanks.' I said, 'No problem, that is what we are here for,' and proceeded to the door. He put his foot up to the door to keep it closed and with tears welling up in his eyes, he said, 'No Dr. Busch, thank you for giving us our mom back. For the many years we've had to miss out on going places and doing things due to mom having to sleep in a dark room. She came to my entire soccer game yesterday and I got my mom back, so really, Thank You!' Was that problem corrected a small thing worth only a couple bucks to most insurance companies, who see us a cattle to me managed? I contend it gave back that family health and hope for the future.
Make a difference in the world around you, look past your hurts, frustrations and anxieties and touch people's lives with the hope that comes truly only from Jesus & health that is not about managing symptoms, but correcting the cause and you too can change the world!
Until next time...
I meet with a group of guys for breakfast every Wednesday morning, many of which are pastors some young, some retired. I look up to everyone of these guys and admire their character and wisdom and the families they have produced and got a little taken back today. I had the eldest and retired pastor tell me of how, in me introducing him to a concept of making markers through life for young men so they have rights of passage to manhood, he has passed it onto another father he meets with and how this concept has brought healing and reconciliation to a strained father-son relationship. I obviously take absolutely no credit for this, but it does bring this to a point I hope we can focus on today and the days going forward.
Let me tell you about the starfish story. There was a man walking along the beach in the early morning hours and in the distance he saw a shape of what looked like someone dancing on the beach. as he approached closer he noticed that it was a boy flinging starfish out in to the ocean. When he looked around he saw litteraly hundreds of starfish that had washed up on the shore from the evening's high tide. He went to the boy and and said, 'Son what are you doing, there is no way you can possible to save all of these starfish.' The boy responded, 'That doesn't really matter, but it does matter to this one.' as he took the starfish in his hand and flung in out in to the ocean.
Let me paraphrase a famous poem written by Dr. Palmer 'The biggness of the fellow within': We remove the pressure off the nerve of a baby, their heart, lungs, stomach, etc. will work better, you multiply that by time and we have potentially years without so many of the ailments, disorders, etc. which plague our society today. Then multiply that baby by the millions of babies born every day, and now you can positively affect the well-being of a generation. Now let's look at the ripple effect, caring for sick kids is so amazingly hard on parents, marriages and other relationships. You help restore health to a sick or prevent a sickness in a child, you positively affect men and women to not have so much strife in their homes, and you may just maybe, even if it is only one, saved a marriage or a future.
I recall a story involving a mom of two teenage boys who had gone to four medical doctors, three chiropractors, half a dozen therapist and still suffered with almost constant migraine headaches. She came in with a large stack of notes and told me this was her records and in there was all I needed to know to help her. I politely slid the stack to the side, and said, 'Isn't this a stack of all that didn't work? How about we take a fresh approach and look for the cause of this ailment?' I have to admit, I wanted to look at the stack to see if the easy answer might just be there, but I contended to give the best, expect the best and let the chips fall where they may. Within a few weeks she was completely headache free and she referred to our clinic her son, Steven. After one of his adjustments, he stopped me at the door, and said, 'Hey Dr. Busch, I want to say Thanks.' I said, 'No problem, that is what we are here for,' and proceeded to the door. He put his foot up to the door to keep it closed and with tears welling up in his eyes, he said, 'No Dr. Busch, thank you for giving us our mom back. For the many years we've had to miss out on going places and doing things due to mom having to sleep in a dark room. She came to my entire soccer game yesterday and I got my mom back, so really, Thank You!' Was that problem corrected a small thing worth only a couple bucks to most insurance companies, who see us a cattle to me managed? I contend it gave back that family health and hope for the future.
Make a difference in the world around you, look past your hurts, frustrations and anxieties and touch people's lives with the hope that comes truly only from Jesus & health that is not about managing symptoms, but correcting the cause and you too can change the world!
Until next time...
Monday, December 14, 2009
What is Brain-based Therapy?
I recently had a patient offer up a testimony that has really gotten a lot of attention from other patients in the clinic. Let me share it with you:
"I came in due to lower back pain, hip and shoulder pain, but what I didn't realize was there was something that could be done for all the balance problems I have had for years. I couldn't get out of a chair or walk down the hall or even get out of bed, with out having terrible dizziness and a foggy feeling in my head. I can now get up and down, in and out of bed as my pain is gone, but even more my foggy head and balance is so much better. I'm now not going to sell my hog (Harley Davidson motorcycle) as my husband and I had resolved to do, but I am going to ride it and tell everyone about how Dr. Busch, Chiropractic and Brain-based therapy has given me my life back" - S.M.
Thank you to her, for such kind words, but it really reveals a hole in the most approaches to health care. Medicine may spend thousands of dollars to come up with a 'diagnosis' so they can fall back to either using a drug or a knife and treat nothing more than the effects or the symptoms. Others are so excited to treat a patient that you walk in and they by-pass all the investigation to treat what they assume is the problems. That's where we are quite different, and have a difference that shows.
First we take the time to sit down, do a thorough consultation and evaluation, run any tests needed, but then come up with a plan based on the source of the problems at hand, as everyone is different. Brain-based therapy takes the hundreds of hours of training in the neurological systems in the brain as well as the spinal cord and uses the problems that do commonly arise in the spine as a tool to stimulate the weak, dysfunctional or overactive parts of the brain. As a result for the first time the structure and the neurology is being used together and not as separate entities. Dizziness and Brain fog are just the tip of the ice burg, as we have had patients come in with everything from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, migraine headaches, infertility, and irritable bowel syndrome and have seen amazing results.
I would love to help more people using this revolutionary treatment, but I can personally only help those you send to us. I can answer all kinds of questions and I am more than happy to do this, but until a complete structural and neurological evaluation is done, we don't know if this is for you. It has given back the life of so many is you or your loved one next?
"I came in due to lower back pain, hip and shoulder pain, but what I didn't realize was there was something that could be done for all the balance problems I have had for years. I couldn't get out of a chair or walk down the hall or even get out of bed, with out having terrible dizziness and a foggy feeling in my head. I can now get up and down, in and out of bed as my pain is gone, but even more my foggy head and balance is so much better. I'm now not going to sell my hog (Harley Davidson motorcycle) as my husband and I had resolved to do, but I am going to ride it and tell everyone about how Dr. Busch, Chiropractic and Brain-based therapy has given me my life back" - S.M.
Thank you to her, for such kind words, but it really reveals a hole in the most approaches to health care. Medicine may spend thousands of dollars to come up with a 'diagnosis' so they can fall back to either using a drug or a knife and treat nothing more than the effects or the symptoms. Others are so excited to treat a patient that you walk in and they by-pass all the investigation to treat what they assume is the problems. That's where we are quite different, and have a difference that shows.
First we take the time to sit down, do a thorough consultation and evaluation, run any tests needed, but then come up with a plan based on the source of the problems at hand, as everyone is different. Brain-based therapy takes the hundreds of hours of training in the neurological systems in the brain as well as the spinal cord and uses the problems that do commonly arise in the spine as a tool to stimulate the weak, dysfunctional or overactive parts of the brain. As a result for the first time the structure and the neurology is being used together and not as separate entities. Dizziness and Brain fog are just the tip of the ice burg, as we have had patients come in with everything from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, migraine headaches, infertility, and irritable bowel syndrome and have seen amazing results.
I would love to help more people using this revolutionary treatment, but I can personally only help those you send to us. I can answer all kinds of questions and I am more than happy to do this, but until a complete structural and neurological evaluation is done, we don't know if this is for you. It has given back the life of so many is you or your loved one next?
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