Author: Andre Broussard, D.C.
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Yoga May Ease Pain, Up Function in Chronic Low Back Pain
Pauline Anderson January 13, 2017 Yoga may lessen pain and improve function in patients with chronic, nonspecific low back pain, a new Cochrane review suggests. However, it’s unclear whether yoga is more effective than other types of exercise, primarily because there’s so little evidence directly comparing these interventions, lead author L. Susan Wieland, assistant professor,…
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Folic Acid Supplementation for the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects.
In this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, an article is published with updated recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force regarding taking supplemental folic acid to prevent neural tube defects during pregnancy. The recommendations are that all women who are planning or capable of pregnancy take a daily supplement containing 0.4 to 0.8 mg (400-800 µg)…
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Fibromyalgia Symptoms Improve With CoQ10 Supplementation
– Clinically significant improvement in various items from the Symptom Checklist-90-R FRIDAY, Jan. 6, 2017 (HealthDay News) — For patients with fibromyalgia (FM), coenzyme Q10(CoQ10) supplementation is associated with improvement in clinical symptoms, according to a letter to the editor published online Jan. 4 in CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. Elísabet Alcocer-Gómez, from the University of Sevilla…
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Acupuncture For Chronic Pain and Depression In Primary Care
In this book, they found that acupuncture was more effective than usual care and sham acupuncture for chronic pain, that it was one of the more clinically effective physical therapies for osteoarthritis and that it showed benefits in the treatment of depression. ~ Dr. Broussard Abstract Background: There has been an increase in the utilisation…
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Moroccan-Spiced Broccoli
January 3rd, 2017 When fighting Candida overgrowth, eating plenty of anti-fungal herbs, spices, and produce is crucial! As a cruciferous vegetable, broccoli contains isothiocyanates, which are sulphur- and nitrogen-rich compounds that attack the Candida fungus. The addition of the lemon juice, garlic, and spices makes this dish a powerful tool to fend off Candida overgrowth…
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Chair Yoga Helps Older Adults Manage Osteoarthritis Pain
Chair yoga may produce sustained improvements in pain among older adults with lower extremity osteoarthritis, according to a study published online Dec. 23 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Want to get an idea as to what chair yoga is? CLICK HERE for a 20 minute video.
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Shoulder pain linked to increased heart disease risk
Date: December 27, 2016 Source: University of Utah Health Sciences Summary: After all the lifting, hauling and wrapping, worn out gift givers may blame the season’s physical strain for any shoulder soreness they are feeling. It turns out there could be another reason. A new study finds that individuals with symptoms that put them at…
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Novel diet therapy helps children with crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis reach remission
This article is reviewing a study that used nutritional modifications to include the specific carbohydrate diet to help children with inflammatory bowel diseases. In my opinion, the specific carbohydrate diet is just getting “junk phood” out of the children’s diets. This diet is described as “a nutritionally balanced diet that removes grains, dairy, processed foods and sugars, except for…
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Acupuncture for Depression: The Mechanism Underlying Its Therapeutic Effect
This is the title of a study published in Medical Acupuncture. The authors looked up different underlying chemical pathways known to be involved with depression, and they found that acupuncture treatment actually seems to affect them, and may be why some people with depression respond to treatment. To cite this article: Muthmainah and Nurwati Ida. Medical…
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Christine – Knee Pain For 1 Year
Meet Christine. She’s been having right knee pain over the past year. She had 4 weeks of pre-surgical physical therapy, then surgery to fix her torn meniscus, then 6 weeks of physical therapy after the surgery, and her KNEE STILL HURTS! This video shows, with her permission, how she responded to her first Trigenics® treatment here: