"Vast majorities of people suffering from chronic pain are actually the result of unnecessary back surgery. In one study, I demonstrated that at least 80% of those who had lumbar surgery for a presumed ruptured disc had not had a ruptured disc before their first surgery. (Shealy CN. Percutaneous radiofrequency denervation of spinal facets. Treatment for chronic back pain and sciatica. J of Neurosurgery.1975;43:448-451.)

By the time they had between 5 and 7 unsuccessful back operations they certainly were invalids....In selective patients with back pain, we have found two significant problems: locked or degenerative facet joints or a sacral shear."

Source: C. Norman Shealy, MD Ph.D.
Chronic Pain Management.in the.Townsend Letter
for Doctors and Patients. Jan. 2005.
PP 22-23

Scientific evidence supports the hypothesis that chronic pain impairs an individual's decision-making capability.

As part of one study, investigators compared 26 healthy people with 26 patients with chronic back pain (CBP) and 12 patients with a condition called chronic complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). CRPS is a chronic nerve disorder typically afflicting the arms or legs, which usually onsets following an injury.

The study participants were asked to perform a test researchers use to assess emotional decision- making. The test, called the Iowa Gambling Task, is a gambling card game.

Subjects with CBP performed 41% worse than did pain-free individuals. Those with CRPS performed even poorer.

The study's authors conclude that "our evidence indicates that chronic pain is associated with a specific cognitive deficit, which may impact every day behavior especially in risky, emotionally laden, situations."

"Other cognitive abilities, such as attention, short- term memory, and general intelligence tested normal in the chronic pain patients."

Source: Pain - March 2004;108:129-36.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
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A sunny disposition may be the key to long life, finds a study suggesting that optimists live longer than their less positive peers.

According to a 9-year inquiry of 941 adults in the Netherlands between the ages of 65 and 85 years, the most optimistic participants were 29% less likely to die during the study period than the most pessimistic of subjects.

Subjects who had an upbeat take on life were 77% less likely to die of cardiovascular disease than were pessimists. These findings were not influenced after researchers controlled for confounding issues such as age and lifestyle factors.

Source: Archives of General Psychiatry - November 2004; 2004;61:1126-35.
http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/
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A new study examines a subluxation pattern common in children called the Pelvic Distortion Subluxation Complex (PDSC). The study's researchers believe that PDSC "is responsible, partially or fully, for a number of adaptive neurological patterns and kinesiopathological reflexes that can propagate a myriad of conditions."

To test their hypothesis, 6 chiropractors with pediatric certification from the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association examined 327 boys and 323 girls.

The study's authors explain that "the preponderance of PDSC is to present with a left pelvic fixation and a corresponding right hypermobility. We have found that 96% of all children seem to possess, and be subjected to the effects of the Pelvic Distortion Subluxation Complex. The PDSC was a common denominator in complaints plaguing our sample of children. These are summarized into a percentage of the total sample and the most common complaints of children in our study are mainly of a somatic nature with some visceral and immune components."

"Our study revealed a pattern of pelvic dysfunction correlated with numerous somatic, visceral and immune complaints. These dysfunction's should be discovered as early as possible in a child's development to effect a correction and the relationship between these dysfunction's and ill health should be further studied."

Source: JVSR - October 18, 2004.
http://www.jvsr.com
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The bottom line is that the medical systems are controlled by financiers in order to serve financiers. Since you cannot serve people unless they get sick, the whole medical system is designed to make people sicker and sicker.

"It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US."
Dr. Joseph Mercola

This fully referenced report shows the number of people having in-hospital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million per year. The number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections is 20 million per year. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million per year. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million per year. The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year.

Source: From Death by Medicine by By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, Ph.D.

783,936 people each year die because of conventional medicine. That's the equivalent to three jumbo-jet crashes every two days. Would you fly if you knew that statistic?

Energy blocks or imbalances can cause illness, depression, distort our perceptions, and dampen our feelings. Removing the blocks restores the natural energy flow resulting in feelings of peace and harmony.
- Win Hampton
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