The Rochester Community House Community Kitchen.

 Current Patients will receive 1 adjustment in exchange for 5 food items!  

New Patients will receive an Exam, 2 X-rays and Report of Findings ($200.00 value) in exchange for 10 food items!

Please bring all donations to our office:

Paint Creek Chiropractic Center

134 West University Drive, Suite 126, Rochester, MI

For more information or to schedule your New Patient Appointment,

call 248-601-4540. 

Don’t miss this great opportunity to refer New Patients – there won’t be another opportunity like this again until November!!!

“About The Rochester Community House Community Kitchen” 

Launched in 2009, Rochester Community Kitchen was developed to feed families and individuals throughout the Rochester area through its weekly grocery service and a Kitchen Dinner held the third Sunday of each month. The April Sunday Dinner was sponsored by the Rochester Lions Club and served more than 120 people. 

To date, the Community Kitchen has served more than 1,500 diners. The kitchen also distributes approximately 25 bags of groceries each week to those in need through its kitchen pantry. 

The Community Kitchen, hosted by the Rochester Community House, is the product of volunteers from throughout the community who donate time and food items to serve those in need. Each Sunday Kitchen Dinner is sponsored by a church or nonprofit organization donating their time to run the meal and serve guests. 

Those in need are invited to attend the dinner, held the third Sunday of each month at the Rochester Community House. The Community Kitchen is also available throughout the month for grocery needs. 

For more information on how to participate, give or attend the Community Kitchen Sunday Dinner, call (248) 651-0622 or visit www.rochestercommhouse.org and be sure to become a fan on Facebook.

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

You won’t want to miss this fun-filled event.  There will be raffles, free t-shirts, free chair massages and lots of food!

Current Patients: Receive a free adjustment!

Reactivated Patients: Receive their exam and x-rays (if needed) free!

New patients:  Receive their exam, x-rays and report of findings free!

RSVP to 248-601-4540 and mark your calendar to “save the date”.

 The woman, now in her 31st week of pregnancy, had also been experiencing pain in her pelvis just 2 weeks earlier. Because of this pain she was forced to discontinue her daily exercise regimen which included running three miles per day. She described the pain as more of a pressure in her pelvis as opposed to a pain.  In addition, the woman reported that she had gained more weight with this pregnancy than with either of her two previous pregnancies and she was experiencing heartburn and acid reflux.  

The woman went for a chiropractic examination after having done some research on the Internet where she found some information about breech pregnancies being helped with specific forms of chiropractic care. Her examination showed some postural irregularities indicating some spinal involvement. In addition, bilateral surface temperature measurements and surface EMG tests also showed asymmetry indicating spinal involvement.

Based upon the chiropractic examination findings care was initiated using the “Webster Technique”, a specific chiropractic technique used in breech pregnancy when certain examination findings are present. The case study noted that the Webster Technique has been shown to have high rates of success, based on a previous survey of 112 chiropractic practitioners who utilized the Webster Technique in their offices. In that survey study 92% of the cases had resolution of breech presentation, and of this 88% resulted in unassisted vaginal births.          

In this case, the woman received seven Webster Technique adjustments over the course of a three week period. An ultrasound was performed by the patient’s obstetrician after the patient’s fifth adjustment, showing that the fetus had successfully moved into a normal vertex position. The patient gave birth to the 7 pound 12 ounce boy vaginally after an uncomplicated 12 hour labor five days earlier than the baby’s projected due date and approximately one month after the mother had started chiropractic care.

For further information on this topic you can contact Dr. DeRusha at Paint Creek Chiropractic Center, 248-601-4540,  in downtown Rochester, Michigan.

In this case an 11 year old boy was brought to a chiropractor after having suffered with headaches for the previous four years. The boy was diagnosed by their family physician with “migraine-type headaches” three years prior to the chiropractic visit. He was prescribed medications which provided only minor and temporary relief. According to the boy’s mother her son experienced at least one severe headache every seven weeks and two to three mild to moderate headaches on a monthly basis.   

In his description of the pain, the young boy described his pain as throbbing, but he was unable to point to any one spot. His headache attacks would last from a couple of hours to 5 hours in duration, and were sometimes accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

A chiropractic examination revealed that several areas of the boy’s neck were very sensitive to the touch causing him to pull back as the chiropractor was examining these areas. Care was initiated using specific adjusting procedures for his spinal findings with the sensitivity to his neck being considered. 

After a four week period it was noted that the boy experienced only one “mild” headache attack during this initial period of care.  At a follow up visit nine months later the boy reported that he had only experienced “couple of mild headaches but no migraine-type headaches.”  Six months after that visit the report noted that the boy was symptom free. At the mother’s request the boy continued periodic chiropractic visits for preventative purposes.

Dr. DeRusha’s comments:

At Paint Creek Chiropractic Center we work with headache suffers on a regular basis and see wonderful results.  If you are a headache sufferer and are interested in having your posture and spine evaluated to see if chiropractic may help you, call Paint Creek Chiropractic Center at (248) 601-4540 to make an appointment.  You have nothing to lose but your headaches.  We are located in downtown Rochester, Michigan.

In this study golfers at 2 different clubs in São Paulo, Brazil, were studied. A total of 43 golfers were divided into 2 random groups for comparison in this study. One group received only a stretch program while the second group received the same stretch program in addition to chiropractic care.

All participants in this study were initially asked to perform three full swing maneuvers. Measurements of the average distance they were able to hit the ball for the 3 swings were made. Then the golfers were put through either just the stretching program, or the stretching plus chiropractic depending on which test group they were a part of. After either just stretching, or chiropractic plus stretching, the participants were asked to repeat the same three swing maneuvers and measurements were taken. This entire process was repeated for a period of four weeks over the course of the study.

To maintain consistency, the study noted that of the 43 golfers in this study, the average age, handicap, and initial swing were comparable among all golfers. The results showed that there was no improvement in what the study called the “full swing performance”, (average distance the golfers were able to hit the ball), in the group that only did the stretching program prior to hitting the golf balls.

However, after the fourth session of stretching and chiropractic care, the golfers in this group showed a statistically significant improvement in their “full swing performance” translating into better distance when hitting golf balls.  The authors of the study concluded, “Chiropractic in association with muscle stretching may be associated with an improvement of full-swing performance when compared with muscle stretching alone.”

Dr. DeRusha’s comment:

To read how chiropractic care improved, our patient, William Schmidt’s golf game click here and scroll down to this article: “Golf Game Improved With Chiropractic Care”.

For further information you can contact Dr. DeRusha at Paint Creek Chiropractic Center, 248-601-4540,  in downtown Rochester, Michigan.

The release notes that chiropractors have been part of the Olympic games by helping athletes as part of their individual country’s healthcare staffs. However, this time in addition to the chiropractors from the individual nations, chiropractic care will be offered by the host nation of Canada at the Polyclinic which is open for all athletes from around the world.

The F4CP release notes that throughout the years, chiropractic has become a mainstay in the care of world-class athletes, leading to a growing number of doctors of chiropractic included in the Olympic Games. Countless athletes attribute the care they receive from their chiropractors, working along-side other health care professionals, as a key to properly preparing their bodies to perform optimally.

The release also reports that chiropractic care has experienced several major moments in Olympic history. The first may well have been when a chiropractor, Dr. Leroy Perry, provided chiropractic care to athletes representing Antigua during the 1976 Games in Montreal, Canada.  The F4CP also noted that during the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, NY, another chiropractor, Dr. George Goodheart, became the first official chiropractor appointed to the U.S. Olympic team. Since then each subsequent Olympic Games and Pan American Games, the U.S. teams, along with a growing number of other national teams, have included at least one doctor of chiropractic on their medical staff.

Dr. Bill Moreau, a chiropractor recently promoted to the Director of Sports Medicine Clinics for the US Olympic Committee, stated, “Inclusion inside the Polyclinic is another major milestone for the chiropractic profession, and we are grateful to the Host City of Vancouver, the head of Medical Services at the Polyclinic, Jack Taunton, M.D., and to Robert Armitage, D.C., who helped make this possible.”

Dr. DeRusha’s comment:

Chiropractic is vital for all athletes.  Not only is it helpful in the prevention of  injury while participating in a sport but if injury occurs, it actually helps speed up the healing process.

For further information you can contact Dr. DeRusha at Paint Creek Chiropractic Center, 248-601-4540,  in downtown Rochester, Michigan.

In this study the author, a chiropractor from the Anglo European College of Chiropractic, and lead tutor for Advanced Practice for Chiropractic Pediatrics, Joyce Miller, B.Sc., D.C., D.A.B.C.O., set out to review and examine the chiropractic safety record for care of children in comparison to the safety record of medications given to children. She noted that the safety issue of medications given to children is an increasing concern.

In her published study, Dr. Miller reported that according to the United Kingdom’s, National Patient Safety Agency, in 2006 out of a total of 33,446 reports of medical pediatric care, 19% experienced a medication problem, 14% had a procedural safety breech, 9% showed errors in documentation, and an additional 7% had errors in medical clinical assessment.

The reported results of the authors research showed that there were six separate published reports that addressed safety of what was called “Manual Therapy” for children delivered by either chiropractors or medical practitioners. The author specifically looked at the care rendered by chiropractors for the purpose of this study.

The results showed that over a 59 year time frame, a systematic review of the literature only uncovered 8 incidences of hurt or harm to children due to chiropractic adjustments.  With an estimated 30 million pediatric adjustment visits to chiropractors made each year, the risk factor is calculated to be extremely low.

In her conclusion, Dr. Miller wrote, “Based on the published literature, it appears that manipulation, when given by a skilled chiropractor with years of training carried out with low forces recommended for pediatric care, has few side effects in the healthy infant and child and their recorded incidence is exceedingly low.

Dr. DeRusha’s comment:

Paint Creek Chiropractic Center is a family oriented chiropractic office.  Chiropractic is a safe and drug free approach to wellness for children.

For further information you can contact Dr. DeRusha at Paint Creek Chiropractic Center, 248-601-4540,  in downtown Rochester, Michigan.

Forgiveness is such a gift. Unlike most other gifts, it costs the giver nothing, yet, it has priceless value for both the giver and the receiver. It is “a gift that cannot be bought, that satisfies a debt that cannot be paid.” A story from Matthew 18 in the New Testament of the Bible illustrates this well. A King, whose servant owed him an amount of money so large that it could not be repaid, forgave his debt. In essence, the King gave to the servant “a gift that could not be bought, to satisfy a debt he could not pay.”

When someone has hurt us, we often feel the person “owes us.” The problem is that nothing the person does or gives will cancel our emotional pain. It becomes a debt the person cannot pay. A modern-day incident illustrates this well. Rev. Julie Nicholson, an Episcopal Priest, resigned her role as spiritual leader of her parish after a terrorist bomb killed her young daughter. She said she could no longer lead people in words of forgiveness because she could not forgive her daughter’s killer. She concluded, ”At its purest, setting both victim and antagonist free, it (forgiveness) is truly a miraculous gift.”

My daughter and I view this miraculous gift as a pathway to peace. Peace for both the victim and the villain. We are developing a blog with that focus, www.RealForgiveness.com. Peace in the world was lost, one relationship at a time, beginning with Cain killing his brother Abel (Genesis 4). It will return to our world in the same manner, one relationship at a time. Please join us in our quest to restore our world to the peace we once enjoyed. Each time you forgive someone, or accept forgiveness, you move our world one relationship closer to realization of another miraculous gift, the gift of peace.

May these Holydays Be Peaceful for You, Those You Love, and The Other Ones Too.

 Shalom, Shalom.  Perfect Peace to you.

Dr. W. Steven Boom

Life Transitions Publications

mail@RealForgiveness.com

Thank you, Dr. Steve, for submitting this article.  Dr. Steven Boom is a current patient at Paint Creek Chiropractic Center.

About Dr. Boom: He is a Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists. He specializes in the integration of individual therapy with family systems theory. He also provides psychological testing, therapy for marriage and relationship issues, family issues, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, or any other psychological problems experienced in childhood and adulthood.  Dr. Boom  conducts workshops on couple communication, effective parenting, parenting “tough” adolescents, and other areas of  human development.

Dr. Boom also offers workshops and seminars tailored to meet specific organizational needs. He has been providing counseling services for more than 20 years. His offices are located in Imlay City, MI.

CBP combines standard chiropractic joint adjustments with mirror image (opposite position) postural adjustments, mirror image spinal/postural exercise and mirror image traction to provide more permanent relief and improved health through spine and posture correction.

Your body and spine are an incredible marvel of engineering, able to withstand large forces and yet maintain great flexibility.

The model spine at rest consumes practically no energy to support upright standing posture.  If it were maintained properly, the spine could easily last 120 -150 years with minimal degeneration or arthritis.

The goal of the CBP technique is to restore the patient’s spine to normal or as near normal as possible.  But what is normal?  The Harrison Spinal Model, developed by Don Harrison, D.C., PhD., M.S.E., is our goal of care for correction.  Just like blood pressure, there are normal ranges for spinal alignment.  When you fall outside of these normal ranges, the spine degenerates faster than it should and wears like a car tire that is not properly balanced.

Dr. Donald Harrison originated CBP Technique in 1980.  He holds the equivalent of three Bachelor’s Degrees (mathematics, mechanical engineering, and education), two Masters Degrees (mathematics and mechanical engineering), and two Doctorate Degrees (mathematics and chiropractic). As President of the CBP Nonprofit, Inc. research institute, he is author of approximately seventy publications in the Index Medicus.

Dr. Harrison used engineering and physics principles that explain how all objects move and applied them to human posture and spinal biomechanics.  He was the first person to analyze postural and spinal alignment in this manner.  This led to CBP being the most researched, published and proven method in chiropractic and developed ways to restore posture and the spine back to normal or as near normal as possible.

The ideal standing posture from the front view is the head should be centered over the rib cage, the rib cage over the pelvis and the pelvis over the feet.  If the posture in this view is aligned properly it results in a straight spine from the front (or behind).

The ideal standing posture from the side is the ear over shoulder, shoulder over hip and hip over ankle.  The normal spinal alignment from the side is a spine with three curvatures.  The neck curve bends forward like part of a circle, the mid-back bends toward the back and the low back curve also bends forward.  The mid back and low back have elliptical curvatures.  Each curvature is different in its shape.

Our head, ribcage and pelvis shift out of alignment from side to side, front to back and even rotate or twist out of alignment.  They can even shift out of place with combinations of all three of these positions.  In fact, research has shown that there are over 130 million different abnormal posture combinations that can happen and all of them effect the alignment of the spine.  Ultimately, if the spine is out of alignment it leads to nervous system dysfunction or subluxation.  CBP improves and corrects the posture and that leads to a better aligned spine and a better functioning nervous system.

Many suffering people have been helped thanks to the work that was started by Dr. Harrison over 25 years ago.  Click here to read a few of the patient testimonials of Paint Creek Chiropractic Center.

Dr. DeRusha has been certified in CBP since 2002.  He was one of the first to bring Chiropractic Bio Physics to Michigan.  If you have any questions or would like to speak with Dr. DeRusha, he may be contacted at Paint Creek Chiropractic Center, 134 West University Drive, Suite 126, Downtown Rochester.  (248) 601-4540

Each time you refer a New Patient into our office, your name will be entered into a raffle to win a Wii video system!!!  (a $200.00 value) 

The person you refer will receive their exam and 2 x-rays free!!!  (also a $200.00 value)