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Massage Helps Hospital Patients Manage Pain
The authors of this publication, Adams and colleagues, suggest pain management within the acute care setting is a focus of empirical study by researchers, healthcare facilities and accreditation organizations throughout the United States.
Muscles as Team Players
Synergistic dominance occurs as "helper" muscles are recruited to take over function when a "prime mover" muscle fails, much like when a football coach calls in the substitute players when a key player is injured.
Healing Leaders

Energy is a hot commodity. Society pays dearly for it and for the expertise of those who know how to cultivate it.


You are What You Eat Part II: Integrative Protocols
In the previous installment of this article I discussed important ideas concerning gastrointestinal health and foundational ideas from TCM, which can provide key insights into creating effective protocols for healing the gut.
Creating Lucrative Private Retreats that Heal You and Your Clients
Imagine that you've just wrapped up your most profitable day ever, leaving your treatment room with a check in hand for $1,500. How many clients would you have to see to earn that much in a day? Fifteen at $100 a session? Ten at $150? Six at $250?
A Freebie
Let's face it – patient evaluation takes time. Unless you are really into the diagnostic evaluation game, you probably have found the formal exam protocol tedious if not downright annoying.
Peer Points: Stories of Practice Success
When patients go see Arizona-based acupuncturist Jing Liu, it is to get top care from an practitioner well versed in all aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Adventitious Tissue Structures of Elevated Tissue Density
A 12-year-old boy was brought into my clinic complaining of pain in his right heel, which impaired his ability to participate in sports, even to walk normally.
Dealing with Painful Foot Injuries, Part 2
In part one of this two-part series, published in the April issue, we began talking about foot pain and discussed several different injuries that affect that area of the body. Now we're going to move on to give you practical tips for soothing the feet.
The Power of Inhalation: Diffusing Essential Oils
When using essential oils as part of a massage practice, most of the focus goes on properties that can help relieve muscles and joints when applied topically.
The Spirits of the Points: The Gall Bladder Official
The Gall Bladder is known as The Official of Decision Making and Judgment. In any given day, this Official makes countless decisions – conscious and unconscious, which influence every aspect of our being.
What's Your Story?

It's all too simple, yet essential. The universal question that often times we're asked by clients when we start a massage session. At least, with the chatty ones looking for conversation.


Help in Understanding Parkinson's, Part 2
In part one of this series from the April issue, I presented an understanding of Parkinson's disease (PD), its symptoms and current medical treatment.

Herbal Medicine: Go Mainstream
When it comes to practicing herbal medicine in a mainstream setting, there are a number of important points to understand when it comes to prescribing formulas. Some important questions to ask are - what method of prescribing and dispensing is most effective in this setting?
Economics of Complementary/Integrative Care
Although this column doesn't usually feature a book review, we're going outside of our usual public health format to discuss a new book written by Patricia Herman ND, PhD.
Creative Strategies to Boost Your Business
Years ago I realized the truth behind the saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. I find that so many people, either personally or professionally, are "insane" by that definition.
Helping Infertility Patients with the Spirit Essence
As many of you know, when it comes to treating infertility, we are dealing with a patient population that is, generally speaking, in emotional turmoil. These patients often experience fear, anxiety, despair, hopelessness, grief and anger.
There Are No Secrets: Treating Complicated Conditions with TCM
Including standardized extra points, there are just over 400 acupuncture points on the body. You get 400 and I get 400 - same. Yet, time and time again treatment protocols are coveted as if they were some secret formula only intended for the right and privileged.
Judge Lifts Stay of Florida PIP Injunction
Circuit Court Judge Terry P. Lewis lifted an automatic stay of a temporary injunction against the Florida Personal Injury Protection law.
Helping Patients Through Pregnancy Loss
There is a lot of focus in the acupuncture world on fertility and helping women get pregnant. It's exhilarating to hear the news that a patient is expecting a baby. The other side of that is pregnancy loss. That includes abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth.
Freeing the Heart: Protection of the Hip and Shoulder Joints
As we continue with this current series of articles on Freeing The Heart, if we consider the basic physiology of the human circulatory system, it seems evident that when the heart and lungs reach full expansion with a minimum of resistance, the heart will eject more blood and at a greater velocity.
The Massage Profession Must Continue to Evolve
Evolution is defined as any process of formation or growth, development, as well as a process of gradual, peaceful, progressive change or development by Dictionary.com.
Happenings in Our Evolving Profession
Good things seem to be happening for our profession and recent developments show we are all on board. Talking about being on board, this September The Veterans Express-Purple Heart Tour is expected to make its way out of the station.
Key Nutrients for Maintaining Musculoskeletal Health
As a chiropractor, I fully appreciate the amazing potential of manual therapy. Whether that therapy is a chiropractic adjustment, therapeutic massage, or some of the many other effective body work options; people generally have a wonderful response.

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Magnesium, Part I

By G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN

One evening last summer I was flipping through Dr. Melvyn R. Werbach's latest textbook, Foundations of Nutritional Medicine (Dr. Werbach is the author of Nutritional Influences on Illness, a source book of clinical research and an absolute must for anyone who practices clinical nutrition). The first chapter, "Disorders Due to Abnormal Nutriture," summarizes how nutrient deficiencies and excesses affect various disorders.1

In chiropractic school we learned the importance of the mineral magnesium, and that it is required for literally hundreds of biochemical reactions in the body. If you forgot or didn't realize how critical adequate amounts of magnesium are, take a look at the following list of conditions where magnesium deficiency may exacerbate and/or contribute to the problem (this is not to say abnormal magnesium is the only cause or only cure for these disorders):

Agitation
Anorexia
Anxiety
Apathy
Arrhythmias
Ataxia
Behavioral Disturbances
Cognitive Impairment
Cold Sensitivity
Coma
Delirium
Depression
Diplopia
Dry Mouth
Dysphagia
Edema
Epilepsy
Fatigue
Growth Impairment
Hemolytic Anemia
Hyperactivity
Hypertension
Hypotension
Insomnia
Irritability
Kidney Stones
Lethargy
Muscle Fasciculations
Muscle Spasms
Muscle Tremors
Muscle Twitches
Muscle Wasting
Myalgia
Myopathy
Nausea
Nervousness
Neuromuscular Excitability
Nystagmus
Peripheral Neuropathy
Psychosis
Sonophobia
Tachycardia
Tetany
Vertigo
Vomiting
Weakness

In the December 1996 issue of the American Journal of Natural Medicine, Dr. Michael T. Murray did an extensive review of the literature on magnesium supplementation.2 In addition to Dr. Werbach's findings above, Dr. Murray also documented that magnesium may help in the following:

Acute Myocardial Infarction
Angina
Asthma
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiovascular Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Congestive Heart Failure
Diabetes
Dysmenorrhea
Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome
Fatigue
Fibromyalgia
Glaucoma
Hearing Loss
Intermittent Claudication
Low HDL Cholesterol
Mitral Valve Prolapse
Osteoporosis
Pregnancy
Premenstrual Syndrome
Stroke

Although the vast majority of magnesium problems are due to insufficiency, too much magnesium can cause, contribute, or exacerbate the following: diarrhea, hypotension, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, cognitive impairment, depression, fatigue, flushing, respiratory insufficiency, and polydypsia.

Next month in part II, we will look at dietary sources and supplemental types of magnesium, along with a review of laboratory tests used to measure magnesium.

References

  1. Werbach M. Foundations of Nutritional Medicine. Third Line Press, Tarzana, California, 1997.
  2. Murray MT. American Journal of Natural Medicine December 1996, 3(10):8-19.

G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN, DACBN
Brea, California
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