Muscular Dystrophy
Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy: a chiropractic
approach. Faulkner TL; Ward LE. J Chir Research Clin Invest
1994; 9(3):76-80.
In a review of some 70 plus individual Duchene’s and
other muscular dystrophy cases, it was shown that chiropractic
can play an important role in the process of slowing the
degenerative changes that are anticipated with muscular dystrophy
conditions.
Management of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: a literature
review. Reifschneider T and Olson PL. Chiropractic: The Journal
of Chiropractic Research and Clinical Investigation. Vol.
9 No. 4, Oct. 1994.
This is a literature review of Duchenne
muscular dystrophy to describe the disease and its related
processes.
The authors discuss the failure of the medical model
and the basis for the chiropractic approach to help those with
this condition.
Muscular Dystrophy and Chiropractic. Koren T.
The American Chiropractor July/August 1993.
From the introduction:
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is an incurable,
progressive, genetic disease...victims suffer from deterioration
of the voluntary muscle. In time they lose their ability to
walk, to stand, and ultimately, to breathe. They live out their
last years as motionless, helpless cripples, dying as teenagers
or in their twenties. According to the Muscular Dystrophy
Association, no on ever recovers. Eric Knapp...has one of
the most severe forms of muscular dystrophy. Eric is getting
better.
This article highlights one chiropractic clinic’s
success with (by last count) over seventy MD sufferers who
were not expected to improve and yet have had significant
improvements using Dr. Lowell Ward’s Spinal Column
Stressology techniques.
The role of chiropractic in the management
of degenerative disease cases. Ward, L. Today’s Chiropractic
July/August 1995.
This is a fascinating discussion of Dr. Lowell
Ward’s
research and clinical success with “incurable” Duchenne
muscular dystrophy sufferers and other cases: “Degenerative
conditions we have had good success in working with include:
ataxia, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, convulsive
disorders, the various dystrophies, phobias and most any
chronic degenerative, ‘incurable’ or life-threatening
disease. Generally speaking, the degenerative spinal pattern
is relatively the same from disease to disease.”
Comment from Dr. Koren: I have studied the late Dr. Ward’s
methods and have used his work. Although the above statements
may seem fantastic, he was, in fact, able to elicit impressive
healing responses from many patients given up as incurable
by other doctors.
Copyright 2004 Koren Publications, Inc. & Tedd Koren,
D.C.