A recent study of 81 cases, published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR), a peer reviewed scientific Journal, is the first to show that correction of upper neck injuries may reverse the progression of both Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease (PD).
The research was conducted by Erin Elster, DC, chiropractor in Boulder, CO, who compiled data from 44 MS patients and 37 PD patients treated over the past five years. After treating neck injuries in 81 patients, 91% of MS patients and 92% of PD patients improved, suggesting that correction of Subluxation resulting from neck injuries stimulated a reversal of MS and PD.
"According to medical research, head and neck injuries have long been considered a contributing factor for the onset of both Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease," said Dr. Elster." But this is the first research to show that correction of those injuries can have a dramatic effect on improving and reversing MS and PD."
Matthew McCoy, DC, JVSR editor commented that, “Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year on research of MS and PD - none of that money goes to chiropractic research. Hopefully Dr. Elster’s research will get the attention of the government, private foundations and individuals who can earmark money to further research the effects of chiropractic care on these disorders.
In an earlier report on chiropractic and MS by Elster, published by JVSR in May 2001. That report was a case study of a 47-year old woman diagnosed by her neurologist with chronic progressive MS. After four months of chiropractic care, all MS symptoms were absent. A follow-up MRI showed no new lesions as well as a reduction in intensity of the original lesions. After a year passed in which the patient remained asymptomatic, another follow-up MRI was performed. Once again, the MRI showed no new lesions and a continued reduction in intensity of the original lesions. Two years after chiropractic care began, all MS symptoms remained absent.
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