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Recently, scientific evidence has demonstrated that chiropractic adjustments can significantly lower high blood pressure. A placebo-controlled study showed that the effect of the adjustment lowered the blood pressure of the subjects in the same amount typically seen while taking not one, but two separate blood pressure medications. Study leader, Dr. George Bakris a medical doctor at the University of Chicago Hypertension Center reported that he saw no side effects and no problems in the patients receiving the chiropractic treatment.                                                                                

 

The Study involved monitoring 50 patients over an 8 week period. The patients with early-stage high blood pressure had lower blood pressure by an average of 14 mmHg in their systolic blood pressure and 8 mmHg in their diastolic blood pressure. X-rays showed that the procedure realigned the Atlas vertebra -- the doughnut-like bone at the very top of the spine -- with the spine in the 25 treated patients, but not in the 25 sham-treated patients.

 

The findings were so popular that they were reported in the Journal of Human Hypertension. The procedure calls for adjustment of the C-1 vertebra, the Atlas vertebra. It's referred to as the Atlas vertebra because it holds up the head, just as the titan Atlas holds up the world in Greek mythology.

 

"At the base of the brain are two centers that control all the muscles of the body. If you pinch the base of the brain -- if the Atlas gets locked in a position as little as a half a millimeter out of line -- it doesn't cause any pain but it upsets these centers," Dr. Dickholtz, doctor of chiropractic and lead researcher of the study in Chicago told WebMD. “We are spinal engineers," Dickholtz says. "We use mathematics, geometry, and physics to determine the best method  to realign everything back into place." He added that “high blood pressure is far from the only thing an Atlas misalignment causes, but if people have high blood pressure, there is a tremendous possibility they need an adjustment.”

 

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http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20070316/chiropractic-cuts-blood.-pressure