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(Excerpted from Dr. Norton’s soon to be published book: Where Does It Hurt? Doctor Norton’s Surprising Stories and Transforming Insights for Releasing Pain and Restoring Whole Body Health)

Respiratory Recovery Research

A 1997 article published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research discussed eighty-one children under chiropractic care that took part in a self-reported asthma related impairment study. The children were assessed before and two months after chiropractic care using an asthma impairment questionnaire.

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“Significantly lower impairment rating scores were reported for 90% of subjects 60 days after chiropractic care in comparison to their pre-chiropractic scores. In addition, 31% of the children voluntarily decreased their dosage of medication by an average of 67% while under care. Twenty- four of the patients who reported asthma attacks thirty days prior to the study had significantly decreased attacks by an average of 45%”.

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Peet and others reported encouraging results with eight pediatric patients with medically diagnosed asthma. “They had never received chiropractic care prior to the study. After only ten adjustments the children demonstrated an average increase in peak flow rate of 25% and seven of the eight were able to reduce or discontinue their medication. All participants showed measurable improvement on their x-rays which correlated with their asthma symptom progress”.

Kessinger reported on a study of 58 patients after they had received chiropractic adjustments for correction of upper neck subluxations (misalignments with nervous system disturbance). “Forced expiratory volume (FEV) and forced vital capacity (FVC) were measured before care and two weeks afterward. 57% of the group was considered to have abnormal lung function at the start”.

“Statistically significant changes were revealed over the two-week study. In fact, 42% of the abnormal group actually tested within normal limits at the end. The normal population also showed meaningful increases”.

Masarsky and Masarsky in their book Somatovisceral Aspects of Chiropractic discuss how the act of breathing requires the undisturbed communication of both the autonomic nervous system to the lungs and motor nervous system to the skeletal muscles. Both emanate from the neck and upper back and therefore subluxations from either area can hinder your vitally important ability to breathe.

The Masarskys proceed to review a recent mortality study which demonstrated that “individuals with depressed FEV scores are more likely to die from all causes, not just respiratory diseases, at 4 years, 15 years, and 24 years post-measurement, when compared with those at or above expected values”.

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“Apparently, reduced lung function is a good general indicator of a person’s vulnerability to a wide variety of serious health problems. Conversely, improving lung function through chiropractic care can be seen as a contribution to a person’s overall vitality”.

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(View applications of this message to your life in Healing Hints below)

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Visit Dr. Norton's web site. The Norton Chiropractic Wellness Center web site is packed with a vast amount of news, tips, and health information. Also check out and interact with our new Ask Dr. Norton Chiropractic Health Forum. If you are experiencing pain, or just want more information on your health or how we do business, please stop by!

News & Events

1. During the week of March 12-15, Norton Chiropractic Wellness Center will conduct another C.O.W. (Chiropractic Opportunity Week). This is a very special time because all people new to our office or who have not been present for at least 6 months will receive multiple benefits as follows:

   The consultation, full examination (including the unique computerized nervous system stress assessment), any needed x-rays, and the doctor's report of findings cost only $30 and there is no obligation to initiate care! This is up to a $240 value and is only offered 3 times each year.

   Please call 559-490-9550 ASAP for the best times and share this with anybody you know who may suffer with pain or illness of any kind. We must hear from you by March 15th to be included! If you would like to learn more about us and our work first, then please go to: www.DrMatthewNorton.com for everything you could ever want to know.

2. Come check out the 2nd Annual Healthy Living Fair presented by Tree Fresno on Sunday, March 11th from 8-5 in the Tower District in partnership with Fresno City College.

   The event is centered around Tree Fresno’s 11th annual “Run Through the Trees” and the 5th annual Central Valley Classics International Bike Race.

   You can connect to healthy solutions for your life with over 60 booths focusing on environmental issues as well as health, wellness, and fitness opportunities. There will also be a Kids Activity Center with face painting, balloons, a bounce house, etc.

   Stop by and visit our Usana Health Sciences booth and enter our drawing for special prizes. You can learn more about why athletes TRUST USANA Nutritionals.  The pharmaceutical-grade USANA Essentials have been ranked through 3rd party research to be “The Best in North America”. 

   Come and sample the low-glycemic shakes and bars that help set you free from carbohydrate cravings and excess weight, but also give athletes great protein and energy to perform.  To learn more now go to www.ExpandYourTerritory.com.

   Call 559-221-5556 or visit www.treefresno.org for more information. We’ll see you out there!

3. Listen on Saturday morning March 24th from 10-noon on KFPT 790AM radio to hear Dr. Norton explore the topic of infertility while discussing a powerful solution revealed in recent research. This message could change your life or that of a couple you know who is frustrated and desperately seeking to become pregnant. Please tell those in your world who need to know this critical information!

Visit our Center!

Norton Chiropractic Wellness Center (View Map) at 5670 N. Fresno St. Ste. 102 in Fresno, Calif. Call us at (559) 490-9550 or contact us here.

If you are in the California Central Valley call Norton Chiropractic Wellness Center at 559-490-9550 or visit us online at www.DrMatthewNorton.com for a virtual tour and to schedule an appointment to see if we can help you.

You will also appreciate the valuable tools on the Learning Resources page of the website if you are not in our area!

Healing Hints

1. Breathing without difficulty is simply one of the vast array of complex physiological processes naturally woven into the fabric of your design. It is simply how you are supposed to function. Even though we take breathing for granted when it is truly an amazing action, it does work incredibly well most of the time and doesn’t require us to think about it!
   
   
2. It is your nervous system that directs and coordinates your respiration and its adaptive response to the moment to moment demands placed on your system for oxygen.
   
   
3. Your body doesn’t need help to figure out how to work right as that intelligence permeates your entire being. It does however need to be free of interference!
   
   
4. Increasing research and years of clinical experience are continuing to verify that spinal misalignments that disturb neurological communication to your internal organs (the autonomic nervous system), such as your lungs, are a critical source of interference to vital functioning and result in compromises that can lead eventually to disease states.
   
   
5. A 2006 article in the journal Medical Hypotheses by a Stanford radiologist proposed that disturbed functioning of the autonomic branch of the nervous system is the foundational basis for all disease states!
   
   
6. The best way to simply and accurately assess possible interference with your autonomic nervous system is with computerized thermographic measurements. We are offering that test along with any needed x-rays and the rest of our chiropractic examination for only $30 the week of March 12-15. See the News and Events section above for more information and call us at 559-490-9550 to reserve a special appointment.

About Dr. Norton

Dr. Norton unites his passion for learning, teaching, and healing with a compassion for those who are struggling with pain and illness or not performing at their peak. He brings to his work a high level of academic achievement and cutting-edge bodymind research. However, he also brings a deeply caring heart transformed by difficult personal life experiences. Read more.