Blood pressure and Chiropractic adjustment

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Chiropractic Cuts Blood Pressure

Study Finds Special 'Atlas Adjustment' Lowers Blood Pressure

By Daniel J. DeNoon

WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

 

March 16, 2007 -- A special chiropractic adjustment can significantly lower high

blood pressure, a placebo-controlled study suggests.

 

" This procedure has the effect of not one, but two blood-pressure medications

given in combination, " study leader George Bakris, MD, tells WebMD. " And it

seems to be adverse-event free. We saw no side effects and no problems, " adds

Bakris, director of the University of Chicago hypertension center.

 

Eight weeks after undergoing the procedure, 25 patients with early-stage high

blood pressure had significantly lower blood pressure than 25 similar patients

who underwent a sham chiropractic adjustment. Because patients can't feel the

technique, they were unable to tell which group they were in.

 

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 treated

patients, but not in the sham-treated patients.

 

Compared to the sham-treated patients, those who got the real procedure saw an

average 14 mm Hg greater drop in systolic blood pressure (the top number in a

blood pressure count), and an average 8 mm Hg greater drop in diastolic blood

pressure (the bottom blood pressure number)..........

 

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