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Monday 8a-6p
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 8a-6p
Thursday 8a-6p
Friday 7:30a-2:30p |
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Premenstrual Syndrome and
Chiropractic
A positive report was published in the November /
December 1999 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and
Physiological Therapeutics concerning the effects of
chiropractic on the symptoms associated with
premenstrual syndrome.
The study was completed on 25 women. Estimates of the
prevalence of this condition vary depending on criteria.
This study estimated that between 10% and 20% of
reproductive age women have severe symptoms associated
with this condition. The study included chiropractic
adjustments for a ten day period prior to the beginning
of the subjects cycles.
The women were asked to monitor their symptoms and rate
them with a score using "0" = none to "3" = severe. The
results showed a reduction in symptoms from between 42%
and 32% for the group that received chiropractic for
only a short time. Although these findings are
encouraging, and long term study would be interesting to
see if the results were even greater, the researchers
concluded, "results support the hypothesis that the
symptoms associated with PMS can be reduced by
chiropractic".
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