A recent study showing chiropractic adjustments can lower blood pressure, and have a whole body effect. There is more and more research showing that chiropractic adjustments do not just effect the local area. The primary results of this study shows following instrument-assisted manipulation to T1-T5 was a reduction in blood pressure (both systolic and diastolic BP) of approximately 7 percent compared to baseline measurements. The biggest limitation to this study is it did not look at the length of time the blood pressure was reduced for. Hopefully there can be further study on this. “Systolic and diastolic BP, pulse rate, and BP classification decreased significantly only in the active treatment group.… Read More
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