T6, Wk1, Day 338, Friday - ProD & Neurology

Whew! It's 3:30 in the morning and I've got to be up in two hours to get ready for school! Not sure what happened but, after a lackluster Saturday and a relatively lax Sunday morning, I kind of went into overdrive and got a bunch of much needed stuff done Sunday evening ...well, and Monday morning.

Pro-D - we have to complete four hours of community service for that class as one of our requirements. I sent an email out to a local humane society to get info on volunteering but, the email just got kicked back to me. I might have to go there in person to get the scoop.

Neurology - One extra requirement for that class is to complete an online course dealing with Stroke & Manipulation. There's that fear out there by some (and perhaps mostly by people wanting to discredit chiropractic) that a cervical adjustment may lead to a stroke. So, it looks like the NCMIC, which is the main malpractice insurance provider to chiropractors (at least in the US), has sponsored an online course regarding stroke and cervical adjustments.

The course was pretty interesting. This is something we needed to get done by midterms otherwise our final grade in the class would be reduced by a FULL letter grade and, if we don't do it at all well, ya don't pass the class.

OK - I JUST GOT TO THINKING - and the result of that thinking was a new post on Facebook - here's the post.

Just doing the math .... there are about 700,000 strokes annually in the US so with a population of 300 million that comes out to 1 in every 428 people. Then I look at 6 different studies which cite the rate of stroke associated with chiropractic manipulation at less than 1 in a million ... hmmmm Actually, averaging those 6 studies from '78 to '96 gives a rate of 1 in 3.375 million

bbbOK ~ there just isn't going to be any sleep tonight ...it's almost 5 a.m. now but I've still gotten a lot of things done and a lot of those things needed to be done.

Wow ...today we have Jurisprudence, Phys Dx II, Dx Imaging II, Clinical Reasoning and SHC Practicum II ...

I'm never quite clear w/ HCP but, it looks like we're going to have 3 hours of it tomorrow. I've got a fellow classmate as a patient and she'll be mine for the entire semester and visa versa.

Well, maybe a 15 minute nap then I need to get ready for school. :)

Today's picture is of a normal vertebral artery. There are actually little holes along side the vertebrae in your neck that the vertebral artery (VA) runs through. The artery does not slide through those holes, rather, it stretches when you do things like turn your head or nod up and down. The VA supplies about 1/3 of the blood for your brain. The internal carotid arteries supplies the other 2/3rds.