What does the Russian space program have to do with chiropractic care? Quite a bit, according to Tom Lenahan, DC.
Dr. Lenahan, who has practiced chiropractic as a second career for 15 years, says hes seen tremendous breakthroughs in patient healing through the use of electrical stimulationa concept first researched by the Russians for their space program. The Russian government developed the research because it wasnt practical to send an entire pharmacy along to keep their space explorers healthy. So, Russian scientists started looking for healing alternatives.
As they began to explore how electricity works in the body, they realized its the bodys primary driver system, says Lenahan. The researchers found that the body has two electrical components. The first, the nervous system, is like the hard wiring, says Dr. Lenahan. The second wasnt as well understood.
They discovered the body has a second component to it, Lenahan continues. It is a semi-conducting system in the body, much like your computer. They realized they could stimulate that fascial, semi-conducting system to send a signal to the brain and get it to produce various neuropeptides. This gave them...