"Improving Clinical Outcomes with Low Level Laser" (August 12, 2010, Sponsored by Erchonia)
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From my perspective, appropriate management of chronic hypertension relies on three primary premises: 1) Nutritional, lifestyle, and manipulative interventions should be the treatments of choice for essentially all patients with chronic primary hypertension. 2) As the only nationally licensed health care discipline with training in nutritional, lifestyle and manipulative interventions, the chiropractic profession should play a premier national role in the management of chronic hypertension. 3) Pharmacosurgical interventions are important for medical causes and recalcitrant cases of hypertension. Since premises #2 and #3 are founded upon or associated with premise #1, I will provide some substantiation here for premise #1.

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There has been a flurry of reports recently on the association of atypical femoral fractures with long-term treatment with bisphosphonates. Several studies have reported the occurrence of specific and rare types of femur fractures in individuals (mostly women) who had been taking bisphosphonates, specifically alendronate (Fosamax), for approximately 4-8 years. It should be noted that the fractures occurred with no apparent trauma. These fractures were not from falls. In fact, in most cases, individuals were performing low-energy exercise, sometimes just walking down a flight of stairs.

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