Valley Rising Chiropractic

‘You cannot work the mill with water that has already passed’

There’s a fair chance you’ve been, or thought you’ve been, wronged in some way or another. Cheated, lied to, let down, cut off in traffic … endless ways that have created a state of angst, anger, stress.
When we create these states in our minds, our physiology changes instantly, bathing our cells, tissues and organs in sickness. We then reproduce ourselves poorly, grow ourselves sicker, and hold onto patterns and thoughts that reproduce the same body, the same mind, the same result. We start to live in the past.

It’s not easy, but we can’t focus on the ‘water that’s passed’.
We can’t focus on how sick we’ve been, how unfair it is, or challenging it’s been.
We need to focus on what we CAN be, how healthy we CAN be, how happy our relationships and lives CAN be.
Through Chiropractic, through caring for you, we are removing interference from your nervous system so we can see just how healthy, just how optimal you CAN be.
We have more faith in your body’s ability to heal and function, than you can possibly imagine.

Come work with us and allow us to demonstrate what you CAN be !
📍 Lorn - 4936 9235
📍 East Maitland - 4933 5134

In a study looking at the benefits of Chiropractic care for school children, it was found
📚 68% measurable improvement in behavioural regulation
📚 81% of students experienced higher scores in Quality of Life (QoL) and school functioning
📚 35% decrease in Hyperactivity scores

More and more kids today are being prescribed drugs for behavioural problems. Dexamphetamines are the most commonly prescribed drugs which increase the amount of dopamine that is readily available.
Common effects (there are no side effects!) are decreased appetite, poor sleep, digestive issues, mood changes (especially when trying to stop taking them).

Kids under Chiropractic care are statistically on fewer, if any drugs, enjoy and do better at school, enjoy and do better at life. Not to mention all the benefits of a Nervous System that is regulating and functioning optimally.

We’d love for your kids to get a Chiropractic Evaluation, so they can be all they can be.
📍 East Maitland - 4933 5133
📍 Lorn - 4936 9235

A study looked at the impacts of Chiropractic care on kicking speed performance in soccer players. Adjusting the lumbar and sacral spine not only improved mobility, flexibility and brain connectivity, but caused an immediate increase in the average kick speed by 6.5km/h compared to no care.

The average elite free kick travels at 100km/h, meaning the goalie has roughly 0.72 seconds to stop it.
Under Chiropractic care, that drops to 0.68 seconds.
Less time, less chance, more goals, simple.

The best players, best teams are all under care for a reason.
Be the best you can be, try Chiropractic and watch life improve.

⚽️ East Maitland - 4933 5134
⚽️ Lorn - 4936 9235

I recently saw an exchange between people with different opinions, and one side kept declaring...

"I only trust peer-reviewed research."

Sounds like a reasonable position. The problem is most people who say it don't know what peer review actually is... or what it isn't.

Here's what the insiders say.

Peter Gøtzsche co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration (the gold standard of evidence-based medicine). An independent network of researchers whose entire purpose was to synthesise clinical evidence without interference from the companies that funded it. If you've ever been told "the Cochrane review confirms it's safe," this is the organisation they're talking about.

Gøtzsche spent three decades studying the pharmaceutical industry... not as an opponent of medicine, but as someone who believed medicine's credibility depended on its willingness to scrutinise itself. He published hundreds of peer-reviewed papers. He wrote a book documenting industry fraud not as an occasional aberration but as a structural feature of how drugs are approved and marketed.

In 2018, he published a critique of a Cochrane review of the HPV vaccine, arguing it had minimised evidence of potential harms and failed to apply the rigorous standards Cochrane existed to uphold.

The Cochrane governing board voted to expel him. Four other board members resigned in protest.

The review he questioned continues to be cited as definitive evidence of safety!

He isn't alone.

Richard Horton (editor-in-chief of The Lancet, one of the world's oldest medical journals) wrote in 2015:

"Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest… science has taken a turn towards darkness."

He wasn't writing from the fringe. He was writing from the top of the institution.

Marcia Angell (former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine) put it even more plainly:

"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published."

Twenty years as a medical journal editor. That was her conclusion.

John Ioannidis, a Stanford professor and one of the most cited scientists in the world, published a now-famous paper titled "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False." His argument wasn't that scientists are liars. It's that the system has a structural bias: positive results get published. Negative results don't. Journals want results. Careers require results. Funders want results. So the literature we read is not a representative sample of the studies that were done.... it's the ones that found what someone hoped they would find.

Irving Kirsch at Harvard used freedom-of-information laws to obtain the complete clinical trial data for antidepressants... including the trials that were run but never published. When he pooled everything together, the difference between SSRIs and placebo shrank below the FDA's own threshold for clinical significance.

The drugs are still prescribed 40 million times a year in the United States.

Ben Goldacre at Oxford found that roughly half of all clinical trials are never published, and that positive results are three times more likely to see the light of day than negative ones.

In 2015, an independent consortium of 270 researchers tried to replicate 100 published psychology studies. Fewer than 40% held up. A similar project in cancer biology found fewer than half the landmark findings could be reproduced.

These weren't obscure papers. Many were widely cited studies used to justify drugs worth billions of dollars.

None of this means science doesn't work.

It means the machinery through which science gets produced, published, and translated into the prescriptions you receive has been captured by interests that are not, at their core, interested in the truth.
And when researchers try to say so, from inside the institutions, the response isn't to investigate the problem. It's to make the cost of speaking high enough that most people choose not to.

Gøtzsche was expelled from the organisation he helped build. He then faced a formal investigation under Danish health law at his own institution. Two years later, he was cleared. The finding he questioned was never proven wrong. The process was the punishment.

Peer review is a quality check... not a guarantee. And when the people doing the reviewing are financially connected to the companies whose products they're evaluating, "peer reviewed" starts to mean something very different to what most people assume.

The sources above aren't anti-medicine. They're the editor of The Lancet, the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, the co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, and a Stanford epidemiologist whose work on research methodology is among the most cited in his field.

They looked more carefully than they were supposed to. And they told us what they found.

"I only trust peer-reviewed research" = "I don't know the landscape, I don't know how the machine works, I'd rather not do the work... and hope the vocal majority are right"

Dr Dan (DC)

The pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, who created OxyContin and the opioid epidemic, is being dissolved. Why …

The company was fined $8.1 Billion , but has agreed to only pay $225 Million as it dissolves and transitions. Whilst the company was charged with multiple criminal offences, no individuals were. Pharmaceutical companies, just like Purdue, are designed to make as much money as possible, with consequences of their actions to be dealt with long after the fact, and knowing they won’t be fined nearly as much as the profits they make.

The OxyContin epidemic is responsible for over 900,000 deaths in the US alone. The next time you are told the drug you’ve been prescribed is safe, effective and not addictive, remember this is exactly what they said about OxyContin.

The Sackler Family, who created Purdue Pharma, have been ordered to pay over $7 Billion in fines & settlements also… but have been granted permission to pay this over a 15 year period, which given their continued involvement in pharmaceuticals, namely vaccines and weight loss drugs, that’ll be chump change to the profits they make by continuing to poison millions of people.

Our lending library at both practices is constantly evolving 📚
Our latest addition, ‘Death be not proud’ is a memoir by John Gunther who details his teenage son’s battle with a terminal brain tumour.
A profound book on what life truly is, and what it means to love life more, to be more aware of life and the simple pleasures we all take for granted. An antidote for the chaos that is life currently.

Our main goal at Valley Rising is to raise your health and life potential through the loving service of Chiropractic, so that you can be more aware of life, take more from life, give more back and enjoy every day to its fullest, drug-free and functioning optimally.

In accordance with the ANZAC Day Public Holiday, both practices will be closed on Monday 27th April.
Book your adjustments for this week to ensure an enjoyable long weekend.

Today we celebrate the birthday of the commander in chief of Valley Rising Chiropractic.
Dr Dans love for Chiropractic and changing lives is matched only by his love for family, friends, good times and Seinfeld.
Be sure to wish him a Happy Birthday in practice today !

🎂 🎁 🎈 Happy Birthday Dr Dan 🎂 🎁 🎈

‘If you’re not out to change the world, everything else is just Mickey Mouse’ Reggie Gold

Our aim in practice, through Chiropractic, is to allow you to experience, and fully understand, the innate ability of the body to heal and function, from the inside-out, drug-free.

Our Monday Night Matrix is crucial for you and your loved ones, to not only get the most out of your care, but to navigate the barrage of information that is sold as ‘Healthcare’ by the medical paradigm.

What: Monday Night Matrix
When: 🗓️ 5:45 PM (every Monday)
Where: 📍 Valley Rising Chiropractic East Maitland
Cost: FREE !!
Why: To change the trajectory of your family’s Health & Wellness