I started seeing one after I put my back out for the Nth time while on vacation. I couldn't bend over far enough to touch my KNEES much less my toes. Had pain when I took a deep breath. After the first adjustment...I was able to almost touch my toes. The increase in ROM was incredible. I almost cried. I mean...I was having a hard time wiping my own ass. Sorry for the TMI. But I pride myself in keeping a clean butt.
I hate to say it...but there's a lot of prejudice against Chiropractic...just like their is against osteopathic medicine...homeopathic medicine...Chinese medicine. And some of it is unfounded. It's not a "miracle cure" by any stretch of the imagination. It's a therapy. Just like PT...or MT...or taking painkillers.
Chiropractic...like allopathic medicine...has an underlying theory that ties the study together. It believes that disease starts or is exacerbated because of spinal sublaxations. Now...my cold may have nothing to do with my spine...but poor posture inhibits deep breathing...and I've gone in for an adjustment with a sinus infection...and he's manipulated my head and jaw enough to let me breathe and drain.
Clothes don't float in your closet...they need a hanger. And your spine is the hanger for the rest of your body. Not quackery...but then again...you can't charge 14k for giving someone a back massage...but for doing rotator cuff surgery....
Anyway...
Sure, chiropractic has some places where it's kind of kooky. So does allopathic (conventional) medicine. Because let me tell you...your body is suffering from a deficiency of painkillers and muscle relaxants...right??? Where is the actual therapy to the point of injury? Nope...just pop a pill. That's the Western approach. And the Western approach used to include bleeding and leeches. And still includes multiple drug recalls a year.
The number of people who die each year from Chiropractic malpractice and conventional malpractice...I mean...there's no drugs. No surgery. And very little risk of injury. So why not?
Now hormone replacement therapy after menopause...there's quack science!! Obviously being female is an ILLNESS. Thanks western medicine...for making my mother sick for ten years until they "discovered" that women go through menopause FOR A REASON. *gasp* And that hormone replacement causes just as many problems as it "cures."
Sorry. Don't mean to insult Doomsey...but the placebo effect is the most revolutionary "cure" in medicine. Is it quack science too?
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Date: 2007-09-19 04:02 pm (UTC)I hate to say it...but there's a lot of prejudice against Chiropractic...just like their is against osteopathic medicine...homeopathic medicine...Chinese medicine. And some of it is unfounded. It's not a "miracle cure" by any stretch of the imagination. It's a therapy. Just like PT...or MT...or taking painkillers.
Chiropractic...like allopathic medicine...has an underlying theory that ties the study together. It believes that disease starts or is exacerbated because of spinal sublaxations. Now...my cold may have nothing to do with my spine...but poor posture inhibits deep breathing...and I've gone in for an adjustment with a sinus infection...and he's manipulated my head and jaw enough to let me breathe and drain.
Clothes don't float in your closet...they need a hanger. And your spine is the hanger for the rest of your body. Not quackery...but then again...you can't charge 14k for giving someone a back massage...but for doing rotator cuff surgery....
Anyway...
Sure, chiropractic has some places where it's kind of kooky. So does allopathic (conventional) medicine. Because let me tell you...your body is suffering from a deficiency of painkillers and muscle relaxants...right??? Where is the actual therapy to the point of injury? Nope...just pop a pill. That's the Western approach. And the Western approach used to include bleeding and leeches. And still includes multiple drug recalls a year.
The number of people who die each year from Chiropractic malpractice and conventional malpractice...I mean...there's no drugs. No surgery. And very little risk of injury. So why not?
Now hormone replacement therapy after menopause...there's quack science!! Obviously being female is an ILLNESS. Thanks western medicine...for making my mother sick for ten years until they "discovered" that women go through menopause FOR A REASON. *gasp* And that hormone replacement causes just as many problems as it "cures."
Sorry. Don't mean to insult Doomsey...but the placebo effect is the most revolutionary "cure" in medicine. Is it quack science too?