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I am a dc. Have been for 25 years. I have performed many thousand adjustments complete with expert soft tissue release and mild traction. Like Tiger Woods, I stay practiced and have the skill. How many adjustements has a PT performed? Probably just a few. Please don't let them "crack" me. Moreover, most D.O.'s don't adjust and couldn't for any reason. They redicule what they can't perform. There are thousands of peer reviewed papers, many by major universities but the "no peer journal" line persists in the debate.

I have received Chiropractic adjustments for about 15 years now. I suffered many years from migraines and occasionally had to miss work because of them. I've even visited an emergency room because a migraine was so severe that I became violently ill. I can tell you that a chiropractor has helped me tremendously. MD's just want to push pills which I guarantee are going to be quite expensive over the course of several years. If you've never had a chiropractic manipulation/adjustment, then don't knock it. It was a lifesaver for me since I no longer have to suffer. DC's have studied long and hard to get where they are today and I'm glad. Try it, you might like it!!!

Recently I had the opportunity to listen to what in medicine was not peer reviewed. I know this will alarm you but there are no double blind studies supporting heart surgery, however I hear the the doctors performing this surgery would love some double blind studies to help with proving that this is not voodoo medicine. I am sure if you look hard enough you can find a place to voluteer. Secondarily the New England Journal of medicine used to not allow biased research which was paid for by the pharmaceutical companies. This is not longer the case. When the pharmaceutical companies or insurance companies want to ante up they will find exactly how effective chiropractic is and how much medication is unnecessary. Note the Manga report and the potential cost savings if chiropractic care was supported universally.

I do not see them as blessings, but as persons who work on the spinal cord on persons. They are called Chiropractic treatments. They assist in relieving tension also but that is it. When is comes to muscles in our bodies, then we have physiotherapists who help alot more. Cheerios Nanaimo, BC

Chiropractic "treatments" as you so eloquently refer to Adjustments are much more than relief of tension in the spine. Every nerve ending in your body ends in your spinal column. When you have pinched nerves and spinal alignment issues you can suppress your immune system, have numbness and tingling in your extremities, allergy problem, asthma, etc. I am confident I'm wasting my breath, but gave it a shot.

You have not then been to pubmed and look at the peer reviewed articles. They don't put anything back. They add mobility to an immobile joint. Look up the research. It also does have an affect on the muscles. What is connected to the joint, muscle? When you had mobility to a joint, you release the tension in the muscle. Chiropractors saying alignment is no different that MD's saying a pinched nerve. It is easier for the patient. The nerve is not really pinched, but irritated in most cases. The problem with this comment board is that most of you don't read the research. Look at pubmed and mantis and quality research website. not from google. Finally, some patients go to chiropractic monthly because their life or job causes enough stress to require it. Those who put down chiropractors with our proper research are either uneducated or just plain ignorant.

Check your journals for the latest meds out there. But make sure you check each week, because that is how often they find out that they actually are harming your patients. Wow, how good is peer review and scientifically based, when the pham. companies alter the info. just to sell a few more pills. Check your facts so you don't sound like an idiot next time.

It seems like everyone who is skeptical of unfettered access to chiropractor care "sounds like an idiot" to you. Since the overwhelming public opinion of chiropractors is pretty poor, I would think you would want to educate about your position rather act like a bully on a playground. Explain to us why a person can go to a chiropractor once, twice, or even three times a week for years with only short term relief. When we go to a physician, we expect to get our problem to get fixed at some point a cease active treatment. How is perpetual care from a chiropractor a good deal for anybody but a chirorpractor? If your answer is that I sound like an idiot, I'm going to write both my reps to oppose any bill which would make it easier for chiropractors to milk insurance policies.

Hi, I just wanted to make a small interjection to your post. There are many cases that Chiropractic care does "cure" a problem. For example, my brother-in-law had a problem with his vertebrae pinching some nerves in his back and causing real problems down his legs. A surgeon wanted him to have surgery for this and gave a grim diagnosis even after surgery. He went to a chiropractor, received 5 adjustments and has never had to go back and is back playing basketball. There are many many cases that this rings true. My guess would be that those who think you only receive temporary relief from a chiropractor have never received care themselves.

Peer-reviewed, evidence-based medicine DOES support the fact that spinal manipulation re-introduces motion into areas of spinal "hypomobility"... thus, halting and even reversing punnus formation. Pannus formation is one cause of degeneration of vertibrae/cartilage tissue damage.

It sounds like you might be slightly educated in physical medicine and knowledge about the human body, but it doesn't sound like you've ever worked on a patient or at least changed somebody's life with your treatment. Chiropractic is so much more than a low back treatment. Do your research and find out how chiropractic saves patient's and insurance companies thousands of dollars a year by correcting problems and not throwing bandiads at them.

Chiropractic physicans are doctors physiotherapists are glorified massage therapists