[anniegetyourgun]

You just knew this had to be a story out of FL.

I'll bring popcorn this time....

[satchmodog9]

bump

[shellshocked]

The quacks don't like the cracks intruding on their profitable space!

Butter on that popcorn?

[Monterrosa-24]

That is another problem with government funds going to medicine. The back poppers line up to get in on taxpayer cash too. Let the people go get their backs "adjusted" but let them do it with their own cash.

I'm glad some profs spoke up and threatened to resign over this Univ. issue. The Chiro colleges are prolific enough already.

[billorites]

[billorites]

[sarasota]

I've tried chiropractic but it's done nothing more than leave me with a headache. However, I know many people who get relief from adjustments instead of looking for just the right drug to correct the problem. Whatever works.

[Fishing-guy]

Since medicine is a scientific profession, chiropractors need to publish scientific articles to proof their points.

[theDentist]

When I had back problems for 8 months, all doctors would do is prescribe painkillers and the like. The Chiropractor went to work on me and inside a month I was back to normal. Pseudo-science my a$$

[longtermmemmory]

More chiropractos equals more lawsuits?

[OB1kNOb]

If doctors are so smart, then why do they call their job "practice" ?

[rlmorel]

After seeing several of these types of threads, I have come to the conclusion someone needs to post the "Not this S**t Again!" picture.

For some reason, this subject brings out the worst in people. People just keep repeating the same things over and over again.

[zzen01]

MDs and ODs are an arrangent lot.

[joesnuffy]

Ask the football players if it works...

[Question_Assumptions]

For whatever it's worth, chiropractors do seem to help my back pain but I think they go way too far in what they claim it can do. I should also point out that I once had health benefits that would pay for a Christian Science practitioner. No, I don't belong to that faith but apparently the company's owners did.

[Tribune7]

ping

[UnklGene]

[theFIRMbss]

[Bushforlife]

Chiropractors are quacks. If someone has a sore neck or back, and they get a massage [adjustment], they are likely to feel better. Since most acute back/neck pain episodes resolve spontaneously within 7-10 days, of course chiropractors can claim that their "therapy" was responsible for the "cure". And of course if a patient is told that a particular treatment is designed to make them better, a certain percentage will improve no matter what the treatment consists of [placebo effect].

Modern medicine is NOT limited to surgery and medication prescription. Physical therapy is routinely prescribed for neck/back problems. A whole specialty of Pain Control has evolved to deal with the chronic pain of neck/back disease. Chronic neck/back pain is VERY hard to control, hence the emergence of a pseudoscience like Chiropractic.

As for the "modern medicine can cause people harm" posts, the posters show an amazing degree of lack of understanding of the complexity of medical treatment. For instance, one poster cited an allergic reaction to an antibiotic as an example of modern medicine causing illness. If a patient is found to have a pneumonia, that patient needs an antibiotic to recover. There is no may to predict if a patient will have an allergic reaction to an antibiotic. What would you have the physician do, refuse to prescribe the life saving antibiotic for fear that the patient will have an allergic reaction? All drugs have the potential for side effects; thats the fault of REALITY, not modern medicine.

Consider this situation: you go to your doctor and are diagnosed as having very high blood pressure. You do not respond to a low salt diet. You are told what has been shown in SCIENTIFIC studies, that you are at high risk of having a stroke or a heart attack as a result of untreated high blood pressure. You are told that you have to take blood pressure medication, and that ALL MEDICATION HAS SIDE EFFECTS, which are listed for you. Choice A: refuse to take medication, and play the odds that you will have a disabling illness as a consequence. Choice B: take the medication and play the odds that you may have a side effect to the medication, but a much lower risk of stroke/heart attack. Which will you choose?

All of modern medicine consists of this choice, which basically is to offer the patient a lower risk therapy to avoid the higher risk of the disease. In real life, there is absolutely no therapy without side effects; there is no food to which someone won't be allergic, and there is no car that can't suddenly break down in traffic. So if you are told you have an illness, go ahead and refuse any treatment without side effects, and you will therefore do without treatment. Such is the nature of the real world.

[Michael.SF.]

a handful have even threatened to resign rather than teach alongside what they consider a "pseudoscience."

Two comments:

There i$ one primary rea$on Doctor$ are oppo$$ed to Chiropractor$.

Other then drugs or surgery what are a Doctor's options when it comes to back pain? Answer: virtually none

[Old Professer]

When I first moved here 10 years ago, my neighbor's father, a Vietnam vet, was staying with them and being treated in a group of vets to determine the validity of Agent Orange medical problems while also being treated for diabetes.

He developed a nagging ache in his neck that limited his movement and caused him a great deal of discomfort and the VA docs couldn't figure out the cause but they didn't object when he went to a chiropractor several times a week for about a month or so.

Finally, the VA gave him a full head and neck scan and discovered a rapid-growth tumor.

He was scheduled for corrective surgery, etc. when he died of a stroke.