Chiropractic school angers FSU professors

St. Petersburg Times ^ | December 29, 2004 | By RON MATUS, Times Staff Writer

[Slings and Arrows]

Coffee - great at both ends!

[cyborg]

LOL hehehehe

[shellshocked]

"My doctors had full access to advanced diagnostic equipment like MRI, something the quacky "doctors" of chiropracty flat out don't."

That's a lie. Chiros refer to hospitals for MRIs and X-rays all the time.

[Slings and Arrows]

My favorite chiropractor scam here in NY City are the carloads of 6 Russians tapping the bumper of a car with 6 Haitians in faked car accidents.

Multiculturalism works!

[VOA]

As a physician, I always thought little of the chiropractic.

For years I was told by lots of friends and family that they'd not take
their dog to a chiropractor.

THEN...I visited a girlfriend in Kansas City. Her mom had been in a bus
struck "amidships" by a car/truck.
Her mom had a sizeable "knot" in the side of her neck from the trauma and
had substantial pain. My inexpert eye would guess it was something like
a tight ball of muscle tissue that just wouldn't relax; or maybe an increible
"bruise" deep in the tissues.
She visited a small array of M.D.s; neurologists, surgeons...and none of them
would "touch" the thing. And they didn't give much hope of the
problem resolving by itself soon.

In quiet desparation, she went to a chiropractor.
After a few visits (over a couple of months)...the d-mned "knot" disappeared,
along with the pain.

If I hadn't seen this happen over the course of a couple of months...
I'd not have believed it happened.
(Of course, I do admit that maybe it was a problem that might have
resolved without treatment...but still...)

[politicalwit]

O.D.= Optometrist
D.O.= Oestopath

[philomath]

Chiropractors do not get the same medical education as DO's or MD's!! Not true

let's see; med school is usually four years and the first two and part of the third are usually basic science. so you think chiros get the same anatomy instruction as surgeons, and the same pharm instruction as bench researchers?? maybe they share a few course titles, like high school has English, which both the future dropouts and future PhDs take.

[Pharmboy]

Will that be one lump or two?

( ;-D

[aculeus]

My first surprise of 2005: As a subject, Chiropractic is a Freeper-magnet.

Who knew?

[longtermmemmory]

This is not about a school of chiropractic or the science or lack of science behind the practice. This is about a the FSU faculty being in a pissing match with the brother of the EEEEEEEEEEEvil President Bush.

[FormerACLUmember]

Very strange logic, very strange indeed.

[Slings and Arrows]

I have read many of the comments here, and I am willing to bet that the most vociferous critics of Chiropractors fall into one of three categories:
a) ...
b) ...
c) ...
d) ...

So what do you think about critics of mathematicians?

[Ditter]

I am glad you have found the answer to your pain. I am sure that when chiropractors stick to what yours has done for you they do help people. I have just heard too many people tell me the things that some chiropractors have promised them that are out of the realm of possibility, such as, "if you come here for regular spinal adjustments you will never have to take a vaccination or you will never get an infection". I think there a lot of quacks in that profession and if you listen only to them you can ignore a serious illness that might otherwise be cured by traditional medicine.

[Casloy]

As long as they don't try to treat allergies with spinal manipulations or advocate coffee enemas, they're fine with me.

I agree. I've known people with chronic back or neck problems who were helped immediately by a chiropractore. But, I also know people who spend thousands going back for weekly "adjustements" and are being diagnosed for food allergies without any kind of standard allergic tests.

[Rebelbase]

If you go to one of those colonic clinics do you get to choose from a list of enema flavors?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

GV,

you obviously made the mistake of thinking that the anti-Chiropractor posts here lacked FACTS to convince them. No, it has nothing to do with actual facts.

I too have benefited after my MD failed to help me, but that's just our little secret...

yours for promoting health... ampu

[cyborg]

LOL actually you can get one with wheatgrass juice hehehe.