New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

ojisanruss2 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:27:35 GMT

My first Upper Cervical adjustment was in 1974, and I haven't stopped since. It has profoundly affected my life and health. I was a basket case as a result of a bad fall while studying Judo in Japan. After 10 years of suffering periodic spells of painful muscle spasms throughout the body, and restricted bodily functions, I found relief finally at the skilled hands of an upper cervical chiropractor (Dr. Dan Kuhn, Huntington Beach, CA - still going strong at an advanced age.) The first adjustment took care of the worst of my conditions, which never came back. Then the less serious conditions also responded beneficially - and is the reason I return on a regular basis - to correct constipation and the headaches that result. There was a case of sciatica once, and was quickly cleared up after my usual adjustment. He told me to never allow anyone to twist my head for popping the neck, that it is dangerous. His method can't be duplicated without the necessary training and experience, and is well worth whatever it may cost you. It is an inobtrusive, non-invasive way of quickly promoting health by restoring the body's own ability to heal itself. I reccomend it highly.

Russ Lisenby

Student of Holistic Nutrition at Clayton College of Natural Health

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

bonedoc — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:50:17 GMT

As both a medical and chiropractic physician, it is about time more correct and true information comes to the public about the great benefits of chiropractic. Even herniated discs can recover without surgical intervention using chiropractic care. Well done.

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

chiropractic — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:59:58 GMT

This simple explanation may help both those that utilize and remain skeptical of chiropractic.

When both thinking and discussing chiropractic versus medicine, one must avoid the application of the allopathic (medical) model, methodology, and rational in comparing each in their arrival of a working diagnosis and care plan. Whilst both recieve a very similar education and training in differential diagnosis, the DC assumes a proactive (wellness) stance of interest in the prevention and/or reaction to dis-ease. Via the detection and correction of vertebral subluxations and related spinal biomechanics, the DC corrects and thus clears and/or stimulates the very nervous system that supplies all the cells of the body. Indepth information regarding a healthy lifestyle is the other half of the effort.

The above process is initially intensive and repetitious (correction care) to reteach both hard (vertebra) and soft tissue. This process may take several months. Each individual has a unique presentation and the implementation and results of a healthier lifestyle takes time too.

Eventually the time will arrive for entry into a wellness schedule (1-2x/month).

No need to explain the MD (allopathic) method.

SG, D.C.

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

vtierce750 — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:02:25 GMT

I have been using a chiropractor for over 40 years after the medical profession could not find a reason for my Grand Mall seizures. Cured in 3 treatments

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

trainerboy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:36:54 GMT

As a personal trainer and corrective exercise specialist, I believe that EVERYONE should get regular, chiropractic care. I recommend that all of my clients see a DC before beginning an exercise program. I'm very fortunate to be associated with an exceptional DC who practices in Dr. Mercola's offices. Combining appropriate chiropractic care with an exercise regimen based on assesments by the two of us has helped many people become pain free and improved the quality of their lives without drugs or surgery.

Thanks to Dr. Mercola and to Dr. Lloyd Fielder for continuing to help us learn how to be healthier and live more productive lives.

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

asv — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:27:13 GMT

In this article it mentions:

1) Your head is visibly tilted, shifted or rotated in one direction.

2) Your head is jutted out in front of your chest and shoulders.

3) One hip is higher than the other, turned in one direction, or shifted to one side.

4) One shoulder is higher than the other, turned in one direction, or your whole upper body is shifted to one side.

as being indications of bad posture. I have all 4, but I'm only 22 so I'm still pretty young and it's not too bad but I would like to correct it before I start having serious issues in the years to come. I'm trying to consider the best way to go. I've read up on certain websites about certain stretches that work. Does anyone have any wisdom as to weather posture can actually be corrected by doing correct exercises? Or is chiropractic work the only way to get joints/muscles/bones/whatever pushed back into their correct place?

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

sherry8034 — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:36:29 GMT

I think this article is misleading bunk. Thousands each year are harmed by chiropractors doing cervical "adjustments", myself included. The fool snapped my neck and ruptured my disk and I had to have surgery and now have a plate in my neck. I was so close to becoming a quadraplegic it wasn't funny. As with any "medical" procedure it is only as good as the person doing it.

Maybe in the UK they don't report such injuries like here in the U.S.

In my case I could prove it was the chiropractor since I had before and after MRIs. My neurosurgeon says this happens a lot and some people even have strokes. He said NEVER let anyone mess with your neck.

I didn't even go there for that. He talked me into it; even after I told him I had a SMALL herniated disk in my neck and prior surgery. That should have been a red flag to him. When he walked into court he was cocky and still to this day feels he can do no harm. Even after what happened to me he says he would do it all over again. Someone like that is DANGEROUS.

Chiropractors should be outlawed!!!

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

LilRazDaz — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:21:03 GMT

I know there have been a few other physical therapists that have mentioned something here, so I won't elaborate too much, but I definitely want to add a few things. There is a place for chiropractors, for certain, but I also want people to hear about and know about physical therapists. It seems like the public in general doesn't hear too much, or doesn't know much about our practice. I am really striving to help awareness of the profession when I can. When someone is a diabetic, or has rheumatoid arthritis, who do they see? The endocrinologist. If someone has a stroke they see a neurologist. Heart problems, a cardiologist. Doctors have special body systems they treat. As Shirley Sahrmann put it, there are lots of system specialists, and physical therapists are the movement system specialists. The movement system is indeed a system, and physical therapists are out there too, helping the whole package work appropriately. We are professionals, and the schooling is encompassing. The profession is becoming a doctoral profession. We work in everything from the ICU to helping someone who came in off the street with a sprained ankle. Many states allow you to see the physical therapist directly, while some still require a referral from the doctor. The next time you're in pain, don't forget your physical therapist!

Some of us do manipulations like chiropractors, but we also address the underlying problems that caused you to need that manipulation in the first place, so we don't see you back over and over for the same problem. Chiropractors have their place too. Talk to your doctor, or your local physical therapist!

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

curious7 — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:24:15 GMT

If allow those Chiropractors too much in the game, "Big Pharma" will suffer.

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

Magnolia — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:35:58 GMT

I've been seeing chiropractors for over 15 years and in that time have experienced a continuing improvement in my levels of wellness. I am strong, fit, well-nourished and well-adjusted. My current chiropractor is the best I have ever seen and I have been with him about 10 years. He gives me adivce on nutrition, exercise, and tells me when I need more rest. Chiropractic students study much the same program that medical students do. They do more work in the nutritional area while the med students are studying pharmacology. I vote a big yes for chiropractic.

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

RawPower_203 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:19:06 GMT

I am currenty a student at New York University in Manhattan and have had serious back problems in the past. During the beginning of my sophmore year in high school I could not even stand up straight and was forced to miss the first few weeks of my soccer season. I visited an orthopedist who told me there was little he could find wrong and gave me some extra stretching to do. As a last ditch effort to help myself, I visisted a chiropractor who not only had me running in under a week, but has now become one of my biggest mentors and friends. He performs applied kinisiology (the best diagnostic tool I have ever witnessed) and can pinpoint exactly where my body's energy has been blocked. This article just reinforces what I've known for years....that chiropractic care is something everyone should get on a regular basis and is a great alternative to the crap they offer in conventional medical offices. I am happy to say that I am now interning with two chiropractors in Manhattan and will be attending Life Universiy in Georgia next year to become a chiropractor myself.

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LibertarianHippie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:29:17 GMT

this is my third post on just this article. sorry for this.

i just learned that my ex-girlfriends sisters husband is in the hospital because his operation earlier this week didn't go all that well. First I would like to point out something the majority of us forget, it is called the practice of medicine. MDs practice on you; it is not called the wellness cure or the path to recovery, they are just practicing. Chew on that before you see another MD. Secondly, even when people are in grave conditions like this man is, they will not try something different. This is probably what kills more often than anything. Even though the surgery didn't go well, the family won't do anything except want another medical doctor and to question the medical doctors. You must want to try something new that hasn't been tried yet and I don't mean a new drug. You cannot expect different results without doing something different. The most pigheaded people I know, are often the sickest and most un-happiest people just because they are not willing to do something different about it. Go see a chiropractor and worry less.

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

LibertarianHippie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:33:20 GMT

I have been seeing and/or have known about the great care chiropractors provide since about 2002. More recently, I've been seeing mine. When I tell people I have a chiropractor, they always have to ask if I've had "back problems" and I just answer no, it feels good. If fact the very first adjustment I had, was so very wonderful. I had no idea my neck was so stiff and sore all the time. When I first learned what all a chiropractor could help with, everyone thought I was a fool and that DCs only want to see you so often to make money. But these are the same people who take medication for their illness and it doesn't make a difference. My primary care physician is my Chiropractor. If you haven't been to see one, what are you waiting for? Are you afraid they will hurt your back and you will be broken forever? A lot of people are but then I just tell them that medical doctors kill more people than chiropractors hurt. Drive around your town and count all the DC offices you see. If they were not successful, would there really be that many?

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Dr Rik — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:16:18 GMT

I appreciate Dr. Mercola's support of our profession. Of course there is a range of competence and ethics, however, the worst Chiropractors are hurting essentially no-one and helping quite a few people. The worst MDs are killing people right and left. The career average per MD is five or more dead patients who would have been fine otherwise. If your MD is on the ball, what is the one in the next office doing? My experience is that most people let their insurance coverage do the talking. Good luck!

re: New Evidence Supports the Safety of Chiropractic Care

Ross Walter — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:25:18 GMT

I have been a bit sceptical about Chiropractors, despite being an avid believer of alternative treatments over "traditional" medical treatments (ie drugs, antibiotics or surgery to supposedly fix everything).

While I believe that lots of people get short-term benefits from Chiros, such as spinal manipulation treatments, as I understand it, it's the muscles of the body which pull the spine out of alignment causing various pains and problems for people. Spinal manipulation may temporarily resolve the pain, but tense muscles will keep pulling the spine out of alignment again, unless the root cause of the issue is actually resolved. I have heard of a lot of Chiros who prefer to have people keep coming back to them every week or so, for yet another temporary fix, than actually fixing them properly.

Massage therapy, I believe, is a better treatment for back and spinal mis-alignment problems as the muscles can be loosened back to their original position, thus releasing the spine back into place too.

Also, emotional treatments such as EFT in particular, are better still in being able to release emotional blockages which are more often the cause (with the exception of injuries, of course) of such spine mis-alignment and muscle tension problems.

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