MEDICAL experts have called on Canberra to shut down a university chiropractic clinic aimed at children amid claims the theories behind the practice are "no better than witchcraft" and using it on children is akin to child abuse. More than…
Category: Chiropractic Promotion
The chiropractic profession is a very diverse group, making it extremely difficult to present a consensus view of chiropractic and its benefits. I believe the pole the chiropractic profession should attach its flag to was defined by The World Federation of Chiropractic in 2005. Chiropractic is separate and distinct from medicine. Chiropractors are specialists in spinal health care, they do not suppress symptoms with drugs and they focus on the relationship of spinal joint function to the nervous system and its effect on wellbeing.n chiropractic and its benefits.
Super Bowl most valuable player the son of a chiropractor
Its generally accepted that chiropractic helps back pain, researchers have methods to measure pain and observe changes during a course of treatment. Measuring performance is much more subjective and as researchers try to avoid too many variables they tend to…
Chiropractic vs. Medicine for Acute LBP: No Contest. What a surprise.
I don’t normally use research studies to make a point, but as skeptics are very fond of them and have been ignoring this one, I thought I would give it a mention. Skeptics like Edzard |Ernst were widely quoted in…
AECC has removed all reference to chiropractic helping children with colic, otis media and flies the flag for the orthodox approach to children’s health.
Blue Wode tells me he is not always anti chiropractic, he has praised the AECCs stance on Vaccination. Ten years ago the AECC was promoting meningitis vaccines for their students so they fact they endorse vaccination is hardly a revelation.…
In 1895 Harvey Lillard had his hearing improved after a spinal adjustment by DD Palmer, scientists may be closer to understanding the mechanism.
Research in rats suggests that stimulating the vagus nerve could help stop persistent ringing in the ears. Question for lover of science is would the stimulation of mechano receptors in the spinal joints of the cervical spine or pelvis…
Michael Pedigo has passed on but the chiropractic profession needs to take on board his words and vision.
I was saddened to hear one of the five plaintiffs from the Wilk case Michael Pedigo passed away on the 10/10/2010. The Wilk case should have been a watershed for the chiropractic profession. The book is a must read for…
At long last, the damage the General Chiropractic Council and BCA alliance is doing to the profession, is being recognised internationally.
We all laughed five years ago when Terry Rondberg came to the UK and described the GCCs Code of Practice and Standards of Proficiency as “Chiropractic Pornography”. GCC members Kevin Proudman and Matt Flanagan were censured by GCC for…
Highlights of this weeks ECU conference in London: David Byfield – how to make friends and influence Simon Singh
David Byfield and I have never liked each other since he altered evidence against a BCA colleague for a GCC hearing in 2002. Thats him in in his grim reaper outfit with BCA president Richard Brown (well fed on…
Despite the damage done by the BCA the chiropractic profession should not seek “legitimacy” through the biomedical model
”The time has come for complementary medicine to turn away from the need to obtain legitimacy from orthodox medicine by adopting its paradigm and research methods” David St George, Consultant/Senior Lecturer in. Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine at the…
Study investigating whether manipulation of the upper cervical spine could reduce blood pressure
Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research Begins Patient Recruiting for a Study on Chiropractic and High Blood Pressure Published on December 1, 2009 December 1, 2009 (Davenport, IA) — Researchers at the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research (PCCR) clinic facility,…