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Date: March 22, 1999 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: CHIRO & PT
>Renee said:
>
><<John,
>
>So, manipulations can cure diabetic neuropathy? You must show me how! Then
I
>can prevent all the diabetic ulcers and amputations I see.
>
>It corrects tendinitis too? Wow!
>
>Renee
>(yes, I'm skeptical)>>
>
>John's reply:
>
>Wow Renee, such antagonism! If you will reread my post you will not find
any
>mention that I treated diabetic neuropathy or tendinitis with manipulation,
>nor will you find any claim that they can be treated in such a way. The
>diabetic patient was under the concurrent care of an MD and was seeing me
for
>a cervical complaint. Her "carpal tunnel syndrome" was examined as part of
my
>routine comprehensive physical. Of course it is common sense that if a
>tendinitis originates from poor joint biomechanics, then correcting those
>biomechanics will address the problem.
I think that there are many from the "Adverse Neural Tension " school of
thought in PT that would have said manual treatment to the spine might have
affected the "carpal tunnel syndrome". It is also possible that a
superior/posterior rib 1 or 2 could also produce similar compalaints(and
responds well to HVT or the like). Your comments about abnormal
mechanics(ie abducted ulna) being responsible for the complaints seems
conservative and well within normal PT(manual therapist) thinking.
>I am here for a professional and courteous exchange of information. Would
you
>have been so nasty if I had identified myself as a PT?
Unfortunate that identity might play a part in how fellow professionals
treat each other.
>John Lowry
>chiropractic intern
Where did you do your training so that it might be possible to appreciate
your bvackground. I know that the McKenzie Institute is now teaching in
?National College in the states and seems to consider the chiropractic
approach as "scientific".
Hope that you continue as a Lister and not a Lurker!
Cheers, Ross.
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