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> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: CHIRO & PT
> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 9:32 AM
>
> In a message dated 3/23/99 5:01:23 AM Central Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> <<
> 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.
> >>
>
> I am finishing up my studies at Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas,
USA.
> The curriculum includes not only several chiropractic techniques and a
solid
> basic and clinical sciences core but we also study physiotherapy,
What "Physiotherapy" do you learn?
> rehabilitation
What "rehabilitation" do you learn?
and soft tissue work. Along with two public clinics our campus
> has a very well equipped rehabilitation center with a full-time rehab
staff to
> support those patients who need such care. Our hands-on courses cover
the
What is the extent of the training of the rehab staff? What codes are
being used for billing? Are they PT codes? Do they call the rehab
physical therapy?
> material of not only chiropractors but such names as Hoppenfeld, Caillet,
> Kendall & McCreary, Travell & Simmons, Janda, McKenzie, etc. There are
some
> faculty at the school who teach that adjusting the spine makes miracles
happen
> (a la freed nerve energy) but this is accepted with varying degrees by
the
> student body and the more extreme of these people are generally snickered
at.
> At least a couple of schools such as Life and Sherman still do teach this
to
> the extreme though. For the record, applied kinesiology, cranial
adjusting,
> magnets, crystal waving, chicken bone throwing, and telepathic telephone
> surrogate muscle testing of someone's possessed cat are NOT chiropractic
even
> though television tabloid hidden cameras may find someone doing these
things
> who happens to be a chiropractor.
Janda, Kendall, McKenzie, and Travell aren't chiropractic as well.
Doesn't this post upset anybody? Why don't they just call themselves
PT's?!
>
> John Lowry
> chiropractic intern
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