In a message dated 3/23/99 5:01:23 AM Central Standard Time,
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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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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,
rehabilitation 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
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.
John Lowry
chiropractic intern
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