Dear Mel
Once again within the space of 24 hours I find myself saying ' well said '
Warm Regards Kevin
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To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 21 March 1999 14:53
Subject: CHIRO & PT
>On 3/21/99, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
><<. . . .the issue is one of marketing, physio hides its light under a
bushel,
>chiro's have no such inhibitions. I visited a chiro in my area and
observed
>his practice. He used grade V high velocity thrust techniques on all the
>patients I observed. When questioned on this he said 'because I have the
>balls to do it'. I told him I thought
>this was a flimsy piece of clinical reasoning.
>
>He also claimed to eradicate dyslexia ... via manual therapy. >>
>
>***If his claims to be able to remove a subtle brain-located language
>dysfunction via manipulation are indicative of his education and training,
>then I wonder what else he knows about the central nervous system and his
>ability to intelligently and safely manipulate the spine. At least, there
is
>not a single physio in the world who would ever make that unsubstantiated
and
>astounding claim, which says something for the adequacy of education
received
>by that chiro in neural functioning and communication disorders.
>
>That chiro sounds a bit like one who manipulated the neck of an incomplete
>quadriplegic in S Africa to alleviate chronic pain and turned her into a
>complete quad (the case made news headlines - and yes, there was a big
legal
>settlement and the chiro was 'struck off' the rolls). It also reminds me of
>another one who applied manipulation, 'decompression' and mobilisation
>techniques for several months to relieve chronic back pain in a woman whose
>spinal X-rays seemed to suggest disc herniation - months later, a
neurosurgeon
>identified spinal cancer.
>
>Certainly, these errors can happen to many medical folk, but the chances of
>its occurring are magnified if one regards one's own expertise as being so
>universal that it diminishes one's reliance on team work with several other
>specialists. This is where the universal panacea of spinal manipulation
among
>some chiros can lead to serious problems. The spine, as many other more
>sensible chiros will agree, does not hold the key to all medical and
>psychological disorders.
>
>It would be interesting to hear what other claims are made by some chiros
>regarding the value of spinal manipulation in dealing with other medical
>disorders which appear to have no obvious links with the spine.
>
>Dr Mel C Siff
>Denver, USA
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