Friday, September 29, 2006
Chiropractic quackery
So much for time travel being a valid therapy:State regulators had been investigating Dr. James Burda of Athens, who said he could take care of anyone, anywhere by reaching back in time to when the injury occurred.
Burda said he discovered the skill six years ago when he hurt his own foot while driving. He said he gave the pain a command to stop and it went away.
He said he doesn't use force to realign bones, but he uses his mind to manipulate the body. But if that doesn't work, he said he travels back in time to fix the problem. He calls the practice Bala-Keem. State medical officials call it malpractice.
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This isn't really any new news. Chiropractic and quackery are synonymous with each other and perhaps redundant when used together. These frauds still have not figured out what a "subluxation" is and how, if at all, it relates to pathology of the spinal column. Reading a chiropractic "report" with its junk science "subluxation complexes, myositis, etc" is just as maddening as reading a junk science PI litigation rheumatologist report with its "fibromyalgia" garbage can diagnosis.
So if Chiropractos are quacks...does that make it ok to crack your own neck....or do you have to see a specialist for that?
Cracking my neck for the sake of cracking my neck is one thing. Cracking someone elses' neck and claiming that it is a scientifcally established treatment modality is quackery. These chirofrauders still can not determine the difference between a vertebral "subxulation" and the normal appearance of the spine on plain film imaging studies.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to debate your point. I think my question just doubled that way. I've never met a physician who has cracked my neck. On the other hand I know alot of people whom it seems to help with things like sciatica, headaches etc.
Justbeingreal:
The subjective relief of subjective comlpaints does not an objective treatment modality make.
Okulus:
For all of the ills of allopathic medicine (greed, self-importance, etc), including the junk science aspect of "clinical causation," it is the most scientifically based method of clinicial intervention and evaluation. You won't see me siding with the "vaccines are bad" quakopractic bunch on that issue. As far as quakopractic goes... still waiting for that definative double blind study regarding the "vertebral subluxation complex."
The subjective relief of subjective comlpaints does not an objective treatment modality make.
Okulus:
For all of the ills of allopathic medicine (greed, self-importance, etc), including the junk science aspect of "clinical causation," it is the most scientifically based method of clinicial intervention and evaluation. You won't see me siding with the "vaccines are bad" quakopractic bunch on that issue. As far as quakopractic goes... still waiting for that definative double blind study regarding the "vertebral subluxation complex."
I recommend you view some of the open source research on chiropractic and osteopeathy http://www.chiroandosteo.com/home/
Explain why the foot goes numb after the low back is hurting for some time. However, the foot numbness goes away after electro therapy , ultrasound and adjustment. The joint capsule at the spine produces a synovial fluid (joint fluid) that provides Na+ Ca+ K+ to the nerve that is delived by negatively charged minerals (electron transport) down the nerve. Nerves are mylenated with myelin sheath (muscle cells) and if the joint is inflamed there will be no replenishment of joint fluid causing the Na+ K+ Ca+ and minerals to be depleted and therefore the nerve will not have vital nutrients available to perform a neuron synaspe leaving the foot and leg cramped (locked at the calf usually) and numb. The muscle cells that insulate the nerve will be tight as well and they contract and shorten in their length and this causes a gap to be large between the muscles cells causing a problem where the nerve can not send a stimulis down the nerve. Nerves deliver electrolytes to musles (Na+, Ca+, K+) and this allows muscle to be relaxed and remain at a positive charge. So Quackery is nothing but ignorant statments by ignorant people, athletes like Emmit Smith and Thomas McGrady were kept in their game only by Chiropractic and Physical therapy modalities. Also, I am releived of back and neck and low back pain when I receive a skilled specific adjustment. A bear hug is non specific and dangerous. If you adjust the wrong vertabrae then pain will insue, if you adjust the vertabrae that is under tension because the muscle is locked on it then you will have pain releif and you will not have to take pills that just block the signal to your brain that something is happening. Muscle relaxants are poorly absorbed by inflamed cells because when cells are inflammed they have poor nutrients exchange (bringing in fluids into cells are inhibited when inflamed, so muscle relaxants have poor effect on the actual inflammed cells. Ignorance is embaracing don't advertise your ignorance, and also learn neurophysiology and how the white blood cells (inflammagens stop the joint capsule from replenishing joint fliud causing osteoporosis (lack of Ca+) because of joint inflamation. Adjustment release opiates that are housed within the nerve and it is only released within the joint and does not get into the blood stream to hinder white cells there- which by the way keep the artery clear from clogging with cholesterol plaques.
Medicine is a scam and will always be a scam to make MONEY- evil. An MD is guilty when they prescribe statin drugs to help cholesterol levels but they don't explain critical dietary habits as to how to stop the cholesterol problem and what caused it, because they never studied in Med School Biochemistry of Nutrition, they only studied Biochemistry I and II- the prerequisite of Nutrition biochem. Cholesterol rises in the body when too many saturated fatty acids are left in the blood becuase of too much intake of saturated fatty acid foods. Which means poor intake of unsaturated fatty acids and poor diet of fiber- look the public they have intestinal cancers becuase of poor intake of fiber- and these people have High blood presure because they can't get protiens to plug into their cell membranes because their membranes are too tight of straight chain saturated fatty acid chains not allowing protients and cholesterol to enter the cell membranes causing protiens and fatty acids to stay building up in the blood stream leading to high blood pressure and cholesterol and cloogage of arteries and insulin- glycogen index problems- Now I am an Ex ortopedic surgeon, now chiropractor- and If you can show ignorance as a reason to not get an adjustment to relieve pain and stop experienceing inflamation on a joint at the back which then allows the joint to replenish vital nutrients to the joint fluid in order to deliver nutrients to the nerve and bones because the joint is sealed from the blood stream- no blood in joint fluid- just nutrients and lubricant. Proteolytic Glycan- Protien, Carbohydrate and Fat- in the joint fluid- so can't you see why the joint that is under chronic inflammation becomes osteoporitic over time and usually always starts at the spine because of chronic back pain and inflamed joint due to poor spinal care over the years. The spine is mechanical and just like teeth the tissue will become destroyed over time if you don't address the problem. Chronic problems in the back lead to nocioception where nocioceptors are reproduced by the millions making you more and more sensitive and more and more inflammation is destroying tissues and you wind up with bone spurs and eventually ankylosis spondilitis. Ignorance is not bliss and insurance wouldn't pay for chiropractic if it didn't stop inflammation. Misalignments of the spine can't be felt until you have had it for at least ten years. ALso back pain of the baby is what enduces labor. So a child is 99 percent dealing with a misalignmnet at birth usually at the neck and low back. But they are ignored and usually start having symptoms at ten years of age. ALso they have tonsil problems and other adenoid problems because the nerves are inflammed at the spine and the spine is misaligned and the joint does not replinish proper joint fluid to the joint and the nerves are deprived of proper nutrients to be dilivered (electrolytes Ca+, K+, Na+) and the tonsils become negatively charged and then the positively charged bacteria sets up a colony on the tonsils and thrives- a positively charged bacterium can not live where there is positive charged nurtients. So keep talking trash just to sale drugs- one day you will fade becuase medications can't correct misaligned tight joints. And if you don't get spinal care, you will just like a cavity have to get surgery down the road and be put into a will chair and suffer badly- your choice MR CRIMINAL MEDICINE PUSHER
Medicine is a scam and will always be a scam to make MONEY- evil. An MD is guilty when they prescribe statin drugs to help cholesterol levels but they don't explain critical dietary habits as to how to stop the cholesterol problem and what caused it, because they never studied in Med School Biochemistry of Nutrition, they only studied Biochemistry I and II- the prerequisite of Nutrition biochem. Cholesterol rises in the body when too many saturated fatty acids are left in the blood becuase of too much intake of saturated fatty acid foods. Which means poor intake of unsaturated fatty acids and poor diet of fiber- look the public they have intestinal cancers becuase of poor intake of fiber- and these people have High blood presure because they can't get protiens to plug into their cell membranes because their membranes are too tight of straight chain saturated fatty acid chains not allowing protients and cholesterol to enter the cell membranes causing protiens and fatty acids to stay building up in the blood stream leading to high blood pressure and cholesterol and cloogage of arteries and insulin- glycogen index problems- Now I am an Ex ortopedic surgeon, now chiropractor- and If you can show ignorance as a reason to not get an adjustment to relieve pain and stop experienceing inflamation on a joint at the back which then allows the joint to replenish vital nutrients to the joint fluid in order to deliver nutrients to the nerve and bones because the joint is sealed from the blood stream- no blood in joint fluid- just nutrients and lubricant. Proteolytic Glycan- Protien, Carbohydrate and Fat- in the joint fluid- so can't you see why the joint that is under chronic inflammation becomes osteoporitic over time and usually always starts at the spine because of chronic back pain and inflamed joint due to poor spinal care over the years. The spine is mechanical and just like teeth the tissue will become destroyed over time if you don't address the problem. Chronic problems in the back lead to nocioception where nocioceptors are reproduced by the millions making you more and more sensitive and more and more inflammation is destroying tissues and you wind up with bone spurs and eventually ankylosis spondilitis. Ignorance is not bliss and insurance wouldn't pay for chiropractic if it didn't stop inflammation. Misalignments of the spine can't be felt until you have had it for at least ten years. ALso back pain of the baby is what enduces labor. So a child is 99 percent dealing with a misalignmnet at birth usually at the neck and low back. But they are ignored and usually start having symptoms at ten years of age. ALso they have tonsil problems and other adenoid problems because the nerves are inflammed at the spine and the spine is misaligned and the joint does not replinish proper joint fluid to the joint and the nerves are deprived of proper nutrients to be dilivered (electrolytes Ca+, K+, Na+) and the tonsils become negatively charged and then the positively charged bacteria sets up a colony on the tonsils and thrives- a positively charged bacterium can not live where there is positive charged nurtients. So keep talking trash just to sale drugs- one day you will fade becuase medications can't correct misaligned tight joints. And if you don't get spinal care, you will just like a cavity have to get surgery down the road and be put into a will chair and suffer badly- your choice MR CRIMINAL MEDICINE PUSHER
As a pediatrician and endocrinologist, I declare that your treatise on nerve and muscle inflammation is purely hogwash !!!
As a former orthopedic surgeon, you should be embarrased to write such stupidity. Maybe you can fool the lay public -- but you cannot fool REAL physicians Mr Quacko !!
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As a former orthopedic surgeon, you should be embarrased to write such stupidity. Maybe you can fool the lay public -- but you cannot fool REAL physicians Mr Quacko !!
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