My research are my patients. My people. The humans who come into my office on a daily basis are my research. I have to look them in the eye and they tell me themselves whether they are getting better or not.
There are chiros who LOVE to quote research, they can give you the latest website and studies that substantiate chiropractic technique. That's not me. I LOVE to work on patients, day-in and day-out. Those people vote with their dollars and their participation in my office. They show up, they get better, they come back when they need to. That is my research. I am simply reporting my life's experience. I run a busy practice everyday, packed with pts who come in hurting and leave feeling better. It's not me. It's the application of a sound technique that works to get pts well.
Instead of attacking the messenger boy, why don't you address the issue? I make the statement that vertebral bone manipulation affects the inner-ear and the lungs, in fact, the nervous system affects every cell in your body. Chiropractic works and has been well established in this country over the last 100 years. In China, they call it "tui-na". Chinese medical doctors have been performing vertebral manipulation for 1000's of years, with good effect. If it was ineffective, they would have dismissed the practice a long time ago.
My work chiropractic is not toxic. It does not harm. It does not kill 100s of thousands of people a year, like pharma drugs do. It is a safe and appropriate therapy for people with vertebral dysfunction, and that's everybody.
DocVikingo...have you ever been to a good chiro before and taken adjustments?
I can certainly appreciate the methodology of proper research. Too bad American research in itself has lost so much credibility. We live in a day when researchers are bought and sold. Researchers who report adverse to what the financiers want to hear get fired. Drug companies report what they want doctors\teachers\the public to hear.
We clinical docs who deal with pts all day read what we can, do our best to keep up on literature as we can, but there is just so much time in the day to read all the documentation.
Then there's college teachers-PhDs who teach based on theories in the book and research that has been based on other peoples' published studies, theories and conclusions. All theory and no practice. When you spend all your time in school among academics, you don't tend to have a grasp on the real world people, the patients, the public.
My world and my research are my patients. They don't care about someone's fudged research. They just wanna feel better. They wanna dive without ear pain. They want more than theory and websites. They want action and results. That's where my energies lie.
I'm on this forum to bring to the publics' attention another technique and protocol for inner ear problems, other than drugs and surgery. I talk about chiropractic. Sorry it doesn't meet your academic standards DocVikengo. I don't care. That's not my mission. I understand your standard is properly controlled clinical trials. Great. My standards are getting sick people well despite opposition and medical suppression.
I enjoy very much reading academia, from many perspectives. I enjoy my peer-reviewed paperwork, data from other health care practices, even the theoretical research stuff.
But we are getting off track again. The reason I wrote this thread was to inform the public that they have options for inner ear disorders and asthma outside of orthodox medical practice. My experience, after 20 years of daily full-time clinical practice, is that the drugs medical doctors give their patients for inner ear, sinous and asthma disorders don't work. In fact, they make the pts feel terrible, sick and worse. I recommend chiropractic. If a person has not ever tried chiropractic, then they are overlooking a common cause for health imbalance, the vertebral subluxation condition.
page crow DC
Kansas City, MO
April 14, 2006
