For years I have run a casual email
list serving the chiropractic profession, its students
and various interested non-chiropractor supporters.
Issue 19
Are you interested in the USA vaccine schedule?
...can you imagine and project to 2017?
cdc_comparison
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""chiropractic services for treatment of children and adolescents is unproven""
I am sending this everywhere, and to Australian Chiropractors TWICE, so they read it.
Who wants to limit the consultation of chiropractor's with children?
Looks like a world phenomenon.
I have had experience in Australia, where the Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australasia (COCA, a chimeric group), wanted to limit chiropractors seeing children to those FIRST asking the GP/MD for a referral. Absurd? Angry? See my response to their pseudo-science below.
The JVSR informs of this:
https://www.jvsr.com/researchupdate/detail.asp?ID=1084
THEN SEE MY RESPONSE BELOW.......................
Research Update - 12/5/2007
Open Letter to the Profession
An Open Letter to the Profession, UnitedHealthcare
and ACN
From
the World Chiropractic Alliance
In
September 2007, United Healthcare and ACN issued a
policy statement that
chiropractic services for treatment of children
and adolescents is unproven
According
to their Bulletin, they came to this conclusion after
a recent review of clinical evidence published in
peer reviewed medical
literature. Following the release of their
policy statement, ACNs Vice President of Clinical
Programs, Dave Elton, issued a letter to providers
stating that they had received input on their policy
from the wider profession.
According
to Elton, this input led to meetings between UHC and
ACNs Professional Chiropractic Advisory Committee
(CPAC) and that as a result of these meetings they
were going to further review and evaluate the
available literature and hold more extensive
consultation with experts. Thus they temporarily
suspended implementation of their policy change on
children.
According
to the letter from Dr. Elton, the Chiropractic
Professional Advisory Committee ...is comprised of
leadership from several state chiropractic
associations... He goes on to state that their
additional review "will benefit from the
contributions of several well known and well
respected researchers, published authors and
clinicians" He adds that 'UnitedHealthcare and ACN
are committed to transparency and external
participation in this process'
As all
chiropractors we were outraged at the original policy
on chiropractic care for children released by UHC and
ACN. To be sure, we were even more outraged that they
admittedly came to that conclusion through a faulty
process and that it took input from the profession
for them to come to their senses. We will anxiously
await how close their revised policy on the care of
children comes to the reality of over 100 years of
chiropractic pediatric care. At a minimum, the
revised policy will need to include the analysis and
reduction of vertebral subluxation for children and
adolescents. Anything less will be completely
unacceptable.
In the
meantime we demand that UHC and ACN demonstrate their
commitment to transparency and provide the profession
with the names and affiliations of those serving on
the CPAC as well as those well known and well
respected researchers who will be involved in this
further review.
Regardless
of whether or not a chiropractor is a provider for
UHC/ACN or not, the policies promulgated by them
effect the entire profession and the consumers we
serve. ACN is purportedly the second largest provider
of chiropractic managed care in this country with at
least 20,000 providers serving over a half million
patients. Therefore, their policies have far reaching
public health implications and any hint of opacity
will not be
tolerated.
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Years ago, 2003, I sent this to
COCA:
at first, unrelated....but what this was, was in a
2003 issue of COCA NEWS that they sent to all
chiropractors in Australia.
It was a pseudo-scientific discourse on what
chiropractors should and should not do:
ie:
1. not see children without a MEDICAL GP APPROVAL
FIRST
2. that we should only
treat back pain and all other
is experimental (heard that before? Like its
something new: all health care is experimental, esp.
use of drug doses on children: THERE IS NO RESEARCH
INTO PROPER CHILD DOSES on many drugs.)
3. if you can somehow convince and hang on to a low
back pain patient for 6 weeks, 90% will have success
anyway
4. this sentiment seems to be persisting and now the
people in this article hold key positions governing
your PROFESSION
5. hopefully, 4 years later COCA has changed its
unsupportable notion on children, at least
see my letter online at http://www.coca.com.au/newsletter/2003/sep0320aa.htm
or read it here:
Dear
Editor:
There are
too many scientific misrepresentations in the last
COCA News to warrant chance oversight. (1)
Isn't it gratifying after all your study as a doctor
of chiropractic that chiropractors should 'counsel
parents to start with their general practitioner
first for any significant problem relating to
infants'? Peter Werth provides a definition of
paediatric chiropractic as 'regular or continued
manipulation of the spines of children'. He provides
no evidence that GPs treat common childhood disorders
more successfully than chiropractors.
COCA briefing the media would be comforting, if not
for the outdated bludgeoning mattock of research
attitude lacking the ability to analyse it. Nobody
denies research into paediatric chiropractic is poor,
but I wager 90% of kiddies seeking alternatives have
already been drugged and de-bugged
In a letter to
Townsville Bulletin (2) Bruce
Walker wrote that chiropractic is proven
only to
help back pain. What did he and COCA do before any
research showed back-pain efficacy? Was he a
fish-monger like Old Dad Chiro before the magical
research allowed him to wield his pisiform facet
de-blocker against the tirade of lumbago? He wishes
to ''take issue..with ...an advertorial [sic]
claiming 'a healthy spine leads to a healthy body' ''
because there is no proof of this 'ideology'. Walker
not awakening to the fact that chiropractors are
co-managing children with MDs (3, 4) tends to muffle
the fanfare (p1) that he's been admitted to the Spine
Society.
Many papers dispute SMT as successfully
treating
anything.
What of this 'research'? Will Walker switch from SMT
in view of the back pain study (5) suggesting
massage,
not SMT reduces costs of care?
Or is he only going to organise selected truths?
Also leading you astray (p6) is Simon French agreeing
with the
Neurology (6) article
that we cannot ignore evidence that we dissect
vertebral arteries.
He ignores
research which says it's unlikely that chiropractic
adjustment causes dissections (7),
that we only seriously hurt one person in every 48
chiropractic careers (8) and BMJ
article stating manual therapy is better than phsyio
or GP for neck ache (9). Simon,
we can ignore your masochistic advice here.
Self-immolation of clinicians with flames of
scientism,
forcing them to prostrate before a GP’s more 'refined
diagnostic ability' encapsulates COCAs message.
More false guidance as John Reggars (p11) states that
keeping low back pain patients for 6 weeks should
milk a success rate of 90%. Slosberg's lectures,
Lebouf-Yde's paper on LBP outcomes (10), Croft
et al in
BMJ (11) all showed us that Reggars statement is a
shameful disservice to chiropractic (or is it
osteopathy, or both?).
COCA
News does not show me an association exploring the
evidence, but a chimeric group bumbling around with
bits of research, in order that it might unite them
one day.
I close with a joke:
God
is walking one day and he sees the devil bending down
to pick up something. 'Ah, you found the truth?',
asks god. 'Yes' says the devil, 'lets organise it'.
Joseph
J. Ierano BSc, DC
Doctor of
Chiropractic
Joseph J. Ierano DC
- COCA News. June 2003. Vol 7 No 2
- Letters to the Editor. Townsville Bulletin. Wed 4.6.2003 Stephen D Begbie, Zoltan L Kerestes and David R Bell.
- Patterns of alternative medicine use by cancer patients. MJA 1996; 165: 540
- Davis MP, Darden PM. Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Children in the United States. Arch Ped Adol Med. April 2003; Vol. 157, No. 4, pp. 393-396.
- Daniel C. Cherkin, PhD; Karen J. Sherman, PhD; Richard A. Deyo, MD, MPH; Paul G. Shekelle, MD, PhD. A Review of the Evidence for the Effectiveness, Safety, and Cost of Acupuncture, Massage Therapy, and Spinal Manipulation for Back Pain. Ann Intern Med. 2003;138:898–906.
- Williams, Linda S. MD; Biller, Jose MD. Vertebrobasilar dissection and cervical spine manipulation: A complex pain in the neck. Neurology, Volume 60(9).May 13, 2003.1408-1409.
- Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 2002:25(8), pp. 504-510
- Haldeman S, Carey P, Townsend M, Papadopoulos C. Arterial dissections following cervical manipulation: the chiropractic experience. CMAJ 2001; 165(7):905-6.
- BMJ. 2003;326:911-914
- Hestbaek L; Leboeuf-Yde C; Manniche C; European review for medical and pharmacological sciences. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 1997- 9717360 Eu; 2003 Apr;12(2) p2363
- Croft PR, Macfarlane GJ, Papageogiou AC, Thomas E, Silman AJ. Outcome of low back pain in general practice: a prospective study. BMJ 1998;316:1356-9.
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This is reeeeeeeaaaaaaal
nice chiro art...available at:
http://www.uppercervicalprints.com/
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Allow me to
attack this site for you:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010602122001/www.hcrc.org/contrib/contrib.html
And now for our internet comedy segment.
Lighten up, its xmas....even though this guy made me
want to scream. I did not.
Hey, I am on vacation, so lets go...
Some guy called John Bad-anes gives you vital advice
on the internet about choosing the likes of yourself,
and does not want it distributed without
permission...ho-hum. Lets go ...and I am having some
fun with it...respectfully, of course.
joe
my
response denote by * and/or blue
print
PS: if you think HIS guidelines are a joke check the
site here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021211043406/www.hcrc.org/contrib/badanes/guidelines.html
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The
following is provided with permission of the author.
They may not be reprinted or further distributed
without obtaining the author's
permission.
Some
Guidelines for
Choosing
a Chiropractor
by
John Badanes, DC
About the
Author
The
following guidelines were written to help consumers
find a chiropractor who is unlikely to be embroiled
in the usual chiropractic antics and health care
hooliganism. While I've told people that these
GUIDELINES are not fool-proof, I'm pretty confident
these tips do minimize the possibility that you will
find yourself in the office of a
fool.
*yes...of
course he does not want it distributed, he is calling
anyone who does not agree with him a
"fool"-
- Avoid a chiropractor who attributes any of your problems to Vertebral Subluxation and sells the Adjustment as the solution to your complaint.*right, we should not sell adjustments, they should be free, and we just sell our time
- Avoid a chiropractor who practices any brand name Technique (e.g. Activator, NUCCA, Biomechanics, Gonstead, Applied Kinesiology, Thompson, Pierce-Stillwagon, Biophysics, Toggle-recoil, B.E.S.T., Network, etc. etc., or any combination of these 'Chirodigms').*right, a chiropractor should not use any technique - even the technique of palpating McBurney's point should also be avoided due to royalties it may incur. And avoid invented terms like "chirodigm" (I think a chirodigm is actually the equivalent of 10 cents)
- Avoid a chiropractor who uses x-rays to locate your Subluxation and probably any chiropractor who has an x-ray machine in their office.*right, the x ray machine should be outside the office, to allow the rays to escape easily, and to show that the chiro is honest and does not shield his antics from view with lead sheeting. (probably he believes in Superman, too, which is not a good sign, as it reveals guilt)
- Avoid a chiropractor who wants to see you a given number of times per week in an effort to get you to the point of being "on a maintenance schedule" and probably any who use the word "maintenance" as a goal of treatment.*right, the practice of legitimate medicine makes No allowance for maintenance...also, avoid ANY automobile manual that speaks of so-called maintenance...it is a Saudi-Arabic ploy to build more hotels in the UAE. Also, avoid any doctor that wants you to take all the antibiotic pills. One is enough.
- Avoid a chiropractor who suggests that MDs are simply against Chiropraxis and those who in any way imply that chiropractice is somehow better than medicine.
On the other side of the coin, to complement each 'avoid' above...
- Seek a chiropractor who acknowledges differences in tissue (connective, epithelial, muscle, nerve) and who does not neatly conceptualize pathophysiologic complexity into a Spinal Demon.*correct, bring Histologic samples to your appointment. If the chiropraxtor can't fill in the space at the end of your neatly placed arrows, deny him his request that you disrobe. Beware any skull and crossbones flags placed on your sore back, and/or satanistic depictions of bones out of place offered as bumper stickers. Also, just be very careful if the chiropractor has hoofs instead of feet.
- Seek a chiropractor who when asked, "What techniques do you practice" says that their treatment will depend on what's wrong with you, and not some chiropractic abstraction of your complaint.*correct: avoid a chiro who will not state this exact answer, or to extract a dental cavity, does not use traction, but instead tries an Activator because its gentler. Of course the real answer to the above question is a hearty laugh accompanied by the comment "you thought I'd be trapped into stating a brand name Technique from point no. 2 , didn't you, ay, you little devil"
- Seek a chiropractor who uses a medical facility for x-rays and orders them to rule out fracture and/or gross pathology as indicated by the case history and medical (not chiropractic) exam.*yes. A medical facility will always make sure the x ray does not show a subluxation, which does not exist. Also, if the chiropraxistor owns the medical practice , that may be ok as long as he does not take money. And if the chiro is also a medical doctor then make sure he does not refer you to a radiologist that is not a blood relative, twice removed, or adopted by a dwarf. A dwarf couple is, however, acceptable to John Badanes.
- Seek a chiropractor who may or may not choose to treat, and who emphasizes patient empowerment by teaching you how to take better care of yourself.*correct. A good chiropractor is someone who teaches you to empower you to remove the subluxation yourself, which does not exist, and to perform your own adjustment, which is not what you need. And...when you do have a sore back, does nothing but teach you to take better care of yourself in future (you naughty person, you). Of course, the best chiropractors refuse to treat at all. They just refuse to use ANY chiropractic at all. But they can differentiate body tissues. They do not even charge you because they have no interest in getting rich. In fact, communist chiropraxis is a chiropractice of choice. Warning: do not pay money to anybody for anything not medical.
- Seek a chiropractor who is not competing with MDs at your expense in their effort to promote Chiropraxis and their practice. If you feel like you're being 'sold'... don't 'buy.'
I suspect it will be much more difficult than you think to find a chiropractor if you adhere to these guidelines... but that is exactly what I suggest you do.
Obviously these guidelines will lead you to someone like me. Exactly. That is good. Take my word for it. I know. This is the gospel of Dr Badanes. Amen. Exactly.
PS: I must be right because I do not practice chiropractic. Listen to someone whom it took the completion of an entire degree of study, including costs incurred, for five years, sat all the tests, probably even went to graduation ceremony (or not, I don't know, I'm just the comedy relief) to realise it was bogus. Yes. And dont eat chocolate bars. I have eaten them for years and know they are bad.
John Badanes
Thanks John, you are a light unto us, who know so little, without ye merciful list of guidelines, in their infinite wisdom.
Joe Ierano (who completed 2 degrees and actually enjoyed it...oh, come to think of it, once I began an architectural drafting certificate course, and dropped out. It took me one day to realise I did not like it. But I am working on some "exact" guidelines)
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Israeli study says regular mobile use increases tumour risk
Regular use of mobile telephones increases the risk of developing tumours, a new scientific study by Israeli researchers and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology revealed on Friday.
An extract of the report seen by Israel's Yedoit Aharonot newspaper put the risk of developing a parotid gland tumour nearly 50 percent higher for frequent mobile phone users -- more than 22 hours a month.
The risk was still higher if users clamped the phone to the same ear, did not use hands-free devices or were in rural areas.
"Analysis restricted to regular users or to conditions that may yield higher levels of exposure (eg heavy use in rural areas) showed consistently elevated risks," said an abstract of the report in the US journal made available to AFP.
The study included 402 benign and 58 malignant incident cases of parotid gland tumour diagnosed in Israel at age 18 years or more, in 2001-2003.
The research was led by Dr Siegal Sadetzki, a cancer and radiation expert at the Chaim Sheba Medical Centre in Israel and as part of a World Health Organisation project.
Copyright AFP 2007, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium
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after my ONE DAY in hospital recently, I can thoroughly attest to the truth of this!
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/12/11/2115708.htm
excerpt:
Need your sleep? Stay out of hospital
Intensive care units are so noisy and disruptive that patients cannot get the restorative sleep they need to heal, according to a new report.
But if nurses and technicians would simply adjust their schedules and avoid constantly waking patients through the night, patients may do better, the team at the University of Texas Southwestern found.................
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How the medical folk "get on"... I am glad our annual report is not as entertaining...
"IT WAS a colourful year for Sydney's doctors behaving badly, with several caught having sex with their patients, as well as using and wrongly prescribing addictive drugs, according to the NSW Medical Board's annual report."
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/drugs-sex-among-gps-complaints/2007/12/07/1196813021216.html
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Now that the landmark stroke study is out....see my site...
This might blow up in their faces:
http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/26/01/02.html
More anti-chiro ads in USA
When the ammunition against this really comes out...they'll be shot down in flames and wished they'd never done anything of the sort, sad as it may be?
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Hi Joe,
A nice collection of .pdf files here for the group looking for chiro evidence.
Donald
http://www.chirocolumbus.com/Research_Research.htm
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Tough being an MD. Tougher as a woman.
BMJ 2007;335:961 (10 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.39391.422650.4E
News
Suicide rate of women doctors in US is twice that of other working women
Roger Dobson
The proportion of female doctors who kill themselves is twice that of other working women, finds a study of self inflicted deaths in 26 US states over nine years.
No overall difference was shown between male doctors and men in other jobs in the proportion who committed suicide—although among men over the age of 45 years the proportion was higher in doctors, the study found (Occupational Medicine doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqm117).
The researchers, from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), used a national database of deaths to compare numbers of suicides among doctors, dentists, and all other occupations. A total of 203 doctors committed suicide in the study period (1984 to 1992).
The researchers looked at numbers of suicides separately for white male and white female doctors and dentists. There were too few non-white professionals for ethnicity to be included in the analysis, say the authors.
The results showed that the age standardised rate ratio for suicide among female doctors, in comparison with other working women, was 2.4 (95% confidence interval 1.5 to 3.8). The rate ratio also increased with age (P=0.02).
The authors wrote, "Although the suicide rate for white female physicians was only about half as large as that for their male counterparts, the rate was about twice as large as that in the standard working population."
The age standardised rate ratio for suicide among male doctors, in comparison with other working men, was 0.8 (0.5 to 1.2). The authors also found a strong trend for an increasing rate of suicide among male doctors as they aged.
"White female physicians have a higher suicide rate than other working white females in the USA regardless of age," concluded the authors. They say that the higher risk of suicide among older doctors may account for the varied conclusions in the literature about suicide among doctors.
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I have to say the videos on here are excellent.
Thanks Dr McDowall for these.
Quite astounding, really, how it seems to affect flow in the body.
http://www.naturality.org.uk/Proprioceptive Medicine.htm
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Manhattan Chiropractor Granted Patent for His Spinal Decompression Group -- First Chiropractor in New York to Receive Patent for Non-surgical Spinal Decompression Treatment
interesting.....
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/spinal+decompression/DRX+9000/prweb576239.htm
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one wonders if animal vaccines are scientifically tested?
BBC reports they may not be...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588457.stm
'Veterinary surgeons are warning that cat and dog owners are spending tens of millions of pounds on unnecessary and sometimes dangerous vaccines.
The vets are warning the pharmaceutical industry and their own profession about the issue.
In their letter they say that vaccinations for many conditions including distemper, cat flu and parva virus, last a lot longer than a year and sometimes for life.
The letter said: "The present practice of marketing vaccinations for companion animals may constitute fraud by misrepresentation, fraud by silence and theft by deception."'
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/seahawks/2004075978_hawk160.html
chiropractor mentioned towards end of story
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Have a disgruntled CA then?
this might help them...isn't it just a big, wide wonderful/woeful world then?
Prepare for a really nauseating experience.
http://www.geocities.com/healthbase/ca_whistleblowers.html
AND
this is really incredible...it goes on...I guess we all need to vent about something, but...for goodness sake! Move on and get a life already!
http://chirotalk.proboards3.com/index.cgi?board=assitant
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this is fun and amazing...in years to come we may find its the pleasure involved that provided the benefit?
thanks so much for this dr donald
The Lancet 2007; 370:2070
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61873-X
Editorial
The devil in the dark chocolate
A truffle treatment for atherosclerosis is the stuff that chocolate manufacturers (and patients) dream of. But how close is such a scenario to reality? Last month, a study in Circulation showed that dark chocolate that is rich in flavanols induced coronary vasodilatation and improved coronary vascular function in 11 heart-transplant recipients compared with patients taking a cocoa-free control chocolate. Other studies have also suggested that dark chocolate has cardiovascular benefits. A recent small randomised trial showed that people who were prehypertensive or had early-stage hypertension could lower their blood pressure by eating small amounts of dark chocolate as part of their usual diet.
Great news if you happen to be a lover of dark chocolate. However, if your passion is white or milk chocolate, bad luck. Research has shown that this type of chocolate, which is often devoid of flavanols, offers no health benefit. But there is a catch for dark-chocolate fans too. Dark chocolate can be deceptive. When chocolate manufacturers make confectionary, the natural cocoa solids can be darkened and the flavanols, which are bitter, removed, so even a dark-looking chocolate can have no flavanol. Consumers are also kept in the dark about the flavanol content of chocolate because manufacturers rarely label their products with this information.
And, although flavanols, if they are present, seem to offer some health benefit, the devil in the dark chocolate is the fat, sugar, and calories it also contains. To gain any health benefit, those who eat a moderate amount of flavanol-rich dark chocolate will have to balance the calories by reducing their intake of other foods—a tricky job for even the most ardent calorie counter. So, with the holiday season upon us, it might be worth getting familiar with the calories in a bar of dark chocolate versus a mince pie and having a calculator at hand. Of course some would say that, in terms of food intake, the best and simplest health message would be to stay away from the chocolate and eat a healthy, balanced diet, low in sugar, salt, and fat, and full of fresh fruit and vegetables. We say: “Bah, humbug to that. Pass the chocolates.”
The Lancet
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Reducing cancer with 20mins of sunlight (vitamin D) each day
interesting...
http://www.alsearsmd.com/content/index.php?id=dr_house_call_123
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7149717.stm
Nerve system link to PMS misery
Women with severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS) may have a permanently depressed nervous system, research suggests.
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Chiropractors Eating Their Own
someone might be interested in my response to this guy
http://www.chiroweb.com/columnist/cooperstein/index.html
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End on a high note...
Stossel exposes Trudeau's Book
truth or selling?
you decide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN5ihrECJms
...then:
Oh I love this list....Tedd Koren just sent me the funniest bit of current affairs journalism I have seen.
I guess if you go fishing for sharks you might catch one!!!!!!!
Click below....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35wyVQxXUA&feature=related
Its Stossel getting his just desserts from a pumped up (?) interviewee.
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