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bernard
Wow....I just read "Why I quit chiropractic" written by the sites admin....and again "WOW"...
Joseph Brence, DPT, FAAOMPT, COMT, DAC "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein Blog:www.forwardthinkingpt.com
This is quite an eye opener. I don't have more than a general knowledge about chiropractic care, mainly from patients that have seen chiro or the occasional chiro referral, but I would have thought that they would have better training in DD than this! Perhaps they are the ones that should be required to have referral to treat rather than PT. Kidding, of course, but strange that PT seems to get more training in DD, yet still must be seen by a physician prior to treatment for the most part.
Nick
Nick Nordtvedt, PT, DPT, Cert MDT
You will never succeed if you are not prepared to fail.
Perhaps they are the ones that should be required to have referral to treat rather than PT. Kidding, of course, but strange that PT seems to get more training in DD, yet still must be seen by a physician prior to treatment for the most part.
Don't be kidding Jackson. They SHOULD require a medical referral but a physician would have to be crazy to refer to them. Their profession is worthless to modern medicine. Not sure where you are from, but PTs in many states are allowed to practice independent of medical referral via direct access.
I am not sure if you are familiar with applied kinesiology, but if you aren't, look up some videos on it on Youtube. You will be surprised on how some chiro's conclude that an organ is dysfunctional.
Joseph Brence, DPT, FAAOMPT, COMT, DAC "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein Blog:www.forwardthinkingpt.com
[QUOTE=joebrence9;108703]sure where you are from, but PTs in many states are allowed to practice independent of medical referral via direct access.[QUOTE]
I practice in Tennessee and we have limited direct access (6 visits in 15 days). I've seen a handful of direct access patients, but still not a whole lot commercial payers that reimburse without referral as well as public knowledge of this.
Nick
Nick Nordtvedt, PT, DPT, Cert MDT
You will never succeed if you are not prepared to fail.
Makes for grim reading - I do wonder if physio is different enough not to sink into this kind quagmire.
regards
ANdy
"Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it." A.A. Milne
Why is Chiropractic able to sustain itself when so many of it's initial concepts are shown to be flawed?It seems like it would be as simple as showing the flaws in homeopathy.Do they just have better lobbyist than the APTA?
Thank you for the link! Dave
DAve, have you ever heard how popular homeopathy still is in western Europe? Science be damned: they even have health plans covering the cost of this "water"!
Do you know how poor the science is supporting the use of ultrasound on spinal structures? Yet in this town alone, there are three clinics using US as a go-to modality for LBP. APTA is still a bit in a glass house....
There are still many people who can be easily duped into believing that their child's middle ear infection, their son's ADD, their daughter's asthma, their allergies, their back pain are all results of "subluxations". Too many people.
We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin
I suppose it's easier to believe something than it is to understand it.
Cmdr. Chris Hadfield on rise of poor / pseudo science
Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley
We don't need a body to feel a body. Ronald Melzack
Don't be fooled. These are not minority held, "fringe" beliefs by chiropractors as many of the deceptive chiropractic "reformers" would like you to believe.
Here's a good snapshot of what's going on through the eyes of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners:
Note how many conditions are diagnosed as a subluxation and how the Examiners themselves promote "subluxation correction" for conditions such as endocrine disorders (etc.)
Upper respiratory or ear infections are rarely seen in chiropractic practice. However,
when respondents did report seeing such conditions, 48% reported making the diagnosis in
the majority of these cases. Sixty-two percent of chiropractors co-manage their patients with
another provider, and 22% act as sole providers for the majority of their patients with upper
respiratory or ear infections.
Infantile colic is rarely seen in chiropractic practice, but 41% of respondents act as sole
providers for this condition in the majority of cases seen. Other childhood infectious diseases
and children with parasites are virtually never seen.
Data for childhood disorders appear in Table 8.16."
There is so much more wrong with this, but I got to this part and had to speak! How do 48% of chiropractors make the diagnosis of upper respiratory and ear infections in a majority of cases? Didn't a parent have to bring them to the chiropractor with this at least in mind? And how did they diagnosis this? I'm not a physician, but I've had a child with ear infections, and the pediatrician ALWAYS looks in the ears to diagnose. Do chiros do this? And how do they treat infant colic?
I'll have to digest and ponder the rest of this.
Nick Nordtvedt, PT, DPT, Cert MDT
You will never succeed if you are not prepared to fail.
"Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong."~Lorimer Moseley
“Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.”~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis
"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists"~Roland Barth
"Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire
Don't chew on and think about it too much, Jackson. No matter which way or how many times you slice it, chiropractic is founded on half-baked theories and outright lies.
Why anyone in this era of such readily available, high quality information would choose this as a career is beyond me. The crap available on youtube alone should be enough to dissuade any reasonable person from making such a huge mistake.
The operative word there is "reasonable".
John Ware, PT Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists "Nothing can bring a man peace but the triumph of principles." -R.W. Emerson “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot
be carried on to success.” -The Analects of Confucius, Book 13, Verse 3
Don't chew on and think about it too much, Jackson. No matter which way or how many times you slice it, chiropractic is founded on half-baked theories and outright lies.
Why anyone in this era of such readily available, high quality information would choose this as a career is beyond me. The crap available on youtube alone should be enough to dissuade any reasonable person from making such a huge mistake.
The operative word there is "reasonable".
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