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Who ya gonna call? (The term 'quackbuster' - are quackbusters abandoning it?)
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"Todd Gastaldo" wrote: PREGNANT WOMEN: Please email this to your chiropractor...Ask your chiro to ask the chiro trade unions to unify to help stop MDs from closing birth canals and gruesomely manipulating most babies' spines at birth. CHIROS - esp. Harold Tondera, DC: See the very end of this post... [Snip] Speaking of chiros, I just saw an ad on p. 143 of this week's issue of The Village Voice for a "Dr. Shafir," a chiropractor. In the ad, he published a rather remarkable claim: BEGIN Q: I suffer from asthma/allergies. I heard that chiropractic can help with this. Is this true? A: Chiropractic is very effective in treating asthma and allergies by increasing your body's ability to combat these conditions naturally. When your body has a subluxation (vertebral misalignment) the spinal nerves can become quite irritated, decreasing their ability to flow. The nevers connect to your muscles, organs, connective tissue, directly affecting their ability to function. Very simply, if these nerves are only functioning at 60% because of a subluxation then the areas they are supplying (i.e., lungs, immune system) are only functioning at 60%. Having your subluxation removed with a chiropractic adjustment ensures that the nerves are functioning properly and allwing your body to fight off asthma and allergies naturally. This directly leads to a decrease an/or resolution of your symptoms. END Tell me: Do you believe this claim that chiropractic can treat allergies and asthma? Never mind that there is no evidence that subluxation in any way causes or exacerbates allergies or asthma. Never mind that there is no evidence that spinal nerve dysfunction has anything to do with the pathogenesis of allergies or asthma. Never mind that there is no evidence that chiropractic "adjustment" can improve immune function. Tell me: Should chiros be making such claims that they clearly cannot back up with evidence? -- Orac |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." | |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you | inconvenience me with questions?" |
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Who ya gonna call? (The term 'quackbuster' - are quackbusters abandoning it?)
"Orac" wrote in message news In article et, "Todd Gastaldo" wrote: PREGNANT WOMEN: Please email this to your chiropractor...Ask your chiro to ask the chiro trade unions to unify to help stop MDs from closing birth canals and gruesomely manipulating most babies' spines at birth. CHIROS - esp. Harold Tondera, DC: See the very end of this post... [Snip] Speaking of chiros, I just saw an ad on p. 143 of this week's issue of The Village Voice for a "Dr. Shafir," a chiropractor. In the ad, he published a rather remarkable claim: BEGIN Q: I suffer from asthma/allergies. I heard that chiropractic can help with this. Is this true? A: Chiropractic is very effective in treating asthma and allergies by increasing your body's ability to combat these conditions naturally. When your body has a subluxation (vertebral misalignment) the spinal nerves can become quite irritated, decreasing their ability to flow. The nevers connect to your muscles, organs, connective tissue, directly affecting their ability to function. Very simply, if these nerves are only functioning at 60% because of a subluxation then the areas they are supplying (i.e., lungs, immune system) are only functioning at 60%. Having your subluxation removed with a chiropractic adjustment ensures that the nerves are functioning properly and allwing your body to fight off asthma and allergies naturally. This directly leads to a decrease an/or resolution of your symptoms. END (...) Nerves do not flow. They do move around with the parts of the body, but they don't flow. Gee, at many hospitals, they transplant hearts and lungs and kidneys. After they transplant them, the nerves that supply them don't work any more (the donor has them). Yet he hearts and lungs and kidneys work. What does this say about the chiropractor's statement? And the chiropractor's understanding of science and medicine. Jeff |
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Who ya gonna call? (The term 'quackbuster' - are quackbusters abandoning it?)
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"Howard McCollister" wrote: "Orac" wrote in message news Tell me: Should chiros be making such claims that they clearly cannot back up with evidence? -- Yeh, that's a good one. We have a chiropracter around here that takes out a big ad every few weeks with one such extraordinary claim after another. In the fall, I am certain to see (again) his advertisement for chiropractic cure of sinus problems. Because, as he explains in the ad, sinus inflammation is caused by subluxation "blocking the flow of nerve energy to the sinuses". This "nerve energy blockage" seems to be big in the world of chiropractic. Then I see someone on this group post a didactic syllabus for chiropractic schools that indicate that chiropracters have more neurology study than real doctors. What a joke. I could never understand how chiros could get away with the claims they make for spinal manipulation. Next they'll be claiming you can cure cancer by manipulating the spine... -- Orac |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." | |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you | inconvenience me with questions?" |
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