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Chiro Advertisement: help please?

Suezoled

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Hi folks. You know how some people are masochists and like a good laugh by causing themselves physical and mental pain? I'm really not one of those; I'm just too d*mn lazy to get myself off this chiropractor's list. He mails out a free newsletter every month. This month's which is dated September (I'm guess I got this after actual September because this man lives in another reality, so it takes a while for the rest of us to catch up to him..?) has a nice 4 page spread about Headaches; how the Evil Drug Companies (tm) have been keeping the "cure" for headaches secret for 108 years. There's also a page on the "cure" for 90% of all headaches (tm); I especially like the paragraph that states "research has proven that 16,500 people die every year from common over the counter medications such as Advil, Tylenol and Motrin...."

Anyway, is there anyone I can email the scanned pages to so that someone could put them on this forum? The chiropractor's name is on the pages, so I guess maybe they should be taken off, but I don't even know how to do this.

This is a duck that really really quacks, and every opportunity I can to show there are several irrational chiropractors, and they are one of several reasons NOT to allow them the same as MD status, is something I can't pass up.
 
I don't have much to say other than that I hate hate hate chiropractors (they're like doctors, only lazy and not smart and frauds!) and that I'm always throwing away the business cards that they leave around the city. Ugh.
 
You should be able to attatch it yourself, unless the file is too big. 25,400 bytes is the max.
 
I skimmed the first two pages and the only I found slightly interesting was the report it referenced.

"A report released in 2001 by researchers at the Duke University Evidence-Based Practice Center in Durham, NC, found that Spinal Manipulation resulted in almost imediate improvement for those headaches..."

I found the website but I couldn't find the report. Here is the site:

http://www.clinpol.mc.duke.edu/index.html
 
Suezoled said:
...I especially like the paragraph that states "research has proven that 16,500 people die every year from common over the counter medications such as Advil, Tylenol and Motrin...." ...
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That's an interesting number - 16,500 people *every* year? Never 16,400 or 15,500? Just 16,500. And research showed them that number!:rolleyes:
 
I've got a chiro-related question but I don't want to make a new topic. How are the consequences different when a Chiropracter gives a completly bullshi$t diagnosis and when a certified doctor gives a bullshi$t diagnosis?
 
Dylab said:
I've got a chiro-related question but I don't want to make a new topic. How are the consequences different when a Chiropracter gives a completly bullshi$t diagnosis and when a certified doctor gives a bullshi$t diagnosis?
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the consequences for whom, the practitioner or the patient?
 
The practioner. Like what legal acions could be taken? I forgot that the doctor could loose his medical license, right?
 
You know, the worst thing about it all was the quacky bull$hit language. Simply screams "give me all your money, suckers!" But then a fair chunk of the public respond to such an approach.

Medically, it wasn't complete garbage - he's right about the tension headaches, and about attention to the physical state of the muscles and bones of the head and neck having the potential to help quite a bit. The trouble is, knowing what quackery chiropractic is, I'd have grave doubts about whether his techniques would actually be either appropriate or safe.

Massage therapy from a good physiotherapist would be my choice if I wanted to go down that road. But at least this one wasn't claiming to cure things that are totally unrelated to the techniques on offer.

Rolfe.
 
The real issue has to do with the natural course of tension-type headaches. These are, by definition, related to strain (as suggested) in the muscles of the upper back and neck. The spontaneous natural course of these types of headaches is likely equally treatable by any variety of relaxation techniques as well as over-the-counter medications.

In other words, chiropractic isn't a conspiracy-subdued "108 year-old headache cure drug companies don't want you to know" about anymore than taking a nap is.

-TT
 
Sad thing is, Rolfe, he does. He subscribes and advertises to the full subluxation theory -prevents illness, energy imbalances, the whole 3 ring circus loud sell. I met him and talked to him. Or was talked at by him. Same thing in this case.

And no, medically it's wasn't complete garbage. But how many people will sort out the decent statements and advice when mixed with the Hard Sell he's got going on?

Popsy dear: are you questioning the sacred word of 'research"? Heaven forbid. (just kidding!) Although, last year I heard it was 16,499 but an Evil Medical Doctor ran over an old lady with his car while she was crossing the street. Since she was carrying a botle of Tylenol, Medicine killed their 16,500 patient. ;)
 
Suezoled said:
Sad thing is, Rolfe, he does. He subscribes and advertises to the full subluxation theory - prevents illness, energy imbalances, the whole 3 ring circus loud sell. I met him and talked to him. Or was talked at by him. Same thing in this case.
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I rather thought it might be that way, from the style of the English employed. I meant to say, at least this particular publication didn't explicitly promote that sort of stuff.

Rolfe.
 
Suezoled said:

...Popsy dear: are you questioning the sacred word of 'research"? Heaven forbid. (just kidding!) Although, last year I heard it was 16,499 but an Evil Medical Doctor ran over an old lady with his car while she was crossing the street. Since she was carrying a botle of Tylenol, Medicine killed their 16,500 patient. ;)
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:D
 
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