Monday, December 27, 2010
Is traditional Chiropractic any better?
Chiropractic in general brandishes the “superior” view that we analyze the patient as a whole. It claims it does not have tunnel vision when looking at the patient, that it does not take the allopathic approach of separating individual body systems and functions. It is claimed that chiropractic looks at the cause of the problem. Before the demand to be accepted by our allopathic colleagues, DCs did their analysis (examination and diagnosis) with limited use of medical diagnostic labels.
Still, chiropractic will look at X rays and state that the cause of the problem is the rotated L5 vertebra visualized on the X ray. There is virtually no difference between a 100.9-degree fever and an abnormally rotated L5. Both entities are an efferent (output) reaction driven by sensory input into the central nervous system (CNS). Poor sensory input leads to poor efferent motor output.
Many chiropractors would see this subluxated L5 as the problem, adjust it and yet the patient goes out into the parking lot and the L5 slips out again. When this patient returns, we comment that he is not “holding” his adjustment or the patient did something to knock it out of place. The chiropractor will blame the weakness of the patient, the damage done by having the subluxation for so long, or some other interpretation that suggest the limitation of the poor fragile human body.
The allopath does the same exact thing. He will look at the human body as being overwhelmed by powerful germs and needing the help of drugs and potions. The human body needs our help; what did it ever do without us allopathic physicians? This is the underlying error of allopathy.
Still, chiropractic will look at X rays and state that the cause of the problem is the rotated L5 vertebra visualized on the X ray. There is virtually no difference between a 100.9-degree fever and an abnormally rotated L5. Both entities are an efferent (output) reaction driven by sensory input into the central nervous system (CNS). Poor sensory input leads to poor efferent motor output.
Many chiropractors would see this subluxated L5 as the problem, adjust it and yet the patient goes out into the parking lot and the L5 slips out again. When this patient returns, we comment that he is not “holding” his adjustment or the patient did something to knock it out of place. The chiropractor will blame the weakness of the patient, the damage done by having the subluxation for so long, or some other interpretation that suggest the limitation of the poor fragile human body.
The allopath does the same exact thing. He will look at the human body as being overwhelmed by powerful germs and needing the help of drugs and potions. The human body needs our help; what did it ever do without us allopathic physicians? This is the underlying error of allopathy.
