That is the $64,000 Question. I guess that my basic hypothesis is, Little if any of what a chiropractor does is of any diagnostic, medical, therapeutic, or treatment value.
For most of us I guess we'd say, Hey, (in my case) the Commonwealth of Virginia gives these people the privilege to wear white coats and call themselves doctors. I surely must be wrong. The Commonwealth has an obligation to protect me from quacks, to protect me from medical folks who are incompetent, and to ensure that if I seek medical treatment of any kind, that the person hanging out their shingle has at least the minimum level of competence to provide proper, appropriate, reasonable treatment, and that they will use scientifically and medically proven procedures.
Sorry folks, that ain't the case. More on that later.
What am I Trying to Accomplish Here?
The main purpose of this blog is to educate consumers by providing information about the so-called chiropractic profession.
At the same time I am going to work as hard as I can to bring before The Virginia Department of Health Professions how chiropractors are violating many of the rules of practice. The weirdest aspect of all of this, is surely someone must know that most of what the chiropractors are doing is not evidence-based and provides no value at all: therapeutic, medical, treatment, or diagnostic. I just can’t understand this. Time will tell ladies and gentlemen…..
The Chiropractic Avenger
At the same time I am going to work as hard as I can to bring before The Virginia Department of Health Professions how chiropractors are violating many of the rules of practice. The weirdest aspect of all of this, is surely someone must know that most of what the chiropractors are doing is not evidence-based and provides no value at all: therapeutic, medical, treatment, or diagnostic. I just can’t understand this. Time will tell ladies and gentlemen…..
The Chiropractic Avenger
Hell no! We Aren't Going to Pay for That Crap!
American Speciality Health (ASH) is one of the largest administrators of complimentary and alternative treatments, including chiropractic.
Out of the 81 so-called treatments that are listed with ASH, 53 of them would make the chiropractor ineligible to be one of their providers. Forty-eight of the treatments are termed scientifically implausible. Yep, they don't work, they do nothing, and there is no scientific evidence to support their use.
You know, you couldn't make this stuff up...and, it's gets better. As I'm writing this, students all over the country are in chiropractic colleges being taught this stuff.
Should we believe that all of those teachers actually believe this stuff works? Or, would it be worse that they teach what they know to be junk science? Either way it seems that they'd be at least to some extent deluded or just outright charlatans.
I'm sure their students must stand tall and proud....
Out of the 81 so-called treatments that are listed with ASH, 53 of them would make the chiropractor ineligible to be one of their providers. Forty-eight of the treatments are termed scientifically implausible. Yep, they don't work, they do nothing, and there is no scientific evidence to support their use.
You know, you couldn't make this stuff up...and, it's gets better. As I'm writing this, students all over the country are in chiropractic colleges being taught this stuff.
Should we believe that all of those teachers actually believe this stuff works? Or, would it be worse that they teach what they know to be junk science? Either way it seems that they'd be at least to some extent deluded or just outright charlatans.
I'm sure their students must stand tall and proud....
