The Chiropractic Avenger: Scope of Practice.....

Chiropractors Seem Proud of Their 100-Plus Years History...What Aren't They Telling You?

What they aren't telling you is that since 1895 absolutely nothing has changed...well, that's not true. They've added a bunch more of bogus and pseudoscientific so-called treatments, but the basic subluxation stuff is still around and is still being taught in chiropractic schools.

Hmmm. What would you say if you went for an appointment with a real doctor and, they said they were only using treatments and knowledge prior to 1895. Yes, no blood tests, no vaccines, no up-to-date surgical techniques...no EEG, no EKG...well, you get the idea.

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

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....

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Scope of Practice.....

All states have a regulatory board that's responsible for making sure that the citizens can feel safe, when seeking treatments from medical practitioners. Every medical occupation has its scope of practice.

Chapter 29 of Title 54.1 of the Code of Virginia Medicine

§ 54.1-2900. Definitions.

"Practice of chiropractic" means the adjustment of the 24 movable vertebrae of the spinal column, and assisting nature for the purpose of normalizing the transmission of nerve energy, but does not include the use of surgery, obstetrics, osteopathy or the administration or prescribing of any drugs, medicines, serums or vaccines.

Hmmmm. I wrote The Board of Medicine and asked them what assisting nature for the purpose of normalizing the transmission of nerve energy meant. I thought they'd be vague...or, assume what would seem the obvious, Hey, whatever you want it mean.. And, that was basically the answer I received.

My small dictionary, says about nature, the inherent quality or basic constitution of a person or thing. For any New Agers out there, does that sound mystical enough for you?

It's also interesting that there is a prohibition against chiropractors prescribing drugs or medicines. Hmmm. Though I have no idea what the percentages are, it'd be interesting to know how many peddle herbs and supplements. More on this later.

The Epitome of Chiropratic

James Burda: Distance Healing Chiropractor

Boy, it just doesn’t get any better than this. The Ohio State Chiropractic Board is considering taking the license of James Burda, a chiropractor in Athens.
Burda, DC, has been using distance healing for quite some time. Yep, you heard right. He claims he can heal you from his living room. There’s no need to come to his office and of course he doesn't actually have to see you. Give him a call or send him an e-mail and he’ll take it from there.
Burda discovered his special “skill” or whatever you want to call it, about six years ago when he was in his car and his foot hurt and he told it to realign itself. Which, he claims it did.
The Board is claiming that Burda is mentally ill. Hmmm. How about that. Yep, they claim he’s mentally ill. Specifically, they say he is suffering from a delusional disorder, grandiose type. With all the bogus stuff chiropractors use it is interesting that they’d get upset over a little distance healing as most of what they do is well…hmmm…….. has no basis in science and can’t stand any kind of scrutiny or testing. In fact, many chiropractor practices have employees or contract workers using their offices who practice Reiko and other obviously sham pseudo types of “energy healing” treatments. Hey, maybe the board was just jealous that Burda could just sit at home and make the same amount of money as the rest of them who had to go to work. Burda calls his so-called treatment Bahlaqeem. Yep, Bahlaqeem. What more can I say...??
NOTE: Burda lost his license about September 2006...

What is the Purpose of this Blog?

Hi Folks,

Well, the name says it all, this is going to be a blog about chiropractors. It's going to be about the ridiculousness of their so-called profession. It's going to be about their sham and pseudoscientific methods of robbing the citizens of their good money.

We are told that chiropractic was started by D. D. Palmer in 1885. As best I understand it, old DD decided that we have this energy running through us. Yes, he called it innate intelligence, a sort of similar kind of energy to the so-called chi of the energy healers.

In fact, one of old DD's first successes was healing a person who was deaf. Yes, he did this by adjusting his spine. Of course, it's not known whether or not DD knew that the nerves that are responsible for hearing are not located in the spine. But, hey, DD didn't worry about minor things like that.

Yes, he claimed that everything was dependent on the spine. DD said that the body had this innate intelligence flowing through it and that if the nerves got pinched, yes a subluxation, as he called it, then the body couldn't heal itself. DD was on the cutting edge of pseudoscientific quackery. Sadly, he was the beginning of the so-called profession of chiropractic.

What topics or subjects will be covered here and, what do I hope to accomplish?

As time permits, I will try to cover the so-called traditional treaments that chiropractors claim to use. In addition to the regular bone-cracking, I will cover many of the other bogus treatments that chiropractors peddle; Applied Kinesiology, Bio-Cranial Therapy, Colonic Irrigation, Contact Reflex Analysis, and so on.

Frankly, other than a couple of friends and a few buddies, I doubt if anyone will make it to this blog. If someone does stumble in here, I hope they'll spend a few minutes if they are presently being treated by a chiropractor or thinking about going to one.

If I can prevent one person from seeking treatment from a chiropractor then...well, that will be good.