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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
No offense meant mate, but this is claptrap.
The body heals itself when aligned correctly?!
Aligned with what? The stars? :rollseyes:
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Originally Posted by TM857
The human body is capable of amazing things - why not self-healing? The correct alignment of the spine, and release from subluxation, allows a better communication of the brain signals to the rest of the nervous system. Anyone who has studied biology for a microsecond could tell you that the brain communicates with the central nervous system. Kinks in the line are equivelant to a kink in a garden hose - information can't flow as freely.
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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
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Why does that make any difference? Even if I had a Ph.D in brain surgery I wouldn't know every little thing that the brain actually does. Nobody knows. But I would still know that the brain communicates with the body through the nervous system and that if the nervous system is impaired by a misalignment of the spine, then the brain's ability to communicate with the internal body is impaired. I base my opinion on Chiropractics on both research and experience. With standard medicine, I haven't achieved results. With chiropractics, I have.
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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
So why hasn't he "cured" you?
Because the chiropractor, by definition my friend, is treating the symptoms. He is manipulating your spine. Those "cracks" you hear and feel are his movement of your vertebrae.
And by only treating your symptoms, he ensures you keep coming back, rather than to a physio who will actually give you an exercise regime to help address the underlying problem. I wonder how much he charges you each visit?
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No. He did not "cure" anything. He correctly aligned my spine so that the body itself could heal itself. He did not treat the symptoms. The symptoms stopped as the body itself was able to communicate correctly to reconize the problem and fix it.
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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
You believe a CHIROPRACTOR cured your flu?!
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No. I believe that the chiropractor helped my body to get over the flu itself. By correctly aligning the spine, it allowed the body to use the nervous system to
correctly communicate with the brain, thus allowing my body to cure itself.
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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Well, for starters, there is no cure for influenza. You can get vacinations against various strains, that stimulate your immune system into fighting the infection, but there is no "cure". Secondly, you must probably didn't have the flu (as you would most likely be bed-ridden or hospitalized if you did) and probably had what's usually called the common cold. Either way, does it occur to you that
a) the drugs you were prescribed were meant to treat the symptoms and not the cause?
b) that your body actually go over the infection in its own time, as it is supposed to?
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Originally Posted by ForgottenKnight
I went to a regular doctor and the recommended medications treated the symptoms but had no effect on the sickness, as well as their own side effects that were as bad as the symptoms themselves.
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So yes, they were prescribed to treat the symptoms, but the standard medical professional made it sound like they would treat the cause. I think that treating symptoms is pointless and that the only real way to go about getting over anything is to treat the cause. Obviously treating the symptoms alone was not helping my body get over the cause. And while the body will get over the infection on its own, it won't do it nearly as quickly if the signals from the brain are getting messed up while on it's way down to the body. Again, by correctly aligning the spine, it allowed the body to use the nervous system to
correctly communicate with the brain, thus allowing my body to cure itself.
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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
Let's hope you never get the real flu, or (Heaven forbid) pneumonia. I'd love to see your chiropractor cure that. Or rubela. Or leprosy. Or sceptecemia. Or tuberculosis. Or any other raft of disases and infections that are cured or treated with modern drugs.
If you took an infant to a chiropractor, then you're dangerous as well as deluded.
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It appears to me that you and many others here are a bit closed minded about chiropractics. While it's not my place to say anyone is wrong, I will say that I dissagree.
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Originally Posted by sapiens
Is there any empirical evidence?
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Yes. If anyone wants information on the effects of Chiropractics, I suggest researching articles by Ronald Pero, Ph.D, from New York's Preventive Medicine Institute and professor of medicine in Environmental Health at New York University, who has published over 160 papers in peer review journals.
Other articles that may be helpful in understanding the body and how chiropractics can help include, but are in no way limited to, the following list.
1. John Lennon, BM, MM, C. Norman Shealy, MD, Roger K. Cady, MD, William Matta, PhD, RIchard Cox, PhD, and William F. SImpson, PhD.
Postural and Respiratory Modulation of Autonomic Function, Pain & Health. AJPM Vol4. No.1 January 1994.
2. Restak, R.M. 1979 The Brain: The Last Frontier. NY Warner Books.
3. The laws of Fascculation Porland's Medical Dictionary. Dorkonos.
4. Mayo Clinic Health Letter. March 2000, Vol 18, #3.
5. Gore DR, Sepic SB, Gardner GM. Roentenographic findings of teh cervical spine in asymptomatic people. Spine 1986;6:591-694.
6. Adams CBT, Logue V. Studies in cervical spondylotic myelopathy part I: movements of teh cervical roots, dura, and cord adn their relation to the course of teh extrathecal roots. Brain 1971:94:557-568.
7. Cailliet R. Low Back Pain Syndrome. Philadelphia: FA Davis Co., 1981
8. Cailliet R. Soft Tissue Pain and Disability. Philadelphia: FA Davis Co., 1977.
9. Cailliet R. Neck and Arm Pain. Philadelphia: FA Davis Co., 1981.
10. Reilly B. Practical Strategies in Outpatient Medicine. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Co., 1984.
11. Lee D. Principles and practices of muscle energy and functional techniques. In: Grieve GP (ed.) Modern Manual Therapy of the Vertebral Column. New York: Churchill Livinstone, 1986.
12. Bourdillon JF, DayEA, Bookhout MR. Spinal Manipulation. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991.
13. Lewit K. Manipulative Therapy in Rehabilitation of teh Locomotor System. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991.
14. Donatelli R, Wodden M. Orthopedic Physical Therapy. New York: Churchill Livingstone Inc., 1989.
15. Gregg J. Carb, D.C., and Donald D. Harrison, M.S. D.C. Chiropractic BioPhysics: Optimal Correction of the Spine. 1989.
16. Damaging Effects of Forward Head Posture. Certainty Practice Products. 2001.
Also, The Brittish Medical Journal has published some very good articles on the positive effects of chiropractics over the years.