re: Chiropractic Adjustment Fans?

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gringeaux

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bro, citing a website of a company that offers chiropractic seminars, and sells chiropractic tables & instructional dvds ain't exactly scientific support. i mean, one of the studies on that page, under the "Index Medicus & ICL Case Studies" section, is published in the so-called J Vertebral Subluxation Res. if your journal is named after a physical state that does not exist in healthy, living humans, then that probably means that the "research" within it is all predicated upon a faulty premise. and your boy's journal article, Evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain with spinal manipulation and mobilization., is an evaluation of the benefits and harms of different treatments. i don't have Pub Med access, so i can't read the article, but it could include evaluations of witch doctor prescriptions for lower back pain, for all i know.

face it: chiropractics ain't real.

like i said, if deep-throating a cucumber makes your back pain go away, then that has every bit as much scientific support as does chiropractics. and don't let me stop you from doing it. but don't come at me like there's science behind the mumbo-jumbo.

eta: also, here's an interesting article that wired wrote about the increasing effectiveness of the placebo, which has undermined a lot of drug trials. interesting stuff.