So instead of studying for my Phys II exam, I decided to browse a new book that our library purchased: Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine (2013) by Paul A. Offit, M.D. The following are some pearls describing chiropractic manipulations: “…Oz also promotes the relatively modern concepts of homeopathy and chiropractic manipulations, both of which represent a kind of devolution in medical thinking.” “Like homeopathy, chiropractic manipuations are also the brainchild of one man: Daniel D. Palmer. Palmer was a mesmerist who used magnets to treat his patients.” “Chiropractic manipulations also aren’t risk-free. In 1980s, a chiropractor named J. Richard Stober popularized a technique called Bilateral Nasal Specific (BNS) therapy. To properly align bones of the skull, Stober stuck balloons into the nose. In 1983, a baby died of asphyxiation from BNS. In 1988…Carl Ferreri ...squeez[ed] the skull with both hands like a vise. One [child] experienced a seizure while having his eye ‘adjusted.’ In 2010, Edzard Ernst, a professor of complementary medicine at the University of Exeter in England, reviewed the medical literature and found 26 deaths from chiropractic manipulations, almost all caused by ripping the vertebral artery in the neck.” Our school keeps telling us that prevalent attitudes are changing about chiropractic…hrmm…
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:36:49 +0000
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