WHY?!

WHY SO IGNORANT!? Last night, nightline reported on chiropractic therapy and children. While the report wasn’t all negative, per se, it most definitely had its bias and share of misinformation. So I just felt like allowing some who will read this to use facts and logic to formulate a more educated opinion instead of an un-researched skeptic observation.

DISCLAIMER I would like to state that I do not carry malice for or distain toward medical doctors. I do not feel that medical doctors are poorly educated; I do not feel that they are money hungry, or selfish. I do feel that they have a concern for patients and generally would like to improve the health of society.
So last night Nightline had part of the segment showing a interview with a MD working in California who claimed that a chiropractic adjustment could paralyze a child. Now maybe that is her opinion, but that is where the truth of that statement ends. There is no research anywhere that shows that DCs cause paralysis is men, women or children. In fact children have been seen by chiropractors since 1895 and have never had an accusation that it causes paralysis that has proven to be true. Along with that, chiropractic type techniques have been documented to have been used in ancient China over 2000 years ago as well without this risk.
Now let’s look at the alternative…medicine. Medicine, including MD error, is the 3rd leading cause of death in America. That is not my opinion that is according to JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). Chiropractic has not cause a single death in the World. Nor has the chiropractic adjustment been the cause of paralysis. However the “side-effects” of prescription drugs and ridicules.
Now like I said, I don’t hate MDs or even medicine. As long as that type of care known its place, I have no problem! So what is the role of MDs or what should it been? Let me share with you an analogy.
If your house is on fire who are you going to call? The fire department, of course! They are going to come out with their axes and fire hoses and they are going to do everything that they can to save your house. Now your house might be damaged severely because of the axes and fire hoses, but at least the fire is out. But now what do we do? After the fire is out, who do you call? A general contractor, to coordinate the: carpenter, painter, plumber, cleaners, electrician etc. We would never think to call the fire department.
If your mind and body is your house then MDs are the fire department and DCs are the general contractor. Does this mean that it is never appropriate to take drugs or have a surgical procedure? Of course not! That would be unscientific. It is scientific fact that medical interventions can save a life in a crisis and we should all be grateful for the wonderful innovations that medicine has developed in this area.
However, it is also a scientific fact that no drug or surgery will ever make your cells function better, improve your health, or prevent you from getting sickThe fire department is very appropriate if your house is on fire (in an emergency crisis) but totally inappropriate if you want to repair or maintain your house.
One of the major problems is that people are ignorant to what chiropractic intervention and what medical intervention really are. As stated medical intervention should be for emergency care, they can come in with their axes and fire hoses (drugs and surgeries) and save a life. Chiropractors are not meant to do that same thing. Chiropractic is not a treatment for cancer, diabetes, or anything else per se. Chiropractic is a form of healthcare to allow for balance and a homeostatic environment to be maintained within the body.
If we were to understand the human body better then we would look at health differently. MDs have been trained to diagnosis a symptom or a group of symptoms. (DCs get that training as well) All a diagnosis is is a name given to symptoms. Then the training for an MD is what drug can be used to mask symptoms, or kill organisms that seem to be the problem, or what surgery can be done to either remove something or relocate something in order to “fix” the problem.
There is no such thing as pathology! There are only pathological environments. This is where medicine goes wrong, and out steps its bounds. Here is a great scenario to look at this more logically. Truth is logic. Back in the 70’s there was an issue of the fish in the Great Lakes becoming diseased and dying. The birds were eating the diseased fish so naturally they were becoming diseased and dying and the entire ecosystem was affected.
Now should we have dumped medicine into the lakes or maybe made fish/bird hospitals and preformed surgery? Or did scientists realize the toxic environment caused by pollution and cleaned it up and then the diseases disappeared?
The point is there is no drug for poor choices, there is no drug that corrects poor eating habits or sedentary lifestyles. Chiropractic is based in a pyridine of holism, claiming that diseases are cause by toxins and traumas. These toxins and traumas can be of a structural, chemical, of emotional in nature. More easily put, is that the key to health is to get rid of toxicity and deficiency and places that with purity and sufficiency. This is done by eating well, moving well, and thinking well.
Earlier I wrote that there is no such thing as pathology, only pathological environments. Go look into an animal that is taken from the wild and put into captive and find out whether or not that animal is as healthy as the same species living in the wild. They are not! We live in a captivity-like lifestyle, we do not eat right, we do not move right, we do not think right. Therefore we are plagued with chronic diseases and ailments that are 100%preventable!
I literally could go on and on and on. But I will just say that I am soon to be a chiropractor, I will continue to be treated by a chiropractor to maintain health (proper cell function). My wife and children will continue to receive chiropractic treatment, without fear. It is sad that we let fear motivate us. That is not thinking well! My family will continue to eat, think and move well.