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Posted by Robert Dotto
In Reply to: Funnily enough, walking has always been the best pain reliever for me. posted by Geoff
George,
I am glad that you have found some relief for your tendonitis. However,
with all due respect, it sounds like your DC has an insecurity complex and
would rather have been an MD. Having said that, it should also be noted
that there are losers in every profession and that it is the bottom that is
always crowded, there is always plenty of room at the top. It should be
noted that 100,000-150,00 people die each and every year at the hand's of
MDs and their negligence. The average chiropractor pays about $1500 per
year for malpractice insurance, whereas we all know what the average MD
pays. This in itself speaks volumes. The philosophy of chiropractic
essentially deals with the body's inherent ability to heal itself when free
from nerve interference, i.e.., subluxations. To further this
understanding, it must be noted that nerve compression slows down the
conductivity of that nerve. So, if the nerve conductivity is slowed down or
dysfunctional, the nerve supply (or energy) coming from the brain and spinal
cord and going to the tissues of the body will be compromised and that
tissue could then become dysfunctional. In time, this dysfunction could
lead to disease due to the lack of nerve supply.
This is not "witch doctory" and the cutting MD's are scrambling to come to
terms with it. The most well known MD's (e.g., Deepak Chopra & Andrew Weil)
in the world are now more in line with chiropractic philosophy than with the
medical model's reductionist/mechanistic philosophy. The truth of the
matter is that the medical model paradigm is based on an obsolete model of
physics, that is, the Newtonian Model. The Newtonian model of viewing the
world in a "Mechanistic" manner was replaced in 1925 with Quantum Physics, a
view of the world in terms of "Energy." Quantum physics espouses that
substance cannot be "reduced" down to it's physical component parts, and
that substance equals energy. Protons, electrons, and neutrons are not made
up of physical matter, they are instead made of energy packets that spin
within orbits at specific frequencies.
For it's entire existence, Chiropractic has been in tune with this concept.
In simple terms, there is a great difference between a cadaver and a living
body. Can that difference be measured, reduced, or explicated
mechanistically? To say that the nerve roots that branch off the spinal
cord, which is an extension of the brain, and extend themselves to innervate
(supply energy) to every tissue (internal organs, muscles, bones, glands,
skin, ligaments, etc...) in the body wouldn't cause dysfunction and disease
in the body if subluxated simply is ignoring the the science of how the body
works. Without the nerve supply coming from the brain and spinal cord,
these internal organs, glandular tissues, muscles cells, skeletal tissues,
ligaments, etc... cannot live or function properly period. I am sot saying
that Chiropractic is the cure for diseases, but it certainly is reasonable
to conclude that nerve compression could lead to dysfunction in the body.
If the body or a specific organ is experiencing dysfunction due to a spinal
subluxations and the chiropractor relieves the subluxation by adjusting the
vertebrae, thereby removing the nerve interference, is it not reasonable to
assume that the body could repair itself and resume proper function? For a
chiropractor to say that he doesn't believe in this principle and his/her
chiropractic roots is simply unbelievable and terribly myopic. Further, it
leads me to believe that his/her comments come from envy (of the rest of
the profession) and a lack of self purpose or identity in his/her
profession. Unfortunately, it must be stated that every profession will
have it's losers that are self loathing, wishing they had become something
different than they are and all the while, feeling inferior to their would
be superiors, but the whole of a profession should not be judged according
to the few who lack purpose, identity, and self worth. The "big picture" is
far beyond the limited scope of a reductionistic/mechanistic model. To say
that the chiropractic model is "witch doctory" is slanderous and comes from
envy. No profession has had to endure the kind of malicious attacks, flat
out lies about the profession, imprisonment of it's practitioners,
consistent and persistent defamation form MD's , as chiropractic. As much
as the MD's try to put chiropractors out of business, they have failed at
every turn. Why? Because chiropractic care works and it cuts into the MD's
wallet.
