Comments on: Spinal manipulation

By: nathalie

nathalie — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:22:38 +0000

It’s been proven that cracking your back works as well as aspirin, you have to take it again and again- and it only affects pain in the back- nothing else… Yes, this has really been proven by scientist.
If you have to go, at least think of this:
¤ Say no if they want to correct your neck- it can make veins burst at the top and you get blood clogs that travel to your brain a.k.a you die
¤ Don’t let them X-ray you (think about it, really, the whole spine? why do you think you should wear led dresses even when you’re at the dentists office)

By: baw

baw — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:22:25 +0000

Every state has a Chiropractic Board that licenses them. Go to your state government’s website.

By: baw

baw — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:14:02 +0000

Two years of night school?

To get into chiropractic college you need a four-year degree with specific requirements in biology, chemistry, etc. comparable to premed. The first two years of chiropractic school are EXACTLY the same as the first two years of medical school; I know because I had a doctor once who had both an MD and a DC–she was a chiropractor first, then went to medical school at the University of Illinois (hardly a fly-by-night school) and they waived the first two years because she’d already covered the material in her DC.

By: more crooked chiropractors

more crooked chiropractors — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:21:37 +0000

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By: frostedflake

frostedflake — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:09:26 +0000

how long does one have to have been coming to PAN before one is considered a PANaholic? i only discovered this site less than a week ago, but i haven’t slept more than about 9 hours total since… do i have a problem?

By: Aurelie

Aurelie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:08:21 +0000

@Michael- he even states in his post that Woodacre is incorrect, thus making this not a hoax.

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By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:30:54 +0000

Just dropping my 2 cents in here for what it’s worth. The chiro who sent that letter is an idiot. Prepay plans etc are awful, but it is what many are having to do to try to survive in the insurance market.

I am a chiropractic physician who trained at the National Naval Medical Center alongside all other types of doctors… doing everything including surgery during my training. If you need a good doctor, they are out there.

Good luck

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By: fermentsindarkness

fermentsindarkness — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:14:14 +0000

No E meter or Xenu stuff here… I am just reading about the federal MD’s in Mississippi that injected black men with syphilis and watched the disease progress as they “pretended” to treat the victims

Great history medicine has.

By: altered

altered — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:16:15 +0000

fermentsindarkness, are your e-meter treatments part of the package, or do you pay for those separate from the subluxation adjustments?

By: melissa

melissa — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:14:19 +0000

My brothers are both chiropractors and I worked at a chiropractic university for a while. I I’ve seen first-hand what these students go through. They take most, if not all, of the same classes an M.D. takes to get their doctorate. It requires a 4 year degree plus another 4 years for their doctorate (less on an accelerated program).

The main difference is in patient interaction. a D.C. will, for obvious reasons, spend clinic hours working on adjusting patients while a medical student might spend their time in a hospital.

For every story in these comments about a shitty chiropractor, I’ve got a story about a shitty doctor. There are people in every profession who are just out there to make a buck and they make everyone else look bad. I can say with absolute certainty that almost every single student I encountered while working at the university had the best of intentions and I have all the faith in the world that many of them will graduate to become fantastic chiropractors. I can also say with certainty that some will not.

It’s like that famous joke goes, “Q: what do you call a person who almost failed out of med school? A: Doctor”

By: Dr.T

Dr.T — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:56:36 +0000

It’s unfortunate that there are poor examples and “smarmy” practitioners in every field–they tend to be the “loudmouth at the party” and are often in the limelight, much to the chagrin of the rest of the profession.
As secondsout says above, most of my referrals come from word-of-mouth, but new practitioners are often forced by their employers or encouraged by their “marketing gurus” to make bad choices in how they present themselves to the public. I’ve had to do all kinds of marketing over the years I’ve been practicing–I’m not proud of some of those events, but sometimes one has to do what one needs to do to put food on the table, even if it means lowering yourself down a notch or three…

By: glastonberry

glastonberry — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:49:33 +0000

Wow, that’s one big chunk o comment…. awesome really, I wonder what it says? Anyone dare to read it yet?