Testimonials

Happy Fourth of July!

I get a lot of emails from my chiropractic collegues with various videos about chiropractic and the benfits that people have gotten. From significantly lowering blood pressure, kids with ADHD, bet wetting, blindness, MS, asthma etc. I am continually impressed with the possible benefits of spinal adjustments and wish more people knew about it or at least considered it. I enjoy focusing primarily on neck and back pain and it is challenging enough. There is plenty of need as well since back pain is the second most common reason a person seeks out health care next to colds.

But there is still a part of me who would like to see more of the "controversial" types of cases that chiropractic may help. I believe that there is still a lot that science can't explain about the human body and chiropractic may be able to help someone with these conditions. I say "maybe" because I believe in an strict evidence based approach to practice and as amazing as these stories on youtube are I'm not about to get on my soap box and tell people chiropractic can cure their blindness. Although I have to admit they do peak my curiosity and hope that we as a profession can move beyond anecdotal evidence to more scientific studies on how these people are getting the results they are not to mention what the success rate is. It seems to me there are more than enough of these stories to warrant some money from the government to do some nice studies and who knows chiropractic may become one of the treatments of choice for high blood pressure and ADHD. Some of the better testimonials are on the links section of my website but there are a lot of good ones on youtube and I can't keep up with them all.:)

Still looking for my first response to one of my posts...hopefully it will be you and maybe we can get some dialog going.

Thanks,
Dr. Moore

Hello,

I recently reviewed some chiropractic history and wanted to share something with you. Did you know that the American Medical Association made a concerted effort to "contain and eliminate" the chiropractic profession? In 1990 the federal court of appeals affirmed a 1987 ruling against the AMA for "unlawful conspiracy" to basically monopolize health care. Up until that point MDs were also forbidden to refer to chiropractors under penalty of losing their license. I got a referral from an MD today and receive them fairly often, funny how things change.

Thank you and feel free to post any questions or comments!

Dr. Moore

People's Pharmacy

Hi Everyone,

Just had a patient tell me about what I think is a valuable resource that I highly recommend you check out. It's called The People's Pharmacy and can be found under the links/resources section of the website. It is produced by NPR and has experts discussing current health related topics and their cures. There is a link to their radio program on the their website.

Thanks for choosing Moore Chiropractic!

Dr. Moore

First Post

Hi Everyone,

Found this on net the and thought it would be good for the blog.

Thanks for choosing Moore Chiropractic.

Dr. Moore

The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million.3 The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million.4 The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown in the following table is 783,936. It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251.5

Condition Deaths Cost Author
Adverse Drug Reactions 106,000 $12 billion Lazarou1 Suh49
Medical error 98,000 $2 billion IOM6
Bedsores 115,000 $55 billion Xakellis7 Barczak8
Infection 88,000 $5 billion Weinstein9 MMWR10
Malnutrition 108,800 -------- Nurses Coalition11
Outpatients 199,000 $77 billion Starfield12 Weingart112
Unnecessary Procedures 37,136 $122 billion HCUP3,13
Surgery-Related 32,000 $9 billion AHRQ85

TOTAL 783,936 $282 billion