Friday, July 3, 2009

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