Is the Chiropractic Subluxation Theory a Threat to Public Health?
It still amazes me that articles like this show up in medical journals. We have pharmaceutical drugs responsible as the 4th to the 6th leading cause of death (depending upon whom you talk to..) and we still get articles like this. Go figure. Every day I hear stories from patients of things that have been done to them or given to them that stumps me. Just two days ago a patient’s 1 1/2 year old son was put in the hospital for rotativrus and given ANTIBIOTICS!! How about probiotics instead? Let’s destroy this poor child’s developing immune structure and possibly set him up for atopy and asthma; and yet DC’s are the threat? Makes me wonder how an article like this makes it through the peer review process for publication.
Scientific Review of Alt Med 5(1):45-53, 2001 Many chiropractors treat patients with spinal adjustments based on the theory that correction of vertebral subluxations will restore and maintain health. This paper explores the controversy surrounding the practice of chiropractic and discusses some of the dangers associated with inappropriate use of spinal manipulation. Treatment of infants and children by subluxation-based chiropractors who do not endorse such medically accepted procedures as immunization or use of antibiotics is especially a cause for alarm. Explaining the scientifically rejected chiropractic subluxation therapy and describing some of the questionable treatment methods based on this theory, a veteran chiropractic reformer concludes that if the chiropractic profession fails to abandon the false premise upon which it is based, it will remain controversial and some aspects of chiropractic treatment will continue to be a threat to public health.