Chiropractic: The Victim's Perspective (Consumer Health Library) Review

There are over forty one-star reviews of this book, likely from either chiropractors or patients who have strong belief in chiropractic. But the fact is that chiropractic is a hands-on method which strongly predisposes to a placebo effect. Now, I have found in myself that with certain back pains, I can do a swift rotational movement of my low back, create a popping sensation, and my back feels better. On the other hand, if I do gentle low back exercises and range-of-movement exercises, I can get the same benefit. It is my belief that muscle spasm causes some kind of disorder in the vertebrae that can be corrected by "popping" the joints. Relaxing the muscle tension imbalance is the key; otherwise you can keep popping the vertbrae just about every day, endlessly. Proper posture, relaxation, stress management, range of movement exercises, all of these are keys to spinal health.

Readers are also encouraged to read "Trick or Treatment" by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst, MD, 2008, an outstanding book which evaluates various aspects of alternative medicine. It comes to similar conclusions as this book, and is a "must-read."

This book is very highly recommended reading; as mentioned by other reviewers, every person wishing to start chiropractic treatment must read this book. Aside from neck chiropractic, of which we need to be extremely wary, chiropractic is licensed by the States of the USA, and low back chiropractic for low back issues might be worth a try. But as to chiropractic for other ailments unrelated to the vertebral system, the patient embarks on such chiropractic at his or her own risk. Chiropractic for children for "health maintenance" ought to be outlawed. The founder of chiropractic is said to have cured a patient of wheezing by adjusting the spine, and this is very much an anecdotal report. Maybe he dislodged a foreign body in a bronchial tube!

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