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If you're talking about "chiropractic" and chiropractors, you're always talking about quackery -- by definition. For example, you say you're not referring to quackery, yet you immediately try to make your point by telling Allen he can [simply] substitute "joint dysfunction" (a Chiropractic Rose by another name) with the more blatantly meaningless proprietary chiropractic imbecility ... "subluxation." And, vice versa, of course.
In other words, why not [simply] substitute the term "macaroni" for what it is that chiropractors think, say, and do? Just use chiropractic vocabulary (or "vocab," as you might say) replacing words PRN with "macaroni" ... spinal macaroni, finding and fixing macaroni, needlessly suffering from macaroni, doctors of macaroni, etc. After awhile, you'll actually think you're talking about something called "macaroni" ... meaning something and anything that a chiropractor can diagnose and treat.
Again ... while I don't know what a "rehab doc" is, I suspect that if it's chiropractors you're talking about and they "manipulate the spine," at some level of their chiropractic being and practice, they're "Adjusting" it -- which is to say, "fixing" some "dysfunctionality" they have determined needs "rehabilitating." So, "spinal rehabilitation" (or, "spinal rehab," as you might say) becomes just another Chiropractic Rose meaning Chiropractic Care (tm). Still more chiropractic macaroni.
You didn't USE the word, "quackery," it's true. And, I didn't use the term "stupid," either. But, stupid the chiropractic premise is, isn't it, no matter how you spell-it-out or what you're calling it today.
~TEO.
John Badanes, DC, PharmD
LCCW '84, UCSF '97
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Again ... while I don't know what a "rehab doc" is, I suspect that if it's chiropractors you're talking about and they "manipulate the spine," at some level of their chiropractic being and practice, they're "Adjusting" it -- which is to say, "fixing" some "dysfunctionality" they have determined needs "rehabilitating." So, "spinal rehabilitation" (or, "spinal rehab," as you might say) becomes just another Chiropractic Rose meaning Chiropractic Care (tm). Still more chiropractic macaroni.
You didn't USE the word, "quackery," it's true. And, I didn't use the term "stupid," either. But, stupid the chiropractic premise is, isn't it, no matter how you spell-it-out or what you're calling it today.
~TEO.
John Badanes, DC, PharmD
LCCW '84, UCSF '97