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From: "Peter Moran" [email hidden]
Date: 1/28/2004 8:33 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:From: "Peter Moran" [email hidden]
Date: 1/28/2004 12:17 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Quoted message said:Chiropractic has NEVER performed any rigorous clinical studies, and
homeopathy has only ever done so in the last decade or so, without very
convincing results.
Quoted message said:Peter Moran
*Substantial* *real* *solid* *convincing* *hard* *clear-cut* *reasonable*
*significant* *credibile* *compelling*
ZZzz.
Truth is if it is not endorsed by *organized medicine*, Peter Moran won't
believe it.
God himself could tap Peter on the shoulder and declare otherwise, he
would
Quoted message said:still be doubtful.
Brainwashing is very powerful.
So shall we add "spinal manipulation is a cure for influenza" to your nutty
beliefs, Jan? OK.
Peter Moran
Nope, not OK. My beliefs are not nutty, but you are wrong in stating no
cliniical studies have been done.
We add another organized medicine post from you.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Chiropractic has NEVER performed any rigorous clinical studies, and
Quoted message said:homeopathy has only ever done so in the last decade or so, without very
convincing results.
Quoted message said:Peter Moran
Not true.
http://tinyurl.com/2qpfw
Is Chiropractic Unscientific?Mark Force, DCThe Elements of HealthScottsdale,
Arizonawww.theelementsofhealth.comcommon criticism of chiropractic care is that
scientific evidence does notsupport this type of health care and, as such,
chiropractic is withoutmerit. Recently, I ran across a study that may play a
part in helping to quellthis particular kind of criticism against the
chiropractic profession.Here is the abstract from this research
study:“Objective: To calculate the proportion of care delivered in a
chiropracticpractice supported by good-quality clinical trials.Design:
Retrospective survey.Methods: Data were collected from patient files relating
to 180 consecutivepatient visits in a suburban chiropractic practice in
northern Spain. Eachpatient's presenting complaint was paired with the
chiropractor's chosenprimary intervention. Based on a literature review
(Medline, Mantis, andnonautomated searches of local medical libraries), each
presentingcomplaint–primary intervention pairing was categorized according to
thelevel of supporting evidence as follows: Category I, intervention based
ongood quality clinical trial evidence; Category II, intervention based on
poor-quality or no clinical trial evidence. To distinguish between good- and
poor-quality clinical trials, studies were critically appraised and assigned
qualityscores.Results: Of the 180 cases surveyed, 123 (68.3%) (95% CI,
61.5%-75.1%)were based on clinical trials of good methodologic quality
(Category I). Only57 (31.7%) (95% CI, 24.9%-38.5%) of the cases were based on
poor-quality or no clinical trial evidence (Category II).Conclusions: When
patients were used as the denominator, the majority ofcases in a chiropractic
practice were cared for with interventions based onevidence from good-quality,
randomized clinical trials. When compared to themany other studies of similar
design that have evaluated the extent to whichdifferent medical specialties are
evidence based, chiropractic practice wasfound to have the highest proportion
of care (68.3%) supported by good-quality experimental evidence. (J
Manipulative Physiol Ther 2003;26:000)â€Note: The underlining was added; full
article available
athttp://www2.us.elsevierhealth.com/scripts/om.dll/serve?action=searchDB&s
earchDBfor=iss&id=jpt030261&target=A
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Many major medical journals have in the last few years contained
editorialswritten by medical (allopathic) physicians that claim that
complementary andalternative medicine (CAM) approaches to health care, such as
acupuncture,herbal medicine, hypnosis, etc., do not have scientific or clinical
evidence tosubstantiate them. These writers have universally included
chiropractic careas CAM.This study evaluated 180 consecutive patient visits of
one chiropractor forthe support from the scientific and peer-reviewed
literature for her treatmentmethods.The chiropractor is a graduate of an
American accredited chiropractic collegeand practices in Barcelona, Spain.
Since this is a retrospective study, thechiropractor didn’t know that her
records would be used for this study whileshe was treating the patients whose
notes comprised the study.The therapies used to treat the patients in this
study were evaluated forwhether or not they were supported by published
peer-review clinical studiesthat had a clinical methodology of solid design.It
is interesting to note that chiropractic care, when compared to many othertypes
of health care, showed the highest support from clinical studies. Thefindings
of this comparison are listed below:= Pediatric general surgery (11%)=
Inpatient general surgery (24%)= General practice (31%)= Inpatient general
medicine (53%)= Acute general psychiatry (65%)= Chiropractic practice (68%)=
Pediatric practice (40%)= Anesthesia practice (32%)= Internal medicine (65%)=
General practice (38%)= Dermatology (38%)= General practice (drug treatment)
(21%)= Hematology–oncology (24%)= Internal medicine (50%)It is important to
note that this is one study and even though the structure ofthe study appears
very sound from a research perspective, it is a pilot studycalling for more
complete research, with a larger sampling, to follow. Thisstudy is also not an
indictment of specialties that score with low percentagesfrom this study.
Practice ultimately is justifiably based on extensive andcritical observation
from clinical experience. Ultimately, more studies areneeded for all
specialties with regard to their outcomes, safety, effectiveness,and cost to
benefit.
http://www.wellnesstoday.com/news_from_the_chiropractor.htm
http://www.drlarrysmith.com/manga.htm
http://www.drlighttouch.com/newsletter2.html
Jan
