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From: dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: What do you go to chiropractors for?
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Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 13:01:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 16 13:01:00 1986
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A number of people have provided testimonials for the efficacy of their
chiropractors, and I'd like to ask them what conditions they have which
are being treated successfully by chiropractic, and what treatments are
employed.

I feel most comfortable with a traditional medical approach, because it's
grounded in the scientific method.  That is, the underlying philosophy
seems sound to me, although any individual practitioner will undoubtedly
fall short in one way or another--hopefully in some unimportant way!  
Although I try to keep my steel-trap mind open, I really *am* suspicious
of practitioners of a treatment philosophy invented by a farmer from Iowa
which indicates that vertebral "subluxation" is the cause of all ill health.
And, for those chiropractors who disavow such an approach, it's unclear to
me what they replace it with.

I'm not trying to get into another yin/yang argument between traditional
and non-traditional healing professions.  Rather, I would really like to
hear from people who have had success from chiropractic.  Please tell us
what your problems were, how they were helped, and what the chiropractor
did.
-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
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