Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!wws From: wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Every MD's office needs a Chiropractor. Message-ID: <2047@ukma.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 15:41:45 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.2047 Posted: Sat Aug 10 15:41:45 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 03:36:16 EDT Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 56 This week's Newsweek (8/12/85), page 69 (appropriate), has an article about combining Chiropractic with Allopathy (MD). Since I have had personal experience with practicing with a Chiropractor for the past 5 years, I thought I would share my experience for some of the "doubting thomases" of Holistic Medicine. Both the May and August issues('84) "Patient Care" journal, the most widely read primary care conventional medical journal in the USA) published major articles about getting MDs to learn how to do manipulation for their patients. This is a complete reversal of just a year ago when the AMA(pity) was still calling it "QUACKERY". You see, if the AMA(pity) doesn't know about it, it must be "QUACKERY". One of the reasons for the reversal is the newly reported fact: 5% of the physicians in the US are Osteopaths. An Osteopath is a D.O.; a physician who has to pass the same medical licensing boards that the M.D.s do. However, they also must pass another whole day of boards on manipulation that no MD has learned the first thing about--remember, it was quackery! The science of osteopathic manipulation is very similar to chiropractic manipulation. 10% of all the patient visits in the US are to Osteopaths. In other words: Osteopaths see twice as many patients/doctor as allopaths (MDs). A second major factor in the reversal just was reported this past month: The spinal fluid (which we have always known was limited to the central nervous system--brain and spinal cord) flows all the way out to the tiniest tip of the tiniest peripheral nerve in the body. Apparently, the nervous system, both voluntary and autonomic, is not only electrical and chemical but a fluid dynamic system as well. 2oz of pressure where the nerves leave the spinal column causes a 60% reduction in the fluid flow from the cns to the periphery. 2oz is a nearly infinitisimal amount of pressure when one considers the stresses normally present during movements of the backbone. It now is much more understandable how manipulation of the spine could influence the function of the liver, etc. Since all organs function is influenced by the autonomic system, there is no way that skilled spinal manipulation could NOT influence organ function. All these years the AMA(pity) have expended millions of dollars to deny chiropractic (insisting all the while that they were quacks out to hoax the public for a buck) instead of seriously looking into the results observed. One runs a great risk to assume that the other fellow has any less ethics or professionalism than one's own. It took a full generation for americans to outlive the propaganda we were fed about the "godless Germans" during the second world war. It will take at least that long for MDs to get over what we were taught about manipulation. In the meantime "let the buyer beware". I have found that there are many conditions that do not respond to conventional medical care that respond beautifully to chiropractic. By having the Chiropractor in the same office with the MD we learn from each other and the patient is the benefactor. After all, isn't the patient what this is supposed to be all about? cbosgd!ukma!wws(WALT STOLL,MD)