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From: wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll)
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Subject: Every MD's office needs a Chiropractor.
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 15:41:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 10 15:41:45 1985
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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)