Pinched nerves cause disease:

Nonsense. Disease is multi-causational. Pinched nerves do not cause disease. Disease is caused by the number of pathogens, the virulence of the pathogens, divided by the resistance of the host organism. The Nervous system along with the Endocrine system are the controlling systems of the body. The nervous system controls, coordinates and regulates all activities of the body by receiving and transmitting nerve impulses. Nerve integrity affect the resistance of the organism. Pinched nerves do not cause disease.

Chiropractic treatment never ends:

Chiropractic is like dentistry, more specifically Orthodontics. A person does not need a Chiropractor any more than they need a dentist. If your spine is anatomically correct, freely moving and you observe the proper biomechanics of daily living you do not need to see a Chiropractor for anything other than a "Tune Up."  The equivalent of a "Tooth Cleaning." Any Chiropractor that promotes continued treatment is or should be explaining that he or she is referring to "prevention."

Chiropractic treats problems other than back pain:

Chiropractic is best for somatic (body) disturbances (see definition). With regard to treating organic disturbances, Chiropractic cures absolutely nothing. Chiropractic enables your body to utilize it's natural re-cuperative powers to restore itself to normal function. Chiropractic should never be used to treat organic problems by itself, but only as and adjunct.

Vertebrae (back bones) are out of place:

While this does occur and is called a subluxation as opposed to a dislocation, it is very infrequent, in my opinion. Sometimes doctors (medical and chiropractic) tell patients "things" to help them understand. For example, " You have a disk out of place." "You have arthritis." Technically disks don't "go out of place," and while a patient may have arthritis, it is all to commonly used by general practitioners as a catch all diagnosis for muscle and bone pain that they can not explain. It is shocking how accepting and understanding a patient is when they are told they have arthritis. Often, this is just not the case.

Chiropractors are not "Real" Doctors:

What is a doctor? The very word "doctor" is from the Latin language meaning to teach. Ph.D. is doctor of Philosophy and JD is doctorate in Jurisprudence, D.V.M is doctorate in Veterinarian medicine.  The D.C. degree is a doctorate degree in Chiropractic. D.D.S is a doctorate in Dentistry. Chiropractors are real doctors, not in medicine, but chiropractic.

Do we really need a Chiropractor or Dentist for that matter?

Not if you have the following:

1. Normal anatomical spine
2. Freely moving spine
3. Strong guy wires (muscles) or supports for the spine
4. Observe the proper biomechanics of daily living

We need Chiropractic like we need a dentist. Under ideal conditions, for prevention, such as a tooth cleaning.

Chiropractors don't believe in drugs or surgery

Chiropractors are not licensed to prescribe drugs or perform surgery. Drugs and surgery are a very necessary part of life and medicine. Chiropractic is a health care discipline which emphasizes the inherent recuperative power of the body to heal itself without the use of drugs or surgery.

Chiropractors treat infants

For reasons unbeknownst to me, some do. Some treat animals too. Every profession has its black sheep. In years past, chiropractic attracted a maverick group. Fortunately, state and educational requirements have weeded most of them out.

I read your website including the comment about chiropractors who treat infants. My chiropractor does, including my son who suffered with asthma in his first year. He also assists with trying to keep fluid draining from his ears as he

has had frequent ear infections. He reports good success with  prevention of ear infections in infants and children.

I'd like to know more about your reasons why you do not condone chiropractics in infants, and if you know if there is anything unsafe or detrimental about this practice. I know he also assesses spinal irregularities due to traumatic births, or other traumas in infants and children, and treats them. I am trying to keep my eyes open and do what is best for my son, so if you have any concrete information regarding the treatment of infants, please tell me what you know.

I will also show your page to my chiropractor incase he has any information that you yourself may not be aware of, and that many readers of your website may appreciate knowing.

I hope this serves to help clarify your questions.

Chiropractors in general, are notoriously unscientific. Some are unethical and others due to their ignorance, assume that a patient got well just because they were treating the patient, without regard to other variables. Let me give you a hypothetical. Let us say that I was treating you for a common cold and then you got better. Then I tried to take credit for curing your cold. While this example is ludicrous, there are many diseases in infants and adults that are self limiting in nature, or prone to flare-ups and remissions. Asthma is one of these. (I have asthma myself as well as one of my 4 children).

I am not in any way suggesting that your doctor is a "bad guy."

I really believe (not science) that infants and children, for the most part, are best left to "nature," when it comes to treating non musculoskeletal problems. I am sure your doctor told you that Chiropractic cures nothing but instead, facilitates the natural recuperative powers of the human body, via the transmission and reception of nerve impulses.

I have no problem with Chiropractors treating non musculoskeletal problems as long as it is done in concert with appropriate medical protocol. I would like to see more scientific studies clarifying these important issues. Not anecdotal-sales.

Vaccinations of children

Immunization simulates the natural process of interaction between the immune system and disease-causing microorganisms but without the terrible consequences that were common before vaccines were routine. The fact is that severe reactions to immunization are extremely rare, occurring in less than 1 percent of all children.

In general, these reactions are far less severe than the diseases we now immunize against -- polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), and Hemophilus influenzae type B (a major cause of spinal meningitis) to name a few. Most of the time, the worst you'll see is a few tears and maybe some temporary swelling at the injection site.

Thanks to immunization most of the worst childhood diseases are now rare, but the more people refuse to immunize their children, the greater the chance that they will reappear. If that happens, those at greatest risk will be children (and adults!) who have not been immunized. When you contract these diseases as an adult, you're much more likely to get very sick and develop complications (such as pneumonia with chicken pox and encephalitis with measles).

You should also know that new and better vaccines are on the way, which will further improve the risk/benefit ration of immunization. For example, a new pertussis vaccine has just become available; the old one was the shot that caused most of the serious immunization reactions.

Summary: Vaccinations work. A small percentage of children given vaccination shots to prevent diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), and measles will experience adverse effects-most of them trivial. However, the benefits of these shots vastly outweigh the unlikely harm. Where immunization programs are non existent, preventable diseases continue to cause death and disability. The present rate of polio is less than one hundredth its lowest level before oral immunization programs began, and public health officials have predicted worldwide eradication by the year 2000. This is one of the most dramatic success stories in the history of medical sciences struggle to reduce suffering and early death. The same could be said of the vaccination program that rid the world of smallpox, a once prevalent deadly disease.

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