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Originally Posted by Phaneuf3
Thank you very much, sir.
If there are ones out there like that then I finally understand the bad reputation they get. The one I've been to was excellent and would not hesitate to recommend her to any of my friends if they were experiencing back pain. The only time she mentioned "big pharma" or anything of the like was when she recommended not to take robax platinum and such to treat the pain but instead use a proper diet, stretching, exercise and a bit of chiro to treat the underlying problem which IMO makes perfect sense.
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I think the biggest problem is that the industry as a whole doesn't do a good job of either filtering out those ones or doing the meticulous record keeping that's so important to evidence based medicine. I'm sure different associations have different policies, but some of the material I've read about really make it look like the $$ is the most important part and they instruct their members on how to get people into long term permanent therapies, full body x-rays, etc etc. These were US ones so I'm not sure how the Canadian association is but that they don't distance themselves from the quacks is disappointing.
There have been deaths associated with neck manipulation, but getting real stats is hard because the practitioners don't seem to keep track of who gets what when. Which also makes it hard to determine what kinds of therapy actually do anything beyond placebo.