http://www.skeptic.com/downloads/Alt...rriet_Hall.pdf
D.D. Palmer, a grocer
and magnetic healer,
invented chiropractic
on September 18,
1895. He did something
to a deaf man’s
back. The man said he
could hear again. This
is particularly ironic, because
the nerves to the
ear don’t go anywhere
near the spine, and no
chiropractor today
claims to be able to
cure deafness.
Chiropractic theory
is based on three principles: (1) bony displacement
causes all disease; (2) displacement interferes with
nerve function; (3) removing the interference allows
Innate (a vitalistic force) to heal the body. All three
of these principles are false. (1) Chiropractic subluxations
have never been demonstrated; (2) No impairment
of nerve function has been documented; (3) No
such vitalistic force has been detected.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3022
An article written by 3 chiropractors and a PhD in physical education and published on December 2, 2009 in the journal Chiropractic and Osteopathy may have sounded the death knell for chiropractic.
Chiro Subluxation is dead:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=5339
The General Chiropractic Council, a UK-wide statutory body with regulatory powers, has just published a new position statement on the chiropractic subluxation complex:The chiropractic vertebral subluxation complex is an historical concept but it remains a theoretical model. It is not supported by any clinical research evidence that would allow claims to be made that it is the cause of disease or health concerns.