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Of particular interest is a revealing dialogue- debate on the internet between the author and the chirpractic community.
It is the only such book on chiropractic ever written by a medical doctor from the standpoint of scientific medicine, a viewpoint that every chiropractor and client should read.
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19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Professional Opinion,
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This review is from: Chiropractic the Greatest Hoax of the Century? (Paperback)
I will begin by saying I am biased against the chiropractic industry generally due to my position as a physical therapist. I have experience interacting with chiropractors and have treated patients with both positive and negative exepriences receiving chiropractic care.
I purchased Chiropractic: The Greatest Hoax of the Century? with great interest hoping to confirm my suscipions of the chiropractic industry. The author himself is a long practicing physician which enhances his credibility in this endeavour. The book is based more on isolated experiences and informal 'interviews' with chiropractors rather than drwaing on eveidence based research or other more quantitative means of exposing shortcomings in this profession. The author comes off as unprofessional as some of the very unethical chiropractors he has been exposed to with his opinion based,fact lacking rants on the topic. Within the text there is some good content on the origins of chiropractic care with hisory and government agency and political organization lobbying and results. That sort of information is redeeming as is data on cervical spine injuries through chiropractic care which I personally have concern with over the high thrust spine manipulations used in treatment. In chapter 16 the author attempts to answer the very question I have pondered: why people go to chiropractors? The success of that chapter will be determined by each reader but I come away still asking that question to some degree. A two star rating is given for the valuable information that is included, entertainment value, and thought provoking nature of the content. Overall the book comes off very biased and opinion based focusing on the worst practioners of a profession which always yields negative and concerning content for the public.
38 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
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A sad day for patients everywhere,
By Brandon R. Cooper (Los Angeles, California USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chiropractic the greatest hoax of the Century? (Paperback)
I am an MD and a DC (Doctor of Chiropractic). This book was a completely biased account of a profession that has had a profoundly positive impact on patient care and wellness. It is simply another example of certain doctor's realization that they are not the only way to acheive good health. I too was a skeptic of chiropractic. However, rather than allow fear to influence my opinion, I chose to explore the practice. One must ask oneself, "Should I doubt because an MD told me to? Or should I see for myself?" I have found countless scientific evidence to support chiropractic. I recommend that Chotkowski and Chotkowski re-evaluate their research. This book is simply an attempt to keep patients brainwashed. Unfortunately, it is a matter of dollars and cents. Be aware of the motivation to discredit a practice that seeks wellness above all else, without toxic side effects.
34 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worked for me...,
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This review is from: Chiropractic the Greatest Hoax of the Century? (Paperback)
All I know is that I was in desperate pain, unable to turn my head to the left, and could barely walk upright. I had to move incredibly slowly to do anything at all.
My job as a video graphics professional for the last seventeen years had me chained to a desk for up to 18 hours a day. The lack of movement and incredible amounts of stress had taken their toll. I visited a chiropractor here in Southern California. He cracked my back and my neck, jammed his knuckles into my shoulder blades, and generally did everything I had ever seen chiropractors do in the movies. I even got the comedy crackling noise when he did the rapid neck twist on me. I had to go back three more times for the pain to completely go. I haven't been back since April 2005. I'm now very aware of what to do and when to do it, as the chiropractor gave me great advice, so that I could look after myself by taking preventative measures. Indeed that's the very antithesis of the typical three-day-work-week American doctor, who, under the auspices of the pharmaceutical compnies, wil lkeep us drug dependent and running back to him for more and more. Western medicine is all about filling the fat pockets of greedy doctors and even greedier fat cat drug companies, especially here in the US, where the prices are artificially high. If someone wants to write a book about the scam that is American private medicine, I have plenty of tales. I see that someone (whom I presume to be a doctor of traditional Western medicine) has taken a swipe at those of us that have actually had the temerity to disagree with the central tenets of this hatchet job against chiropractors. I apologise for my 'badly written' review. I feel that the success of my treatment is something to be celebrated. Perhaps I should be as narrow-minded as S.Sawyer, and presume that he probably thinks therapy and other alternative medicines are also all of dubious value. But no, you couldn't possibly be that much of a self-stereotyping caricature. Could you?
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