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Surgery for Low Back Pain

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I skimmed a few pages from the preview of the chapter on chiropractic written by Christopher Colloca DC. Dr. Colloca is the founder and owner of an equipment company who sells electric manipulation guns to chiropractors (Neuromechanical Innovations) so he is always promoting the profession with a heavy bias that he tries to make appear scientifically credible (but generally fails except to the uninformed). I have yet to see him write anything critical of it. Likewise in skimming his contribution to this surgery text I see heavy bias. First, the statistics he uses reference ten year old surveys that do not reflect the declining acceptance of chiropractic in the healthcare marketplace, giving the false impression that chiropractic is growing when it is actually in decline. He fails to mention the two central problems of chiropractic: first that it is based on outdated false biomechanical theory (positional listing systems, assumptions of ligamentous behavior) which leads to failure to achieve long term gains in biomechanical stability (exposing as fraud the chiropractor's claim to be effective in this niche) and second that because of chiropractic's traditional bias against all things medical it lacks the scope to effect this restoration of passive ligament stability. For patients this leads to frustrating palliative care where joint problems are never really addressed, just temporarily palliated; placing them in a cycle of dependency on the chiropractor. Although lucrative for Dr. Colloca's business and the individual chiropractor this does not promote optimal care. Given this lack of good editorial judgment I question the quality of the remainder of the book.