Today's Health Alternative [Paperback]

Raquel Martin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0922356459 | ISBN-13: 978-0922356454 | Publication Date: October 1991

Chiropractic -- literally to 'effect by hand' -- is one of a family of gentler medical arts vilified by monopolistic medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. Since its invention over a century ago by the therapeutic genius D D Palmer, it has proven its worth. About the history of this skill, its triumphant struggle to defend its place in the sun, its increasing recognition -- even by its adversaries -- as an efficient, and affordable, treatment modality, and particularly about its stunning record in bringing back thousands upon thousands of sufferers back to health, none has, or could have, written a more gripping book than one of its prime beneficiaries, Raquel Martin.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Raquel Martin

Product Details

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: Amer West Pub & Dist (October 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0922356459
• ISBN-13: 978-0922356454
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,758,874 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A well-written lay perspective on chiropractic, August 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Today's Health Alternative (Paperback)

I first read this extraordinary book as a chiropractic student at Life University in Atlanta, Georgia. I found it to be one of the best written books for the public about the wonderful healing art of chiropractic. Raquel Martin has gone to great lengths to reseach the information she so eloquently presents in every chapter, basing the book on much more than just her personal experience.

Chiropractic is a highly misunderstood practice. I come across this every day in my practice and also in society. Raquel, like many other chiropractic patients, was able to achieve results that she could not even dream of while under tradional medical (allopathic) care.

I firmly believe that if every person tried chiropractic care before resorting to drugs or surgery, there would be much fewer ill people and people would no longer be so dependent on drugs, even decreasing the necessity of potentially harmful sugeries. Health truly comes from within. This book does a wonderful job of explaining how the body functions and how chiropractic helps to aid the innate recuperative powers within us all.

I encourage you to read this book and find out why millions of people visit their chiropractor on a regular basis. Regardless of what ails you, a little fine-tuning can go a long way....

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for anyone wishing to seek the cause of illness, March 24, 1998

By 

Jack R. Martin (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Today's Health Alternative (Paperback)

Raquel Martin's book, Today's Health Alternative, is an extremely well-written and informative introduction to the world of natural healing--but it is much more. It seems to me that we have in this courageous work a magnificent testimony to what it means to seek the higher way. Here is a noble soul, torn by twelve years of relentlesss pain and sorrow, refusing to "live with it." It is a testimony to what it means to rise above our prejudices and narrow opinions, and to strive to find a better way. I feel that thegreat beauty of this work lies in its honesty and integrity. While we can feel Mrs. Martin's hurt and anger at a medical profession she felt betrayed by, we can slo appreciate her own acknowleded weaknessees, her own refusal to seek alternatives to traditional medical techniques. While at first glance her testimony against the American medical establishment appears somewhat harsh, even bitter, we come to see that her real story is one of triumph over her own prejudices and preconceptions. In the end she sees the good in the many branches of the medical profession and urges her reader into an open-minded consideration of the many doors that lie open for healing. Thiswondrous book is certainly unusual in the field of medicine, for it is so much more than a mere repository of medical information. It is a "Bildungsroman" on the level of James Joyce's Portrait of thee Artist as a Young Man, for it traces the growth of an individual from darkness to light. In the end, Raquel Martin, like Stephen Dedalus, makes a decision against acquiescence, against the darkness, against a life of pain. She wills to live life to the fullest. She wills to know deeply what she can do, and what can be done. She refuses to sit back and solemnly accept the pain that was destroying her life. She will not see it as "the will of God." Instead, she has valiantly launched a one-woman campaign against ignorance, against despair, and out of these efforts she has given birth to a most useful and readable book. Like the myhthological Dedalus who fashioned wings so that he might fly cloer to the sun, Mrs. Martin takes us upward on the wings of her quest for the truth, and shows us a brighter world--of health, of optimism, of life overlfowing. In the final analysis, Mrs. Martin's book is an aesthetic triumph. From beginning to end one feels her love for the reader, her desire to communicate from the heart her experience and knowledge. Her testimony has the power of a resurrection story--from ignorance to knowledge, from narrow-mindedness to open-mindedness, from sickness to health, from death-like existence to vibrant life. I would urge you to give this book your most careful consideration, for here is a living testimony to the meaning of those immortal words, "The truth shall set you free."