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Chiropractic the Greatest Hoax of the Century? Paperback – January 1, 2002

by Ludmil A. Chotkowski (Author)

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This is the revised second edition, edited with the help of Dr Stephen Barrett, and contains much new informative documentation.

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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202 pages
Language

English
Publisher

New England Novelty Books
Publication date

January 1, 2002
Dimensions

5.5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
ISBN-10

0965785521
ISBN-13

978-0965785525
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The journal of the Connecticut State Medical Society: "Dr Chotkowski has successfully approached the chiropractic arena medically, legally, congressionally, personally" -- Connecticut Medicine, theJournal of the Connecticut State Medical Society

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ New England Novelty Books; 2nd edition (January 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 202 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0965785521
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0965785525
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches

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jam

Excellent book, a must read for any one receiving Chiro Care ...but sometimes too biased

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2014

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A little exaggerated at times, but it does reveal the secrets SOME chiropractors do not wish to say. There are certainly good Chiropractors out there, this book helps you find the ones that do not make false claims that you are "out of alignment" and need unnecessary "adjustments" for the rest of your life.

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Sam Honest

Untrue, unfounded and unsupported

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2012

Is this book filed under fiction? Chiropractic results speak largely and with a 95% satisfaction rate, it's hard to believe any of this. With the National Institute of Health (NIH) and American Specialty Health Network (ASHN), research has been performed by non-Chiropractors and have been very favorable to the profession. Results from many studies favoring Chiropractic's cost effectiveness, outcome results and satisfaction have been seen in Medscape, PubMed, WebMD and more. Like all other professions, Chiropractic has it's "bad apple professionals" and has taken a lot of harsh critique based on fictitious rhetoric and old prejudice. Doctors of all types who are critical thinkers and look at evidence and rule with reasoning versus emotion acknowledge Chiropractic as an excellent and valuable branch in the healing arts. The only two real differences between a Medical Physician and a Chiropractic Physician are surgery and pharmacology. Chiropractors don't prescribe medications or perform surgery ... that's it folks. Further, it is because of the Chiropractic Profession that Chiropractors don't perform surgery or prescribe medications; it is that difference that make Chiropractic valuable.

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Steven Schafersman

Chiropractic IS a hoax

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2011

Chiropractic is a well-known fringe science with no mainstream scientific or medical validity. It is not "medicine" as our society generally understands that word. Chiropractic was founded on nonsensical and quack medical ideas and has grown into a giant industry by the marketing of its "care" and "treatments" to uninformed, ignorant, and credulous individuals.

I am amused by the high number of one-star reviews of the book awarded mainly by chiropractors. Yes, the book could be better written and more up-to-date (for instance, there are today chiropractors who accept medical science and want to reform chiropractic and make it into a legitimate medical practice), and there are some better treatments of chiropractic as a pseudoscience available in the skeptical literature, but a book explaining why chiropractic is a hoax deserves more than one star.

Readers should be aware that chiropractic has been investigated and its principals and bogus treatments exposed and refuted many times by medical scientists, but alas to no avail.

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Arlo Barlow

Worked for me...

Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2005

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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