For many years, chiropractic has been viewed with skepticism by conventional medicine due to its reliance on unscientific and pseudoscientific concepts, such as subluxation. Studies have shown that fraud, abuse, and quackery are more prevalent in chiropractic than in other health professions. Spinal adjustment for acute lower back pain is one of the most common treatments offered by Denville Chiropractor. Unfortunately, chiropractic has not been able to meet the basic scientific requirements to define itself, determine its clinical utility and limitations, and conduct research on its mechanisms of action. In the early 1920s, the American Medical Association (AMA) declared that its members should not collaborate with chiropractors.
Additionally, chiropractic often includes other treatments and incomplete beliefs about medicine, such as anti-vaccination rhetoric. Despite this, chiropractors have attempted to portray themselves as being on the same level as scientific medicine by claiming that both have their place. Nowadays, more chiropractors work alongside doctors, more doctors refer patients to chiropractors, and some even work in hospitals. The lack of scientific evidence for chiropractic means that it has no place in modern healthcare, except as a competitor to physical therapists in treating certain musculoskeletal conditions.
If you are considering getting chiropractic care or are already receiving it, this information can help protect both your wallet and your health. Furthermore, state laws that use the vertebral subluxation theory to define and license chiropractors remain unchallenged. The most famous example of legal harassment against a scientific writer for criticizing dubious health care practices is Singh's legal battle with the British Chiropractic Association. However, research indicates that many chiropractors do not understand the basic concepts of the etiology of diseases.
Without proper criticism, competent chiropractors will not receive the recognition they deserve and the good aspects of chiropractic will never be acknowledged. This book denounces cultism in chiropractic but supports the appropriate use of spinal manipulation and the research efforts needed to consolidate its scientific base. In 1966, a group of doctors wrote: “In all the years they have been talking about them, chiropractors have never been able to demonstrate the existence of these mysterious subluxations that only they can see.” Chiropractic publications continue to propagate this mythology by distorting scientific and government reports and giving credence to all types of pseudoscientific practices. These chiropractors often encourage patients to come frequently for manipulations which can stretch ligaments, make joints less stable and cause more common musculoskeletal problems.
