Chiropractic Adjustment Information : Electrical Muscle Stimulation in Chiropractic Adjustments
During a chiropractic adjustment, electrical muscle stimulation is sometimes used. Find out how it works with advice from a professional chiropractor in this free health care video. Expert: Andrew Haig Bio: Dr. Andre Haig is an honor graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic West, and has his own family practice in Glendale, California. Filmmaker: Nili Nathan
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I don’t care what anyone says, I’m proof that a visit to the chiropractor can be very helpful. When you’re in pain, every method out there needs be be experimented.
The adjustment is just a way to remove the interference that is preventing the body from doing what it was designed to do, which is heal itself. What people like you don’t understand is that both motor nerves and sensory (pain) nerves are effected when they are compressed or irritated.
It is a shame that someone like yourself who seem to be educated can have such a closed mind. You make reference to being “Duped”. In my experience, our society has been duped into believing the “Medical Model” which if you look at what is happening in this country is slowly killing us from the inside. The spinal manipulation or “Adjustment” is not the healing instrument…the body is!
Chiropractic in the States seems a very different entity. In the UK it is about evidence based practice. We don’t talk about ‘nerve interference or the mythical ‘subluxation’ here.
So you haven’t reviewed the evidence then
I don’t really see the point in disucssing this with you.
When you read some of the RCT’s or meta analyses on spinal “Manipulation”, “Adjustment” or what ever else you prefer to call it (I can’t be bothered to engage in semantics) then feel free to engage in an intelligent and informed debate.
You are entitled to your opinion. I just thought you’d like to make an informed one.
So, Chiropractic, regardless of whether or not it uses practical spinal “manipulation” similar to physical rehab, is based on a false premise about how spinal manipulation can affect a person’s immune system, and overall health.
You’re simply trying to establish legitimacy by hijacking the fairly mundane “spinal manipulation” phrase that is used somewhat differently in medical science.
Chiropractic is not science based medicine.
It’s simply a series of “Just So” stories.
What kind of spinal manipulation? Spinal manipulation?
Chiropractic medicine functions on an assumption about the spine, and how it affects the rest of the body. It borrows its quackery from the “energy flow” concept popular in Eastern medicine. None of this is proven, and even the premise sounds absurd.
There’s even a site for “recovering” Chiropractors called “Chiro Talk.” They do a wonderful job of debunking the Chiropractic culture, and revealing how its quackery functions from the inside.
If you’ve bought into it, then you’ve been duped.
Finally, I have no idea how much money this man makes. Any kind of living that he makes off of this nonsense is not an honest one, so it doesn’t really matter. Also, numerous Chiropractic students are having trouble paying back their outrageous student loans, so I would consider any profit an exception instead of a rule.
So, don’t try and make it sound like business is booming for Chiropractors, because it isn’t.
The person using the EMS/Ultrasound technique made several claims about what it is actually doing, such as “flushing inflammatory toxins out,” “muscle relaxation,” and ultrasound “healing.” None of those claims have been proven.
However, I noticed that you used the operative word “hopes,” which effectively sums up the Chiropractic experience.
It’s classic medical quackery, and consumers need to be aware of that. if you want to be taken seriously, then you have to prove those claims..
Well, you can always claim that your opponents are uneducated. It’s a classic Chiropractic response. Defending a procedure is making a claim about its efficacy. So, yes, you did make a claim.
You can continue to insist that I don’t know what I’m talking about. I can do the same, since you have provided nothing to prove that you actually do.
I never made a claim. I just think you sound uneducated. If you understand that blood delivers nutrients and then picks up waste and that your kidneys excrete waste through your urine its not that crazy of an idea. This guy is just stimulating increasing blood flow to a specific area in hopes that excess waste will be clear and the muscles will relax thus helping to heal the area.
and even if his job is a “joke” he still makes a lot of money. so a few years of debt is nothing
It doesn’t work that way. You have made a claim, and so it is your responsibility to prove that your claim is true.
You have failed to do so, and your response indicates that you have no intention of ever doing so. The Chiropractic community has had over a century to try and prove that any of their treatments are effective, and they haven’t done so.
A Chiropractic degree is equivalent to two year medical tech degree at your local community college, and it costs a fraction of the price.
i think if you had a degree in biological science “or similar degree” you would understand the physiological aspect of the treatment…
my grandma said those things are the best.
u mad?
I can’t believe people fall for this crap, and I can’t believe that so many people place themselves in debt to learn it. What a waste.
It’s a truly determined kind of brainwashing.
emmashur…. I would advise you to research information before you speak.
Chiro schools teach you extensive rehabilitation for extremities and especially spinal stabilization. ALso physio modalities are taught at chiro school. On top of that we take board certifications in physio to be able to practice this in some states…. read before you make comments pls.
it’s so sad that chiropractors are using the physio part to treat patients, because they are not very much trusted like physio’s so ofcourse they will have to do it, even though they are not trained to do so, my advise, stick to what you are trained for!
Ok – I see you haven’t read them
Most of them are guidelines.
They are published by world wide bodies and are followed by the medical profession.
The underlying research shows that manipulation in praticular coupled with exercise is significantly more beneficial than other forms of manual therapy (incl massage) and should be recommended by primary care practitioners for treatment of both acute and chronic LBP
Maybe you should better inform yourself before casting opinion?
Those studies show that Chiropractic is no more helpful helpful as a simple massage.
All of these guidelines recommend the use of spinal manipulation in conjunction with manual therapy and exercise.
As do the guidelines to General Practitioners in the UK
Kevitivity
Can I refer you to:
i) European back pain guidelines for acute back pain (2004)
ii) Low back pain: Acute management for chronic Low Back Pain (National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) 2008)
iii) UK BEAM trial results
iv) “Back and Neck Pain Task force” who released the results of a 10 year trial 2008 (the largest one ever carried out and most of the people involved were professors or MDs).
“I f any of you haters want to know what scientific literature says about chiropractors go to my channel DrJDavid. Before you try to comment be aware that you may need more than two neurons firing at the same time to comprehend the message.I challenge ANY to defy the truth. Bring it on Mr. P.T.M.D. whatever education you think you have. I ‘ll eat you guys for lunch. Anybody can have an opinion. Treating opinions as facts is ridiculous. Come check it out…..I DARE YOU”
Medical science has shown that Chiropractic is no more helpful than a simple massage. So maybe you should just get a massage next time? The placebo effect is also VERY strong, so that is a more likely reason you found your session helpful. If however science is not important to you, continue seeing a Chiro – it’s a free country.