West Valley Family Clinic Blog

I am shocked at the continued efforts of neolithic medical doctors to tarnish the reputation of the chiropractic profession.

Recently, a patient that I have been seeing for injuries she received in a car accident told me of an experience she had at a local medical doctors office. She went there to appease her parents who have been deluded by the medical profession. This “spine specialist” told my patient after a perfunctory examination, that nothing was wrong, and that all her pain was just in her head. This “doctor” performed one X-ray, a frontal view of her spine, and said that it was perfect.

What this “specialist” failed to do was a side view of the spine (this is the basic standard of care to see the structure from two views at 90 degrees of eachother). If he had performed the basic standard of care, he would have seen what I saw, which is that this patient’s cervical spine was curved backwards of what it should be.

To make matters worse, he went on to tell my patient that she should not see a chiropractor because thay are not “real doctors” but just go to a few classes and get a piece of paper. Let’s examine the facts.

This medical doctor has not copleted an orthopedic residency, and is not a board certified orthopedist. He is a basic medical doctor who took some weekend courses in orthopedics. The fact of the matter is that the brand new chiropractor coming out of chiropractic college has over 400 hours more schooling than this nescient “specialist”.

It is not my intent to undermine the medical profession as a whole, but it is my intent to undermine the attempts of some unscrupulous medical doctors to harm the chiropractic profession.

Face it, chiropractic has been around for over 100 years, and despite the well funded and organized attempts of the American Medical Association, it has grown to the point where more than 20% of the population have at one time or another visited a chiropractor. Why has it grown? Because it works.

It is not the panacea to all health problems, but when a health problem is caused by a mis-alignment in the spine, then a chiropracor is the only one trained to find and treat that condition. If you are going from drug to drug, and the condition is not improving then chiropractic may be the thing that you need.

It is easy to find out, and will not cost much to know if chiropractic can help you. Make sure you find a chiropracor who will do a proper examination and X-rays, and give you a proper diagnosis before treating you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me drmarksnow@westvalleyfamilyclinic.com, or you can check out my website. http://www.westvalleyfamilyclinic.com.