Have any of you thought about the reason why there has not been any research in these fields? Funding for scientific trials has to come from somewhere……
Also with EVERY type of medicine, western medicine, alternative medicines, they are not 100% going to have the desired effect on everyone, i mean jesus if you really want to put your energy towards slapping anything down it should be towards the drug companies who skrew us over everyday, or the 100s of potions and pills saying they are going to make you lose weight or look younger. Anyone ever looked into the ’scientific testing’ of these products? At the end of the day, chiropractors only want to help people, now as long as they arent hurting anyone is there really a problem, if it doesnt work for you, don’t go back, simple! I’ve personally spent more money than what it would cost for one chiro treatment on makeup and lotions that claim to do things that they haven’t! Thats just the way life is, everyone is differn’t. And to all of those that claim people have been hurt by chiro, a) In every profession there are mavericks (Look at the doctor who ‘looked after’ micheal jackson) they make everyone else look bad and people just love to concentrate on horror stories rather than succes stories and b) How many people have had terrible adverse reactions to modern medicine? Alot of people have died (not that anyone talks about it because the relevent parties sweep it under the carpet before anyone finds out).
I think also a thought should be given to the people that are being pursecuted, about their families who rely on them to pay the bills and put food on the table. Is it really fair, and why do the people that are complaining care so much anyway? Do something useful like campain to have more money put towards cancer research instead, there are much more important things in this world to put your energy towards. People deserve to be able to choose what treatment they undergo.

The most serious is that this allows parents to choose inadequate treatment for their children with serious-to-tragic consequences.

The other, as I’ve found from living in France, is that chemists follow the profit motive and suggest homeopathic remedies to customers.

Require all medical therapies to demonstrate efficacy and safety before funding them with public money.

Require any therapy shown to be dangerous or inefficacious to be withdrawn from public use or private sale.

There we go. The problem of “alternative” medicine solved in two sentences.

Be like Switzerland, Germany and France, Give your patients the freedom to choose which branch of medicine they would like to use. In Canada Homeopathic dispensing is available on the high street in the chemists.

Allopathic, Homeopath, Acupuncture, herbs, Osteopathy, Chiropractic are all registered & regulated within the state health system.

I have use it for arthritis and like all professions there are good and bad practitioners

When i used a bad practitioner he made it worse. I found a woman McTimony practitioner who relieved my extreme back pain after the first session. I went from walking with a stick to walking unaided after three sessions.

She never claimed to ‘Cure all’ in her surgery and i do not think they should