Comments on: Obituary: The death of the subluxation

By: Scandal of the University of Wales and the Quality Assurance Agency

Scandal of the University of Wales and the Quality Assurance Agency — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:45:47 +0000

[...] You can download here one of many moderator’s reports obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. This one is for the BSc (Hons) Chiropractic. It is entirely typical of theuncritical boxticking approach to validation, Nowhere does it say "subluxation is nonsense", though even the GCC now admit that. [...]

By: Risks of CAM Part One: Nocebo « Stuff And Nonsense

Risks of CAM Part One: Nocebo « Stuff And Nonsense — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:30:40 +0000

[...] important phenomena does not stand up to close scrutiny. [Note: previous link goes to PDF. See also Zeno and Skeptic Barista for more on the death of the [...]

By: A crash course in skeptical activism « Purely a figment of your imagination

A crash course in skeptical activism « Purely a figment of your imagination — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:59:57 +0000

[...] effect of subluxations; the fundamental principle of chiropractic. For more, see Zeno’s Obituary and Skeptic [...]

By: Zeno

Zeno — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:45:03 +0000

Mark

The GCC is a UK statutory body, not an English one.

I have no idea why you think someone who wants chiropractors to abide by their statutory CoP is a zealot, and it also matters little who it was who invented the word ‘subluxation’.

The number of ‘Deaths’ apparently caused by proper medicine is irrelevant: it has no effect on the paucity of evidence for chiropractic. Neither does the number of lives enhanced and saved by conventional medicine.

Fortunately, we now — thanks to science — know much more about the working of the human body than Hippocrates did. Or either of the Palmers for that matter.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:30:01 +0000

As a chiropractor, and someone who has benefited from chiropractic care my whole life, i saddens me to see what is happening in England. If any of these zealots were to look into the History of Chiropractic, they would find that it was B. J., not D. D. who coined the term “Subluxation”, to be used in the chiropractic profession. Had this word never been put into use, and the Chiropractic Profession as a whole, educated the public to care for their Spine, the world may be a healthier place. So many people have such strong emotions for “words”, that humanity suffers greatly as so many people are turned away from Chiropractic because of such petty arguments.

Medicine is now recognized (in the US), as the leading cause of Death. Are any of you doing anything about the thousands of people that are being killed every day in the UK because of Medical Error? Chiropractors are the health care providers like to attack the most because we have people like Margret Coates running things in the UK, who has NO LOVE at all for this profession. Every Medical Doctor swears an oath, a “Hippocratic Oath”. No one finds that ironic, as it was Hippocrates who first said “Look well to the Spine, for the cause and prevention of Disease”. What if he had said the word “Subluxation”, would that have made how nature created us (as the Nervous System as the ruling system in the body), any different?

By: Domenico

Domenico — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:15:01 +0000

Dear Zeno,
I’m sorry I didn’t ask your permission, but I couldn’t help translating your post on my blog. And photoshopping a hypothetical gravestone for the deceased [ http://doppiocieco.splinder.com/post/22895840/la-morte-della-sublussazione ]

By: Blue Wode

Blue Wode — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:12:47 +0000

@ Herb Congram DC

I suspect the ‘A.M.’ tool you mention is the very same one that will be the subject of a seminar (worth 11 Continuing Professional Development hours) at the Anglo European College of Chiropractic (AECC) in November 2010…
http://www.aecc.ac.uk/feeds/cpd/activator-basic-scan-protocol.aspx

Readers should note that the AECC styles itself as a “World Leading Chiropractic Education and Research” college. Hmm.

By: Herb Congram, DC

Herb Congram, DC — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:40:07 +0000

I am heartened at this news. I am a chiropractor, practicing in the States, for 21 years now. I have been ‘railing against the wind’ for nearly all that time, with my patients, one-on-one. However, with few exceptions, it is not wise to stand up in a group of practitioners and speak the truth because the vast majority of us (some reports have it at about 80%) still hold on to this ‘dead’ concept. If subluxations don’t exist, then treatment methods designed to reduce or correct them are of no possible benefit. I contend that no more a baseless method exists than any form of instrument ‘adjusting’, including the very popular tool employed by ‘A. M.’. I anxiously await the day when this is widely acknowledged.

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Thu, 27 May 2010 07:04:56 +0000

[...] seems to have come as news to some, but the Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC) has been regarded as a historical concept by the BCA [...]

By: BCA Statement on Vertebral Subluxation Complex « Brighton Chiropractor

BCA Statement on Vertebral Subluxation Complex « Brighton Chiropractor — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:13:05 +0000

[...] Statement on Vertebral Subluxation Complex It seems to have come as news to some, but the Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC) has been regarded as a historical concept by the BCA [...]