RE: Chiropractors

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

Just to let you know, the sentence structure is what threw me off.

> <<Chronic ear infections are one of the more common chiropractic
> treatments.<<

It sounded to me that the chiropracters were USING ear infections as
treatment.

I already teased Duncan privately about being an engineer with engineer's
language
skills!  And maybe my comprehensions skills are diminished from hanging
around engineers all day, too.

It's a shame that there are unscrupulous chiropractors out there
that give the good chiropracters a bad rep.

I'm glad you posted.

Kathy




-----Original Message-----
From: Roberta Harms [mailto:equiphile@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 7:12 AM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Chiropractors


  Kathy Mayeda did not believe that Duncan could have heard that Chiros
treat ear infections with adjustments.  I do remember that a TV expose'
was
run a number of years ago on unscrupulous chiros that treated ear
infections
and a myriad of other medical conditions with adjusments only.  They
would
treat everything  as if they were a family practitioner.  These were
chiroprators NOT Osteopaths.
   I have some experience with horsey chiropractors. too. I am a
critical
care nurse working with high technologies all the time and was leary of
chiropractor claims, esp. after hearing the aforementioned TV show.  A
number of years ago 2 of my horses were in horse trailer that was
flipped on
its side on an icey patch of road.  They both were able to walk off with

minor injuries after the trailer was righted.  The one horse from that
time
on displayed spinal injuries, however.  When riding him past the trail
home,
he would arc his body towards home and I would direct rein him the other

way.  In the space of one stride and the next, he would be dead lame. (
A
disc out of place pinching a nerve?)  Sometimes he would walk out of it,

sometimes I could gently strech him out it. His lower back in the area
of
his thoraco-lumbar and sacral-iliac joints showed an arching upward,
also.
A "roach back" which was not there before.
    He bagan to be pulled for lameness a few years later.  I had him
treated
after xrays showed arthritis in his rear ankle with a full course of
Adequan
with no improvement.  I gave him IV Legend which helped alot, but he
would
still go lame at times.  Then I had him adjusted by a DVM who has taken
a
special  course in chiropractic adjustment. (The course is only
available to
vets and human chiros. ) The roach in his back is gone after a
treatment.
He has needed adjustment only 3 times so far over 2 years. Before
treatment
she says he does not use his right rear well.  It is much improved after
a
treatment.  No equipment is used other than a  small stepladder and her
hands using a short, sharp move.
   The chiropractor said the he may very well have arthritis in his
ankle,
but what he really needs is adjustment.  I thought she was just trying
to
drum up business. This year I tried the Legend only, but he remained
lame.
I couldn't even condition him. The adjustment was necessary for
soundness,
IMHO.
  Roberta Harms
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