Breaking out of the Box
Dear Editor:
Pigeonholed? I don't think so. Your column in the June 29, 1998 issue of Dynamic Chiropractic ("The Building Blocks of Wellness") was interesting, coming from Dynamic Chiropractic, and hopefully inspiring to your readers.
Chiropractic finds itself having to climb out of a box because chiropractors have designed, constructed and chosen to live in that box. If 97 percent of chiropractic patients see a DC for musculoskeletal problems, it is because the chiropractor told them that is what chiropractic is for. It is also a reflection of what the chiropractor was taught in chiropractic college.
Since you have decided to champion the wellness cause in chiropractic, I will look forward to reading in your column your thoughts on chiropractic moving to become mainstream medicine.
Doctors of chiropractic medicine, as recent legislation in Florida would have us labeled and as Western States Chiropractic College would have us trained, do not seem to be consistent with creating a chiropractic paradigm, thought process or world view.
I agree with you that chiropractic should become well-known as the champions of wellness and quality of life, but not because some other health care profession may claim the title before chiropractic does. I want the public to understand that this is the essence of chiropractic, and I sincerely hope that you will be successful in helping other chiropractors understand the role of chiropractic in a person's life.
William Decken, DC President, Federation of Straight Chiropractors and Organizations Clifton, New Jersey [url=http://www.straightchiropractic.com]http://www.straightchiropractic.com[/url]
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
Spearheaded by burgeoning scientific and clinical research literature, psychedelics have reached a level of media coverage and popular interest that has not been seen for over half a century. By “psychedelics,” we are referring to the unique class of substances that includes psilocybin (the active compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms”), LSD, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, and mescaline – each of which occurs in the natural world (except for LSD, which is a semi-synthetic compound).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
