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Orthopedic Residents Are Incompetent To Diagnose or Manage Musculoskeletal Complaints

By Frank M. Painter|July 19, 2009|Education, Ethics|

Orthopedic Residents Are Incompetent To Diagnose or Manage Musculoskeletal Complaints

Chiro.Org Editorial Commentary:

Chiropractors pride themselves in their ability to diagnose and manage neuro-musculo-skeletal (NMS) complains. According to all the surveys, this is our bread and butter, and no one on the planet is better trained to diagnose (locate) and treat (correct) neck, low back, or peripheral joint (knee, elbow etc) complaints. But, don’t take my word for it.

Orthopedic surgeons are supposed to be the *gods* of medicine, the pinnacle of medical knowledge. First they become MDs, then rotate through a variety of specialties, and finally take residence in a highly competitive orthopedic residency program. You may want to review this interesting description of the requirements for the UCLA Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program. (more…)

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Avatars

By John Wiens DC|July 16, 2009|Avatars|

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How Much of Orthodox Medicine Is Evidence Based?

By Frank M. Painter|July 15, 2009|Education, Ethics|

How Much of Orthodox Medicine Is Evidence Based?

The Chiro.Org Blog

This is an interesting letter from the British Medical Journal

Scientific heavyweights deplore the NHS money wasted on unproved and disproved treatments used by practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), [1, 2] but Lewith, a CAM proponent (see previous letter), is cited elsewhere as saying that the BMJ reckons that 50% of the treatments used in general practice aren’t proved, and 5% are pretty harmful but still being used. [3] (more…)

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Expanded Armed Forces Access to Chiropractic

By John Wiens DC|July 14, 2009|News|

Source: American Chiropractic Association

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a directive that orders the Pentagon to make chiropractic care a standard benefit for all active duty military personnel. The legislation is contained in HR 2647, a bill authorizing defense programs in fiscal year 2010, and is based in part on recommendations from the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and the Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC).

The bill—passed by the full House on June 25—also contains language allowing for chiropractic demonstration projects at overseas military locations and clarifies that chiropractic care at U.S. military facilities is to be performed only by a doctor of chiropractic. (more…)

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Surface deception – surface EMG

By John Wiens DC|July 10, 2009|Research|

by Dr. Stephen M. Perle
from his blog Perles of Wisdom

Although the article that stimulated this blog was published in February, I was only alerted to it by an automated Google news search, whose results that were emailed to me this week. The article is about the use of surface EMG to diagnose chiropractic subluxations. I won’t go into the validity of the concept of the subluxation as I have co-authored a paper on that already, and the literature that supports or refutes our paper has not changed in any substantive way that I know of. (more…)

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Evidence-based Practice

By Frank M. Painter|July 1, 2009|Education, Ethics, Journals, News, Research|

Evidence-based Practice

The Chiro.Org Blog

As long as we’re on the topic of Evidence-based Practice, you’ll enjoy Anthony Rosner PhD’s article “The Shifting Sands of Evidence-based Medicine”.

Robert D. Mootz, DC, who is the Medical Director for the State of Washington Department of Labor and Industries also penned an interesting review in JMPT titled “When Evidence and Practice Collide” (FULL TEXT) that sheds a lot of light on EBM issues.

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