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Washington, a family practitioner and member of the NIH Alternative Medicine
Advisory Committee (Squires). “There are certainly situations where modern
medicine is appropriate and lifesaving, but perhaps the pendulum has swung
too far toward technology and standard pharmaceuticals and not enough toward
some of the early healing methods that have a track record in many
cultures.”
Chiropractic Treatment
Chiropractic science is concerned with investigating the relationship
between the human body’s structure (primarily of the spine) and function
(primarily of the nervous system) to restore and preserve health.
Chiropractic medicine applies such knowledge to diagnosing and treating
structural dysfunctions that can affect the nervous system. Chiropractic
physicians use manual procedures and interventions, not surgical or
chemotherapeutic ones. In 1993, more than 45,000 licensed chiropractors were
practicing in the United States (Krizmanic). Chiropractic specialty areas
are pertinent to other medical specialties, such as radiology, orthopedics,
neurology, and sports medicine. Current chiropractic research focuses on
back and musculoskeletal pain and reliability studies.
Although chiropractic clearly has its drawbacks, notably its stubborn
insistence that spinal misalignments cause or underlie most ailments,
including those far afield from the backbone, its use of vertebral
manipulation has proved useful in treating acute low-back pain and other
muscular and neurological problems. Osteopaths, licensed physicians whose
education is essentially the same as that of M.D.s, also include
manipulative therapy in their treatments. Studies at the University of
Miami’s School of Medicine Touch Research Institute have found that
premature infants gain weight much faster after being massaged than babies
in an unmassaged control group (Cooper and Stoflet). Massaged infants cry
less and are calmer than those who are only rocked. It is surprising that