Chiropractor claims he can go back in time

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Chiropractor claims he can go back in time

By John McCarthy, Associated Press Writer | April 6, 2006

COLUMBUS, Ohio --A chiropractor who claims he can treat anyone by reaching back in time to when an injury occurred has attracted the attention of state regulators.

The Ohio State Chiropractic Board, in a notice of hearing, has accused James Burda of Athens of being "unable to practice chiropractic according to acceptable and prevailing standards of care due to mental illness, specifically, Delusional Disorder, Grandiose Type."

Burda denied that he is mentally ill. He said he possesses a skill he discovered by accident while driving six years ago.

"My foot hurt and, knowing anatomy, I went ahead and I told it to realign and my pain went away," Burda said Thursday.
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I'm tempted to suggest that the whole idea of chiropractic is so out-of-date that the entire boiling of them are permanently trapped in the past....

Rolfe.
 
Psiload said:
Uncle Rico wants his time machine back.

[qimg]http://www.ritilan.com/archives/images/2005/04/22/uncle-rico-time-machine.jpg[/qimg]
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Look! A futuristic Pogo Stick!!

It's the transportation of the future!

"Yes, this is our nuclear powered Po Go 3000, with a top speed of 943mph and a maximum vertical height of about a half mile. Please wear a helmet."
 
An association of Chiroprators censuring one of their own for woo-like practices...

Broke my irony meter right there.
 
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Well... I have to give him credit. At least its innovative.
 
Burda calls his treatment "Bahlaqeem."

"It is a made-up word and, to my knowledge, has no known meaning except for this intended purpose..."
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Just like "subluxation", so that proves he's a legitimate chiropractor! ;)

(Of course, I realize that there is an actual medical term "subluxation" that's been butchered to death by chiropractors.)
 
Good for them. Rational chiropractic has limited but real value in treating structural problems. The sooner chirpractors give up their silliness and join the legitimate medical community, the better.
 
Oh, yeah. Forgot to metion: When I saw the thread title, I invented sort of a cough-laugh. Was hard to stop.
 
paiute said:
A chiropractor who claims he can treat anyone by reaching back in time to when an injury occurred has attracted the attention of state regulators.
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Then why can't he go back in time and stop this from happening?
 
paiute said:
The treatment is not telepathic because the patient does not have to believe in what he's doing, Burda said. He has treated hundreds of patients and reports nine out of 10 patients are satisfied, he said.
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Good Reporter: "Wait... what exactly do you think 'telepathic' means?"
 
I won't believe it until I see a picture of his Flux Capacitor!

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ChristineR said:
Good for them. Rational chiropractic has limited but real value in treating structural problems. The sooner chirpractors give up their silliness and join the legitimate medical community, the better.
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Right on.

I believe chiropracty is woo, however,

Everyone (including a past girlfriend, people in my office, etc.) who goes to a chiro reports back to me that they feel better for having gone. Maybe any sort of treatment is better than none?

I am not medically trained, so I'll qualify by saying, "if there is any validity to chiropracty," then they have an obligation to form a self-policing organization.
 
I believe ChristineR is referring to strictly muscular and skeletal difficulties. I'm under the impression that there is some legitimate aid to those very simple and limited manipulations. It's the chiropractors that go beyond that limited area, making up things like "subluxations" as the cause of disease who've moved chiropractic into deep woo territory.
 
Yes, BronzeDog, that's correct. There's good evidence that chiropractric manipulations can provide immediate short term pain relief, although they won't correct any underlying causes. The original chiropractric was based on nonsense like sublaxation, but they won't be the first profession to proceed from questionable folk wisdom to sound science. It's just that the chiropractors seem to have resisted the change a lot longer.
 
I've just noticed this thread (2:30 pm). Reading it from the top made me think... Hey! I've travelled back in time!!!
 
ChristineR said:
Good for them. Rational chiropractic has limited but real value in treating structural problems. The sooner chirpractors give up their silliness and join the legitimate medical community, the better.
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Lately, on the local channels around here (Columbia, South Carolina, USA), they have been playing a comercial for a local chiropractor. It shows a woman laying on the table with the chiropractor kind of bobbing her head around. Nothing bad so far. Then the next shot is the woman standing next to the table while the chiropractor is shown doing the same thing to this woman's baby!

This baby could not have been more than seven or eight months old. He was kind of bobbing the kid's head around, presumably for some kind of neck adjustment. It just seemed so disturbing to me. What kind of effect does that have on a still developing baby? And even if its not harmful, how do you even know that a baby requires it?
 
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