Today's Chiropractic
When I was in my early twenties, I gained a rock solid understanding of the reality of a subluxation related syndrome. Failed medical treatment followed by successful chiropractic care proved to me that in my instance chiropractic worked, it got results and for me that was what counted.
I knew that in my instance, drugs and surgery were not, but locating and adjusting my subluxations was the management of choice for my subluxation related disorders.
When I discussed my satisfactory outcomes with medical practitioners they condemned chiropractic as an unscientific cult based upon an exclusive dogma, deriding its unique philosophy and its core service, locating and adjusting subluxations.
Their opposition was not about my wellbeing it was about denying potential competition. That led me to ‘see’ a very obvious reality that I was formally unaware of.
Long ago clever people rearranged one illness industry into two marketplaces. Most illness industry trade is conducted in the massive public health marketplace. Those practicing under medicine’s broad umbrella have exclusive trading rights, limiting competition and giving ‘Medicine’ a virtual monopoly.
Professions with a potential to compete with Medicine are contained within the small private health marketplace and are denied trading rights within the public health marketplace. Internationally, to this day chiropractic remains a contained profession.
Containment denies those public patients who have subluxation related disorders access to that management of choice while exposing them to both inappropriate medical treatment and to the real risk of harm arising from medical treatment as distinct from the patient’s disorder. That harm is called iatrogenesis, it appears to be a, or the, leading cause of unnecessary permanent harm and death.
Containment came to prominence during a 1960’s US trial, Wilk v AMA. That trial exposed that some medical associations had conspired to first contain, and eventually eliminate, the profession of chiropractic in the USA and elsewhere. That ultimate solution, would have best served organized medicine’s vested interests. It would have betrayed the health interests of patients who have subluxation related disorders.
Containment continues to harm Australia’s chiropractic community.