Our cash wasted on unproven medicine

Last week The Advertiser published the article "Our cash wasted on unproven medicine" http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25681119-5006301,00.html. I was quite disappointed to read the the comments by Professor Rob Morrison, someone I looked up to as a child growing up with the Curiosity Show. Apparently, "Medicare was funding treatments from chiropractors and acupuncturists that "don't really pass muster".

The truth is Medicare funds short trials of chiropractic care for people with chronic conditions. Lynton Giles, a chiropractor and researcher based at the Townsville General Hospital, found in his 1999 study that, "in patients with chronic spinal pain syndromes, spinal manipulation, if not contraindicated, results in greater improvement than acupuncture and medicine."

I wonder where Prof. Morrison and Dr Andrew Lavender, state president of the AMA are getting their information. Wow, I feel so much better after that rant, thanks for listening.

Now you proably don't need extra proof that chiropractic works but I have put together a snippet of the research out there showing chiropractic helping people with other conditions. You can download it at - http://www.paradechiropractic.com.au/research/chiroforothercomplaints.pdf