Been using chiropractic care for 40 years. I remember watching my Dad laying in a hospital bed for days in the 50s and 60s hooked up to a traction contraption in order to align his spine. It's hard to imagine how much that care could have helped him.
The Chiropractic professions was targeted by the Rockefeller funded Flexner Report back in the 1910 that turned America from a natural form of medicine to a pharma, petro-chemical based industry. Flexner specifically described chiropractors and mechano-therapists as “unconscionable quacks.” That propaganda has reigned supreme ever since then: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/modern-medicine-as-poison
This is a great step in the right direction to restore healing back to natural ways. Thank you for posting on this. I've written about the placebo effect, the power of positivity, and how we can truly solve healthcare. Getting away from petro-chemicals in the first step.
Here are links to other works if anyone's interested:
You jumble separate, historically accurate and inaccurate factoids with myth to make expansive and unsupported claims.
For starters, the Flexner report was funded by the Carnegie Foundation, but did have a role in reshaping US medical education. Leaping to how it "turned America from a natural form of medicine to a pharma, petrochemical-based industry" is just alt-world "interpretation" disregarding the fact that most chiropractors and "holistic practitioners" sell non-validated laboratory testing, supplements, and "detox" and chelation treatments that are as "petrochemical based" as anything your Rockefellerian villains employ.
If by "non-validated" you mean non-FDA approved, most critical-thinking, non-propagandized people recognize that as the only way to actually stay healthy nowadays.
A "validated test" is one whose performance has been systematically demonstrated (and documented) to meet predefined acceptance criteria before it is used to report patient results.
Now that we agree on the definition of validation, provide proof for your claim: "most chiropractors and 'holistic practitioners' sell non-validated laboratory testing, supplements, and 'detox' and chelation treatments that are 'petrochemical based'."
Wonderful! I have been receiving Chiropractic care for about five years now. I love it, and pay for it with my credit cards as Medicare “ doesn’t cover HEALTH maintenance.” ( anymore) even though their fraudulent manual says unlimited visits, only six are covered. I did send a letter to my Congresswoman, and received a rather encouraging response. My request for a refund of extorted Medicare premiums was stated. Then, I can pay my chiropractor instead. I will only trust and spend my money with HEALERS, the chiropractors. NO Drug and Disease DEALERS!
I have to put my 2 cents in. I have had Lyme, Babesia and Bartonella for 21 years. It eventually went to my brain and became Lyme Encephalitis. During this time I had a hard time breathing. I thought I was dying and almost did twice. This year I went to my sister’s chiropractor in Strasburg, Virginia, Dr Stilson. He’s incredible. He figured out my problem within 2 visits. He went from working on my back to working on my chest. He “opened” up my breathing. I found I could breathe better and sleep better.
My mother went to a chiropractor all her life. She lived to 96 and was gorgeous all throughout her life. I lost all my money treating Lyme and can no longer pay out of pocket for my chiropractor. I hope RFK Jr gets Medicare to cover Chiropractic care. Thank you RFK Jr for all you do!
Medicare already covers it. But they don’t cover maintance. The problem is. Will your chiro reduce their fee to accept the minimal amount Medicare pays. A lot of doctors don’t want to jump thru the hoops Medicare requires and won’t accept the minuscule amount the reimburse.
I have a chiropractor in Catonsville, MD who is certified in the Active Release Technique and the Graston Technique which does great things for my soft tissues, including all my joints, muscles and ligaments. I've referred dozens of fellow tennis players to him and loads of counseling clients who have all gotten good results too.
At age 73 and the daughter of one of the first Chiropractors in Florida, I know there is another part to this movement. After my father graduated from the original Palmer School after serving in World War Two and he married my mother, they headed south to start his practice and spread the healing. However, the already poisonous propaganda and pushback made it very difficult. First in Mississippi, then Alabama, then Georgia, they went. Each time the support was lean, and so was the lifestyle. My mother did double duty as my father's secretary-bookkeeper in houses with the living room converted to a reception area, a bedroom into a treatment room,, and babies in another watched over by a housekeeper. After moving to Florida, things improved slowly. It wasn't difficult due to skill. People swore by him, and colleagues called my father The Master. Even at school, I was taunted by the trickle-down lies of my classmate's parents, who called Chiropractors quacks. I also experienced this myself from an employer in the 1990s when I told him my father's profession. Personally, I can attest. I was born with a stubbornly misaligned cervical area. Not in pain, but over the years experienced severe menstrual symptoms, general feelings of unwellness, and delayed labor. All solved with adjustments. I had watched my father adjust a preteen boy with Down syndrome who was having a tantrum. He quickly calmed down before my eyes once adjusted. A few times, I attended a Chiropractic conference. I recall the discussions of the lawsuits regarding the Medical Association's slander and blockades to the knowledge of Chiropractic care. After my father passed away in 2000, his protege' told me in 2007 that had my father not been a Chiropractor, I would not have lived as long as I have. When I am out of adjustment, my heart skips some beats, and my breathing is slightly less efficient; allergies are more bothersome; sleep is less restful. People need to learn that Chiropractic care is not just for recovery from car accidents or sports injuries. Some people only need checkups once or twice a year. Some are never out of adjustment. Some people, like me, need adjustments monthly. As well, the education and training needs to be reviewed. I contend that some of the 'modern' schools of Chiropractic began to be infiltrated with harsher and less effective methods of treatment. Not every patient needs, or should be, twisted, snapped, or popped. Dr. Palmer and Dr. Grostic worked and developed the very gentle techniques of adjustment for health in the upper cervical area. After both my father and his protoge' passed away, it was most frustrating to find a Chiropractor that didn't think my head should endure a sneak attack of grabbing and twisting, or pulling my knee up into my chest and laying upon my body with force, and then there was the 95-pound, very young, inexperienced lady who actually full-on surprise bodyslammed me. All got my words and the view of my back out the door. With all the schemes and tricks the Medical Industrial Complex has pulled over the last century, I wonder if some of the schools intentionally teach techniques that could do harm in order to tarnish the profession. Positive action, education, and techniques that the founders would be proud of can be found at NUCCA.org. Their members should be included in this movement. Their input certainly would improve treatment and technique for all.
Hi Candy: I have been going to chiropractors all of my life, and easily related to your descriptions of the early days when many chiropractors worked out of their homes. As a young teenager plagued with what was then referred to as "hay fever," my mother insisted that I go to the wonderful chiropractor who did wonders for her whiplash injury from a car accident. Of course, I fought her as I thought it impossible that someone like that could help my situation.
At the time, where we lived, chiropractors were forced to practice underground so when we arrived at the doctor's large family home, there was an entire area devoted to his practice, somewhat as you described. This wonderful man, who became a family friend, took time to explain how he would adjust me, and as a teacher, pulled down a large illustration of the human body, explaining how the body works with everything radiating from the spine. It immediately made sense to me! The adjustment worked wonders, and what really made a huge difference was his explanation of the importance of diet. He simply suggested cutting sugar out of my diet. I worked diligently on that, and to this day, do not include refined white sugar in my husband's and my diet.
Whenever we are questioned as to what "we take," no one believes that we take no pharmaceuticals at all! We have always paid "out of pocket" for chiropractic care, and it is totally shameful that it is not covered by health insurance! The greed and negativity in the so-called "health" industry is beyond belief.
In the past, I have written articles dealing with natural health and diet, and today with the MAHA movement, as well as so much information available to the public, it is a perfect time for people to help themselves out of the evil ill-health spiral to excellent health through natural means as health was meant to be as opposed to corporations and synthetic chemicals ruling our lives.
Oh yes, Tania. My father also suffered from Hay Fever. It was pretty sad, but no Chiropractor could adjust him so that it held. He would have other DC's from around the state "come to dinner" and try at his office. He taught some classes at Palmer School, and the others at the school would try. He would even, in his 50s, fly a DC in to give it a go. I must have inherited his neck! He spent many hours plotting x-rays and trying different angles and techniques on me. Once I gave birth the first time, things much improved, and I would hold for weeks and sometimes months. Now, instead of the old x-ray machines that had a developer tub and drying time, these days there are digital x-rays viewable in minutes, and plotted out in a few more. With the sound and vibration frequency technologies being allowed to be revealed, it's a whole new ballgame.
Look up the definition of the word "shill", as in, "a pharma-paid shill" and know that, because pharma has much money to lose if people are actually healthy, there are most certainly pharma-paid shills here on this comment section. Hopefully A.I. will one day be able to identify these shills and expose them for what they are. My opinion: Chiropractic helps people be healthier and live a pharma drug-free life. I raised my children without Western medicine although some of my children have turned to Western medicine in their adult years. Regardless, they STILL advocate for chiropractic and they take their children to chiropractic. Chiropractic is legit--period.
I have always been anti-chiropractic because of seeing how they have treated their employees and pushing off scam packages on their patients. But then I was referred to someone in my town who knew how to deal with my specific post-surgical back issues (because no one was touching my back before with the thoughts of wailing on my back for an adjustment). She is one appt at a time and you come as often or little as needed. I have recommended her in my office which is saying alot. There are good ones out there, but like everything else the bad spoils the barrel for the rest of them. You just have to really do your due diligence.
Hippocrates was very wise...and 11-02-25, my newsletter barbarachris.substack.com was all about Hippocrates and his quotes..."It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine; one or more vertebrae may or may not be out of place and only if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine." Hippocrates, the Father of medicine, knew this 2400 years ago...and his information produced cures. Why isn't his information taught in med schools?
Because the Rockefeller-based medical schools perpetuate the sick-care system intended to create patients for life via unnecessary (and often harmful) pills and surgeries.
The curriculum in med school appears to be the study of sick people, diseases and expensive lifelong treatments. Hippocrates prescribed and taught information that would prevent illness and provide cures. Med school does not teach the Hippocratic Method nor does it adhere to the Hippocratic Oath: Do NO Harm!
Hi - this is wonderful. Please also look into instituting quality medical massage therapy. It can do wonders for managing pain. Thank you!
Been using chiropractic care for 40 years. I remember watching my Dad laying in a hospital bed for days in the 50s and 60s hooked up to a traction contraption in order to align his spine. It's hard to imagine how much that care could have helped him.
The Chiropractic professions was targeted by the Rockefeller funded Flexner Report back in the 1910 that turned America from a natural form of medicine to a pharma, petro-chemical based industry. Flexner specifically described chiropractors and mechano-therapists as “unconscionable quacks.” That propaganda has reigned supreme ever since then: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/modern-medicine-as-poison
This is a great step in the right direction to restore healing back to natural ways. Thank you for posting on this. I've written about the placebo effect, the power of positivity, and how we can truly solve healthcare. Getting away from petro-chemicals in the first step.
Here are links to other works if anyone's interested:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-power-of-positivity
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-documented-power-of-the-placebo
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-complete-vaccine-harm-profile
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/4-ways-to-save-healthcare-and-how
You jumble separate, historically accurate and inaccurate factoids with myth to make expansive and unsupported claims.
For starters, the Flexner report was funded by the Carnegie Foundation, but did have a role in reshaping US medical education. Leaping to how it "turned America from a natural form of medicine to a pharma, petrochemical-based industry" is just alt-world "interpretation" disregarding the fact that most chiropractors and "holistic practitioners" sell non-validated laboratory testing, supplements, and "detox" and chelation treatments that are as "petrochemical based" as anything your Rockefellerian villains employ.
If by "non-validated" you mean non-FDA approved, most critical-thinking, non-propagandized people recognize that as the only way to actually stay healthy nowadays.
A "validated test" is one whose performance has been systematically demonstrated (and documented) to meet predefined acceptance criteria before it is used to report patient results.
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/153395/cdc_153395_DS1.pdf
Accuracy: Does the test produce the correct result?
Precision (reproducibility): Are results consistent when repeated?
Analytical sensitivity: What is the lowest amount the test can detect?
Analytical specificity: Does the test avoid false positives from interfering substances?
Reportable range: Over what range are results reliable?
Feel free to get your E-Meter readings from Scientology and buy a dousing rod to look for water.
Now that we agree on the definition of validation, provide proof for your claim: "most chiropractors and 'holistic practitioners' sell non-validated laboratory testing, supplements, and 'detox' and chelation treatments that are 'petrochemical based'."
Go to any chiropractors website - Most sell supplements and/or laboratory testing. There's nothing "not petroleum-based" about their offerings.
Many will try to sell you recurring-visit subscriptions or months-long treatment plans.
Wonderful! I have been receiving Chiropractic care for about five years now. I love it, and pay for it with my credit cards as Medicare “ doesn’t cover HEALTH maintenance.” ( anymore) even though their fraudulent manual says unlimited visits, only six are covered. I did send a letter to my Congresswoman, and received a rather encouraging response. My request for a refund of extorted Medicare premiums was stated. Then, I can pay my chiropractor instead. I will only trust and spend my money with HEALERS, the chiropractors. NO Drug and Disease DEALERS!
Great report!!
I have to put my 2 cents in. I have had Lyme, Babesia and Bartonella for 21 years. It eventually went to my brain and became Lyme Encephalitis. During this time I had a hard time breathing. I thought I was dying and almost did twice. This year I went to my sister’s chiropractor in Strasburg, Virginia, Dr Stilson. He’s incredible. He figured out my problem within 2 visits. He went from working on my back to working on my chest. He “opened” up my breathing. I found I could breathe better and sleep better.
My mother went to a chiropractor all her life. She lived to 96 and was gorgeous all throughout her life. I lost all my money treating Lyme and can no longer pay out of pocket for my chiropractor. I hope RFK Jr gets Medicare to cover Chiropractic care. Thank you RFK Jr for all you do!
Medicare already covers it. But they don’t cover maintance. The problem is. Will your chiro reduce their fee to accept the minimal amount Medicare pays. A lot of doctors don’t want to jump thru the hoops Medicare requires and won’t accept the minuscule amount the reimburse.
I have a chiropractor in Catonsville, MD who is certified in the Active Release Technique and the Graston Technique which does great things for my soft tissues, including all my joints, muscles and ligaments. I've referred dozens of fellow tennis players to him and loads of counseling clients who have all gotten good results too.
Chiropractic helped with my son’s early seizures. It’s good to see you here Dr. Steve.
No, he simply outgrew the seizures like most children with seizures do.
Clearly you don’t know how neurotransmitters work. Sit down clown.
Please enlighten me
At age 73 and the daughter of one of the first Chiropractors in Florida, I know there is another part to this movement. After my father graduated from the original Palmer School after serving in World War Two and he married my mother, they headed south to start his practice and spread the healing. However, the already poisonous propaganda and pushback made it very difficult. First in Mississippi, then Alabama, then Georgia, they went. Each time the support was lean, and so was the lifestyle. My mother did double duty as my father's secretary-bookkeeper in houses with the living room converted to a reception area, a bedroom into a treatment room,, and babies in another watched over by a housekeeper. After moving to Florida, things improved slowly. It wasn't difficult due to skill. People swore by him, and colleagues called my father The Master. Even at school, I was taunted by the trickle-down lies of my classmate's parents, who called Chiropractors quacks. I also experienced this myself from an employer in the 1990s when I told him my father's profession. Personally, I can attest. I was born with a stubbornly misaligned cervical area. Not in pain, but over the years experienced severe menstrual symptoms, general feelings of unwellness, and delayed labor. All solved with adjustments. I had watched my father adjust a preteen boy with Down syndrome who was having a tantrum. He quickly calmed down before my eyes once adjusted. A few times, I attended a Chiropractic conference. I recall the discussions of the lawsuits regarding the Medical Association's slander and blockades to the knowledge of Chiropractic care. After my father passed away in 2000, his protege' told me in 2007 that had my father not been a Chiropractor, I would not have lived as long as I have. When I am out of adjustment, my heart skips some beats, and my breathing is slightly less efficient; allergies are more bothersome; sleep is less restful. People need to learn that Chiropractic care is not just for recovery from car accidents or sports injuries. Some people only need checkups once or twice a year. Some are never out of adjustment. Some people, like me, need adjustments monthly. As well, the education and training needs to be reviewed. I contend that some of the 'modern' schools of Chiropractic began to be infiltrated with harsher and less effective methods of treatment. Not every patient needs, or should be, twisted, snapped, or popped. Dr. Palmer and Dr. Grostic worked and developed the very gentle techniques of adjustment for health in the upper cervical area. After both my father and his protoge' passed away, it was most frustrating to find a Chiropractor that didn't think my head should endure a sneak attack of grabbing and twisting, or pulling my knee up into my chest and laying upon my body with force, and then there was the 95-pound, very young, inexperienced lady who actually full-on surprise bodyslammed me. All got my words and the view of my back out the door. With all the schemes and tricks the Medical Industrial Complex has pulled over the last century, I wonder if some of the schools intentionally teach techniques that could do harm in order to tarnish the profession. Positive action, education, and techniques that the founders would be proud of can be found at NUCCA.org. Their members should be included in this movement. Their input certainly would improve treatment and technique for all.
Hi Candy: I have been going to chiropractors all of my life, and easily related to your descriptions of the early days when many chiropractors worked out of their homes. As a young teenager plagued with what was then referred to as "hay fever," my mother insisted that I go to the wonderful chiropractor who did wonders for her whiplash injury from a car accident. Of course, I fought her as I thought it impossible that someone like that could help my situation.
At the time, where we lived, chiropractors were forced to practice underground so when we arrived at the doctor's large family home, there was an entire area devoted to his practice, somewhat as you described. This wonderful man, who became a family friend, took time to explain how he would adjust me, and as a teacher, pulled down a large illustration of the human body, explaining how the body works with everything radiating from the spine. It immediately made sense to me! The adjustment worked wonders, and what really made a huge difference was his explanation of the importance of diet. He simply suggested cutting sugar out of my diet. I worked diligently on that, and to this day, do not include refined white sugar in my husband's and my diet.
Whenever we are questioned as to what "we take," no one believes that we take no pharmaceuticals at all! We have always paid "out of pocket" for chiropractic care, and it is totally shameful that it is not covered by health insurance! The greed and negativity in the so-called "health" industry is beyond belief.
In the past, I have written articles dealing with natural health and diet, and today with the MAHA movement, as well as so much information available to the public, it is a perfect time for people to help themselves out of the evil ill-health spiral to excellent health through natural means as health was meant to be as opposed to corporations and synthetic chemicals ruling our lives.
Oh yes, Tania. My father also suffered from Hay Fever. It was pretty sad, but no Chiropractor could adjust him so that it held. He would have other DC's from around the state "come to dinner" and try at his office. He taught some classes at Palmer School, and the others at the school would try. He would even, in his 50s, fly a DC in to give it a go. I must have inherited his neck! He spent many hours plotting x-rays and trying different angles and techniques on me. Once I gave birth the first time, things much improved, and I would hold for weeks and sometimes months. Now, instead of the old x-ray machines that had a developer tub and drying time, these days there are digital x-rays viewable in minutes, and plotted out in a few more. With the sound and vibration frequency technologies being allowed to be revealed, it's a whole new ballgame.
Look up the definition of the word "shill", as in, "a pharma-paid shill" and know that, because pharma has much money to lose if people are actually healthy, there are most certainly pharma-paid shills here on this comment section. Hopefully A.I. will one day be able to identify these shills and expose them for what they are. My opinion: Chiropractic helps people be healthier and live a pharma drug-free life. I raised my children without Western medicine although some of my children have turned to Western medicine in their adult years. Regardless, they STILL advocate for chiropractic and they take their children to chiropractic. Chiropractic is legit--period.
I have always been anti-chiropractic because of seeing how they have treated their employees and pushing off scam packages on their patients. But then I was referred to someone in my town who knew how to deal with my specific post-surgical back issues (because no one was touching my back before with the thoughts of wailing on my back for an adjustment). She is one appt at a time and you come as often or little as needed. I have recommended her in my office which is saying alot. There are good ones out there, but like everything else the bad spoils the barrel for the rest of them. You just have to really do your due diligence.
Yea like medical doctors who over prescribe or Inject ultimately killing their clients. There is bad and good in all professions stating the obvious
And when Medicare pays for the expensive supplements I take— that keep me away from the doctor’s office!— I will be happy.
It's not the supplements keeping you out of the doctor's office.
Hippocrates was very wise...and 11-02-25, my newsletter barbarachris.substack.com was all about Hippocrates and his quotes..."It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine; one or more vertebrae may or may not be out of place and only if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine." Hippocrates, the Father of medicine, knew this 2400 years ago...and his information produced cures. Why isn't his information taught in med schools?
Because the Rockefeller-based medical schools perpetuate the sick-care system intended to create patients for life via unnecessary (and often harmful) pills and surgeries.
The curriculum in med school appears to be the study of sick people, diseases and expensive lifelong treatments. Hippocrates prescribed and taught information that would prevent illness and provide cures. Med school does not teach the Hippocratic Method nor does it adhere to the Hippocratic Oath: Do NO Harm!
What a fantastic and wildly impactful day! So blessed to be a part of it and can't wait for the next one!
I would like to become more involved with meetings etc. Leadership positions etc.
Might need to say a little more about yourself.
Good time to offer them the opportunity to implement informed consent guidelines on the potential adverse events of some of their maneauvers.
What adverse events?