Several years ago I was seeing a patient for an acute migraine headache. The visit unfortunately was rather long, which can happen when a migraine patient is having an acute episode. An acquaintance of the patient had been waiting outside in the car. She was a red headed woman in her mid to early twenties. When she came in I noticed a paper towel wrapped around her right hand then I noticed a scowl and a clearly negative energy radiating from her. Immediately I believed that she was injured and in pain. When I offered to assist her with a band aide or something her scowl deepened and she let loose with a clearly negative barrage directed at me 'personally'.
I didn't know this woman from Eve, yet she felt comfortable enough to be rude and insulting. It was later made known to me that his woman was a physical therapist. Ironically in the past 118 years chiropractic has been the target of the medical community, first from the AMA itself, then there was the psychiatrists, I still don't get that really but for a period we were being bashed quite badly by them and now physical therapists have joined into the fray. Physical therapists have been the most violently hateful group of any we have encountered so far.
As to why, the reasoning is the same as it has always been, to keep medical control of the health care market. Clearly the PTs being ancillary to medicine have been set on the anti-chiropractic war path by their masters as a means of containing chiropractic. Basically it is the same battle chiropractic has been fighting for the past century. It just happens to be a different set of adversaries representing the same old foe, political medicine.
As PTs do not question their medical masters dependence on drugs it is their desire to use PTs as the means of displacing chiropractic. As a result the PTs have been told all manner of fairy tales about chiropractic such as mangled spines, stroke and quadriplegia being caused by chiropractors; The very same stuff my grandmother was told when she was in nursing school in 1928. She later became a chiropractor after she realized she had been lied to by the people she trusted to tell her the truth. When she asked them why they had to 'lie' about chiropractic none of them had an answer, none. They just rebuked her for deciding to become a chiropractor.
What gets me is these people are supposed to be smart, yet they can't even come up with new or even valid arguments against chiropractic, they have to recycle the old arguments and repeat them over and over and over and over...again to maintain the perception that 'they' are the gurus of health care. Ask yourself why anyone would have to lie to maintain an image of perceived wisdom and authority if what they had to offer was valid?
So I am pointing this out to you. Making you aware of the fact that chiropractic once again is under fire by yet another stooge profession of the AMA who by the way have a permanent injunction against them for earlier, illegal and equally vile efforts to contain and eliminate chiropractic. Google Wilk Vs. AMA.
In this case the AMA was handed an injunction to cease their anti-competitive behavior against the chiropractic profession by a federal court. As a result the AMA has had to use a proxy to pursue their intended goal of killing chiropractic, their proxy being the Physical Therapist.
FYI if a PT attempts to adjust your spine for any reason, understand that he/she/they aren't nearly as qualified as they believe, and their adjusting/manipulating the spine is illegal. And what injuries that have been blamed on chiropractors are most often caused by a PT pretending to be a chiropractor. They aren't licensed to do anything other than what is prescribed by a qualified physician, which they are not. Which is likely why they are so violently aggressive and hateful to chiropractors who are licensed physicians with 8 years of college.
I realize that this is an emotional segment, but as a chiropractor I am tired of the attacks by such hateful miscreant souls who believe they are justified to hate chiropractic because their masters said it was ok. Their hate of my profession is based on a perception created by a century old war that their masters have been losing. The hatred of chiropractic is not justified and has to stop. I could understand it better if we were truly dangerous and causing problems, but that is not and has not been the case EVER. Only stories told to create fear by incompetent, miscreant and godless people.
Chiropractic is still here with the lowest malpractice premiums in any health care system with a zero death rate. Think on that. Why would anyone 'hate' a chiropractor?"
Enough already.
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