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| Should I have Stopped My "Short Leg" Treatment?, 29/6/2006 |
| Should I have Stopped My "Short Leg" Treatment? Should I have Stopped My "Short Leg" Treatment? It's not likely that you need a heel lift. A deficiency of 7 mm is little more than quarter of an inch. According to US Dept. of Health and Human Services guidelines, shoe lifts are not recommended for treatment of back pain when leg deficiency is less than three-quarters of an inch. Besides, except in cases of a very large deficiency, lifting the shoe of an adult will not change the curves in the spine. Practitioners who conduct "health fairs" typically find a "short leg that is causing scoliosis." Usually, such findings are nonexistent or not significant. There are many reasons why you could be having back pain that is not related to a scoliosis, which is probably not significant if the curvature is so slight that you were not aware of it. A prominent butt might indicate a swayback problem that would benefit from postural exercise. You were wise to stop the treatment when you did.
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| Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism: Chapter 13, 8/2/2000 |
| Examination by specialists, however, revealed no obvious pathology of the heart, but doctors advised the patient to "take it easy" in event a heart condition existed that had not been discovered. Further examination by a medical internist reveaed that the man had a spinal curvature aggravated by a short leg, causing pressure upon a nerve trunk supplying the left side of his chest just over the heart. A lift under the left shoe permitted the man to carry his posture straighter, thus relieving the pressure on the spinal nerve. The patient was simply suffering from intercostal neuralgia, a condition far removed from heart disease. As evidenced by negative heart examinations in such cases, pressure upon a spinal nerve could hardly cause a disturbance of the heart. If it is admitted, then, that nerve Pressure can appear at the upper portion of the thoracic spine to cause symptoms of heart trouble, it must be remembered that there are 24 movable segments of the spinal column, most of them below the area described by the AMA's article. A short leg, then, could affect the alignment of any of these segments and produce an irritation of the nerves of the area.
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| Answers to Questions about Chiropractic, 12/5/2009 |
| Should I have stopped my "short leg" treatment? (posted 3/3/06)
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| How Chiropractic Subluxation Theory Threatens Public Health, 27/11/2006 |
| Television viewers were astonished when the program was aired on February 4, 1994, as chiropractors were shown diagnosing and treating ear infections with a variety of nonsensical methods based on a variety of causes, ranging from subluxated vertebrae to nutritional deficiency, weak glands, food sensitivity, and a short leg. Two chiropractors differed on which leg was shorter.
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| Is My Chiropractic Treatment Program a Scam?, 29/6/2006 |
| It certainly sounds as if you have been given a misleading sales pitch. I would ignore the warning that you have a "subluxation, a short leg, and an abnormal neck curve." If you do not have neck or back pain, you do not need treatment. Regardless, the treatment you have described could be risky as well as a waste of time and money.
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| Questionable Claims Made for Activator Methods, 25/3/2006 |
| The AM system is based on a concept of "pelvic deficiency (P.D.)"—also called "functional short leg"—which proponents define as an "apparent" difference in length, not an anatomical difference. To determine where the alleged problem is located, the practitioner holds the patient's feet in various prescribed ways while the patient lies facedown on an examining table. Other parts of the body may be tested in various other ways. If any inequality or "imbalance" is found, the practitioner taps various points along the spine, pelvis, and/or elsewhere with a handheld, spring-loaded mallet until the legs appear to be equal in length. This approach is not a method of spinal manipulation. Slight variations of hip position or normal spinal muscle tension are probably responsible for the "imbalances." Despite this, the FDA has approved the Activator Adjusting Instrument for "chiropractic adjustment of the spine and extremities."
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| How Chiropractic Subluxation Theory Threatens Public Health, 22/12/2002 |
| Television viewers were astonished when the program was aired on February 4, 1994, as chiropractors were shown diagnosing and treating ear infections with a variety of nonsensical methods based on a variety of causes, ranging from subluxated vertebrae to nutritional deficiency, weak glands, food sensitivity, and a short leg. Two chiropractors differed on which leg was shorter.
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| Chiropractic: Sacro-Occipital Technique (1963), 28/1/2001 |
| In examining a patient, the sacro-occipital practitioner will also observe the leg lengths of his patient: "The short leg in the prone position has no relationship to posture or weight bearing; rather, it indicates an imbalance between respiratory function and cerebrospinal fluid pressure and movement."
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| Chiropractic: Electrotactic Theory (1963), 8/2/2000 |
| Thus, with this brief history of chiropractic treatment methods, several of which I have already discussed, another chiropractic "authority" introduces a new and revolutionary chiropractic treatment that would replace every other existing chiropractic method -- even the Carver approach which, as one chiropractic authority stated recently, "is the foundation of whatever is scientific in chiropractic today." While the "Electrotactic Theory of Chiropractic" is probably no more correct than its predecessors, it does, like all the others, completely ignore limited and scientific treatment of the spinal joints per se. In fact, it quite typically offers a method of "removing nerve interferences" in the treatment or prevention of disease. As a form of "reflex therapy," similar to the "new hypothesis" discussed earlier, it designates treatment sites at certain points along the skin near the spine, corresponding to diseased areas which, in turn, are reflected in disturbances in the area of the atlas or pelvis, or both. Maintaining that these disturbances also cause a "short leg" in the supine or prone position, this system attempts to construct a "verifiable and scientific hypothesis" around the "contradictions and half-truths" found in a variety of chiropractic treatment methods. In addition, it maintains that "a disturbance or change in any organ is always reflected physiologically or pathologically in the liver and is detectable." Use of electrotactic reflex therapy will not only reveal the "key" organ responsible for a chain of symptoms, but such therapy directed to that organ will also bring into action "such powerful components as the hypothalamus, adrenal cortex, aortic plexus, the heart and portions of the digestive tract and reproductive system."
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