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- Comment by Mojo on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 19:04 …Ullman and Ullman’ Homeopathic self care book. Oh god, there’s two of them.
- Comment by on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 18:04 It is about going for clinical trials. Food allergy patients are more in U K.
- Comment by on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 17:04 why don’t you familiarise yourself with the available info (https://edzardernst.com/about/) before going on a wild goose chase?
- Comment by on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 17:04 Can I meet you and Exeter professors . You were involved in the British parliament’s science and technology committee report on Allergies (sixth report).
- Comment by on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 16:04 very well then [but I don’t think you’ll find Richard there]
- Comment by on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 16:04 I will come to Exeter then only You believe me. My work is very interesting. Seeing is believing.
- Comment by on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 12:04 @S D Naikar For homeopathic cure … ‘Homeopathic cure’ is an oxymoron. Homeopathy is completely useless and can’t cure anything (except maybe hyperpecuniosis in the leathery structure called ‘the wallet’). But I’m not so sure about Dr. Astor’s work either. From what I see, he promotes the concept of ‘hidden food allergies’ (not to be confused with ‘hidden allergens’ in food), which seems to me a bit strange. True allergies are by definition IgE-mediated immune responses, and to the best of my knowledge almost always produce unmistakable symptoms with a fast onset. Then again, I’m not an expert in the field, so maybe some allergies manifest themselves as low-grade inflammatory responses.
- Comment by on Effectiveness and safety of manual therapy compared with oral pain medications in patients with neck pain Tuesday 23 April 2024: 12:04 Sums it up “… our results could influence referral networks for individ- uals who present to their family physician with neck pain and give more treatment options for patients to choose from.”
- Comment by on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 11:04 That is all in allopathy doctor’s book (Dr Stephen Astor). For homeopathic cure there is a case study in Ullman and Ullman’ Homeopathic self care book.l have my own study different from that case.Dr Stephen Astor deals with normal food allergy patients who don’t suffer from Anaphylaxis shock.Both the books are from U S. I’m ready to come to Exeter.
- Comment by on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 10:04 @S D Naikar Where we can get food allergy cure? Nowhere. Food allergy is an out-of-control immune response and as such generally can’t be cured. There are reports that desensitization treatments sometimes help, although these must be carried out by a trained physician who is prepared and equipped to deal with anaphylactic shock – a very real risk in case of food allergy. So that doctor is correct: generally, food allergy can’t be cured. Note that food intolerance is not the same as food allergy. Also note that SCAMmers often erroneously diagnose these conditions as the cause of the generalized, often vague symptoms mentioned above, selling patients useless herbs and supplements, in combination with haphazardly chosen dietary restrictions. This usually does not help, apart from a placebo effect. I know one such victim: she refuses to eat almost all normal food, and brings her own special (and expensive) foodstuffs at dinners and even in restaurants – but even after years on this quack-recommended diet, she still suffers from the original symptoms. So all this fussing about food and food intolerance hasn’t helped her a bit, while costing her a mint (I estimate that she spends several hundred dollars per month on supplements and special food). If you have a real food allergy, consult a real doctor, not an SCAM practitioner, and NEVER EVER allow a SCAM practitioner to administer desensitization treatments – you run a very real risk of anaphylactic shock and subsequent death. If you suspect to suffer from food intolerance, again consult a real doctor and/or a licensed nutritionist, also before embarking on an elimination diet to see if that helps – but don’t expect too much, especially if the symptoms are vague. Don’t consult SCAM practitioners, as they don’t know what they’re doing. Best case, they will only take your money and sell you useless but basically harmless supplements; if you’re unlucky, they will foist a seriously restrictive but completely unnecessary diet on you.
- Comment by on Chiropractic spinal manipulations are safe!!! … Or aren’t they? Tuesday 23 April 2024: 07:04 “The First Professor of Complementary Medicine in the Known Universe” this is not my title; someone might have called me thus but that has nothing to do with me. the rest of your post is in the same vein, I am afraid.
- Comment by on The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 1 Tuesday 23 April 2024: 05:04 Where we can get food allergy cure? Do you think allopathy can cure food allergies? I have book by allopathy doctor who says there is no cure. Tell me where the patients go?
- Comment by on Anthroposophic medicine is recommended for acute paediatric tonsillitis (…and yes, the earth is flat!) Tuesday 23 April 2024: 01:04 In the words of its synopsis:Is Evidence Based Medicine NONSENSE? It simply doesn’t work for many people a lot of the time. Everybody is unique, every body is unique… It looks to me to be of the “sometimes aircraft crash, therefore flying carpets work” ilk, but I didn’t bother viewing. Also, John misnames it: it’s called “Is Evidence Based Medicine NONSENSE?”, so it’s not actually about SBM. EBM and SBM are not the same.
- Comment by on Chiropractic: Not All That It’s Cracked Up to Be Monday 22 April 2024: 23:04 Bjorn. There are several different approaches. This paper compares a few of them. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-00703-7?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR38w-282THyB1B5BPOH8XXlF82C0dcNfJiFX5k5-bwfmsmh4OqzXfEO1dI_aem_AU7JJClesoAbnYUKV9tinL34KFKpUtf7Ucdf6lJeSomD-ue54obLe8as7Vg5TcCc0eZSIKnEuywfPAY7YkcQ8W0I Regarding family adjustments For myself I average a cervical adjustment about once a year. That’s typically due to a cervicogenic headache that I can’t resolve on my own. For my daughter, I don’t recommend cervical HVLA because of her decompression of C1-3 due to a history of symptomatic Chiari. Although the surgeon wasn’t concerned about cervical HVLA I don’t consider it advisable. Soft tissue manipulation resolves her occasional headaches. For her sister I don’t recommend HVLA to her cervical spine due to systemic joint hypermobility. For my ex wife I don’t recommend HVLA due to the risk factors such as migraines and a Factor X disorder. For my siblings I can’t recall ever doing a cervical manipulation on them. My dad is 88 and I don’t think a cervical HVLA would be of any value. My mom passed away 2 years ago due to cancer. I don’t recall ever doing a cervical HVLA on her.
- Comment by on Chiropractors charged with sexual assault Monday 22 April 2024: 22:04 What could possibly go wrong; the feeble-minded faffing with the backs of the feeble-minded? The efforts of DC (Dopey Conartist) to try to whitewash the levels of criminality of his fellow non-professionals clearly illustrate the delusions of the feeble-minded. I am utterly sick of SCAM and the delusionals who pretend to do something, but only steal people’s hard earned.
- Comment by on Chiropractic spinal manipulations are safe!!! … Or aren’t they? Monday 22 April 2024: 22:04 It is also interesting to look at malpractice rates when considering the risk of different practitioners. Perhaps that is something patients should also consider when thinking about the safety of the proposed treatment, cervical manipulation or other.
- Comment by on Chiropractic spinal manipulations are safe!!! … Or aren’t they? Monday 22 April 2024: 21:04 I was sarcastic. As clinicians we have the obligation to inform our patients on the risks/benefits of the more common approaches to their conditions. This blog isn’t concerned with that. Technically, SMT isn’t alternative as PTs, DOs and some MDs do it at least for some MSK conditions. It’s only alternative when some move it into the treating of non-MSK conditions. But for some here, those are considered trivial facts. Regarding VAD vs stroke, I concur, two different, albeit sometimes, related serious AE.
- Comment by on Chiropractors charged with sexual assault Monday 22 April 2024: 21:04 Prince Andrew is still not imprisoned
- Comment by on Chiropractic: Not All That It’s Cracked Up to Be Monday 22 April 2024: 21:04 Hi DC! Three questions: 1. What do you consider adequate evidence of causation or rejection of causation? 2. How do you suggest causation should be established or rejected? ( How the research should be designed and performed) 3. Do you and your family have your necks “adjusted”, how frequently and on what indications?
- Comment by on Chiropractors charged with sexual assault Monday 22 April 2024: 20:04 another factor to consider, is this similar between professions? “many cases of physician sexual abuse of patients go unreported” “many hospitals and health care organizations regularly ignore or circumvent reporting requirements for medical boards regarding impaired physicians” “A 2006 report found that two-thirds of all complaints received by medical boards were closed either due to inadequate evidence to support the charges or because these cases were resolved informally, through a notice of concern or a similar communication with the involved physician.12” “medical boards did not discipline 70% of the physicians who had peer-review sanctions or malpractice payments made on their behalf due to sexual misconduct.5” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6614523/#CR12 apple vs orange?
- Comment by on Chiropractors charged with sexual assault Monday 22 April 2024: 17:04 it’s called: study limitations.
- Comment by on Chiropractors charged with sexual assault Monday 22 April 2024: 15:04 so glad you found a way to white-wash the results; oooops: sexual transgressions can be committed also with non-patients – might even be more likely; who knows?
- Comment by on Chiropractors charged with sexual assault Monday 22 April 2024: 15:04 Regarding the percentage and the study, Apple vs orange? 2 x more likely to transgress sexual boundaries. “The physicians in the medical study cover a broad spectrum of specialties, including radiology, psychiatry, and ophthalmology that have little or no primary physical contact with patients.“ “The combination of infrequent patient interaction and limited physical contact would realistically affect the number of complaints for sexual boundary violations.”
- Comment by on Chiropractic spinal manipulations are safe!!! … Or aren’t they? Monday 22 April 2024: 14:04 I made a comment that Dr. Brown stayed on topic by not stooping to using a red herring argument by pointing out risks associated with procedures other than manipulation, i.e., traditional medical procedures. Dr. Brown had the singular concern of differentiating causing the initial dissection versus dislodging a clot from a preexisting dissection. Providing informed consent is a different topic. A requirement of proper informed consent is to provide options as well as the risks associated with the other options. The cited paper would assist one in providing proper informed consent. You will have to explain your conclusory statement that the cited paper is inappropriate. This blog has the appearance of an intent to prove all chiropractic and every chiropractor in every instance is a scam. That is a difficult foundation upon which to have an open honest conversation, but it does not mean it is impossible. (Or were you being sarcastic?)
- Comment by on Chiropractic spinal manipulations are safe!!! … Or aren’t they? Monday 22 April 2024: 12:04 Game, set and match! *Thumbs up*
- Comment by on Anthroposophic medicine is recommended for acute paediatric tonsillitis (…and yes, the earth is flat!) Monday 22 April 2024: 12:04 @”John” Could you explain in a couple of words what your comment is about? I don’t want to waste my precious time watching videos peddling pseudoscientific antivaxx conspiracy crap.
- Comment by on Chiropractic spinal manipulations are safe!!! … Or aren’t they? Monday 22 April 2024: 01:04 Yes John, one shouldn’t share papers like this one. Effectiveness and safety of manual therapy when compared with oral pain medications in patients with neck pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://bmcsportsscimedrehabil.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s13102-024-00874-w.pdf
- Comment by on Chiropractic spinal manipulations are safe!!! … Or aren’t they? Sunday 21 April 2024: 21:04 Dr. Ernst, after much deliberation, I have decided the following actions must be taken. I can do no other. Regarding your title, “The First Professor of Complementary Medicine in the Known Universe”, while it is an effective marketing strategy, it does not comply with known reality. The only practice of complementary medicine I can find on your Curriculum Vitae is that at one time you were a junior doctor at a homeopathic hospital in Munich. (2015 Baum) The fact that you were at one time gullible enough to believe that useless homeopathic remedies can do anything whatsoever disqualifies you from your title. Therefore, by the powers vested in me by common sense, I revoke your title, “The First Professor of Complementary Medicine in the Known Universe”. Furthermore, as you do not profess any form of complementary medicine, this seems the logical course of action. The three largest complementary medicine professions in the US are chiropractic, acupuncture and massage therapy. I have been professing these services for 30 years. Therefore, I bestow upon myself the title, “The First Professor of Complementary Medicine in the Known Universe.” Out of respect for your numerous research publications on complementary medicine, I will bestow upon you the more appropriate title, “Critic of Complementary Medicine Who Does Occasionally Have Some Valid Points.” I had never frequented your site before the other day. I will no longer be frequenting this site as you have made it clear that the purpose of your blog is for you to state your opinions and to hear the comments of those who agree with you. It’s your blog, so your rules. Namaste.
