Results for: Subluxation

Science-Based Satire: TCM Experts Baffled by Man Born Without Meridians

Has the first case of complete congenital Qi deficiency been diagnosed in Massachusetts? Is it possible to run a successful landscaping business without any meridians? Where can you get acupuncture and your car detailed at the same time? All these questions and more will be answered in today's post, which I completely made up.

/ September 1, 2023

The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.

Anything new regarding stroke and chiropractic neck manipulation?

/ May 16, 2023
Alternative medicine scams

An SBM Advocate Goes To Washington

An update on the strategies and deceptions used by the CAM movement to promote their treatments.

/ April 5, 2023

A Global Summit Conclusion: No Evidence of an Effect of SMT [Spinal Manipulative Therapy] for the Management of Non-Musculoskeletal Disorders

A new systematic review places one more nail in the coffin of chiropractic vertebral subluxation theory and the use of spinal manipulation as a treatment for non-musculoskeletal disorders.

/ March 2, 2023

Diagnostic Reflections

At the end of a long and storied career I reflect upon making a medical diagnosis. No reflection is one way to diagnose a vampire.

/ January 26, 2023

It Will Take More Than “Courage” to Restore Public Trust in Medicine

Judah Kreinbrook, a first year medical student, responds to a post on Sensible Medicine by a medical student that exaggerated the risk of myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines while expressing anger at how trust in medicine has been undermined. Having been raised by a family steeped in antivaccine views, Kreinbrook invokes his journey to SBM to gently correct his fellow medical student and...

/ December 31, 2022

The Washington Post Takes on Baby Chiropractic

A recent Washington Post article takes on baby chiropractic and...it isn't terrible! In fact, I've seen many that are a lot worse. Still, sadly, there is an unfortunate and undeserved false balance that should have been cut from the first draft.

/ December 9, 2022

Medicare and Alternative Medicine

Medicare is paying for nonsense.

/ November 15, 2022

Alternative Reproduction?

Are there effective forms of SCAMs for birth control or reproduction? Of course not.

/ September 22, 2022

Chiropractic for Pediatric Seizures: Marketing in the Form of a Case Report

Here we are again with yet another case report full of limitations but making bold claims regarding chiropractic care of children with real medical conditions.

/ August 19, 2022