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    The Case for Chiropractic
    The Case for Chiropractic
    The Case for Chiropractic
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    The Case for Chiropractic

    By Bruce Vaughan

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    On the one side I see a growing profession that has served mankind for 123 years, easing pain and promoting health without drugs or surgery, surely occupying a noble and praiseworthy role in healthcare. I have also experienced great personal satisfaction in seeing patients respond to an adjustment with immediate relief from what was causing them distress. On the other hand, I look back over those 52 years in practice and see the years of frustration and torment caused by the unrelenting and often inhumane opposition by a competing profession and related industry, often backed by governments as well as the main stream media with the belief that the winner takes all. This opposition has never been about concern for the wellbeing of patients, it has always been about control over our bodies and the income that can be derived from them, not just by the would-be monopoly (medicine) but also by the industry that controls them (the pharmaceutical industry).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Vaughan
    Release dateSep 5, 2019
    ISBN9780463314289
    The Case for Chiropractic
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    Bruce Vaughan

    Bruce lives in Hong Kong, originally from the UK. He was the Founding President of the Hong Kong Chiropractors Association, serving throughout the often-difficult times in the profession's struggle to gain status. He also has considerable experience on the world front, having been involved with the World Federation of Chiropractic since its inception in 1988: (Was WFC President 2000-2002). Prior to becoming a chiropractor Bruce Vaughan spent some exciting years in the fifties on the open range in Brazil as a cowboy/assistant manager and then went to Malaya where he became a rubber planter. An accident in Malaya led to his final change of career as a chiropractor. Bruce received his Doctor of Chiropractic Degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic USA in 1966. He has practiced as a chiropractor in Hong Kong since 1966 and is now senior partner of Drs B.S.Vaughan & Associates (Chiropractors). He was the first Chairman of the Chiropractors Council (HK), (1993 - 2002). In recent years Bruce has become an author; books published:- Brazilian Saddle Sores Rabid Dogs in the East Regenesis A Matter of Face The Basic Approach to SOT

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      Book preview

      The Case for Chiropractic - Bruce Vaughan

      The Case for Chiropractic

      The Patient comes first.

      Copyright Dr, Bruce Vaughan DC, FICC, 2019

      Contents

      Introduction.

      Chapter 1 - The Case for Chiropractic.

      Chapter 2 - The chiropractic subluxation and adjustment.

      Chapter 3 -The History of Antagonism

      Chapter 4 - ‘Chiropractors are not evidence based.’

      Chapter 5 - Treating diseases

      Chapter 6 - ‘Chiropractic adjustments to the neck can cause strokes.’

      Chapter 7 - One hundred years.

      Chapter 8 - A Sample of Studies done over the years.

      Chapter 9 - Public perception programed by disinformation.

      Conclusion

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      Introduction

      Why, after 52 years in practice, have I decided to write this book?

      On the one side I see a growing profession that has served mankind for 123 years, easing pain and promoting health without drugs or surgery, surely occupying a noble and praiseworthy role in healthcare. I have also experienced great personal satisfaction in seeing patients respond to an adjustment with immediate relief from what was causing them distress. On the other hand, I look back over those 52 years in practice and see the years of frustration and torment caused by the unrelenting and often inhumane opposition by a competing profession and related industry, often backed by governments as well as the main stream media with the belief that the winner takes all. This opposition has never been about concern for the wellbeing of patients, it has always been about control over our bodies and the income that can be derived from them, not just by the would-be monopoly (medicine) but also by the industry that controls them (the pharmaceutical industry). In my own experience I have seen decent, well qualified chiropractors, doing what they were trained to do, harassed, humiliated and even arrested for doing what chiropractors do, finding subluxations and adjusting them; nothing to do with medicine yet they were accused of practicing medicine. This travesty has unfortunately been ongoing, world-wide, since the beginning of chiropractic history.

      Chiropractors are, to this day, looked down upon with disdain and brushed off with snide remarks such as Chiropractic is not evidence based or, Chiropractors have no business treating diseases. Another one is Chiropractic manipulation of the neck can cause strokes. These unjustified taunts as well as many others are designed to scare patients away from chiropractic. Many studies have shown that chiropractic does do what it claims to do, without the often-serious side effects that accompany so many drug related treatments, and at a lower cost to boot and greater patient satisfaction.

      I have taken some of the more common accusations in order to put the record straight; not with any desire to continue the confrontation, but to try to put it to rest. My hope is that health care can, in the future, be based on what is right for the patient and what is the patient’s right. Our bodies do not belong to any profession, nor to any government. Patients should always have the right to choose what goes into or what comes out of their bodies and the bodies of their children.

      I went into chiropractic due to a personal injury that was greatly helped by a chiropractor. It was during my years studying in the USA that the AMA relaunched and up-graded a major offensive against chiropractic, aimed to contain and eliminate chiropractic, an offensive that continued for decades. What should have been the final judgement was made in 1987 and upheld in 1990 by the Supreme Court. The AMA et al were found guilty of conspiring to eliminate the profession of chiropractic. The worst was over, or so we thought, but in reality it continues to this day, all-be-it more covert and insidious. Many consumers are unaware, even today, that the idea that chiropractors are ‘quacks’ was purposefully, illegally, underhandedly, and cleverly crafted and promoted as a means of brain-washing the public by the AMA and its cohorts.

      I have not been arrested like 12 of my local colleagues in Hong Kong, but I have suffered with them and supported them as well as I could as they suffered the humiliation of police and Health Department personnel descending on their clinics, interrogating their patients and arresting them. None of these arrests were prosecuted but they merely served as harassment. As President of the Hong Kong Chiropractors Association, I have been heavily involved in our struggle, which has been no less vehement than experienced by our colleagues in the USA, against the established medical/pharmaceutical/government opposition to our right to practice our chosen profession and the right of patients to opt for our alternative health care approach.

      Chapter 1

      The Case for Chiropractic.

      There is a three-legged stool that is vital for our well-being, even our reason to exist.

      The three legs are health, wealth and happiness. If one leg fails, then so does the stool. Without health, the struggle for wealth and happiness, have little meaning. Without wealth, and I only mean sufficient income to maintain one’s chosen lifestyle, then health and the absence of pain can be difficult to maintain; happiness also suffers. With the absence of happiness neither good health nor sufficient wealth have much meaning. In the all-too-distant past, man was able to balance the stool without too great a struggle, of course there were exceptions. Today the maintenance of health and freedom from pain has become burdens on individuals as well as society. Life styles have changed dramatically; stress, poor diet, air and water pollution take their toll, sedentary jobs and bursts of activity during weekend sports…. The list is endless. These factors make modern man less able to stay healthy, he is more reliant

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