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[calmcookie]

After moving to Texas, I spent two years without a car. It was a great lifestyle ... except during August heat. In any case, during that time I also had a nasty bike accident which wrenched my right arm into an unnatural position. Nothing broken, but for eight months I could barely lift that arm above shoulder height.

I went to a couple of doctors who took X-rays and assured me there was "nothing really wrong." They wanted to give me pain pills. I declined. So after exhausting conventional "medical" advice, I naturally said "what else can I do?' I knew little about chiropractors, back then. But long story short ... one visit to a one, and a quick adjustment and I'm not exhaggerating ... my arm was instantly better. There was obviously a pinched nerve somewhere. And that one movement, gave me relief.

That experience made me more open minded about "alternative therapies."
Are they ALL good? Of course not. Just as all of conventional care is not necessarily bad or good. Just depends on the circumstances. Why be critical of anyone? We each make our own decisions.

But, if you're not getting the RESULTS you desire, then the only sensible thing to ask is:
"What else can I do?" I believe there's a solution for every human problem ... and if we persist long enough, we'll find it.

Best to all, C.C. (Alkalize and Oxygenize) www.LoveNewLife.com

Edited by calmcookie, 27 March 2006 - 08:39 PM.

[maineman]

Arnold S. Relman, M.D.
Former editor, The New England Journal of Medicine
There are not two kinds of medicine, one conventional and the other unconventional, that can be practiced jointly in a new kind of "integrative medicine." Nor, as Andrew Weil and his friends also would have us believe, are there two kinds of thinking, or two ways to find out which treatments work and which do not. In the best kind of medical practice, all proposed treatments must be tested objectively. In the end, there will only be treatments that pass that test and those that do not, those that are proven worthwhile and those that are not. Can there be any reasonable "alternative"?

[calmcookie]

Mainman,

I have no desire to criticize you or anyone else.

I only say to people ... "if you're not getting the health RESULTS you'd like ... then the sensible
thing to do is to keep looking for answers ... to ask "what else can I do?" That is common sense.

Persistence matters. Answers exist.

Best to you, C.C.

Be well, www.LoveNewLife.com

Edited by calmcookie, 28 March 2006 - 09:50 AM.

[maineman]

CC, The debate about accepted medical practice is a good debate. It is not about criticizing me, so thanks for not criticing me. The problem lies with a definition by so-called alternative seekers of what "health" is. Is it the absence of a disease, say like the patient with Bell's palsy I saw yesterday, or the patient with an acute outbreak of Zoster, or the patient with a new suspicious nodule in her breast? Or is "health" an elusive idea of how one "feels"? If I "feel" okay, am I okay? Every single one of my patients that I diagnosed prostate cancer in "felt" fine. Couldn't believe they had cancer. Or is "health" a self-agrandiosed idea of perfection? The idea that if I empower myself I can live forever? You say that "answers exist", yet when data is presented regarding facts, so-called alternative or faith-based people run from those facts as if the data does not exist. Why do you think that is? maineman