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Title: Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide (Consumer Health Library) by Samuel Homola, Stephen Barrett ISBN: 1-57392-698-1 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must-Read for Those Contemplating Chiropractic
Comment: This book is a well reasoned and rational discussion of the origin of chiropractic, its belief system, its practices, where it is irrational, where it is contraindicated, and where it can actually do some good.
The use of case studies is particularly well thought out. People like to read case studies. The application of theories is always more interesting than the theories themselves. Examples of instances where chiropractic manipulation was able to provide real relief for people suffering from cramped muscles, the effects of poor posture, and locked joints was useful. The cases where Dr. Homola did not treat were also useful. For example, one woman came to him for manipulation for pain. In taking her history he discovered she had had cancer. He referred her to her physician who passed her along to an oncologist, who confirmed that her cancer had metastasized. How a competent chiropractor can help when he recognizes the limits of his ability and what is within and outside his scope of practice will be useful to those contemplating chiropractic.
Dr. Homola spent his life trying to reform chiropractic from the inside out. He suffered greatly for it. Besides the disparaging comments from his colleagues and the isolation he must have felt, I'm sure he suffered financially. (Frankly, I'm sick of hearing how the medical community is trying to keep alternative medicine out because they are greedily hogging the people's money. Dr. Homola is an example of how true the reverse is. It is almost always easier to earn money dishonestly than honestly.)
Dr. Homola has integrity, though, and his book should be required reading for those contemplating a visit to a chiropractor and especially anyone considering becoming a chiropractor.
Rating: 3
Summary: Here is the deal with this book...
Comment: Like anything else, extremism is hardly ever good. Straight chiropractors are extreme, and Homola makes valid points when blasting them. Homola feels that chiropractors should deal strictly with musculoskelatal problems.
Chiropractors can do some good for back pain. But understand that there is too much of a supply of chiropractors for the demand for basic back pain, so what they do to get business (and keep you coming in) can be unethical.
I was going to go to chiropractic school before reading this book, but opted for med school. There is really only 2 good schools for chiropractors, that teach science based chiropractic. He points this out well in his book.
If you want know the signs of a good, ethical chiropractor, read this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: It Doesn't Make Sense
Comment: Ask yourself this..."Why would someone waste 43 years of his life just to write this book?"
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Title: Chiropractic: The Victim's Perspective (Consumer Health Library) by George Magner, Stephen, M.D. Barrett, William T. Jarvis ISBN: 157392041X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: The Naked Chiropractor Insider's Guide to Combating Quackery and Winning the War Against Pain by Preston H., Ph.D. Long, Preston H. Long ISBN: 0972281606 Publisher: Evidence-Based Health Services, Inc. Pub. Date: 18 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.99 |
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