EVEN after years of smear campaigns and intentional persecution by medicine and, after medicine lost in the United States Supreme Court, being convicted in September 25, 1987, by Supreme Court Judge Getzendanner when she issued her opinion that the American Medical Association had violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, and that it had engaged in an unlawful conspiracy in restraint of trade “to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession” (Wilk v American Medical Ass’n, 671 F Supp 1465, ND Ill 1987), the modern medical model continues to run it smear campaign in a direct effort to deter people from seeking natural, safe and effective chiropractic care. The Supreme Court judge further stated that the “AMA had entered into a long history of illegal behaviour”. And she then issued a permanent injunction against the AMA under Section 16 of the Clayton Act to prevent such future behaviour. This behaviour, however, goes on to this day. Patrons of our office continue to ask us about physicians opining to them that chiropractic is unsafe, will not help their conditions, and, most alarmingly, that chiropractors will harm them, injure them, stroke them out, or kill them.

What is even worse is that now we have other practitioners in Jamaica who are not chiropractors, claiming to be chiropractors to attract those who seek chiropractic care. These are the real dangers to the public, greatly increasing possibilities of injury, harm or stroke by untrained, unskilled and unqualified people attempting to perform chiropractic adjustments. Most of the time, they are simply “mobilisation” techniques, and not chiropractic manipulations at all. At worst, this can in fact harm someone; and, at best, it simply does not achieve the effect of the actual alignment and leads people to believe that it has no effect.

Claiming that natural care is dangerous seems quite ironic, as it is quickly becoming public knowledge that medicine is now the leading cause of adverse effects, injuries and death globally. Furthermore, to claim that natural care is harmful is absolutely ridiculous, as well as completely unfounded, and I am going to address this issue once more, with a stark warning that anyone spreading propaganda could find themselves being litigated in the Supreme Court of Jamaica, not as a single group entity, but each individual could be brought up on charges so that they are responsible for their own defence, costs and any resulting awards by the Court.

The latest unfounded query came from a new patient who began care with us and her daughter was told by a physician that her child had to have Ritalin. Not wanting to take the chance on this drug (quite similar to cocaine and methamphetamines), she was quickly reprimanded by the physician. Of course the physician made no mention of the known adverse effects of Ritalin.

One Texas study found that one in every 12 children treated with methylphenidate experienced genetic abnormalities associated with an increased risk of cancer.

The admitted short-term effects of Ritalin include: loss of appetite; increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature; dilation of pupils; disturbed sleep patterns; nausea; bizarre, erratic, sometimes violent behaviour; hallucinations, hyperexcitability, irritability; panic and psychosis; and convulsions, seizures and death from high doses. While admitted long-term effects of the drug include: permanent damage to blood vessels of heart and brain, high blood pressure leading to heart attacks, strokes and death; liver, kidney and lung damage; destruction of tissues in nose if sniffed; respiratory (breathing) problems if smoked; infectious diseases and abscesses if injected; malnutrition, weight loss; disorientation, apathy, confused exhaustion; strong psychological dependence; psychosis; depression; and damage to the brain, including stroke and possibly epilepsy.

As a result of this knowledge of the drug facts, our patron’s daughter began researching chiropractic. She was quickly told by her physician about some “neurologist study” that “proves” children are stroked out by chiropractors. This is nothing more than age-old fear tactics. It is interesting that stroke and death is printed right on the Ritalin packaging, yet this physician attributed these to “chiropractors”. In addition, this “study” simply claimed that anyone who experienced a stroke that had possibly visited a chiropractor in the prior two weeks, stroked out because of the chiropractor. This is farcical. So much for their claim of “scientific evidence”. There simply is no direct causal relationship. How many of you know anyone that has had a stroke two full weeks after any inducive activity?

When you experience any symptoms of a stroke, you are advised to get to an emergency room within minutes, not hours, days or weeks. Why? As soon as four minutes after a stroke begins, the brain cells lose oxygen and begin to be injured. Shortly after a stroke-causing incident, there will be irreparable brain damage if no emergency intervention is initiated. It is common knowledge that as little as 45 minutes can be critical and cause permanent brain damage, coma or death. So, for a “scientific” “doctor” or “neurologist” or anyone else to even claim that a stroke incident was delayed a full two weeks, yet caused by some random adjustment to the cervical spine is simply ludicrous.

Funny there has never been one single case in all of chiropractic history where a recipient of a chiropractic adjustment has stroked out on the spot in the office immediately following an adjustment. It is always allegedly weeks after that adjustment somewhere far away from any chiropractor. By contrast, it is extremely common for immediate adverse effects during a visit to a doctor’s office or hospital, including stroke and death. Before this article went to print, my beloved grandmother experienced a stroke and was rushed to the hospital. Of course, if they ever found out that her grandson was a chiropractor, they would waste no time in forging a “correlation”, even though I have never once adjusted my grandmother that lives 1,700 miles away and whom I have not seen in person for almost two years. The following day, after administering a very dangerous drug, my grandmother succumbed. This hits close to home for me, and I assure you that it reinforces my confidence that chiropractic care is quite safe or I would not be a chiropractor. It also reinforces for me that fact that toxic drugs can in fact do harm, even when they are used in an attempt to save. I love you, Maw Maw.

Be sure to watch out next week for the conclusion of this topic.

Don’t forget to “Ask Your Chiropractor” every week where your questions may be published and answered in subsequent articles. Address questions to: Dr Chris Davis, the Spinal Mechanic at movethebone@gmail.com; or, Dr Michael Harvey, director, at dr.michael_harvey@yahoo.com or visit www.drharveychiropractic.com