Seminar Adjusting Isn't the Problem; This Is
Give me a break. Dr. Lehman's entire article ["Quickie Seminar Adjustments Have No Place in Chiropractic," February 2019 issue] is a straw man written for the lawyers. Show us the actual damage; the cases in which harm has actually occurred.
Much more serious to patient care and the professional image of chiropractic are these ridiculous YouTube videos DCs are posting. More and more I am confronted by patients or would-be patients about these videos showing all kinds of inappropriate adjustments that scare potential patients from getting care they need. I also get ridicule and questions from the medical colleagues I work with and with whom I have worked hard to develop professional, mutually respectful relationships.
Chiropractic now has made international news thanks to the DC in Australia who posted a video adjusting an infant, and now people worldwide have seen a DC holding a baby upside down. That is what the public got out of the video; not why the infant needed to be adjusted or how safe it is, and it is fueling a push to ban pediatric chiropractic.
Please stop posting videos. They are taken out of context and used to harm chiropractic and scare potential patients. Frankly, I think a few state boards need to be taking action against some of these videos I have been shown by patients. But no, let's focus on calling the rest of us incompetent for adjusting an informed colleague at a professional seminar.
Greg Rapp, DC
Plummer, Idaho
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