What you should know about chiropractic

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	What you should know about chiropractic

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/37838348-90bb-4c44-859f-66c8d6b998f2/87378CD6-EC38-4A7D-B038-A0D9BD6F7523/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news"><H1>
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</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/2E3007D6-397D-4416-9A2E-0AC79697E2EB" alt="Just what is chiropractic, and do the claims of chiropractors stand up to scrutiny? (Image: Aslaug Snorradottir / Rex Features)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news">FOR many people, chiropractic appears almost mainstream</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news"> It is therefore understandable if people hardly ever question the evidential basis on which this profession rests.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news">We therefore need to ask, how good is chiropractic spinal manipulation in treating anything?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news">The answer is not clear-cut. For back pain, there is some encouraging evidence.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news">standard care is not very effective for bad backs, and studies that adequately control for placebo effects tend to arrive at less positive conclusions</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news"><P class="infuse">For virtually all the other conditions which chiropractors treat, where rigorous trials have been done, the evidence is weaker. In some cases, the most reliable studies have found that spinal manipulation is ineffective.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/87378CD6-EC38-4A7D-B038-A0D9BD6F7523/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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