Chiropractors

["Roberta Harms" <equiphile@hotmail.com>]

  Kathy Mayeda did not believe that Duncan could have heard that Chiros 
treat ear infections with adjustments.  I do remember that a TV expose' was 
run a number of years ago on unscrupulous chiros that treated ear infections 
and a myriad of other medical conditions with adjusments only.  They would 
treat everything  as if they were a family practitioner.  These were 
chiroprators NOT Osteopaths.
   I have some experience with horsey chiropractors. too. I am a critical 
care nurse working with high technologies all the time and was leary of 
chiropractor claims, esp. after hearing the aforementioned TV show.  A 
number of years ago 2 of my horses were in horse trailer that was flipped on 
its side on an icey patch of road.  They both were able to walk off with 
minor injuries after the trailer was righted.  The one horse from that time 
on displayed spinal injuries, however.  When riding him past the trail home, 
he would arc his body towards home and I would direct rein him the other 
way.  In the space of one stride and the next, he would be dead lame. ( A 
disc out of place pinching a nerve?)  Sometimes he would walk out of it, 
sometimes I could gently strech him out it. His lower back in the area of 
his thoraco-lumbar and sacral-iliac joints showed an arching upward, also.   
A "roach back" which was not there before.
    He bagan to be pulled for lameness a few years later.  I had him treated 
after xrays showed arthritis in his rear ankle with a full course of Adequan 
with no improvement.  I gave him IV Legend which helped alot, but he would 
still go lame at times.  Then I had him adjusted by a DVM who has taken a 
special  course in chiropractic adjustment. (The course is only available to 
vets and human chiros. ) The roach in his back is gone after a treatment.  
He has needed adjustment only 3 times so far over 2 years. Before treatment 
she says he does not use his right rear well.  It is much improved after a 
treatment.  No equipment is used other than a  small stepladder and her 
hands using a short, sharp move.
   The chiropractor said the he may very well have arthritis in his ankle, 
but what he really needs is adjustment.  I thought she was just trying to 
drum up business. This year I tried the Legend only, but he remained lame.  
I couldn't even condition him. The adjustment was necessary for soundness,  
IMHO.
  Roberta Harms
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