From http://www.chirowatch.com Watch out for these things in the offices of Chiripractors and Dentists and other alternative "health care" workers. More and more, the "new fad" is the way these so-called drs. try to sell you something which they are not licensed to:

More than 28 billion dollars are spent on health fraud each year in the United States, and the added human cost due to delayed treatment, poor diet, poisoning and emotional pain cannot be measured. Health fraud promotes products and cures that do not work or are not safe. It often makes victims of people who have the most to lose, such as the elderly and the chronically ill.

Health fraud promoters attract people because they spend time with them and pay a great deal of attention to their needs. The promoters offer not only cures but also friendship and support. Often, they say their product or method can cure a number of health problems. They describe vague symptoms that could have many causes. The quacks use words that sound like real medical terms.

Sometimes they have diplomas from fake schools or health organizations. If they do have advanced degrees, they are probably not in a health field. The health fraud advocate may be your best friend or even a health professional.

Promoters use half-hour and even hour- long television programs to urge you to send in your money and try a new, revolutionary discovery. Because of the right to freedom of speech, the quack does not have to prove the claims are true. Instead, we must prove the claims are false.

Bogus Clinics - Clinics with everything from chelation therapy for heart disease to coffee enemas for cancer give false hope and empty bank accounts to thousands of people. These clinics often are located just outside the United States borders, where they cannot be controlled by federal agencies.

The clinics appeal to people who do not trust mainstream medicine or who have lost all hope for a medical cure. The clinics often use fake diagnostic tests such as cytotoxic testing for allergies, applied kinesiology for nutrition problems and yeast tests for infections.

In some cases they use valid tests for the wrong reasons, such as hair analysis for vitamin deficiencies or oral glucose tolerance tests for low blood sugar. Some even use special devices, such as amalgameters that detect toxic levels of amalgam, a substance used for dental fillings and blamed for causing mercury poisoning.

In some cases, if the person has no clear symptoms, these tests will discover some weakness that requires special extracts or treatments. The real tragedy occurs when a person delays valid medical care so long that it is too late.
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Feisty

(site from quackwatch at www.chirowatch.com) As soon as the negative emotional event is released, immediately an edema occurs in the area where the trapped emotions were. This can be seen on a CT-Scan! Once this occurs, a polarity reversal takes place, and the cancer growth stops and healing begins. (B.E.S.T. treatment facilitates or speeds up this phenomenon)
http://www.tru-health.com/trauma.html There is exciting news in the field of dis-ease (opposite of at-ease)! Old concepts about the nature of consciousness and the body are changing. We have been using many of the concepts in B.E.S.T. for several years, and some of the other concepts are new. Changing our belief systems about the mind-body connection and it's influence on health is important to assist people in healing themselves and facilitating others. Some of the more exciting conceptual work on the healing process has been done by Deepak Chopra. He says the body is a quantum mechanical device. He has given us a new paradigm for the body rejuvenation.

Since the unconscious mind (also known as the "body mind") is the controlling intelligence in the body, it is the connection between the mind and the immune system.

A breakthrough in mind-body communication and assisting healing with this connection is B.E.S.T. techniques. This method has the potential of releasing trapped emotions as well as limiting decisions and beliefs from memories in a very short period of time through a series of steps.

A primary premise of B.E.S.T. therapy is that the unconscious mind can communicate with any part of the body and can stimulate the healing process.

Negative emotions connected to memories and trapped in the body are not conducive to health, and that is why we release them. Another premise of B.E.S.T. therapy is that many mental, emotional and physical dis-eases are preceded by a significant negative emotional experience. A first event means the very first time that an experience happened, or the root cause of a first event. Significant emotional experience is any major, fully associated, highly charged emotional event. These experiences have the potential to create and often are the source of dis-ease and impact the quality of life because they are stored in the body.

The supportive work of Dr. Paul Goodwin, a neural physicist at Alaska Pacific University, indicates that trapped emotions in the body can create functional (software, non-physical) boundaries which can impede the flow of nerve information through the neural network pathways and lead to problems.

Advancing this notion is the work of Dr. Hammer of Germany. His work began with a personal tragedy when his teenage son was killed. Several years later, Dr. Hammer developed cancer and survived. He began to research over 10,000 cases, studying the incidence of severe emotional trauma and the onset of cancer. Dr. Hammer directly states that all cancer starts with a severe psychological conflict and when a major negative event occurs, there is trapped emotion in the brain. The brain suffers something like a mild stroke and starts sending wrong information to specific part of the body, and a cancer growth or lesion starts there. Evidence shows that the onset of cancer symptoms occurs one to three years after the negative emotional event. The nature of the negative emotional event determines the area of the brain, the type of cancer and the rate of it's growth. Even a small imagined conflict/ negative emotional event can be enough to start or restart the cancer symptoms.

As soon as the negative emotional event is released, immediately an edema occurs in the area where the trapped emotions were. This can be seen on a CT-Scan! Once this occurs, a polarity reversal takes place, and the cancer growth stops and healing begins. (B.E.S.T. treatment facilitates or speeds up this phenomenon) Evidence is clear and the results are in. How do you know if you have something to release from a past memory? Go back to a memory that does not contain a trauma or phobia and associate to it by putting yourself into the picture and looking through your own eyes. If you remember the memory and feel any negative emotions in your body, then that is an indication there is negative emotional content to the memory, and trapped emotion in the body.

Now, other than dis-ease, why get rid of trapped negative emotions, decisions and beliefs? Not only does releasing these clear up physical health, it also has the potential to improve mental and emotional health. Freedom from the past contributes to an overall improved quality of life, along with motivation and confidence to successfully create the future. A person who has experienced deep hurt in a relationship may not be able to engage in an enjoyable, lasting relationship until they release and heal the memory. A salesperson who experienced rejection, or someone embarrassed when speaking in a group will not feel confident and comfortable asking for the sale or talking out in groups or with strangers until releasing the emotions, beliefs, and decisions that block and limit them. Any memory that triggers anger, hurt, sadness, fear or guilt has room for healing and release. We have had excellent results in assisting people to relieve symptomology with B.E.S.T. As with any non-traditional approach, anyone with a life threatening dis-ease should see a medical doctor as well.

Those receiving this form of health care have expressed an awareness of greater connection to our Life Force, Universal Intelligence, Creative Power, Source of what chiropractors refer to as the Innate Intelligence. This Intelligence courses through our brain, spinal cord and nervous system, communicating with every single cell, coordinating all activities and body functions. It sustains, animates, motivates, energizes and heals us. It is what creates the human form. It is what heals a broken bone. It affects cellular memory, perceptions and lives as it connects the inner you to the outer you. It is a healing current within us. When awakened, this life-force bathes every cell with new vitality.

Disease, illness and pain are expressions of our body's innate intelligence being stuck. Why is it that a shoulder injury of 10 years ago is still bothersome when the cells in our body regenerate every 7 years, producing new bones, muscles and ligaments? Because the nervous system remembers all the anxieties, fears, stresses and traumas we have ever experienced. Our nervous systems may be perceiving a past stress as if it is still occurring.

There is always a cause behind a pain or an accident. Illness is a communication from our higher self. Something is asking to be healed.

Symptoms come to motivate us to listen to our higher self and awaken our awareness so we can change.

Two people may have the manifestation of low back pain. As they heal by releasing the resident intelligence within, they discover things about themselves and grow in different ways. One comes into our healing center and says she hasn't fallen or lifted anything heavy, yet pain persists. Her healing involves releasing emotional causes. She realizes fears have created her back pain and have literally jolted her and produced an armoring around her. She connects to her inner strength and replaced fear with trust. She can then let go of her armoring and pain and become soft and feeling again.

Another woman has low back pain from an apparently physical cause because she was in a car accident. The healing she ultimately received from clear-outs helped her regroup her life, finances, job and relationships.

Healing asks for change and is always transformative. Healing incorporates all aspects of our life. B.E.S.T. chiropractic delivers what chiropractic has always promised. It removes nerve interference so the power that created the body can heal the body. Healing is a life-long process, and very often is a joyous one.
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Feisty

Intensive selling of the spine begins in chiropractic school as instructors convey the scope and philosophy of chiropractic to their students. After graduation, chiropractors can get help from many practice-building consultants who offer seminars and ongoing management advice. I have collected information about their offerings for more than 25 years.

Claims Made By Practice Consultants During the 1970s, flamboyant ads from practice-builders were much more common than they are today. The Drennan Seminar, for example, offered to "double your income and patient volume in 90 days" and said that one out of every ten registrants would receive a free Cadillac. The Stoner Chiropractic Research Foundation offered to "show you how to make $350,000 as easily as $50,000";

promised "no more end-of-the-month jitters"; and depicted a chiropractor headed for the First National Bank, pushing a wheelbarrow overflowing with stacks of money. Dr. Robert A. Jarmain invited chiropractors to a three-day seminar to "build the $1,000,000 practice." The Yennie Chiropractic Success Seminar offered to "put you on the road to total success" and to "upgrade your practice into the $100,000-$200,000-$300,000 service levels." In 1978, Clinic Masters advertised that three thousand chiropractors had enrolled in its program and increased their incomes, on average, more than $50,000 a year. Its fee for a program of seminars and ongoing consultation was $20,000-$100 initially and the rest payable as income rose. Its seminars included "How To Increase Insurance Business $100,000 Or More A Year" and "How To Achieve The 'Optimum Gettable' With Every Patient." Santavicca and Associates charged $30,000 for its advice-$100 for an initial three-day seminar and the rest payable as income rose.

During the 1980s, Practice Management Associates (PMA), a Florida-based firm run by Peter Fernandez, D.C., advertised that chiropractors who followed its guidelines would gross an average of $240,000 in their first year of practice and that the average for all of their clients was about $350,000 [2].

Fernandez also produced a five-volume series called "Secrets of a Practice-Building Consultant." The first edition of Volume I, 1001 Ways to Attract Patients; was published in 1981. The final volume, How to Become a Million Dollar a Year Practitioner, was published in 1990.

The largest practice-building firm is the Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation of Fort Worth, Texas, founded by James W. Parker, D.C. A 1987 brochure for its Parker School of Professional Success Seminar claimed that "over 125,000 Doctors of Chiropractic, spouses and staff assistants worldwide-over two thirds of all practicing chiropractors-have attended nearly 300 Seminars more than 400,000 times. . . . Resulting in millions and millions of additional patients being served. . . . And surely resulting in at least a billion dollars of EXTRA CHIROPRACTIC EARNINGS!"

What Are They Teaching?

All of the major health professions have access to practice-management consultants who teach how to run an office efficiently and courteously.

Chiropractic "practice-builders" go a giant step further: They teach how to sell "chiropractic," which, in many cases, translates into persuading patients that chiropractic services should become part of their way of life.

Some teach how to persuade patients to regard chiropractic as their first line of defense against health problems. (In other words, "if you get sick, see me first. If your problem is not amenable to chiropractic treatment, I will refer you to another provider.") Many practice-builders advise selling the idea that spinal checkups will promote general health and reduce future trouble. During the next year, I will post detailed information to Quackwatch on how this is done. Meanwhile, keep the following in mind:

Very few health problems can be influenced by spinal manipulation.

There is no logical reason to believe that regular spinal "check-ups" and "adjustments" provide any general health benefit or -- in most cases -- prevent problems from recurring. Chiropractors who sell these notions typically recommend monthly or even weekly check-ups to detect and correct "subluxations." If you encounter such a chiropractor, the most prudent strategy is to go elsewhere.

References 1. Goertz C. Summary of the 1997 ACA annual statistical survey on chiropractic practice. Journal of the American Chiropractic Association 35(11):30-34, 1998.

2.Ads in Practice Management Association's Chiropractic Achievers magazine, Sept/Oct 1989

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