It's amazing all of the things a Chiropractor can do to keep you from going under the knife. I have also experienced first hand the benefits of working with bodywork specialists as an alternative to surgery.

Of course, when you are talking to the surgeon and he has his scalpal in his hand, what kind of solution do you think he is going to propose?

A lack of information and a loyalty to a medical system that isn't designed to keep you healthy is the real problem. Let's spend more time studying healthy people and take some lesson from them.

It makes no sense to me to continue to study disease in the hopes of keeping us healthy. It's like asking the person who has had their knees and their hips replaced how to care for our joints? Chester

"Of course, when you are talking to the surgeon and he has his scalpal in his hand, what kind of solution do you think he is going to propose?"

That's an easy one. Elective surgery. 2 year wait to get into an OR. Besides, surgery is the last thing anyone will do these days. That is old medicine.

Of course if Sara were to have gone to a Naturopath she may have been told that carpal tunnel is a sign of impending diabetes (amongst many other diseases) and have begun her on tests to determine which it is and possibly a treatment regimen to offest any metabolic imbalance.

There are often different ways to look at the same thing.

"There are often different ways to look at the same thing"

But why do they always have to keep on looking. Is it because after all they are only praticing thier profession for the big event whenever or wherever that may be.

I have to agree with Chester we need to look at the living. We are great fixer uppers but when it comes to finding the cause let someone else do it. Why is there such an increase in cancer and what is the cause of this increase.

Cheers

The way I see medicine is that it is typically practiced from a reactive rather than proactive view.

Some types of medicine, however, deal much more with one than the other. The MD, and even the Chiropractor, to the best of my knowledge, deal primarily with the reactive approach. Public Health is set up to deal with the proactive approach. I believe such holistic practices of medicine as Naturopathy also practice a more balanced medicine between reactive and proactive.

Cancer? Finding causes? On an epidemiological scale it is done by researchers. On the individual scale? Well, medicine is actually a science which is dependant very much on probability. Very few people understand that.

With any given symptoms, an MD has to start going through the laws of probability. Thus, carpal tunnel syndrome indicators can point to at least 10 plus causes, if not more. The patient is treated based on the assumption that it is the most common cause. Because it is the most common cause, the number of successful treatments should be quite high.

It is those that are not successful that we hear about. The search will go on, and if it is an uncommon cause, the patient, and the doctor as well, will be totally frustrated, I am sure.

The cancer question is an interesting one because it has to do with a whole slate of reasons. None of them, necessarily, have to do with lifestyle, the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water drink, etc. It can be as simple as the definition of what it is in the first place; as simple as being able to diagnose better now than decades and centuries ago; as simple as living longer and cancer showing up more frequently in the elderly than in younger individuals.

We do have some idea of what the risk factors are for getting certain types of cancer - lung cancer, for instance is one of the obvious ones.

I alternate hands so I don't get carpal tunnel. Somehow, I imagine my left hand as a stranger. Ha ha ha .

carpet what? i don't get it. simon what do you do with those hairy palms, huh?

I hesitate to read or observe any medical advise given on the Internet... too many factors need to be taken into account and so many people will jump to conclusion after only partly comprehending or misinterpreting what they've read. I consider it a very dangerous medium for disseminating medical information.

As for the comment on not really knowing the risk factors for cancer... Russell Blaylok, MD one of the leading authorities on cancer has said numerous times that most cancers can be prevented with proper diet. (I will have more on that later).

QuasiMe.... I couldn't agree with you more. Self diagnosis is a very dangerous thing. But, I think you will agree that without the internet people would have a hard time being educated consumers. It's your health noone is going to care more about it that you, so at least know what questions you should ask your provider. Don't forget your doctor is only human and can make mistakes.

"It is better to light a single candle than curse the darkness." B.J. Palmer

Travis Morgan, D.C.

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