I’ve never gone into rules for commenting on this blog before, mainly because I’ve never had to.
But lately, I’ve been seeing some things I haven’t liked in the comments section.
As a result, I’m going to lay down some ground rules. If these ground rules are violated, guess what? Your comment doesn’t get approved, plain and simple.
1.) Valid name and email address – Leaving a comment with the name “BoyLover” will not get you approved. Neither will “zzkxx” or “Lyle Sherman’s Ghost.” I want valid names when you post a comment. You can leave just your first name, or your first name and last name, but one way or another, it has to be a real name.
Same goes with email address. Leaving an email address like s@yahoo.com or lyle@sherman.edu doesn’t fly. I want valid email addresses, because I might decide to respond by email rather than in the comments.
2.) Comment has to be relevant – Don’t leave pointless comments that have nothing to do with anything, yet leave a website URL. That is called spam. Most of these get caught by my spam filter, but like I said, I’m laying down the ground rules.
3.) Keep criticism on the topic – Calling me an upper cervical retard will get your comment deleted. That’s fine if you think so. I could care less. However, do it on your own blog, not mine.
I don’t mind if someone tells me I’m too idealistic or they’re not sure if I will succeed in practice because of my views. But out and out hostility won’t work.
I am all for people disagreeing with my topics. My posts can often be a little inflammatory. Sometimes that is by design. I don’t expect people to always agree with me.
This is my forum to say what is on my mind and what I believe. Sure it would be nice to have a blog that would be all-inclusive to all of chiropractic in general, but that would be boring and mundane. Plus, I don’t feel that way. I don’t feel like all chiropractic is good for patients, and I don’t feel that everything that passes for chiropractic these days is really chiropractic.
If you don’t like that, or if you are afraid the public will get wind of my site and get the wrong impression, start your own blog and counter me. I will even teach you how if you click here.
If your comment doesn’t get approved, don’t try to comment again under a different phony name and email address. Under each comment that I see on my WordPress dashboard is an IP address. I can tell if it’s the same person using the same computer. If you are going to be a blog troll, be a little more sophisticated than that.
Bottom line, don’t flame me on my own blog. I will delete your comment.
Sorry to sound so authoritative, but I had to address these issues.
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brandon, i’m appalled by the level of violence shown in that rugby photo – what if my toddler son had walked by the PC while i was reading your authoritative post this morning?!
So sorry. I’ll be more considerate of your toddler next time.
One of the things that drove me into an upper cervical approach was the obvious disgust and ridicule that some corners of our profession seemed to have for UC practitioners and UC history. Want to start a fight at chiropractic school…start talking about the benefits of upper cervical care to the wrong people. I had to know, “what is it about these upper cervical people that’s so diabolical?”
Luckily I found out.
Remember, that with the exception of a few full-spine approaches (CBP and Barge’s rotational analysis come to mind), there is nothing present in other chiropractic approaches that isn’t already being done by manual therapists, physical therapists, body workers, energy medicine practitioners, somatic healers, or the like. (Whether they do it as well or as often is a different story.) Some have a holistic/vitalistic philosophy, and some don’t.
Specific upper cervical work is the ONLY domain that is wholly owned, developed, and refined by chiropractors for chiropractors. It is not, in the words of Heiner Beiderman, “trivial manipulation.”
In the movement to meld manipulative therapies under biomedical philosophy (conservative management of degenerative spinal conditions), upper cervical care stands as a small, but very vocal reminder that the subluxation is real, quantifiable, and reducible.
Therefore we must be ridiculed if we can no longer be ignored.