Why did I write an e-book teaching chiropractors how to start up a blog? Because blogs are the single-best way to get your message out onto the internet quickly and effectively.
I know a good amount of people might still look at a blog as a novelty. Many others feel like it sounds kind of fun, but they don’t have time.
Well, let me explain what you don’t have time for.
The chiropractic profession, as a whole, has been considered a drugless, natural alternative to medicine for 114 years. Do you have time for chiropractic becoming another method of low level pharmaceutical prescription and injections? What if you are someone who practices primarily ONLY chiropractic and, instead of just having to explain to people that you won’t hook them up to an electrotherapy, you have to also explain that you won’t prescribe them drugs or inject them with painkillers like procaine?
How’s that for some unnecessary added difficulty in patient education? People already don’t understand what we do, so let’s trick them into thinking we’re now sub-MDs?
Guess what? That time is officially here.
Last week, the New Mexico Chiropractic Association and the New Mexico Board of Chiropractic Examiners played their part in officially starting the process of getting chiropractic assimilated into medicine. These two entities now have to answer to the New Mexico Medical Board and New Mexico Board of Pharmacy, claiming they have a larger scope, when in reality they are now slaves to bigger, stronger masters.
There are many chiropractors who don’t really believe in chiropractic and think this is great. They believe injecting patients with vitamin shots and administering procaine to painful trigger point areas in the back is the best way to help people. These people have no idea how to be compentent at chiropractic because they were not taught how to in school. The chiropractic schools won’t teach it because they want to be in good standing with the CCE, especially in this time of lower enrollment across the board.
And finally, the CCE is pushing the bigger agenda of the ACA, its creator, which has no love for subluxation-based chiropractic and the power it wields in getting sick people well and keeping healthy people well.
Our profession is being eaten from the inside out, until nothing will remain except a bastardized version of physical therapy/osteopathy. Chiropractic will be a distant memory, remembered only for its relation to an animal whose best known representatives go by the names of Donald and Daffy.
This WILL HAPPEN unless WE step it up. And not just a notch, but many notches.
How will people know chiropractic is not about drugs if WE DON’T TELL THEM? If we as chiropractors don’t get our act in gear, and each get a web presence of some kind, practicing chiropractic as we know it will not exist when our grandchildren are adults.
Some people might scoff at this statement, but if enough people scoff at this, more and more state boards will begin adopting this medipractic/mongrel philosophy. The more state boards that adopt these same policies, the greater the chance drug prescription and procaine injections will have of entering into the main CCE curriculum. That is a fact because it has already become part of the post-graduate curriculum at National University of Health Sciences.
Is this what we want as a profession? Do we want increased enrollment at our ACA-CCE-dominated schools to please the various boards of trustees, or do we want a separate and distinct profession of our own that separates us from every other health care provider in this country?
If your answer is the latter, then download my e-book and learn how to set up a blog. I did not write Done By Hand: The Blueprint to Chiropractic Blogging Success for my own health. In fact, my health suffered by putting it together, especially when you factor in all the late nights I spent working on it. I put this e-book together to help YOU get going on the internet, build your web presence, and spread the TRUE story of chiropractic.
We need many, many more blogs on the internet like mine. Not necessarily upper cervical-related, but definitely pro-chiropracTIC.
This medipractic infection that’s plaguing our profession is not acceptable. It’s spearheaded by people who have no talent or passion for chiropractic and they are choosing to bring us all down with them.
I will not accept that, and I implore you not to either.
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Brandon, speaking of upper cervical blogs, we have a new grad out there blogging: http://sherman.blogs.com/drbrowning/. Thought I’d share.
The chiropractor’s that believe that chiropractic is the correction of the vertebral subluxation to remove nerve interference need to organize. It does not take many people to change things. A few years ago I served on the city planning commission for my home town. I realized that 100 people control what happens in this city. After that I was talking to a friend of mine who was a former assistant to the mayor of San Francisco. He said the same thing, 100 people run the city. Let’s get together and do something besides complaining. I am trying to come up with a list of names to get this started.
The Medi Practors do not have faith in Chiropractic. Every Chiropractor should practice pure Chiropractic and every Chiropractor should read the book “Higher Ground” by Joe Strauss.
New Mexico is going into prescription rights in order to be able to continue to supply vitamins and herbals in the all too likely event of international treaties imposing Codex Alimentarius, already a reality in Germany.
Bob Dubin made this his last crusade. If we have the right to prescribe, we have the right to prescribe cessation, or substitution of safer alternatives for the average of 7 prescriptions the average 65+ American takes.
Chiropractic does great things, but it is not the end all be all of health. If one chooses to practice a certain way go for it as long as it is for the benefit of the patient. I have a problem with the other chiropractors who over-utilize and put people on huge cash plans for “correction”. I look forward to broader the scope of practice so others can do more pain management or god forbid, diet and exercise counseling.
Steven, there already is more pain management and nutritional counseling in the chiropractic scope, along with, now, low level prescriptions. Huge cash plans have nothing to do with it. I’m not sure if you understand what I was talking about.