I’m sure many readers of this blog have also come across this video at some point. I won’t say much else because the video says it all. Try to enjoy, but if you throw up in your mouth I understand. LOL!
Tour of the Palmer “Chiropractic” Clinic
I’m sure many readers of this blog have also come across this video at some point. I won’t say much else because the video says it all. Try to enjoy, but if you throw up in your mouth I understand. LOL!
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Wow, this is why chiropractic cant get ahead in our society. Blatent public disregard for each other just because we disagree with something someone else is doing. This is petty and elementary. This behavior makes you look like a second grader. Grow up!
Hey Patrick, I didn’t make this video, just posted it. I can understand if you don’t like it, but I think it’s pretty descriptive of how far away from the principles of chiropractic our profession has strayed. Not one single adjustment shown in that entire video, only physical therapy. No wonder people don’t know what we do. I don’t think Herbert Reaver went to jail 12 times for our profession to become pain based rehab.
I’m not even a chiropractor! but it doesn’t fit my idea of chiropractic! Facility great – yes! Chiropractic? No No NO! Certainly not what I have come to know Chiropractic as over the past thirty years!!! Not the kind of thing I want to give to my kids to keep their nervous system in peak condition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! That video was inexcusable. It is disgusting to see the direction that the fountainhead of chiropractic is headed towards. Patrick, you must understand that you, and the leaders of Palmer College, are a radical minority in the chiropractic profession. The vast majority of chiropractors choose to maintain the subluxation as a primary component of chiropractic. That entire video was a blatant disregard for the detection and correction of a subluxation, and therefore, not in tune with the majority of the chiropractic profession.
Chiropractors have every right to add any additional modalities that they feel will best serve their patients (although I personally believe that the correction of a subluxation is ALL that a patient will ever need) as long as it is within the chiropractic scope of practice. To make a video completely based on manicures, hot tubs and massages, while disregarding the adjustment, is simply indefensible.
I live next to Palmer and grew up in this part of the country. I found this when researching UPC spine care. Paula Sands Live is a popular show around here and was kind of shocked when I watched this. It was never this way before, always about taking care of your health, spine, and staying away from drugs when holistic health and supplements are what your body really needs.
Sadly it seems like someone lost their way at Palmer, perhaps finding profit to be more inviting than the principles of chiropractic care? This is an assumption on my part as a patient, not a professional. If I want PT I’ll go somewhere were my drug pushing and medical procedures Insurance will pay for instead of someplace that is doing preventative care. I’m sick of doing this because my insurance won’t cover preventative.Now I’m paying out of pocket, but it is the best investment I’ll probably make.
I just started back with Chiropractic care and I’m so glad I’m doing it. Students from Palmer come to my works health fairs, and I wonder what they think paying money on this? I’m sorry, I think that (sorry for the old saying) Dr Palmer would turn over in his grave with what is happening. It isn’t progress if it isn’t Chiropractic, it is “feel good” technology. This is not chiropractic care I grew up hearing about as a kid or going to years ago. Now I rather be seen by a chiropractor any day. I think it’s sad that the founders in chiropractic care appear to be loosing their way and I think it’s shameful. I think the Board of Regents, President, or whomever makes the decisions at Palmer ought to get back to the basics.
Well said Jillian.
People associate chiropractic with back pain. The schools are teaching students the most effective methods for treating musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. Looking for and correcting subluxations is fine as long as the patient knows what is really going on. Most chiropractors, especially the traditional ones, are not equipped to treat pain. They will advertise that they treat back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, knee pain etc. and then when the patient comes in they explain what a subluxation is and how this is their problem. This is unacceptable. The dialogue should go more like this: “Well Mr. Patient I have found something here on your x ray or scan that shows us you have something called a subluxation. Fortunately, I am an expert at correcting these subluxations. Unfortunately, straight chiropractic is not your best option for shoulder pain. I am going to refer you to someone who is expert in soft tissue diagnosis and treatment and we can begin adjusting your subluxations here today.”
Ah, this video rears its ugly head again. As someone who works at Palmer (I am a staff member and not in any administrative position), this video has been a thorn in my side for two reasons. 1) It was created by the Paula Sands Live show (which is a local-interest TV show and NOT the spokesperson for Palmer or chiropractic) and 2) People keep thinking it’s the end-all be-all about Palmer’s Clinics.
Here’s the deal. PSL interviewed Dr. Wood and toured the facility. PSL decided to focus on the Chiropractic Rehabilitation and Sports Injury Department in the facility. Why? I’m guessing because it was more interesting to look at than people face down on adjusting tables. It’s TV; it has to be visually compelling. PSL is a daily show. They don’t have time to explain the philosophy of chiropractic. All they wanted to do was highlight a new building on the Palmer campus in Davenport.
This video, of course, ticked off a number of students–including those who created this spoof video using the footage from Paula Sands Live.
What really burns me is when people assume that Palmer had anything to do with the editing of this video or how the content of the original footage was used. Palmer did not. I can tell you this truthfully as a member of the Marketing Department and as someone who works on Palmer’s videos.
Friends, I’ve been with Palmer 15 years–through the ups and downs. The original video has been totally taken out of context and then made even worse by this interpretation. It’s really too bad, because PSL featured Palmer’s Academic Health Center for a good part of a show. Unfortunately, what they showed wasn’t exactly true to form. But keep in mind, PSL’s audience is not chiropractic students or chiropractors. It’s mainly retired people and other folks who are at home at 4 p.m.
If you really want to know what’s going on at Palmer, follow me on Twitter (@palmercollege) and friend me on Facebook. Check out Palmer’s real videos on http://www.youtube.com/palmervideo. We’ve got an awesome one on the Clinic Abroad Program.
Thanks,
Minda @ Palmer
Eric, what makes you think that the human body is unable to heal itself from shoulder pain? I urge you to look at some of the research on upper cervical care and “pain” conditions such as trigeminal neuralgia, fibromyalgia, MS, etc…
I agree with your other points. Chiropractors should fully educate their patients on what chiropractic is and how chiropractic can help them. Also, chiropractors should not advertise that they treat ANY conditions. Chiropractic is not a treatment. We simply remove nerve interference and allow the body to function optimally.