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Note: At no time did I think my chiropractor was competent for curing my gall bladder problem nor would he have ever made any recommendations on the subject. His twin brother happens to be a podiatrist, and sometimes will refer patients to a chiropractor, when they are still having back pain after the root cause of their problem, messed up feet that are putting them off balance, is corrected.
quote:I ache from the burden of your excruciating wit.
Really CT? I actually thought that that particular joke was kind of lame. Not a bad idea, but poorly executed. Basically I just noticed that I was using some form or another of the word "press" too often, and decided to ham it up rather than actually going back and fixing it.
Banna--
I'll probably say more later, but for now, .
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Noemon, the lamer the joke, the better. There's a sort of awesome shudder that comes with a really bad pun (or alliteration) which can hardly be rivalled. Exquisite torturous pleasure.
Almost as good as the Gelatinous Mass, eh? *wink, wink, nudge nudge
Do their press statments claim that they're essentially relieving pressure on pressure points, and that having those pressure points pressed is what is causing the various pressing concerns for which their patients come to them?
...now that we've completely derailed the thread...
(While it's well known that the plural of anecdote is not data, this does not lead to the conclusion that all anecdotes are automatically false. It would be equally fallacious reasoning to automatically discount an anecdote as it would be to automatically believe a conclusion because of one.)
I have very limited knowledge of chirpractice, but the few friends I have had who go to chiropractors seem to have essentially become "dependent" on them. I don't know anybody who went to a chiropractor once or a half-dozen times and was "fixed," and never went back. That concerns me a bit.
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My problem was chronic before I ever saw a chiropractor. Yes, there are some people that seem to go frequently when it isn't terribly necessary. Many of those also go to the totally "holistic" chiropractors that I would view as "quackier". The chiropractors aren't going to turn down the money though. Even if it is psychological, the people think they are feeling better and maybe they are.
With my particular chiropractor, he has a prescribed course of treatment in sequence of visits, and is able to say, within a range, how many visits you should need for common problems like accident whiplash.
Other than accident victims I suspect there are other people like me out there with chronic problems that need more regularly scheduled adjustments just because of the nature of the problem. I have mildly degenerated discs, and I'm sure there are others out there like me that all you can hope for is to slow or arrest the degeneration for the rest of your life. As it is at age 24 those discs of mine already look like those of a 50 year old. I've seen the x-rays myself and they aren't pretty compared to normal, healthy cervical vertebrae.
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I had the same skepticism about chiropractors as many of you. Several months ago I injured my back and my doctor sent me to a chiropractor. I was surprised. My visits were much more like physical therapy (heat packs, ultrasound therapy, etc.) than like voodoo back-cracking magic. After about 4-5 visits, my pain was completely gone, as was the inflammation. He taught me exercises to do to strengthen my back muscles with the expectation that if I did them regularly, I should "never have another problem with my back". I guess it all depends on who you go to see....
Does anyone know what happened to pH? I've been wondering how she's doing...
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Hi Icky, how'd you come out in Biloxi? Won, did ya?
<giggles> You're just the most recent in a long line, so please don't think I was jeering at your lack of math skills, (or yours in particular, at any rate.) Just making a scientific observation about anecdotal data.
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O.K. Not to beat a dead horse, but I am somewhat worried. Zgator says that he sent Rakeesh an email and didn't get anything back. I just want to know if Rakeesh is alive. He posted here an awful lot to just suddenly stop without saying anything, or without having some kind of blowout. I know he was tight with some of you on the forum. Do none of you know what has become of him?
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Jeff's gone missing before, for much longer than this. Last time his computer died. It's probably something like that again.
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pH has not posted since I last saw her in boston... which worries me, as it raises the question of whether or not I kidnapped her.
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Yeah, but I know she just went off to college in New Orleans. No offense, but if I was 18 and a freshman at college, I probably wouldn't post here, either, since I would be too involved with having and exploring my new found freedoms.
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D. Michael is currently raising hell on the Association for Mormon Letters listserv. He also organizes the AML's yearly writers conference which last year included none other than the infamous Geoffrey Card.
EDIT: Oh, yeah, and he's written a (supposedly) controversial yet funny Mormon speculative fiction novel called _Brother Brigham_. I should also add that erstwhile poster Darlene has published several stories and poems in the AML's literary journal _Irreantum_. Considering Belle's recent successes and Andrew, etc. with Phobos, and, and... I wouldn't be suprised if in the next decade current and former Jatraqueros will account for thousands of published pages annually.
SECOND EDIT: I have nothing to say about chiropractors.
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No, Paul said it raised questions about him kidnapping her. I just figured if he did kidnap her, he'd know about, so there really shouldn't be any questions.
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Paul, something got really screwed up on my computer and AIM just royally sucks. It takes forever to sign on and then while I'm chatting with someone, it just freezes for no apparent reason and then a few minutes later, it just starts working again. Basically, I've given up AIM. I am, however, currently looking for some spyware programing. I've done the whole "search you computer" thing and it would seem there is a bunch of it on here. Maybe that is what's screwing everything up. I just don't buy stuff over the internet, and I have been to the store to see if they sell the software for getting rid of it, or not. Anyone have any other ideas about what is screwing up AIM so badly? And the general speed of my computer has drastically been reduced. I've deleted cookies, I've defraged. I've done everything I can think of. It just kinda sucks.
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Kayla - After you've cleaned off your spyware (and uninstalled AIM), you could try using an alternate program to utilize your AIM sn, such as Trillian or DeadAIM. Trillian is useful for people with multiple instant messenger identities (AIM, Yahoo, etc.), because you can use all of them simultaneously. DeamAIM is like AIM, only better - no ads, logging, window transparency, personalization of buddy sn, and you can use multiple aim sns.
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He just called me not long ago, Nick. He's got his Frisco travel bug, but hopefully we'll see him again soon.
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Since Jiaden actually noticed that I have not posted, it is because as Krankykat I quit posting. I lurk as saberZedge, and sign off as Krank when I rarely post. There are many changes and obligations in my life to post often. Hatrack is a great place and I enjoy looking at what others have to say.
I can speak for DB. Like me, he is busy teaching at a new school, and like me, his job is more demanding to post right now.
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Ok, so jeff's fine. His computer's not working, but he was kind of taking a hiatus anyway, so everything's ok. He didn't have a chance to talk, he'd just gottenhome from work and was tired, so we'll talk more tomorrow.
I'm allowed to give his phone number to anyone who wants it, so IM me, or email me.
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The Unmaker is a busy man theese days. He is busy shaping the minds of our youth......that is a scary thought!
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KACard seems to have left. The last time I saw her post was when the smilies were added and the landmark archives were set up. (You know, a lot of people don't like silly smilies or landmark posts, but leaving over it seems a bit extreme, don't you think?) I remember when she used to occasionally post . . . what kind of dog did she end up getting? (Or was that request on someone else's behalf?) Does anybody around here know her at all? Hey Geoff, somebody told me you know KACard. Is she doing alright?
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Kewl. I just thought I'd mention that the time she posted before that was in a hatin' on OSC thread, wherein she said basically that the only reason she hadn't already deleted it was because she was too busy laughing at it.