Actually painlessjoe, I am a chiropractor. The fact that your patient did not get relief from a chiropractor means little to nothing seeing as only 6-10% of the nerve system actually transmits pain signals. Pain is not a good indocator of health anyways. If we based progress on the submission of pain we would be missing the other 90% of the nerve system's function. On another note, I once had a bad haircut. But it didn't mean I stopped going to see a barber. There are good and bad MD's, osteopaths, lawyers, contractors, mailmen etc out there in every profession.

In order to clarify, chiropractors are NOT bone doctors. In fact, in my practice, many of my patients show qualitiative and quantitative neurological changes from very light adjustments known as tonal adjustments. There are countless research carticles out there that in fact show upper cortical changes in the brain following an adjustment. Chiropractic adjustments have repeatedly shown changes in the sympathetic firing into the pituitary neuro-adrenal axis resulting in changes within postural tone, adreanl gland function and subsqequently one's health and funcion of the nerve system.

Here's what the Merck manual has to say about osteopathy:
osteopathy (os·te·op·a·thy) (os”te-op´ə-the) [osteo- + -pathy] 1. any disease of a bone. 2. a system of therapy founded by Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917), based on the theory that the body can make its own remedies against disease and other toxic conditions when it is in normal structural relationship and has favorable environmental conditions and adequate nutrition. It uses generally accepted physical, medicinal, and surgical methods of diagnosis and therapy, while placing chief emphasis on maintenance of normal body mechanics and on manipulative methods of detecting and correcting faulty structure.

Here is what thet have to say about chiropractic:
chiropractic (chi·ro·prac·tic) (ki”ro-prak´tik) [chiro- + Gr. prassein to do] a nonpharmaceutical, nonsurgical system of health care based on the self-healing capacity of the body and the primary importance of the proper function of the nervous system in the maintenance of health; therapy is aimed at removing irritants to the nervous system and restoring proper function. The most common method of treatment is by spinal manipulation and is primarily done for musculoskeletal complaints; other methods include lifestyle modification, nutritional therapy, and physiotherapy.

Hope that helps painlessjoe. No need to get your back up and become offensive.
Haze

FF,
It is important to remmeber that health is a process, not an event. Most every symptom, sickness or disease is the result of a process. Every treatment, adjustment etc is an event in the process of recovery as the body's inborn intelligence strives to regain homestasis.
I have heard of similar cases like yours. I see it daily in my own practice. Patients will come in with back or neck pain that can be attributed to any or all components of the causes of dis-ease: toxins, traumas or thoughts. Your health today, like my own, is the result of many of the decisions we have taken with our health in the past days, weeks months or even years and the priorities we have placed on it.
Cleansing, liver flushes, dietary/lifestyle changes are all great. These decisions will shape your health in the days, weeks, months and years to come.
I hope this helps,
from Above-Down,
Haze

I am in Ottawa. You can use the link. There is an International listings link on the map of the USA page.
Haze