Thursday, April 5, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
TEXAS WORKERS COMPENSATION IS HARDER FOR INJURED WORKER THAN EVER
Today's injured worker faces an uphill challenge. More carriers are fighting claims tooth and nail,
and in a troubled economy, sometimes there isn't a job to go back to, even if they get better.
As a result of this and more, many doctors have bailed out of the treatment of injured workers and no longer participate in the system. which makes it harder to find a treating doctor.
There IS still a doctor in East Texas who accepts new patients under Work Comp, and even change of treating doctor applications (decided on a case by case basis). Dr. JOHN RAYMOND BAKER,BSc,DC is one such doctor.
In today's environment, if you have a workers compensation case, you BETTER have a doctor
who cares and will go the extra mile to see you get the care you deserve.
If you are an injured worker under Texas Work Comp, and your company DOES NOT have a
network, call today to schedule a consultation.
Call 903-753-5400 today!
and in a troubled economy, sometimes there isn't a job to go back to, even if they get better.
As a result of this and more, many doctors have bailed out of the treatment of injured workers and no longer participate in the system. which makes it harder to find a treating doctor.
There IS still a doctor in East Texas who accepts new patients under Work Comp, and even change of treating doctor applications (decided on a case by case basis). Dr. JOHN RAYMOND BAKER,BSc,DC is one such doctor.
In today's environment, if you have a workers compensation case, you BETTER have a doctor
who cares and will go the extra mile to see you get the care you deserve.
If you are an injured worker under Texas Work Comp, and your company DOES NOT have a
network, call today to schedule a consultation.
Call 903-753-5400 today!
Friday, July 20, 2007
GETTING YOUR SPINE ALIGNED
The spine is the central axis of the body. It directs the path of the spinal cord and spinal nerves as they exit the cord, and protects this delicate and vital nervous tissue. If misalignment of the vertebral joints occur, the resultant decrease in the size of the opening through which the spinal nerves pass, can result in an increase in pressure sustained by the spinal nerves. This increased pressure (as a result of foraminal stenosis) can interfere with the function of the nerve, and, may also affect the organs supplied by the nerve or nerves. This interference with function, or change in nerve function, can affect those structures it supplies such that the individual can have alterations in sensory or motor function for example. Since 1895, Doctors of Chiropractic have treated spinal joints that have lost their normal alignment, and normal range of motion.
In the beginning, DCs were persecuted, and even prosecuted for "practicing medicine without a license". Of course, they were not practicing medicine without a license since Chiropractic does not employ the use of prescription medication nor surgical intervention, the two mainstays of "medicine".
These persecution/prosecutions were basically motivated by MDs who saw that patients, being pragmatists, were going to doctors whose methods were getting positive results. Similar events happened during the Great Health Reform movement in which female suffragettes and others who were promoting a variety of progressive issues, managed to get the licensure laws thrown out of every state.
http://naturalhealthperspective.com/tutorials/healing-in-america.html
"The Popular Health Movement (1820 - 1850)
The Popular Health Movement is usually dismissed in conventional medical histories as the high-tide of Quackery and medical cultism because the medical licensing laws were repealed in almost all of the states by the 1840s.[9]
Here we see people, including some physicians, advocating a return to the nature of forests and the fresh air of mountains. They had many ideas about good nutrition, clean water and fresh air, exercise, sunshine and herbs. The Popular Health Movement was a reaction against the role of elitist highly educated physicians who used heroic medical treatments."
Basically, during the popular health reform movement, alternative healing methods, freed of the state monopoly of licensure by the allopaths, were able to compete with MDs on a more level playing field, and success was measured in terms of which practitioners were able to get patients better quicker, and with the least toxic side effects. The result was that the homeopaths (practitioners of homeopathy) were beating MDs in the practical competition. Medical doctors, practicing "heroic medicine" were losing when their methods of treatment were put in fair competition with the so-called "alternative medicine" practitioners such as homeopaths and naturopaths. This was before the "discovery" of Chiropractic by D.D. Palmer in 1895.
The MDs used money and political lobbying to get the state licensure laws reinstated, and after this, used the weight of the political power of the state to eliminate the competition, not by beating them fairly and squarely, but basically by making the practice of healthcare by anyone not licensed by the medical colleges, illegal.
It is not an accident that the AMA was formed during this "turbulent" time for the medical doctors. It is fairly clear to anyone looking with clear vision that the AMA was founded as a political organization to promote the monopololization of health care in the United States.
From the AMA website (used pursuant to FAIR USE)
"
1847:
Founding of AMA at Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (Founder Nathan Davis)
AMA Committee on Medical Education appointed
AMA Code of Medical Ethics written and published
AMA sets first minimal standards for medical education
1848:
AMA notes the dangers of universal traffic in secret remedies and patent medicine
1849:
AMA establishes a board to analyze quack remedies and nostrums and to enlighten the public in regard to the nature and dangerous tendencies of such remedies"
From http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1923.html
"Enlighten the public"...or, in other words, spread malicious propaganda against practitioners of other competing health systems that were more efficiacious than heroic medicine at getting people better.
The attacks against Chiropractic have not abated. In Texas, the Texas Medical ASSociation filed a lawsuit alleging that Doctors of Chiropractic did not even have the right to diagnose their own patients.
In the beginning, DCs were persecuted, and even prosecuted for "practicing medicine without a license". Of course, they were not practicing medicine without a license since Chiropractic does not employ the use of prescription medication nor surgical intervention, the two mainstays of "medicine".
These persecution/prosecutions were basically motivated by MDs who saw that patients, being pragmatists, were going to doctors whose methods were getting positive results. Similar events happened during the Great Health Reform movement in which female suffragettes and others who were promoting a variety of progressive issues, managed to get the licensure laws thrown out of every state.
http://naturalhealthperspective.com/tutorials/healing-in-america.html
"The Popular Health Movement (1820 - 1850)
The Popular Health Movement is usually dismissed in conventional medical histories as the high-tide of Quackery and medical cultism because the medical licensing laws were repealed in almost all of the states by the 1840s.[9]
Here we see people, including some physicians, advocating a return to the nature of forests and the fresh air of mountains. They had many ideas about good nutrition, clean water and fresh air, exercise, sunshine and herbs. The Popular Health Movement was a reaction against the role of elitist highly educated physicians who used heroic medical treatments."
Basically, during the popular health reform movement, alternative healing methods, freed of the state monopoly of licensure by the allopaths, were able to compete with MDs on a more level playing field, and success was measured in terms of which practitioners were able to get patients better quicker, and with the least toxic side effects. The result was that the homeopaths (practitioners of homeopathy) were beating MDs in the practical competition. Medical doctors, practicing "heroic medicine" were losing when their methods of treatment were put in fair competition with the so-called "alternative medicine" practitioners such as homeopaths and naturopaths. This was before the "discovery" of Chiropractic by D.D. Palmer in 1895.
The MDs used money and political lobbying to get the state licensure laws reinstated, and after this, used the weight of the political power of the state to eliminate the competition, not by beating them fairly and squarely, but basically by making the practice of healthcare by anyone not licensed by the medical colleges, illegal.
It is not an accident that the AMA was formed during this "turbulent" time for the medical doctors. It is fairly clear to anyone looking with clear vision that the AMA was founded as a political organization to promote the monopololization of health care in the United States.
From the AMA website (used pursuant to FAIR USE)
"
1847:
Founding of AMA at Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (Founder Nathan Davis)
AMA Committee on Medical Education appointed
AMA Code of Medical Ethics written and published
AMA sets first minimal standards for medical education
1848:
AMA notes the dangers of universal traffic in secret remedies and patent medicine
1849:
AMA establishes a board to analyze quack remedies and nostrums and to enlighten the public in regard to the nature and dangerous tendencies of such remedies"
From http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1923.html
"Enlighten the public"...or, in other words, spread malicious propaganda against practitioners of other competing health systems that were more efficiacious than heroic medicine at getting people better.
The attacks against Chiropractic have not abated. In Texas, the Texas Medical ASSociation filed a lawsuit alleging that Doctors of Chiropractic did not even have the right to diagnose their own patients.
Chiropractic strives to remove impediments toward healing. Chiropractic doctors refer patients to medical doctors where indicated. Chiropractic doctors have proven they are more than willing to work with other providers to seek the highest level of care to patients. It is thus odd that Medical Doctors do not in general reciprocate, and send patients who might benefit from Chiropractic care, to Doctors of Chiropractic.
Most MDs evaluate the treatment patients should receive as falling into one of three classes, a. prescription medications b. surgery, or c. physical therapy. The question which should be asked is this. Why would an MD refer a patient who may need exercises, manipulation, or therapeutic modalities, to someone who is not a doctor?
As a doctor from a family of MDs, I have long made it a practice to refer patients to neurosurgeons, neurologists, or other specialists where indicated. WHY? Because I believe that patients do come first, and that territorial issues between professions should never get in the way of making sure a patient gets the kind of treatment they need.
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