1. Andrew Government on Chiropractic correction may help reverse multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease
    Andrew Government Andrew Government Canada says:
    November 27, 2015 at 5:46 PM

    Let's be perfectly clear

    1) JVSR is a junk science publication that is not indexed in PubMed or any other high quality scientific search engine

    2) The conclusions ignore other potential confounding variables as doctor/patient interactions, biopsychosocial variables, expectation/belief of the patient, etc.

    3) Thus, while neck injury could further aggravate or 'wake up' dormant/indolent MS or PD, to suggest that spinal biomechanical dysfunction (subluxation) is causative is not supported by the study.  Misalignments have been disproven (unless we are talking about antero, retrolisthesis and other visible deviations) while abnormal MOVEMENT of the joints is much better reflected in various studies

    4) If you really want to be legit about research and doing high quality research, publish outside JVSR.  Otherwise, it's a McCoy publishing rag that publishes "research" with severe errors in methodology, literature review, study design, discussion and therefore conclusion.

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      Richard Melvin Richard Melvin United States says:
      October 3, 2016 at 12:38 PM

      The group PD & MS patients were not randomly chosen nor was there a control group.  When you hand pick PD & MS patients who all have neck problems you may have a contributory factor to the respective disease, but not a cause of the disease.  They need to try and adjust Parkinson's/MS patients with who have no history of neck trauma to see  if there is any improvement of their conditions.

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