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Pimple-Popper, M.D., vs. Alternative Medicine
I went to Google to see if there were any ART practitioners in my area. What I found was a lot of anti-chiropractic, anti-ART, anti-everything hysteria emanating from an "acne doctor" named Terry Polevoy of Waterloo, Ontario.
Crusaders have their place. Doctors should criticize out and out fraud, tobacco companies, etc.
But unfortunately it appears that Dr. Polevoy, aka "Pimple Popper, M.D.," is willing to go to extreme lengths to attack alternative medicine techniques about which he knows very little.
Most of us know that standard medical treatments are just that, standard medical treatments. If there is a sportsmedicine doctor who knows how to really attack an injury without surgery or drugs, we want to know about it.
Vested interests will tell us to stay away from these "lunatics."
This is what makes a board like Elite so valuable. We trust one another. If people are seeing results from a technique like ART, we will know about it long before the established medical community accepts it. If they ever do.
The problem with traditional medicine (and it has its place) is: beyond surgery, drugs, and the standard treatments, doctors cannot do anything! Essentially, they can intervene when your condition is very serious, or do nothing at all.
Many conditions would benefit from hands on treatment, though - be it spinal manipulation, massage, rehab, ART, ultrasound, etc. That is all considered "sports medicine." But why is all this "sports medicine" typically kept out of the reach of the average patient?
I guess what I'm saying is, the theory behind ART makes a lot of sense. If you can heal an impingement or break up scar tissue to allow the body to heal itself, it's much preferable to surgery or drugs in many instances. And telling athletes to rest an area for 6 months for injuries that may be of only "middle of the road" seriousness is just a cop-out.
Damn my shoulder hurts, maybe I should find some of this ART stuff.
Oh yeah, the alternative medicine practitioners strike back at the self-styled "quackbusters" here - http://www.iahf.com/antiquackbusters/20000915.html
I went to Google to see if there were any ART practitioners in my area. What I found was a lot of anti-chiropractic, anti-ART, anti-everything hysteria emanating from an "acne doctor" named Terry Polevoy of Waterloo, Ontario.
Crusaders have their place. Doctors should criticize out and out fraud, tobacco companies, etc.
But unfortunately it appears that Dr. Polevoy, aka "Pimple Popper, M.D.," is willing to go to extreme lengths to attack alternative medicine techniques about which he knows very little.
Most of us know that standard medical treatments are just that, standard medical treatments. If there is a sportsmedicine doctor who knows how to really attack an injury without surgery or drugs, we want to know about it.
Vested interests will tell us to stay away from these "lunatics."
This is what makes a board like Elite so valuable. We trust one another. If people are seeing results from a technique like ART, we will know about it long before the established medical community accepts it. If they ever do.
The problem with traditional medicine (and it has its place) is: beyond surgery, drugs, and the standard treatments, doctors cannot do anything! Essentially, they can intervene when your condition is very serious, or do nothing at all.
Many conditions would benefit from hands on treatment, though - be it spinal manipulation, massage, rehab, ART, ultrasound, etc. That is all considered "sports medicine." But why is all this "sports medicine" typically kept out of the reach of the average patient?
I guess what I'm saying is, the theory behind ART makes a lot of sense. If you can heal an impingement or break up scar tissue to allow the body to heal itself, it's much preferable to surgery or drugs in many instances. And telling athletes to rest an area for 6 months for injuries that may be of only "middle of the road" seriousness is just a cop-out.
Damn my shoulder hurts, maybe I should find some of this ART stuff.
Oh yeah, the alternative medicine practitioners strike back at the self-styled "quackbusters" here - http://www.iahf.com/antiquackbusters/20000915.html
