There is a soft evidence base for chiropractic treatment of musculoskeletal problems with backs and necks but none for the extended role many have pursued.Ĭhiropractic websites have been advertising claims for chiropractic management for more than 60 non-musculoskeletal conditions.
Chiropractic and iceberg image registration#
With the respectability associated with registration many chiropractors set about becoming providers of treatment for a wide range of conditions far beyond the remit of traditional chiropractic. Take, for example, the problems the Australian Health Practitioner Regulatory Agency has in protecting consumers from the fraudulent activities of many chiropractors, who were recently added to the AHPRA family along with osteopaths and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners (TCM). Unfortunately, this is only tackling the tip of the health fraud iceberg.
It was encouraging, therefore, to learn last week that Minister Greg Hunt had reversed a poor decision by his predecessor and accepted the findings of our National Health and Medical Research Council that there is no evidence to support the efficacy of any of the 17 most popular "alternative " therapies. The provision of these ineffective approaches will no longer be subsidised by taxpayers' dollars via the subsidy to private health insurers that cover such services. There are no connections between parts of the iris of one's eyes and other organs (iridology), nor anatomical areas on the soles of our feet with such connections (reflexology), nor energy fields, signalling ill health, radiating from our bodies and subject to correction by "healing touch" therapists. However, we find flourishing, pseudoscientific concepts and practices that are an affront to our detailed knowledge of how our bodies function in health and disease. We live in the most scientific of ages where it is more than reasonable to expect that modern healthcare strategies will be underpinned by credible scientific evidence for their clinical effectiveness. It was designed to illustrate the concept of "what you see is not necessarily what you get".
The picture does, however, accurately represent the amount of an iceberg that is hidden underwater. It is a digital composite by Ralph Clevenger, a nature and underwater photographer who finds the stories circulating about his "impossible" picture amusing.įour separate images were used the sky, the background, the top iceberg (shot in Antarctica), and the underwater iceberg (shot above water in Alaska and flipped upside down). You could never see the underside of an iceberg that size in one shot - and where does all the light come from at that depth? Supposedly, the water was calm and the sun was almost directly overhead so that the diver was able to get into the water and take the picture.īut how could anyone take such a picture? The maximum visibility in water is 200 feet. This dramatic picture of an iceberg weighing approximately 300 million tonnes has been represented as taken by a drilling rig manager off the coast of Newfoundland. Four pics in one: sky, background, top iceberg, and underwater iceberg
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