When the ann came out yesterday i was almost ready to congratulate holders and possibly offer an apology for being a doubter, lets just say i was highly skeptical up to this point. That is till i did a quick google on our mate Fred.
Does anyone actually know what Dr Ted Carrick actual qualification is? because he certainly isnt a doctor in the medical sense, he didnt go to med school......the guy received a doctor of chiropractic from Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1979 and a PhD in education from Walden University in 1996 (A distance learning college) (1) .
The guy calls himself a Neurologist, and on occasion a neuro surgeon.....but really his specialty (one he is responsible for creating) is a sub category of chiropractic - chiropractic neurology (2)
chiropractors who adhere to the original philosophy of D.D. Palmer – that a vital force they call innate intelligence is response for health, and blockages in the flow of this magical force through the nerves are what cause illness. Such chiropractors believe they can influence non-neuromuscular conditions by restoring the flow of innate blocked by mysterious “subluxations” in the spine. (3)
This particular version of chiropractic (by some estimates about a third of chiropractors follow this philosophy) is pure pseudoscience. the main idea behind chiropractic neurology is the same as for straight chiropractic in general, just applied to neurological disorders. Carrick claims that he can treat a variety of brain disorders with targeted manipulation and elaborate exercises and routines. (3)
Carrick has made wild claims about restoring patients’ eyesight and hearing. He also claims to bring people back from comas. If extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, you’d think Carrick would have a series of massive, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind studies to prove his results. In fact, he has nothing but anecdotes. Yale neurologist and noted quackery hawk Steven Novella sums the situation up nicely: “Chiropractic neurology appears to me to be the very definition of pseudoscience—it has all the trappings of a legitimate profession, with a complex set of beliefs and practices, but there is no underlying scientific basis for any of it.” (4)
The only citations I found for Carrick's professional papers are these: ( Note: Third tier at best, journals)
The Journal of Manipulative Physiological Therapy (1997)
Changes in brain function after manipulation of the cervical spine . . .
Conclusions: Accurate reproducible maps of cortical responses can be used to measure the neurological consequences of spinal joint manipulation. Cervical manipulation activates specific neurological pathways. Manipulation of the cervical spine may be associated with an increase or a decrease in brain function depending upon the side of the manipulation and the cortical hemisphericity of a patient.
This study purported to show that cervical manipulation could change the size of the blind spot in either eye by unilateral cervical manipulation.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (2007)
Posturographic Changes Associated with Music Listening . . .
Conclusions: Listening to certain types of music has the potential to change human stability and promote change in the field of fall prevention and rehabilitation with a potential to decrease disability.
This study compared the music of French pop singer Nolwenn Leroy (experiment) with that of Mozart (control) and found that the Nolwenn Effect was superior in improving the balance of geriatric patients.(3) Bhahahahaha
Reportedly the James Randi Educational Foundation, which has offered to pay Carrick the million-dollar prize if he can demonstrate his finding of asymmetrical blind spots' being curable by cervical manipulation (the claim of the first article cited). Carrick refused . (The James Randi Educational Foundation was founded in 1996 to help people defend themselves from paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. The JREF offers a still-unclaimed million-dollar reward for anyone who can produce evidence of paranormal abilities under controlled conditions. )
Finally, lets have a look at another study that Dr? (Bahaha) Carrick is responisble for looking after, a gyrating chair, cocooned inside a gleaming oval capsule, looks like an astronaut’s training device.
Patients spin upside down and sideways after they buckle in. White-coated healers sitting at a computer control the angle and speed.
And a Texas governor with presidential aspirations wanted to use it to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries in war heroes.
So the state of Texas said yes, sure, and poured 2 million taxpayer dollars into a study to see whether a spinning chair — described as an “Off Vertical Axis Rotational Device” — could help.
Experts say there was no medical reason to think that spinning traumatized combat veterans upside down could help them — and every reason to think it wouldn’t. Most of the researchers in the study were chiropractors, not medical doctors. They didn’t work at an established research lab, but at the Carrick Brain Centers, a chiropractic clinic in Irving that opened its doors about six months before the state funding began.
Veterans suffering from PTSD who participated in a state-funded research project were treated in a gyrating chair at the Carrick Brain Centers’ clinic in an Irving office building.
But the clinic still won a no-bid contract. There were virtually no checks and balances on the study. The number of patients grew from about 50 to about 140. The original cost was $800,000 but grew to $2.2 million.
The clinic claimed “remarkable results.”
Scientists say the research was a waste.
The study was designed so poorly that the clinic’s claim of success is suspect, experts say. And they said that joining the study may have discouraged veterans from getting the mental health care that’s known to work.
“This study is essentially useless,” said Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York
Hahaha and the last person i would trust with a scientific study, is a man ranked as american loon #1448
