The title of John Weeks' Sept. 4 feature in The Integrator Blog is chilling: "Self-Interested Whims of the Oligarchs: Google and Facebook Kill Access to Alternative and Integrative Medicine." Here are a few choice excerpts; a modified version runs with permission in the November DC:
"The blog post to which my attention was called was entitled 'When Big Brother Went High Tech.' The news from energy medicine author Lynn McTaggert jerked [the] attention of the integrative community to a story I'd long anticipated: Google's censors turned their attention to the still wild political-economical-medical frontier of 'alternative medicine.' Osteopath and internet businessman Joseph Mercola reported that 99% of the traffic to his sometimes pugnacious mercola.com ''natural health' website was killed. 'Integrative medicine' was not spared. Visits to the much more tame Dr. Weil site from that field's godfather dropped 66%."
"Changed Google algorithms cut in half traffic on [McTaggert's] e-magazine site ... She reported Mercola's even more devastating losses while also sharing [his] belief that Google's additional manual manipulation of search targets cut down additional traffic where the algorithms hadn't already driven in the knives. Why? Via associative laws – such as Google's investment in pharmaceutical solutions – McTaggert puts [Big Pharma] at the calamitous keyboard. ... McTaggert calls it 'a massive concerted effort by Big Tech and giant corporations to censor the information you are allowed to see.'"
"In 'Forget Facebook – Three Reasons to Leave Facebook Immediately,' Mercola tells his 1.8-million Facebook followers that he is leaving the site to work via e-mail newsletters. One reason: 'Facebook is a monopoly.' He shares how the business CrossFit's Banting7DayMealPlan with its 1.65-million users was summarily dropped by Facebook. (It was later reinstated.)"
"What of smaller, less vocal and less powerful users? One of these ... contacted me to note that his site and that of a colleague had each dropped by 50%. Neither was ready to blame Google, perhaps fearing repercussions. ... [However], he directed me to a frightening though excellent resource that lays out the pattern of intentional suppression of traffic."
When sports chiropractors first appeared at the Olympic Games in the 1980s, it was alongside individual athletes who had experienced the benefits of chiropractic care in their training and recovery processes at home. Fast forward to Paris 2024, where chiropractic care was available in the polyclinic for all athletes, and the attitude has now evolved to recognize that “every athlete deserves access to sports chiropractic."
It is estimated that 61% of patients with CTS avoid taking surgical options due to postoperative complications and costly surgical procedures. Chiropractic care offers a comprehensive and effective treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome, addressing the condition from multiple angles. Recent studies also have unveiled a game-changing adjunct to chiropractic treatments for CTS: nerve flossing.
Some doctors thrive in a personality-based clinic and have a loyal following no matter what services or equipment they offer, but for most chiropractic offices who are trying to grow and expand, new equipment purchases help us stay relevant and continue to service our client base in the best, most up-to-date manner possible. So, regarding equipment purchasing: should you lease, get a bank loan, or pay cash?
