"not a doctor of any kind"
Gruvin:
I think this quote of your recent post sums up your interest and knowledge about scoliosis: $$$"I am not a doctor of any kind but I do have a close relationship with the medical community(medical billing and office administration consulting)"$$$.
I have extensive medical background and I found your suggested site too confusing-almost ridiculous.
If indeed you have a great alternative treatment you need to set up a proper, controlled study following accepted principles.This includes informed consent with possible risks vs benefits and free treatment; study subjects do not pay for the experimental treatment but are frequently offered a stipend. Everything needs to be documented in the study including a control study group. The subjects need to be followed up for years to see whether any curve improvement is maintained. Then you must publish these results in peer reviewed journals for the world to benefit. Also your results must be replicated in other studies by other researchers and published for scrutiny.
This is the way the scientific community works; this also holds true for studies of alternative therapies.
Are you willing to do this?
I personally would not have lived this long had I not had an earlier form of un-instrumented scoliosis surgery. Later in life I neded a revision. So what! I got my life back. I am still working, productively and pain free.
Karen Ocker
Gruvin:
I think this quote of your recent post sums up your interest and knowledge about scoliosis: $$$"I am not a doctor of any kind but I do have a close relationship with the medical community(medical billing and office administration consulting)"$$$.
I have extensive medical background and I found your suggested site too confusing-almost ridiculous.
If indeed you have a great alternative treatment you need to set up a proper, controlled study following accepted principles.This includes informed consent with possible risks vs benefits and free treatment; study subjects do not pay for the experimental treatment but are frequently offered a stipend. Everything needs to be documented in the study including a control study group. The subjects need to be followed up for years to see whether any curve improvement is maintained. Then you must publish these results in peer reviewed journals for the world to benefit. Also your results must be replicated in other studies by other researchers and published for scrutiny.
This is the way the scientific community works; this also holds true for studies of alternative therapies.
Are you willing to do this?
I personally would not have lived this long had I not had an earlier form of un-instrumented scoliosis surgery. Later in life I neded a revision. So what! I got my life back. I am still working, productively and pain free.
Karen Ocker
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