Ressel is a no fringe renegade. He is a former member of the Ontario College of Chiropractic's Fitness to Practise Committee. The association president had to walk a fine line around promoting chiropractic for back pain, but not limiting the profession to that single malady. It wasn't easy. There are a number of good clinical trials under way, which we expect will confirm the clinical results chiropractors have long reported for a variety of other conditions.
Chiropractic care can also contribute in a major way to a general health and wellness program.
Despite CCA president's optimism, there is no scientific evidence that the removal of so-called subluxations by manipulation has any effect on organic disease of any kind. But the only way chiropractic can suggest that their treatments are effective for anything beyond musculoskeletal problems is to invoke the subluxation theory, a term he gingerly avoided in his letter. That position is maintained in the College's reports to York University with whom they would like to merge. This, according to Montreal-based pediatric practitioner Dr. Murray Katz, an outspoken critic of chiropractic, is just another way of saying the body will heal itself once it is rid of subluxations. The evidence seems to bear Katz's view out.