Is it so hard to accept that some complementary practitioners are NOT frauds?

Question

I'm just curious.

I notice an awful lot of insulting answers flying about the board.

Answer 1

lightning answered his own point. if the don't perceive any result ie don't get better they don't come back. if they happen to get better anyway they credit the treatment, boast to their friends then put their heart into in. If I tell ten people that I can guess what number they are thinking of from one to ten, odds are I'll be right once. if he didn't see me do it to the other nine he might think i was telepathic. 1 in 100 times I'd guess twice in a row. that's all that's practitionersre

Complementary practicioners ARE frauds. they take money to perform a service that they cannot possibly know works. All the evidence suggest that they don't so they either know that it's c**p or they haven't really looked into it.

I wonder what treatment he would be happy to have tested because money has been sAlt-Medn clinical trials for most AltMed and it's frankly wasted money.

Answer 2

It depends how you define fraud. I completely accept that some peddlers of potions and lotions and crystal wavers etc may be genuinely deluded and really think they are treating people. In that sense they are not actual frauds.

Answer 3

In fact, it is impossible.  Such practices have not been validated by any sort of controlled testing, which means that any resort to "alternative medicine" is at best a crapshoot.

Answer 4

Angelhil is obviously someone who has never had a treatment and is prejudice but we are always going to get narrow-minded people!

Yes there are people out there who are frauds but there are also a lot out there who are GOOD at what they do. Majority of my clients have had positive results from the treatments they receive and keep coming back for more treatments but that is because they have tried conventional treatments without success but saying that i make it clear that my treatments are not there to replace conventional medical

care in any way but to complement. Obviously not everyone who comes to me will have the same positive outcome but that's fine and i would advise them on a treatment with a different therapist who could be more beneficial to their needs. So please dont be put off by other peoples negative oppinions.The best thing for you to do is to go and have a treatment yourself and make your own mind up but please make sure they are fully qualified as no practitioner should claim to cure or diagnose. Good luck.

Answer 5

For many people it seems to be.

I consider myself to be a no BS practitioner and my primary objective is to get my patients better and help them recover from injury and musculoskeletal pain as quickly as possible.

What is overlooked by a lot of those who consider all complemetary therapists to be frauds is that patients refer themselves either by being told about us by friends or doing research.

If we don't succeed in getting them better they do not come back for follow ups and they don't tell their friends to come and see us.

Compare this to how the meidcs have got the market sown up. The government gives them patients and then pays them to treat them!

There are therapists in all fields of medicine that attract the hopeless, the desperate the hypercondriacs etc but they tend not to attract people who want to be fixed as well. In the allopathic profession I think these people are called psychiatrists.

From what I gather with all the bellyaching medics do about some kind of patients that they are convinced are a bunch of lead swingers, they don't want them anyway (I don't encourage them either. Nothing more soul destroying than a patient that doesn't improve) so they should be delighted if someone else fills this gap and takes them.

NB. Complemetary therapist would quite happily be tested if the model was appropriate and the funding was there. I'd like to see a centrally funded testing body that tests all forms of treatment fairly. The current system where the manufactures fund and test their own products is rife with abuse and utterly ridiculous.