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12/19/2025

The Hidden Turmoil in the Chiropractic Industry

Insurance is not your friend. Insurance is not a friend to chiropractors. Insurance is used as a reaction to a lack of preventive self care. If you don't manage your health each and every day, it will degrade to the point you"need" to go to the medical doctor to find out why your body is failing to do its job. Not eating the proper foods to support your body's natural processes, not moving for proper mobility, and not enough water consumed to allow the body to function optimally.

Medicinal practitioners are not going to talk to you about your lifestyle choices that have landed you in the condition you are in. Why not? It does them no good for you to do the right things because then you won't need their pills or surgeries because you are managing your health the right way. The use of things natural will allow your body to be at its best. But wait, medicine says the "old ways" are not good and that you need the drugs to be healthy.

Have you come across anyone who is taking drugs for a heart condition, or digestive issue, ever say that they no longer need those drugs because they resolved the issue? NO! And you never will, because those drugs are to 'manage' the issue, not correct them, and they never will. There is no money to be made by the medical community with making you healthy. So why would they want you to do the right things when they lose out, and the insurance companies dry up from people not needing them to pay out for things that aren't happening?

Get your spine checked and adjusted so your brain will be able to tell your body what to do next and make things right. And eat and drink those things that the body need to repair itself. You are a part of nature, not apart from it. No need to get into crazy ideologies about food, just eat clean tasty food and drink clean water so you can feel great and not need insurance to pay for unnecessary doctor visits!

12/18/2025

The Hidden Turmoil in the Chiropractic Industry

Wilk v. The AMA
Wilk v. the AMA was a landmark federal antitrust lawsuit filed by five chiropractors in 1976 that accused the American Medical Association (AMA) and other medical organizations of an illegal conspiracy to "contain and eliminate" the chiropractic profession. The case ultimately resulted in a permanent injunction against the AMA for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Key Details and Outcome

The Conspiracy: Evidence presented in court, much of it from the AMA's own "Committee on Quackery" records, showed a deliberate, long-term effort to destroy chiropractic as a competing health care profession. This included branding chiropractors an "unscientific cult" and making it unethical for medical doctors (MDs) to professionally associate with them, which prevented referrals, access to hospital facilities, and participation in educational programs.

The Legal Battle: The case involved multiple trials and appeals over 14 years. In a second bench trial in 1987, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Getzendanner ruled that the AMA and several co-defendants were guilty of an unlawful boycott and restraint of trade. The court found that the AMA's stated "patient care defense" was not the dominant motivating factor and could have been satisfied through less restrictive means, such as a public information campaign.

The Injunction: The judge issued a permanent injunction in 1987, upheld on appeal in 1990, that prohibited the AMA from restricting the professional association of its members with chiropractors. The AMA was forced to publish the court order and revised ethics opinions in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) to inform its members that they were free to professionally associate with chiropractors.

Impact: The decision was a major victory for the chiropractic profession, dismantling significant institutional barriers and helping establish its legitimacy within the mainstream healthcare system. It led to greater collaboration between MDs and Doctors of Chiropractic (DCs), expanded hospital access for chiropractors, and increased insurance coverage for chiropractic services.

It doesn't end there, because, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! On the sly!
..more to come!

12/17/2025

The Hidden Turmoil in the Chiropractic Industry

What is the going rate to attend and graduate a chiropractic school in The United States of America?

$150,000 - $225,000 just to attend. Housing and living expenses vary from state to state.

What is the cost to take the NBCE exams that is required by most states in the USA?

$4,165 - This does not include travel and lodging costs. This is also not covered by Student Loans, but you can take out more than what the school requires for each quarter or trimester. The NBCE is working to consolidate the testing to be done only in Colorado, making the costs higher for all students.
..more to come!

12/17/2025

The Hidden Turmoil in the Chiropractic Industry

Eaten alive from the inside. Since medicine couldn't shut Chiropractic down with all their rhetoric and indoctrination of incoming medical students to tell patients to avoid chiropractors, they have been working for the last 30 years to get into the organizations of chiropractic to make it deny itself and tear out the roots, the very foundation. Doctors of chiropractic look for, analyze, and adjust SUBLUXATIONS. That's all. But not understanding what a SUBLUXATION is, and going to insurance companies for payment of doing physical therapies in the offices, these organizations that have been infiltrated by the medical minds have gotten more and more chiropractors moving away from that which makes us special. SUBLUXATION correction.

With medicine moving into the decision making positions in these national organizations, they are distorting what is being taught in chiropractic colleges and working to make what is a wonderful thing into more medical garbage. Requiring students of chiropractic to have to operate like a medical doctor and pass exams that have very little to do with REAL CHIROPRACTIC is ruining our sacred profession. We are being destroyed from within and it has got to STOP!
..more to come!

12/16/2025

The Hidden Turmoil in the Chiropractic Industry

MONOPOLY

Mo·nop·o·ly
/məˈnäpəlē/
noun
1. the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

Used in a sentence...
"The NBCE (National Board of Chiropractic Examiners) is a privately held company that holds a MONOPOLY on chiropractic students getting their licence by being the only source of 'testing' to show competence after having graduated chiropractic school showing their competence."

Yet, even after passing all of their tests, we are not allowed to state that we are Board Certified.

Why?

They hold no regulatory power, and it is name only that they are a BOARD!

They convinced states to put it in their laws that only the NBCE have the right to say a student is worthy of being called a chiropractor even after having completed all the required schooling that the states have already said is enough to become a chiropractor!!
..more to come!

12/16/2025

Good News! I'll be open on Dec 27th. Schedule is available. Book Now. Link in comments.

12/10/2025

CASH-ONLY-PRACTICE
This means insurance is not accepted, most all other forms of payment are accepted. What does this mean for you? See comments for the answer...

12/08/2025

Ever wonder what Upper Cervical Care means when applied to Chiropractic? In this video, Dr. Andrew West explains the Atlas and how it affects the entire spine.

11/26/2025

Getting a chiropractic adjustment means your posture is being improved. If this doesn't happen, you were only manipulated.

11/23/2025

Due to the holiday, there are only 5 appointment times still available this week. Book now or you may miss your opportunity.

Dr Andrew West is a 2019 graduate of Sherman College of Chiropractic with a focus in upper cervical (top of the neck) and full spine care in the correction of vertebral subluxations (boney misalignments of the spine that lead to dysfunction in the body.)

11/01/2025

Even the textbooks show proper posture! Get it right !

10/31/2025

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!