09-11-2012, 03:58 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
Makes sense. Of course one problem with 'alternate therapies' is the lack of professionalism and skill validation (yeah.. licensure). Hence the amateur issues with needles left in, etc...
When you consider that a hair stylist typically requires WAY more certification and officially recognized training than alternative 'medicine' folks.. yeah. There are problems.
The Discovery Health channel has run a series of shows devoted people who survived after having surgical sponges or implements left in them during surgery, some of them with permanently reduced quality of life and health. Everyone involved with the surgeries must have had plenty of certification and training, so such problems clearly aren't necessarily more common to acupuncturists. Keeping track of instruments and sponges turns out to be not so easy.
Accupuncture is probably safer than seeing a chiropracter.