Does spinal manipulation really cure gallstones? Alternative medicine and the general surgeon

Nineteen years ago, as I was driving home from a hospital in Phoenix, a talk-radio program was airing on my car radio. Jocelyn, who had watched her mother die of breast cancer, underwent a modified radical mastectomy for a 2 cm tumor. At these meetings, I trained in relaxation and meditation techniq...

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Published inThe American journal of surgery Vol. 180; no. 6; pp. 389 - 395
Main Author Zannis, Victor J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.12.2000
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Alternative medicine
Arthritis
Breast cancer
Calculi
Canyons
Chemotherapy
Cholelithiasis - therapy
Chromium
Complementary Therapies - methods
Diet
Dietary supplements
Drug dosages
Energy reserves
Expenditures
Gallstones
Hiking
Humans
Ingestion
Manipulation, Spinal
Metastasis
Mineral water
Physician-Patient Relations
Spinal manipulation
Surgeons
Therapy
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:Nineteen years ago, as I was driving home from a hospital in Phoenix, a talk-radio program was airing on my car radio. Jocelyn, who had watched her mother die of breast cancer, underwent a modified radical mastectomy for a 2 cm tumor. At these meetings, I trained in relaxation and meditation techniques that I still use to self-treat symptoms of stress and fatigue. Because of a right knee inflammation caused by hiking the Grand Canyon and a flare of gouty arthritis, I saw an experienced acupuncturist. Because of this imbalance, it was recommended that I replace my ingestion of diet sodas with bottled mineral water or lemonade, eat more protein, cut back on my exercise program by 50% to rebuild my energy reserves, and add supplements to my diet including milk thistle extract, capsules of zinc, chromium,
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ISSN:0002-9610
1879-1883
DOI:10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00522-5