Chiropractors can sign the DOT physical?

That'll be a lawsuit someday...

 

I've been using a DOT certified Chiropractor for years. Reasonable pricing, $80 and she does what she needs to do. My company just springs the day I can go for it the day before so there's been 2 occasions I had to find other Doctors. The first was a walk in clinic, $150.00. The next on was joke. Supposedly a real medical Dr., DOT certified and working out of an erectile dysfunction clinic. He hands me an eye test card about 3.5" by 10" all smudged and I held it at arms length to read it. Failed his eye test, went and spent $200 on eyeglasses and went back with the report that said my vision was 20/40. He say's oh, you don't need glasses. This fraud charged $100.

 

Actually, my license to practice that hangs on my wall states that I'm a doctor of Chiropractic. Chiropractors do, in fact, go to school as long as a doctor of Medicine. We are in fact required to take pre-med science prerequisites before we can even apply for Chiropractic College. And in fact we perform physicals on many people from athletes to emergency vehicle drivers to truck drivers, on identical forms, which are accepted as medical documentation of someone's Fitness for a sport or to drive. Furthermore, I know many chiropractors who actually specialize in this. And lastly, during my 15 years of practice I have discovered many things that medical practitioners have actually missed, to the detriment of the patient, including a diabetic who was under care for high blood pressure but no one had tested him for diabetes and spite of a family history on both sides, I have had a patient walk into my office who had a C1 spinal fracture threatening his spinal cord which could have left him paralyzed that the emergency room doctors had missed, and more recently had a patient walk into my office 5 days after being dismissed from an emergency room and told that he did not have a tibia fracture, when in fact I discovered that he did when I sent him for follow-up x-rays with my own radiologist. So, your conclusion that doctors of Chiropractic are not "real" doctors is apparently completely and totally false!

 

If it walks like a duck...

 

Any flaw or failure in the bone structure of the C1 causes one of two things to my understanding. Problem number one, it would cause a issue where the person will incessantly complain the head is falling off.

You would think something like that is funny to a person not familiar with that kind of none structure in our necks and you would think ER or Trauma doctors would have one simple thought internal decapitation.

What I would like to explain is this. "How is it possible that all these learned kings men cannot diagnose the most basic busted stuff in a human"

I carried a cyst against my C4 -C5 bone for about 35 years as it incessantly grew and imposed too much pressure on the bone structure which then started imposing on the spinal flulid and possibly the 5 or so fishing lines type of cords that carry everything to all over the body from and to the mind in al sorts of reflex, voluntary and involunatry systems around the nervous systems.

The docs took it out got it all in three surgeries.

If cysts like to form near bones as associated areas, then it is safe to say my back has 200 more of the #### things in it eh?

I a not trying to be difficult. I have not even gotten into the immune system defense central nodes if there is hundreds moire in the body.

Iy is a miracle of engineering that we go through many those problems for a life time of doing damage to where no one can understand how to undo it,

Just maybe I could blashemy God just for a moment to be punish when I dare to think some people may be wanting to grow sprae human parts or critical body systems so that when my chassis breaks completely, you could

Take the brain and itc contents into a spare parts body at 21 or roughly near that amount of completed raising.

It wont take much for a older trucker say in his 110's to spend a few days to er used to hopping-up into a newly issued 21 year old body replacement and given his first job that might be a advantage to a Nation State capable to do certain things using the combination of knowledge inside a younger person who has essentially no previous history via bio metric or other DNA or similar problem that would give the target early warning.

 

I wasted 3 months going to a chirp for L4 and 5. Part of the disk had splintered and was embedded in my sciatic. Didn't stop this idiot from manipulating. Finally a neurosurgeon fixed it and the quack gave my money back.

 

The Government issued me 6 months of physical therapy in winter of 2001-2002. The initial evaluation of several doctors including two workshop type doctors who are trained to literally take a broken down worn out worker, assess physical, mental, spiritual and make sure there is no drug abuse, suicidal idealation etc.

The two doctors tried a basic range of motion exercises on me, I had one at 18 in a Deaf Workshop whose records were retained by the state. Once they got ahold of that range of motion and saw how bad it had become in early 2002 (I will talk about range of motion evaluation another time, you essentialy stand in one spot and try to push as many pins as far as you can)

They sent me to PT, told me Uncle Sam will take care of the billing for 6 months and my job was to listen to instructions and do exactly what I am told to do.

My day one, 7 minutes in I walked in there all swole and swagger nothing but mats, balls, weights and so on. Does not look like much. Mr Beef along with Mrs Purty say here is a foam ball. Put that on top of this door frame, let's see where you are on your muscles.

In my mind I went back to something like 1994 throwing 110 pound boxes of beef cut above my head onto and off of stacks all the way down to the floor. 550+ cases of them give or take a few pounds per and went to work with that foam ball.

There was this noise sort of a creak from my spine followed by a series of clicks as my rib muscles locked it up from the bottom to the top and as soon as I started that ball towards the door frame everything else locked up and there was Mr Mat.

40 minutes in a gurney wrapped in hot towels. Three times a week on that stupid tiny foam childs play thing onto that little 7 foot dumb ### door frame and I got angry because the body woundnt do it.

Finally about the 5th week the body made a new sound. "Squeak" across the spine and shoulders as that stupid ball finally touched that cursed door frame top.

What is even worse than the assault on my big bad trucking man hood persona was all these people cheering like I just climbed mount everast or something. I told Mr Beef no one cheering in there has ever moved 45000 pounds in a few hours I don't see what the cheering is about. The body is beginning to move again.

He says that's right. The reason they are cheering you on is about to show you a house of pain inside your bones now that we are finished with silly ball we got to work. See that 40 pound weight, go grab it.

Very nice people. The absolute best but what do I know anything I never had PT before.

6 months later I had all of the muscles unlocked and moving again. that is the foundation of one of my medical issues which got examined many times each winter for 5 more years until they reached and accepted a diagnosis.

The PT revealed so many problems in my L section my T section my C section half of my rib group and god only knows what else. I had 6 surgeries to chop out growths under the skin that were interfering with muscles and so on during that time period. Chop, slice and sew. And do it again next week.

I am led to understand that somewhere the archieves have my file somewhat anonymized and conserved to show what a 20 to 30 year trucker with no medical care of any kind aside from the occasional Thump, Fall or Ow and ER visits would do with the resulting pile of medical damage on the body that will take decades to repair.

They are not kidding, Im going into decade number three on some of my current repairing and frankly if that is what my life is going to be? I Flat reject it. Ima going to go do things that are fun, learning new things and are enjoyable. I'll be ######### if I sit and rot inside a overworked doctor's clinic for this and that and something lse. Enough is enough.

 

This one in Phenix City Alabama recently got arrested for falsifying DOT physicals

WSFA : Phenix City chiropractor pleads guilty to wire fraud

 

That's a case of stupid and lazy allowing his unqualified staff to perform physicals.
Our drivers physical in Ontario is pretty lame. Check your blood pressure and heart rate. Answer NO to all questions and you're done. I have nurse practitioner do mine, $50