Talk:Subluxation
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Definitions
I understand that there are two different definitions of subluxation:
- one used by chiropracters
- one used by "standard" Western medicine
It might be good to state both of these definitions first, before examining arguments or claims about them. --Uncle Ed 21:38 Mar 25, 2003 (UTC)
There are two different categories of the word subluxation in use. The medical categories are used in relation to describing situations when bones are out of joint; chiropracters, unfortunately, have no one official definition of subluxation; rather, they have nearly a dozen different definitions of the term, many of which contradict each other. The field of chiropractic medicine has never agreed on what a subluxation is, or how one may be detected. This is one of the reasons that the reformer party of chiropractic medicine (see the section on them in the main article) holds that chiropractic subluxations can only be held as a religious belief. The best this article can do is summarize the different ways that people define this word, and try to explain why so many different definitions exist. RK
- This article has too much info on the controversy about "chiropractic subluxation", and almost no info (besides a stub) about real subluxations. I have almost zero medical knowledge, so I can't do it myself, but I think the article should be fleshed up with a description of subluxations as understood by science, and move the rest to (or merge with) Chiropractic medicine, with a note to the reader. --Pablo D. Flores 14:58, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- If you want to add information about "real" subluxations from a scientific, medical point of view, please feel free to do so. Make sure to Cite sources. Nonetheless, esential information can be into two articles. Many articles in Wikipedia share paragraphs, because many subjects simply make no sense as standalone definitions. Any article on subluxation needs to explain what the term is and how people have used it. RK 21:40, May 8, 2005 (UTC)
- Calling them "real" subluxations isn't the best way to avoid accusations of bias from the chiropractic community. Perhaps a designation of orthopedic subluxation to distinguish from chiropractic subluxations would be less divisive. I'll agree the article lacks any sort of content regarding orthopedic subluxation. Without any genuine medical knowledge, however, I'm reluctant to add it myself.
This should be a disambiguation page, not a factual treatment of both definitions. There is no verifiable empirical evidence for the existence of Chiropractic subluxations, so the only "facts" relevant to them are the opinions of both sides.