Brief Note: Followup on Spinal Decompression Machines

March 28, 2010 CBC Marketplace DRX 9000 spinal decompression

In September 2008 I wrote a post on Misleading Ads for Back Pain Treatment. with particular attention to the bogus claims for the DRX 9000.

The Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) show “Marketplace” has just done a scathing exposé of so-called nonsurgical spinal decompression treatment with machines like the DRX 9000 and of some of the unscrupulous practitioners who offer it. Between the hidden camera footage and the weasel words of the chiropractor they interview, it’s quite entertaining.

This article was originally published in the Science-Based Medicine Blog.

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Dr. Harriet “SkepDoc” Hall, Col. USAF (Retired) {1945-2023} Flight Surgeon, Family Physician, Pilot and Author Dr. Hall was a contributing editor to both Skeptic magazine and the Skeptical Inquirer. She was a weekly contributor to the Science-Based Medicine Blog and was one of its editors. She has also contributed to Quackwatch and to a number of other respected journals and publications. She is the author of Women Aren’t Supposed to Fly: The Memoirs of a Female Flight Surgeon and co-author of the textbook, Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions.

Brief Note: Followup on Spinal Decompression Machines

Brief Note: Followup on Spinal Decompression Machines

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