James C. Burda surrendered his Ohio Chiropractic license this past September after he was investigated for offering to treat his patients via telepathy for $60 per hour.
He claimed that he had the ability to go back in time to realign damaged bones and joints using his techniques of telekinetic vibration, which he called “bahlaqeem vina” and “bahlaqeem jaqem.”
He’d admitted when questioned by investigators that these were nonsense words that came to him one day while he was driving around. An exam ordered by chiropractic regulators found that he had “delusional disorder, grandiose type.” Yeah, so the Chiropractor is going to be seeing a specialist of his own now I presume? Perhaps a psychiatrist?
Chiropractic care strove for legitimacy for years, all the while being at odds with the A.M.A.. Most insurance pays for chiropractic now, but it wasn’t so long ago that wasn’t the case.
Glad they took this quack’s license away.
It seems that stories like these get publicized a lot more than all the good that chiropractic care creates. I agree with the first comment, I’m glad they were able to remove this guy from chiro quickly.
As a beneficiary of quality chiropractic work, it saddens me how some people trivialize chiropractic care by involving its name is such nonsense.