Texas taxpayers pay to spin vets in chair - Experts say $2.2 million paid for shoddy PTSD research

[TexasTowelie]

The gyrating chair, cocooned inside a gleaming oval capsule, looks like an astronaut’s training device.

Patients spin upside down and sideways after they buckle in. White-coated healers sitting at a computer control the angle and speed.

Aging Dallas Cowboys like Tony Dorsett and Randy White, their brains and bodies battered, said it made them feel better. A retired general said it improved his vision. And a Texas governor with presidential aspirations wanted to use it to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries in war heroes.

So the state of Texas said yes, sure, and poured 2 million taxpayer dollars into a study to see whether a spinning chair — described as an “Off Vertical Axis Rotational Device” — could help.

Experts say there was no medical reason to think that spinning traumatized combat veterans upside down could help them — and every reason to think it wouldn’t. Most of the researchers in the study were chiropractors, not medical doctors. They didn’t work at an established research lab, but at the Carrick Brain Centers, a chiropractic clinic in Irving that opened its doors about six months before the state funding began.

Read more: http://interactives.dallasnews.com/2015/carrick/

[font color=330099]In the exclusive article it also detailed Rick Perry's involvement with the clinic.[/font]

[procon]

1. And the office next door was for Gay Conversion Therapy, while

across the hall another quack... er, doctor dispensed aspirin tablets for women to hold between their knees in lieu of birth control pills. Upstairs, girls can get lessons on making friends and how to make a lovely jello salad for their husband's dinner.

Texas = Where even Neanderthals can be considered brilliant!

[Downwinder]

2. Aerobatics is more fun and probably cheaper.

[DhhD]

3. Rick Perry, appointing taxpayer money for a private salon, where only some Vets get to ride.