Doctor of Naprapathic Medicine

DEAC recently granted initial accreditation to the Southwest University of Naprapathic Medicine. The school offers a Doctor of Naprapathic Medicine.

According to the school's website: "The program is 75% online. At this time, we only offer an accelerated program. Students complete a 4-year program in 3 years. The first two years (8 quarters) students participate in 6 classes per quarter. In 5 of those 8 quarters, the student attends 2 classes a week on campus in classroom and 3 of the 8 quarters, students attend 3 classes a week on campus in classroom."

The total cost, including tuition, books, and supplies is $57,900.

https://sunm-edu.com/programs/doctorate-program/

 

Never heard of Naprapathic Medicine. From a quick read it sounds like one of the several attempts occurring to reframe chiropractor schools… you know, without aliens.

 

As I understand the two developed around the same time. Naprapathic is similar but focussed on soft tissue (fascia) and not high velocity adjustments. Only two states license them (New Mexico and Illinois). They are also licensed as Doctors of Naprapathic Medicine in Scandinavia I believe. In New Mexico they are licensed by the New Mexico Medical Board.

I imagine like Chiropractic, to be successful you need to be able to market yourself. At least it is a lot less expensive than Chiropractic school (which can be up there in price with medical school but without the financial returns).

 

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That's unfortunate. I was actually seriously interested, but without aliens I can't place my trust in that.

 

For an entry-level qualification to a profession this uncertain and obscure? Too expensive.

 

This Practitioner calls himself a Neuromyologist/Naprapath
https://www.drcharlesegreernaprapath.com/#About

 

A doctorate in bullshit. For over 50,000 USD…

 

Grievance Studies, Women's Studies, CRT, and others demonstrate there is no end to pseudo academic fields out there that you can specialize in. Perhaps someone actually gets relief from Naprapathic treatment.

Naprapathic Treatment as I understand has not actually been well studied. There have been a couple of studies showing benefits but it needs more study and frankly most people have never heard of it. Only two states even license Naprapaths.

 

My English dictionary even does not have the word “Naprapathic.”

 

While it may be interesting... it's worth noting that Physical therapy is a well recognized healthcare/medical specialty that is widely supported by the medical community, regulations, and insurance... this... is not... Of course, from the look up the other day I did, the founder of it appeared to be a former student, of the student of aliens... so there's that...

 

There isn't a button for "really really extra like."

 

Women's Studies is a real field. CRT is not a field; it's an approach, originally used in Law and Legal Studies. "Grievance Studies" is a content-free slur, generally meaning "I'm a right-winger and I do not approve of this". Neither of these compares to Naprapathy.

I actually have very little doubt Naprapatic treatment can benefit someone. There's enough market for this in Scandinavia for it to be an ongoing recognized thing. I just don't think it's worth $56K for a DEAC "doctorate"; the field itself is not mature enough to have doctorate-holding practitioners at all. Incidentally, $56K would be too much to pay for a DEAC degree in Women's Studies.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/education/490366-what-the-grievance-studies-affair-says-about-academias-social-justice?amp


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/fake-news-comes-to-academia-1538520950

 

Every discipline deals with nonsense papers, including Computer Science, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01436-7

Getting back to the topic at hand, this discipline (naprapathy) does appear to be effective, at least according to these two papers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836280/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17515742/

But I wouldn't spend the money to join a profession that, while over a hundred years old in the US, is still relatively unknown and as noted unlicensed in 48 states.