"20/20" Examines MUA
"20/20" Examines Manipulation under Anesthesia (MUA)
By Editorial Staff
In the 199o's, a crew from the ABC news magazine show, "20/20" came to Buena Park Doctors Hospital in Buena Park, California to film doctors of chiropractic performing in-hospital treatment (please see "Buena Park Doctors Hospital Leads The Way" in the February 1, 1991 issue).
Specifically, their focus was on spinal manipulation under anesthesia (MUA), a technique originally performed by doctors of osteopathy intermittently in the 1950s and 1960s, but largely abandoned in the 1970s and early 1980s. It was resurrected by a group of progressive chiropractic doctors in Texas in the late 1980s.
By 1989, the Texas doctors had developed a specific adjusting protocol and had concluded that three consecutive MUA treatments yielded the greatest percentage of favorable results, not only for the patient's complaints, but for minimizing current and future medical expenses. The types of cases targeted were fallouts, that is, failed surgery syndrome, or patients who had many months, or even years, of a multi-disciplinary therapeutic approach (chiropractic care, physical therapy, exercise therapy, oral and injectable medications) and were not deemed surgical candidates based on at least one type of advanced diagnostic imaging.
In September of 1990, Dr. Steven Capps came to Buena Park Doctors Hospital and taught a small group of chiropractors with hospital privileges, a postgraduate manipulation under anesthesia course accredited by Texas Chiropractic College (TCC). This course included hospital procedures and practices as well as the specific techniques that were developed for the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spines.
The filming began on the morning of October 5th with preprocedure patient interviews. This was followed by observation and filming in the operating room of the first of three consecutive daily treatments. The chiropractors observed and/or filmed included Cary Rothenburg, Barry O'Connor, Colleen Gillean, Manuel Da Motta, and Bea Heller. On October 7, 1991, the "20/20" team returned to film the third treatment of the patients previously filmed. "20/20" producer and journalist, Roger Sergel interviewed Drs. Rothenburg, O'Connor, and Gillean, and their respective patients.
MUA is effective in 80-90% of the cases treated.
The procedure is covered by most insurance companies. Call the office and ask our staff to check on your coverage.
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