Chiropractors are bullshit

The proven medicine of vaccines? Of injecting viruses and toxic substances into the bloodstream of healthy humans? Why not draw some blood while you're at it? To let out the evil spirits or whatever they used to tell people back then. Just earlier today someone was debunking the dangers of sugar and the advantages of natural, unprocessed food. Just one of those days, I guess. Truth is that if you have a problem with nerves being jammed between bones, or bones being out of alignment; a competent chiropractor might be exactly what you need. Ask around for references to find the good ones, there's nothing like personal experience of trusted individuals when searching for truth. Not that they would ever tell you in the hospital; they'll just radiate you, shoot you full of poison and send you back home to get sicker and deeper into debt. Scientific fundamentalism is just as stupid and dangerous as any other kind of fundamentalism; we were given brains to think, not to believe the most popular authority of the day. This article goes on about the profit motive of chiropractors, which doesn't even show up in statistics compared to that of our medical authorities.

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Post by pfarnsworth » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 1:21 PM UTC

No it is not bullshit, not for back problems. I hurt my back and was suffering for 2 years. I went to a physiotherapist and they made me do stretches and other exercises. I took Advil and aleve and both eventually stopped working. It was debilitating and I desperation I went to a chiropractor. I am a huge skeptic and thought chiropractors were scams too but I was desperate.

Within 6 weeks the pain disappeared permanently. This was over 10 years ago. Occsssionally i will tweak my back from carrying my kids on my back and I will go for s few sessions and I feel great afterwards.

It's not bullshit, at least for back problems. Some chiros say it cures colds etc which is bullshit. You just need to find a chiro that doesn't deal with that stuff.

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Post by obstinate » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 1:28 PM UTC

pfarnsworth wrote: post #5

No it is not bullshit, not for back problems. I hurt my back and was suffering for 2 years. I went to a physiotherapist and they made me do stretches and other exercises. I took Advil and aleve and both eventually stopped working. It was debilitating and I desperation I went to a chiropractor. I am a huge skeptic and thought chiropractors were scams too but I was desperate. Within 6 weeks the pain disappeared permane…

You know that thing about anecdotes. There are a lot of explanations for your situation getting better concurrently with chiro, but not because of chiro. For example, regression to the mean, placebo effect, etc.

That said, I had been under the impression that chiro is about as effective for lower back pain as evidence-based physical therapy. But that doesn't mean it is effective. It could equally well mean that we don't know of many good treatments for lower back pain, and thus that physical therapy is only good as a placebo (chiropractic).

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Post by throwaway198411 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 1:29 PM UTC

vile post

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Post by Geimfari » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 1:30 PM UTC

pfarnsworth wrote: post #5

No it is not bullshit, not for back problems. I hurt my back and was suffering for 2 years. I went to a physiotherapist and they made me do stretches and other exercises. I took Advil and aleve and both eventually stopped working. It was debilitating and I desperation I went to a chiropractor. I am a huge skeptic and thought chiropractors were scams too but I was desperate. Within 6 weeks the pain disappeared permane…

There only exists two proven methods for stopping back pain: Physical exercise and rest.

Many things tend to go away by themselves (regression to the mean), back pain appears to be one of them and we haven't found better ways to treat it.

Chiropractors often make one feel good for a few days but the effect does not last.

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Post by abatilo » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 1:36 PM UTC

This generalization is insane. I don't go to chiropractors regularly, and my situation was clearly be anecdotal, but there was one afternoon where any movement in my back caused me extreme pain. I scheduled a body massage to try to alleviate at least some of the pain but when I went it didn't help. Then my fiance suggested trying a chiropractor and I walked in, explained my pain, and in about 30 seconds it was all gone. I know there are skeezy chiropractors as well because I have a friend who worked for those kinds of people who swore they could cure anything. That's bull shit. But this article is a gross over generalization of a practice. The chiropractor I went to didn't try to sell me anything afterwards, he didn't promise any mirale weight loss, I just explained my pain and he fixed it. I respect that.

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Post by senectus1 » Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 1:36 PM UTC

pfarnsworth wrote: post #5

No it is not bullshit, not for back problems. I hurt my back and was suffering for 2 years. I went to a physiotherapist and they made me do stretches and other exercises. I took Advil and aleve and both eventually stopped working. It was debilitating and I desperation I went to a chiropractor. I am a huge skeptic and thought chiropractors were scams too but I was desperate. Within 6 weeks the pain disappeared permane…

oh dude.. seriously?

Chiro's entire "methodology" is based on something called "subluxation". Go and ask your local Chiro what it is, and get them to show you what it is.

You'll be waiting a while. its complete bullshit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebral_subluxation

There is No. Such. Thing.

They're dangerous pseudo science pushers, with no evidence to back up their core basis to operate.

Go to a physio therapist. Their medicinal practices are based on good, solid scientific evidence based medicine.

lastly.. here is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing you'll ever see, a Chiro doing an "adjustment" on a snapping turtle... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693MsUkQzsA