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So did Irish leprechauns magically inject him with the vaccine while he slept, and a chiropractor can somehow see that?
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Why would you go to a chiropractor for any medical problem? Get a tarot reading and a horoscope, the results will be just as useful.
My neighbor is a neurologist and told me that an astoundingly high number of people who come to the ER due to a stroke had recently had a rapid neck adjustment by a chiropractor.
I will never go to a chiropractor after what she told me.
Worth noting that the chance of a stroke being triggered by a chiropractic neck adjustment is extremely low, but it does happen, and I bet if you look at stroke cases a good chunk of them recently had a neck adjustment. That said, chiropracters are complete horse shit.
I work in neuro and this is entirely true.
You mean the thing spies kill people with in PG-13 movies?
You don't get a stroke from a neck massage
That's a solid argument against a thing I didn't say.
You may very well think that, but my mum had a cold and went to a chiropractor, and within a week the cold was gone.
Fucking miracle, mate.
There is some (light) evidence that some of the adjustments may be beneficial with some back issues, etc.
Having said that, the field of chiropractic medicine is, just like homeopathy, medical quackery and should be outlawed.
The few accidentally beneficially things should be included with other medical fields, and this nonsense should just be prohibited.
I'm tired of the vast majority of people holding on to childhood beliefs and just letting that grow and fester to the point where they believe absolute nonsense. Yeah, pyramids under my bed will help me sleep because they channel my chakras on June the 15th because I'm a scoprio, or some other utter nonsense. Same as praying to Jesus as night. All of it is at the level of still believing in Santa Claus and the easter bunny. Grow up, become responsible adults, please.
The thing with chiropractors is they essentially market themselves as specialty doctors, and most people think they actually are medical professionals.
I went to a chiropractor until she told me that the inventor of the practice had once cured someone's blindness.
"Bullshit," I immediately thought, and never went to any chiro again.
You can actually say that out loud when people just make up random crap
I was young and dumb and she was hot.
Well that IS a good reason to risk paralysis :)
The results from a tarot reading and horoscope would be safer than going to a chiropractor.
Some of them dabble in physical therapy and do some useful stuff. I think that may be why they keep a better reputation than, say, homeopaths.
My mom goes to a quack chiropractor. He mostly sells her vitamins (by magically divining what she’s deficient in using straight-up fraud “kinesiology”) but keeps her believing by occasionally giving her medically significant advice. He’s still grifting her decades later off of saying she was deficient in magnesium after she complained about constipation. Yeah mom, it worked because that stuff is a laxative. No mom, he couldn’t tell you were deficient because your arm was stronger while holding a vial of magnesium. He’s just changing how hard he pushes on you. It’s fraud mom.
I was willing to accept that maybe there's some actual medical use for chiropractors except now a large chiropractic chain is one of my clients at work and along with their rampant HIPPA non-compliance I've gotten to see how the sausage is made, how much of a conveyer belt they designed that does not stop long enough for any real personalized patient care I trust them less than I ever did (another client is the fact that they also own a chain of "natural medicine" stores which they often place in the same buildings as their chiropractic clinics)
I've had a good experience with a chiropractor I've been to. Did some "adjustments" and gave me some exercises to work out my muscle problems where I've been feeling pain in my neck and shoulders. Did those exercises everyday and they definitely helped out. I haven't been back in like a year or two with no plans of coming back.
Sounds like unlicensed physical therapy.
Though in the past my parents sent me to a chiropractor and I'll be honest getting your neck precisely cracked the right way does feel magical.
As does a massage therapist, but without the risk of paralysis
Huh so that sounds like physio. You know probably more helpful then the actual chiropractor part.
I go to a chiropractor for chronic back pain. they do wonders. the trick is to find someone with actual qualifications, not the sketchy ones that hurt peoole