“Systematic reviews of controlled clinical studies of treatments used by chiropractors have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[8] A 2011 critical evaluation of 45 systematic reviews concluded that the data included in the study “fail[ed] to demonstrate convincingly that spinal manipulation is an effective intervention for any condition.”[10] Spinal manipulation may be cost-effective for sub-acute or chronic low back pain, but the results for acute low back pain were insufficient.[11] No compelling evidence exists to indicate that maintenance chiropractic care adequately prevents symptoms or diseases.[12]”
it’s an interesting decision to exclude
with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.
and
Spinal manipulation may be cost-effective for sub-acute or chronic low back pain
from the title here
A massage never killed anyone, unlike chiropracty. Just get a massage.
and your masseuse doesn’t make absurd claims about healing other maladies.
Hey, mine loves to talk up her blue ball cure.
My RMT also doesn’t refer to herself as a “doctor”
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Right? I feel like that is 90% of the reason to get it.
There are people who bring their newborns for “alignments” back pain is definitely a reason to get it, but not the reason.
I don’t think you understand the level to which people take chiropracty. People use it in a “cures what ails you” mentality. Colds, flu, hand arthritis, all sorts of diseases. There is a ton of danger in allowing “back cracking for healing” when it doesn’t do anything that couldn’t be done with massage.
Correct, they are Doctors of Chiropractic.
Unfortunately a lot of misinformation exists which has hurt the field.
Oddly, people have no problem shitting all over this profession but yet religiously trust Western medicine and pharmaceuticals… And people still die.
Maybe lead with facts instead of spreading FUD?
I know this but I still don’t understand it. I started visiting a chiropractor for my first time last year and I’m old. I couldn’t sit for a week. I couldn’t get my socks on. I couldn’t lay in any position in bed except on my back. I went, and I was immediately 80-90% better. Had to do followups for about 6 weeks and I haven’t been back 😂.
I don’t understand why they aren’t.
Of course core strengthening is always better but that’s preventative.
OP is just spouting misinformation that was/is spammed on Reddit for years with nothing concrete to back them up.
Ya! OP is just hiding behind this Wikipedia article on chiropractors loaded with all those so-called “sources” from scientific journals. I bet she doesn’t even have a nice story about a time she went to a chiropractor and felt better.
If you read long enough, you’ll realize that all these studies essentially suggest whatever idea they are trying to promote. Often it is with bias.
The takeaway is that you should not just blanket ban a whole profession just because someone says they aren’t a doctor. That’s nonsense. There are way more factors than that.
Glad you came up with great counter evidence though!
it’s a temporary fix. A patch up. If you don’t focus on proper posture and stretching excersizes, it’s very likely you could end up in that same situation again
This is what I am saying. Maybe I wasn’t clear.
Same boat as you, it at least helped me a bit.
See, you are not a real doctor, Allen!
Everyone will have different experiences. Going to a chiropractor helped me with my posture in the long term. After my first visit it was no longer uncomfortable to stand up straight. I used to have this lump in the back of my neck and whatever they did made that go away. I did initially go for back pain and I can’t say if the visits helped with back pain in the long term but the adjustment did help me with my posture.
Do you still go? If not, how many times did you go?
I went nine times. I don’t think I needed to keep going but I kept agreeing to the next appointment lol. My HSA covered it at least. Except for the first few appointments I’d go once a month. I don’t plan on going again for now.
You know it’s a legit therapy if a dead doctor told you in a seance about it.
I like the doctors that didn’t die.
Hell yes! The creator decided he wanted to be a doctor, but he didn’t want to go to doctor school. So he made up his own medicine—with blackjack, and hookers!
False, I go and feel better afterwards, check mate
It does take an entire weekend of school to get certified though.
Wow, an entire weekend!
ADHD; “oh You think that’s funny?”
No, I definitely don’t think that’s funny being allowed to ‘treat’ people after ‘passing’ a weekend seminar.
Depends on the country. In some, it’s a 3 year (standard) university degree.
I went to a chiro for a while and it did help but I think it was mainly because they’d have me do a fairly comprehensive set of stretches at the beginning of each visit. I stopped going to the chiro but I keep doing the stretches.
I am actually really torn about this one, on one hand I had one episode of back pain that lasted nearly a year, swearing up and down the whole time that chiropractors were basically witch doctors and that I would never go to one. However, when I finally caved and went to one he fixed my issue after two sessions. On the other hand, my more recent back pain was not helped after I saw my chiropractor four times. In addition, I work as a nurse and have now seen at least three patients come in with vertebral dissections, essentially a stroke, that occurred literally right after they had seen a chiropractor for neck pain. Anecdotally, I would say it isn’t worth the risk. Had I done physical therapy and used bought a tens unit the first time I’m sure it would have also fixed it without the chiro, but I was lazy
My insurance has chiropractors as a separate category with its own maximum $. Meanwhile physio & every other athletic therapy excluding RMT gets lumped into a single category. It’s fucking bullshit and I can only assume someone was payed off to make it happen. $500 a year of insurance $ I can’t use without endangering myself.
Even if they made me feel better it is so temporary that I’d have to come again, and again. I’d rather go to a massage therapist who could also get the rest of my body too without the risk of vertebral artery dissection.
The best thing I’ve found for my back is slow, varied motions and stretches. I do tai chi and qigong and they really loosen me up.
Pseudo-scientific jibber-jabber doesn’t actually work? Color me shocked
Chiropractic has its benefits. The problem is that you can’t make a living if all you are doing is the few things that chiropractic works for. That’s why they have to make all kinds of spectacular claims about the benefits and rope you into 6 months of twice a week visits.
The Dr I went to as a kid was an MD and had a chiropractic license. He was able to reset my rib when it got knocked out from being shoved between the seats on the school bus.
One of my best friend’s fathers was an MD before retiring.
The cadaver he used in med school: broken neck during an “alignment” at a chiropractor’s office.
Anecdotal evidence for sure, but definitely a story that I think of whenever someone talks about going to a chiropractor.
One of my best friend’s fathers
How many fathers did they have?
Touché. Ya got me!
