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Doctor: I have consulted decades of scientific literature to diagnose your ailment and provide a treatment plan based on humanity's continually improving understanding of the biochemical workings of our bodies.
Chiropractor: I have consulted a book written by D. D. Palmer in 1895 who was a magnetic healer, anti-vaccine, and anti-medicine. He says you have ghosts in your bones and it's messing with your natural healing powers. I'm gonna crack your back now. Yes I'm a doctor. Well not a doctor doctor, but you know.
I went to doctor school, one of the best in the country it was in!
You graduated in the top 100% of your class?
He's also an excellent first opinion.
Not the medical kind...
What are chiropractors doing?
Placebo stuff? (e.g. nothing besides leaving an impression they helped)
Dangerous stuff that can work but could paralyze?
The explanations that chiropractors have for how it works are basically pseudoscience. It is for the most part a placebo (they pretend to fix alignment issues that just don't exist). But I'm not denying there may be instances where they actually fix something which could've been fixed by physical therapy as well. It's a dangerous gamble though, there are cases where people got paralyzed or outright died because of a chiropractor. This is a good overview: https://www.skepdic.com/chiro.html
Naturopathy, physical therapy, sports medicine, massage therapy.
Those are all the aspects of good chiropractors who see it as a part of a framework of nervous system health. Introducing movement into siezed up or healed injury areas.
Then there's the chiropractors thay do the weekly backsnap for every patient and, well, fuck them. They remove any value there could ever be in chiropractic.
And yet the chiropractor is the one who can provide you with immediate relief. If you've ever had a fucked up back or neck and pinched nerves, then you really understand how helpful a chiropractor can be. Are they the solution for everything? Of course not. Do they greatly help people who are in pain? Absolutely. My doctor has never provided me with any actual treatment for my back, just drugs. The chiropractor actually treats the symptoms and the causes, and it's usually immediate and long lasting relief.
That immediate relief can then be compounded by never fixing the fucking problem.
My doctor sent me to physical therapy for a month and I haven’t had any issues for almost a year.
lol "never provised me with any actualy treatment for my back, just drugs" do you not realize that drugs... actually do things? are you really going to discount what a good anti-inflammatory agent can do for certain injuries? what pain-killers do for pain? treating inflammation and pain in itself is treating a "root cause" in a way, with recovery being expedited when inflammation is treated not to mention drugs that are more powerful than a simple anti-inflammatory agent
I bet they also told you to excercise and strecg your muscles while gibing the drugs...
I'm a very fit and athletic person. The doctor doesn't need to tell me to exercise and stretch. Unfortunately staying fit doesn't stop your back from suddenly blowing out when you have old injuries from motorcycle accidents. Sure, I can take the Vicodin and muscle relaxers that the doctor gives me and sit at home all drugged up for 5 days, waiting for my back to feel better, or I can go to the chiropractor and be good to go within a day. It's weird how vehemently opposed to certain legitimate treatments the people on this website are. Chiropractors wouldn't exist if they didn't provide relief for some people. They're not the answer for everything, but they do help quite a lot in certain situations.
Just not in a measurable way.
The plural for anecdote is not "data."
So does heroine.
Opiates are what my physician gave me, not my chiropractor. Medical doctors are an essential part of modern life, but I haven't met one yet who can help with my back issues like a chiropractor can.