Hell no, I said. He also recommended a physical therapist, which I think is a good idea. I was just so annoyed that I had to rant for a little bit.
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Hell no, I said. He also recommended a physical therapist, which I think is a good idea. I was just so annoyed that I had to rant for a little bit.
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FYI, you and I are just a few months apart in age.
I have visited chiropractors, off and on, over the years.
I recently visited a new one (I move a lot), and he was great.
He wasn’t trying to get me to schedule “the next visit” or several visits afterwards.
He was just trying to heal me. Which he did (more or less, and I waved off the next scheduled visit).
MY EXPERIENCE is most chiropractors doing little to resolve the issue (but this is not totally true, because I’ve been helped), but there is a place for them. The last chiropractor is the best I’ve ever encountered, and I expect him to be unusual, but he was totally all the way through the process, and wasn’t looking for his next check.
I will note that he’s an exception in my experience. But it’s a worthy note.
Yeah, in one of my jobs a colleague went to the chiropractor every other week. For years.
(Pesky subluxations!)
My first wife had a knee injury, and was seeing a chiropractor for about a year. I’m not sure what he did (it was back in the ’90s), but I remember it involving some sort of low-power electrical current through the affected area; and she said it helped a good bit, and the guy was nicer and more helpful than the physical therapists she’d seen. At some point, though, he said he couldn’t do anything more for her and she needed surgery, which she got, and which did improve things quite a bit. So that guy at least seemed competent and honest, and admitted his limits.
Besides that, I know next to jaque merde about chiropractic care. My only recommendation is that you don’t let them mess with your spine.
Change doctors.
Raging Bee, it’s pure woo, since you state you know fuck-all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic
To the degree it’s not harmful, it’s purely because modern types incorporate actual physical therapy or do nothing much.
Like homeopathy, whatever it ‘cures’ is due to the body healing itself when no further damage is caused.
Anecdotal claims such as ANB’s above are also applicable to other forms of woo, for much the same reason.
So yeah. A quack that recommends it is a true quack; whatever benefit accrues is basically placebo.