re: Anyone have any thoughts on Chirporacters? I don't mean recommendations, I mean overall?

A good sports chiropractor will give you good results, there’s a reason all professional athletes have them, they work.

A chiropractor, however can not fix your back because you’ve been 80lbs overweight for 2 decades

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It’s a pseudoscience created by a charlatan trying to start a religion. Don’t waste your time.

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That's rich considering the shite modern medicine and pharmaceutical companies have been up to

A little Asian chick walked on my back once.

I could hardly walk for a week afterwards.

They are horseshiat, and most people that claim benefits would have equal or better results with a massage. Others are subject to the placebo effect.

Unless I was at the end of my rope, there is zero chance I would ever step foot into that place. I met a bunch of "Life University" people when I first moved to Atlanta and my apartment was near their campus. Trust me, this didn't feel like living near Harvard.

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That's rich considering the shite modern medicine and pharmaceutical companies have been up to

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Don’t take my word for it. From the horse’s mouth:

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we must have a religious head, one who is the founder, as did Christ, Muhammad, Jo. Smith, Mrs. Eddy, Martin Luther and other who have founded religions. I am the fountain head. I am the founder of chiropractic in its science, in its art, in its philosophy and in its religious phase.

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-D.D. Palmer, huckster extraordinaire

I’ve been to chiropractors that have helped me tremendously. Problem nowadays is most want to put you on a multi month treatment plan.
“So after looking at your X-rays, here is the plan. You come in 3 times a week for 4 months. You can pay this off as you come which would come to $3400 or pay in full today for $2800.”
“Oh i just want to come in as needed”
“We don’t do that. So sign next to the one you want to do”
“No thanks I’m out”


I now go to a physical therapist that does dry needling and exercises instead any type of adjustments. And it’s much better results for me personally. And I can go as needed. They never want me to sign up for a “treatment plan”. They will recommend a plan but I come whenever I need to.

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I have come to find out that there are different schools of chiropractics and they teach different philosophy so to speak.

One I used to go to, would barely touch you, the one I go to now really manipulates your spine and neck and I have to say I feel wonderful.

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True. We have a chiropractic college in St. Louis and the best ones I've been to went there. They definitely do serious manipulation and know certain moves to get my neck back in. When I requested a certain move from my new guy after my old guy passed said, "Oh that's an old school move", then did it.

This young chiropactor has twice recommended certain stretching exercises because the problem was muscular, not skeletal. The pain was debilitating. He had me on the hook to drain my wallet if he had wanted to, but gave me the right adivce and it worked almost immdeiately. By Day Two of stretching the pain was gone.

The shisters give the good ones a bad name. The lesson is shop around until you find a good one.

I’ve used them.

Low back pain.

Helped.

They will lie and say it’s not true but every chiropractor on the planet couldn’t get in to medical or dental school.

The founder of chiro said that ghosts brought these ideas to him.

Chiros today push a lot of woo, claiming to fix colicky babies, bowel disease, all sorts of stuff from adjustments. Makes no sense. They are trying to sell a product that never makes the patient permanently better.

You aren’t out of alignment, your core muscles just suck and you need a physical therapist.

Ask ER docs and radiologists why they don’t go to chiropractors.