re: Are chiropractors real doctors? Should they be trusted to make neck adjustments?

Yep. Regular MDs keep making us sicker and sicker

We go to chirp, no vaccines, no polio either

My chiropractors have always been great and I recommend them highly.

I only go when I’ve done something stupid and am in pain. 2-3 visits and I’m back in action. Shoulders, neck, back, elbow, wrists. Whatever.

They’ve never said any mumbo jumbo pseudo medical sounding words but apparently some do.

As someone who takes their health seriously, I consider them a Dr. just like my ENT.

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Next time someone goes into Cardiac Arrest at a restaurant, and someone is begging for a Dr.

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The cardiac arrest person should be begging for a nurse or a paramedic because they handle more cardiac arrest patients than anyone. They won’t be begging for a Dermatologist because they are a MD.

I went to a couple of different chiropractors (one in Denver and one in New Orleans). The one in Denver was a complete whack job that had signs in the office claiming that chiropractors could cure things from muscle/joint pain all the way to sinus infections and allergies. I went there twice to try and get relief in my back and shoulders and quit going because they were trying to get my girlfriend to get adjusted as well and it was just annoying and creepy (the chiropractor was a lady in her mid-50s). She kept making comments about how if we were to get adjusted 'together' it would make our sex lives better and other shite like that.

The chiropractor in New Orleans was great. He never claimed that 'getting adjusted' could cure things and that he just wanted to help people not be in pain or to greatly lessen the pain. After I told him about my Denver chiropractor visits he said he couldn't stand those kind of places because it really makes the chiropractor industry look more like a snake oil industry than what it is (to simply make adjustments).

I get why people don't like/trust chiropractors but that one really helped me and I probably should go back to see him. It would probably prolong the inevitability of getting 6-8 shots in my back or some surgery.

Chiropractors are charlatans

I don’t really trust traditional medicine that much either.

I spent over two decades in healthcare; while there, I learned the value of the power of suggestion and the placebo effect. If someone truly believes something will make them well, it often works even if there’s no quantitative data to back it.

I hold Chiropractors in particularly low regard only because I grew up near Life College which is the epicenter of chiropractic degrees nationwide.

Seeing them tell people they make the blind see and the deaf hear was positively nauseating. People needing legitimate medical treatment were being diverted to Chiropractic. It was sad, and people were dying because of it.

I don’t discount that their treatments may offer relief from a multitude of conditions. I do call bullshite when someone says a disease like hypertension can be fixed with an “adjustment”.

Are they real Doctors? frick no... Most are brainwashed imbeciles barely capable of composing a complete thought. Are MD’s that much better? We can address that at another time.

I freaking love going to the chiropractor.

Getting cracked and popped makes me feel so much better

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But they do have extensive training in bodily joint manipulation

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So do Physical therapists and PTs dont come with the risk of a stroke.