re: OT opinion on chiropractors: legit or quacks?

The one I’ve been to several times over the years has worked with the LSU Women’s track team as long as I have been going to him. He uses heat and stretching, he’s not a cracker. I’ve gone from not being able to walk with lower back pain to completely cured within a few treatments.

I went to one years ago, on the behest of one of my fellow coaches, back in Athens, TN

They did all the X-Rays, MRI's and diagnostics.

Told me my lower spine was jacked up, needed correction over the next several months

I would feel decent for a bit after each visit, but then the pain always came back worse.

Eventually I had to go the ER due to the pain

they referred me to a urologist

My prostate was infected and swollen

a couple weeks of antibiotics, cured



I think there are some contributions to science that can come from chiropracty. . .but it is mostly a scam.

Their only tool is a hammer, so every problem has to be a nail

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In reference to TMJ pain, and chiropractors in general. The biggest challenge is finding a chiropractor that doesn't play the "come every week" bs and not actually solve your problem.

As for TMJ, two things have worked for me

One guy does some heavy sonar treatment with an old school tool. He aligns me, yes, but the fix is in the sonar, or what I assume is sonar. He's old school, doesn't get wrapped up in the insurance and repeat visit game. I pay cash.

The other was a guy that played the game, but he did what he needed to fix you. He used a technique called graston. Let me tell you, it's not fun. He would put you on some heat and a commercial grade tens unit to loosen things up. Then he would use the graston "tools" to break up the muscle problems. Pain is 4/10 for 25% of the process. For a typical OT reference, it would hurt just enough to be fun if an OT 7 with nice cans was doing it.

Your best bet is the latter, as you may not find someone in your area that's got the old school "sonar". But graston does work to break up tightened muscles. First get aligned, then take on the torture.


ETA: get a custom night guard

Some quacks, some good, some better than others.

Brother was a chiro who left the US to practice in Italy. So it's socialized medicine, which means you get diagnosed with having something treatable by a surgeon, physical therapist, occupational therapist, chiropractor, etc... simply put they all work at the same clinic, place, hospital. Therefore they pass patients back and forth as they deem necessary. The chiro might see it's better for you to see a occupational therapist or surgeon and vice-versa.

Too bad it's not the same here.

My story: Diving accident. Cracked vertebrae, right arm even initially paralyzed. My brother was in town on vacation and they let him look at me. Yep, you're a dumb arse was his diagnosis. The next day however when they were to release me, since I appeared to be rapidly recovering, the plan changed to definite halo traction and probably disk fusion. Which caused me to forcibly remind the head of neurology (GOD) that he was simply a man and that we weren't agreeing to anything and get the'f out of my way I'm leaving. We, me and my brother found a conservative neurologist who agreed that there was no need rush into either treatment. That was 1980's and I'm healed, well, and never had either.

Point being there's good and bad in every profession. And it's up to you get second (and third) opinions if something appears off, not working, and/or the plan is irreversible. It's your health and it's your responsibility to not put it in the wrong hands.

Incidentally: the fix, for me, was twice weekly traction by another (non-adjusting) chiro, while still under the supervision of the second neurologist.

Seeing this thread reminds me of my old neighbor whose toddler was getting recurrent sinus and ear infections, and she said that the elderberry that the chiropractor recommended wasn't doing a thing.

I hope that kid finally got medical help.

There’s been multiple cases of people getting their neck broken from so-called “adjustments” and they end up getting paralyzed.

If a chiropractor can give you temporary relief, a good physical therapist can fix you.

I have had a very positive experience... I don't know why some people call them quacks.

An absolutely retarded profession.