re: What's your take on the chiropractic profession?

They are not medical Dr's. They pop joints. You can do the same. They are like the Mormon religion. It started when people couldn't really refute their nonsense, but have evolved to mainstream to stay open.

Working with a chiro and PT out of my orthos office. They compliment one another and so good so far.

Got adjusted today. Big pops!

But, the deep tissue muscle work around my spine is best.

I had a disk problem stemming from a car accident in 1999. It actually forced me to quit UPS when I was 23 and go back to school for accountancy.

Got to the point I couldn't hardly stand after a while.

I went to one that had a "lordex" machine and after a few X-rays thst showed my issue to be between L3 and L4, I got on this machine and it was instant relief. It would gently pull your torso away from your pelvis and in swear I'd buy one of rhose things if it showed up on the secondary market.

After several months of treatment I was back. To this day if my back tightenes up a little, I can lean backwards and it will pop so loud in that same spot that anyone standing next to me can hear it.

Some are great others Suck like all professions!

My career for 18 years was owning integrated medical clinics. I employed M.D.s, D.C., N.P.s, and therapy techs and we saw patients for back and joint pain. Kept lots of people from having to have spine and knee surgery. No pain meds prescribed.

The chiropractors were invaluable members of the team...and it was a team approach...the medical staff and the chiropractic staff collaborated on the same patients, as opposed to some patients only seeing the medical staff and others only seeing the chiropractor.

First of all, the D.C.s beat the pants off the medical providers in terms of reading x-rays. Without exception.

Secondly, they understood a common sense approach to health care that M.D.s just don't understand.

Presented with a chronic joint problem the D.C.s would want to figure out what caused it. The M.D.s weren't curious about that at all.

The D.C.s would want to correct the patient's gait, biomechanics, posture...all the things that were causing the issue. Until they got oriented to our mission (and pretty much taught common sense by the chiropractors), the M.D.s would just want to suppress the symptoms without giving the cause a second thought.

The D.C.s could think outside the box. The M.D.s thought only in terms of algorithms ("If patient presents with this, do that...")

The M.D.s were valuable because they could do joint injections (usually PRP) and trigger point injections, which made the physical therapy and chiropractic even more effective, and occasional steroid injections in cases in which the patient was in too much pain to even engage in the physical medicine aspect of the care. They also had (much) more knowledge about emergency situations and what certain findings might mean in terms of disease processes...there were maybe 10 times over those years that without an M.D. on staff we would have missed something significant.

Maybe if we had had a physiatrist I wouldn't say this, but the chiropractors generally contributed more to the positive outcomes of the patients than the medical staff.

The nonsense you read about people wholesale calling them quacks is not true and silly IME.

Although I will say that the profession does attract a more "independent" type of person. I have seen some silly-arse chiropractors before. Even interviewed some. I have also interviewed some silly-arse medical doctors before. There's probably more silly arse chiropractors due to what I typed about the nature of the profession, but that's about the individual, not the profession.

Both chiropractors i've known did time in club fed. One for tax evasion and the other for medicare fraud for covid tests.

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They pop joints. You can do the same.

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Good luck with that.

Might as well say, "Surgeons cut stuff. You can do that in your own kitchen."