We took our infant to a chiropractor. She had trouble sleeping and would only sleep on one side. The chiropractor made a single adjustment to her neck and she slept fine afterwards and moved her head more freely. And that was it. We didn't get any woo about curing autism or cancer, nor did the chiropractor try to lure us into paying for recurring treatments.
Later I've learned that chiropracty is a really mixed bag. It started out as something just as insane as homeopathy with the added danger of messing up people's spines. Out of that steaming pile of shit grew a more realistic subset of chiropractors who realised that manipulating people's spines were only ever going to have an effect on issues with the spine and started moving towards the real medical profession. The snake oil salesmen and con artists are still around and there can be quite an overlap between the two groups.
In my country the snake oil people have a hard time, as chiropractor is a legally protected title that requires university training as well as authorisation and control by the health authorities. I've never heard of a chiropractor from here hurting or lying to people the way that a lot of them seems to do in the US.
Chiropracty in North America is more or less a result of one of Elon Musk's grifter ancestors pushing hard to get it recognized as a treatment. Pure snake oil.
Out of that steaming pile of shit grew a more realistic subset of chiropractors who realised that manipulating people’s spines were only ever going to have an effect on issues with the spine and started moving towards the real medical profession.
They realized that they'd paid a lot of money to learn a fraudulent medical proceedure and that someone was going to find out eventually so they decided to get out ahead of the lawsuits by saying "We don't believe any of that silly stuff about punching someone in the neck to cure blindness we only do the real stuff".
requires university training
Their "universities" are quack bullshit. They teach little or no actual medicine and it's all just a cover to get certified so they can start raking in money. I cannot emphasize enough that the entire "discipline" is bullshit top to bottom, no matter how they claim to have "fixed" their practices.
They're quacks. They're fakes. They're frauds. Go to a physical therapist, they're actual evidence based medicine.
We took our infant to a chiropractor. She had trouble sleeping and would only sleep on one side. The chiropractor made a single adjustment to her neck and she slept fine afterwards and moved her head more freely. And that was it. We didn't get any woo about curing autism or cancer, nor did the chiropractor try to lure us into paying for recurring treatments.
Later I've learned that chiropracty is a really mixed bag. It started out as something just as insane as homeopathy with the added danger of messing up people's spines. Out of that steaming pile of shit grew a more realistic subset of chiropractors who realised that manipulating people's spines were only ever going to have an effect on issues with the spine and started moving towards the real medical profession. The snake oil salesmen and con artists are still around and there can be quite an overlap between the two groups.
In my country the snake oil people have a hard time, as chiropractor is a legally protected title that requires university training as well as authorisation and control by the health authorities. I've never heard of a chiropractor from here hurting or lying to people the way that a lot of them seems to do in the US.
Chiropracty in North America is more or less a result of one of Elon Musk's grifter ancestors pushing hard to get it recognized as a treatment. Pure snake oil.
They realized that they'd paid a lot of money to learn a fraudulent medical proceedure and that someone was going to find out eventually so they decided to get out ahead of the lawsuits by saying "We don't believe any of that silly stuff about punching someone in the neck to cure blindness we only do the real stuff".
Their "universities" are quack bullshit. They teach little or no actual medicine and it's all just a cover to get certified so they can start raking in money. I cannot emphasize enough that the entire "discipline" is bullshit top to bottom, no matter how they claim to have "fixed" their practices.
They're quacks. They're fakes. They're frauds. Go to a physical therapist, they're actual evidence based medicine.
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There's a handful of chiros who are ethical about what they do but the woonatics seem to comprise the vast majority, at least in the U.S.
There absolute are not. The only good chiros are either dead or have left the profession.
I was being charitable.