Just curious to see how many people go to chiropractors.
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I hear there are good chiropractors and bad chiropractors. I have an experience with a bad one who failed to diagnose my bulged disk, ran an insulting MLM-style evening chiropracty seminar, and eventually the pain landed me in the ER where the doc said "sounds like that tool he used is the cause of your pain".
My buddy saw a good one after an auto accident, that healed up his neck injury after half a dozen or so treatments, and sent him on his way.
These two experiences have made me a bit skeptical of the notion that God made us in certain ways that a percentage of us just need go to chiropractors here and there throughout our lives to help us be healthy. I think "I like making money, and a stable client base of permanent customers helps me make money" is a more likely explanation.
LM
-- Edited by LoudmouthMormon at 12:28, 2008-03-13
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Never been. A stoner chiropractor was the one who figured out what was really wrong with my brother's back some years ago. (And actual doctors confirmed, made the official diagnosis, and subsequent treatment.) You can see the good and the bad in that example, though.
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In a similar vein, my wife tells a cool story about an animal acupuncturist. She saw a very old horse with arthritis, stiffly and painfully get led into his stall. Muscles all bunched up, moving as if in pain, etc. As the acupuncturist went to work, she could see the muscles start to relax, the movements become easier, and the horse looked quite relieved and fell asleep before the treatment was over.
I'd be the last person you can think of to think there was anything to acupuncture, but unless I start hearing about how animals can experience a placebo effect, I gotta say that it looks like that acupuncturist helped that horse.
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When I was a kid my mom took us. That was when insurance covered that sort of thing. I haven't gone as an adult because non of the insurance that's even close to affordable will cover the visits.
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I concur that there are good chiropractors and bad chiropractors.
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I have a friend that went to a chiro after pregnancy and he ended up causing her to have a major stroke. She's currently in litigation with him over it. Needless to say, she is very vocal about her opinion on chiros.
On the whole, I say that if you are having pain, you should go to a specialist. Chiro should only be a temporary help. If the pain is that bad, you need to get to the root of the problem and a chiro is not specialized to make that diagnosis.
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My dad really likes his chiropractor. He used to tell me that I really really ought to go to a chiropractor for my depression. I never could figure out why he thought a chiropractor could help with depression (despite asking him several times), and I never went.
