Are Chiropractors the biggest, Joke Ever?

I know a couple, most are indeed quacks

The one and only time I was stupid enough to consult a chiropractor about my back problems, the quack tried to convince me that one of my legs was longer than the other.

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i dont know wrote:

The one and only time I was stupid enough to consult a chiropractor about my back problems, the quack tried to convince me that one of my legs was longer than the other.

I think this is standard procedure. The first thing they learn in Chiropractic Arts 101.

My family doc says it's all snake oil. Personally, I don't have experience with them so I don't really know.

I've had more successful experiences with chiropractors than with orthopedists

Like any other profession, there are quacks and there are good ones. Probably a slightly higher percentage than with M.D.s

I've been lucky and seen some good ones. I've avoided ones who try to make wild promises and claims - and ones who want their patients to come in 3 times a week for months on end.

Even left the office of one before any treatment.

In my experience, they can help with some alignment and imbalance issues.

They can't cure/prevent the common cold (they used to claim they could - maybe some still do?)

You type a headline like that and expect to have the credibility to pass judgement on anything else?

snapcracklepop wrote:

Like any other profession, there are quacks and there are good ones. Probably a slightly higher percentage than with M.D.s

I've been lucky and seen some good ones. I've avoided ones who try to make wild promises and claims - and ones who want their patients to come in 3 times a week for months on end.

Even left the office of one before any treatment.

In my experience, they can help with some alignment and imbalance issues.

They can't cure/prevent the common cold (they used to claim they could - maybe some still do?)

Well, like that poster said, there are certainly "quacks" and "frauds," but there are "quacks" and "frauds" in conventional medicine, too, as well as surgeons out to get your money who are a little bit too eager to perform surgery, etc. However, when you meet at least one fantastic, years of experience expert in this (chiropractic) or other fields (massage therapy), and I have had the good fortune to meet (one) unsurpassed magic men in both fields (both from California, interestingly enough), it definitely changes your perspective.

Like the poster said, they can help with "alignment and imbalance issues" and help you get some feedback and info on your body. A really good one just has a magic touch that can make you feel a lot better, like a massage therapist. Also, a responsible chiropractor would simply recommend you see most any chiropractor, and not try to force an overly frequent regimen on you or say that only "he" is the best, although I would have to say there is often a substantial difference between the best and the rest. But the best usually don't go around trying to prove to you they are the best--usually, everyone knows they are the best so their schedules are super full, i.e. they are not desperate to get customers.

I think potentially chiropractic care and massage therapy of the highest calibur by the most capable practitioners has a lot of potential--but it's part of a total picture of health and, in the case of running, performance training. You can't expect miracles and to drop your PR by huge amounts after a few chiropractic sessions or massage sessions.

Chiropractors have more class time than medical doctors.

lil tank wrote:

I know a couple, most are indeed quacks

Allow me to enlighten you then, troll: every NFL franchise has at least one team chiropractor on their medical staff, and 8 of them employ two.

coach wrote:

I've had more successful experiences with chiropractors than with orthopedists

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I have received nothing but spin and bullsh:t from orthos - licensed AMA quacks.

Im pretty sure they don't do 3-8 years of residency after med school, or do rotations during their 3rd and 4th years.

Sally Vixenss wrote:

Chiropractors have more class time than medical doctors.

lil tank wrote:

Im pretty sure they don't do 3-8 years of residency after med school, or do rotations during their 3rd and 4th years.

Sally Vixenss wrote:

Chiropractors have more class time than medical doctors.

Physicians are also trained in evidence-based medicine and chiropractors are trained in made-up pseudoscience. So to be honest, the lest training a chiro has, the better! Less time to be steeped in untrue dogma.

lil tank wrote:

Im pretty sure they don't do 3-8 years of residency after med school, or do rotations during their 3rd and 4th years.

Sally Vixenss wrote:

Chiropractors have more class time than medical doctors.

Plus there's no real science behind chiropractic medicine.

Sally Vixenss wrote:

Chiropractors have more class time than medical doctors.

I hear this a lot, as though it proves something while completely disregarding residency and rotations. Anyone care to do a breakdown of the actual classes(and not vague titles like "science" or "chemistry", I'd like to see actual class titles for each)?

s and b wrote:

Sally Vixenss wrote:

Chiropractors have more class time than medical doctors.

I hear this a lot, as though it proves something while completely disregarding residency and rotations. Anyone care to do a breakdown of the actual classes(and not vague titles like "science" or "chemistry", I'd like to see actual class titles for each)?

I will try - it appeared in a Muscle and Fitness magazine of mine - I will try to locate - I am bit skeptical of claim too but maybe some validity

Sally Vixenss wrote:

s and b wrote:

I hear this a lot, as though it proves something while completely disregarding residency and rotations. Anyone care to do a breakdown of the actual classes(and not vague titles like "science" or "chemistry", I'd like to see actual class titles for each)?

I will try - it appeared in a Muscle and Fitness magazine of mine - I will try to locate - I am bit skeptical of claim too but maybe some validity

I guarantee that the difficulty and amount of material covered in a medical school class dwarfs that of chiro school. So even if chiros are there for more hours, MD students learn more shit. And it doesn't stop there. In medical school rotations, you are expected to be in the hospital for an insane number of hours AND THEN go home and read/study.

Please tell me what pseudoscience classes chiropractors take?

ethos wrote:

lil tank wrote:

Im pretty sure they don't do 3-8 years of residency after med school, or do rotations during their 3rd and 4th years.

Physicians are also trained in evidence-based medicine and chiropractors are trained in made-up pseudoscience. So to be honest, the lest training a chiro has, the better! Less time to be steeped in untrue dogma.