A chiropractor manipulated my lower back causing much pain into alignment. He wanted to get me on a lifetime treatment plan. No thanks. Started working on core strength and no problems 25 years later. Some chiropractors are quacks but I think they definitely have there place. Preventing misalignment through strength exercises isn't one of them.
30 years ago I saw a chiropractor on the advice of a runner friend of mine. He damaged my ribs so badly that I could hardly breathe for weeks and I had to go to a real doctor to get x-rayed and make sure that my ribs weren't broken. I have not repeated that mistake.
Xtrackfan wrote:Coach said he believes in his chiropractor and the holistic approach. Said He had his Spine Manipulated? Wtf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2DTEqxj_I4
All your coach had manipulated was his wallet!
If you watch chiro videos on youtube you will notice they do the same exact adjustments regardless of the problem. They have 3 or 4 things they can do to make you temporarily feel better, and that's it.
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sub_3_is_the_goal wrote:
If you watch chiro videos on youtube you will notice they do the same exact adjustments regardless of the problem. They have 3 or 4 things they can do to make you temporarily feel better, and that's it.
Not even that - it's just a placebo at best. They do a "manipulation" and advise patients to take it easy and they'll feel better in 3-4 weeks when the person would just feel better with 3-4 weeks rest anyway. And then oh gotta come back once a month for the rest of your life to 'maintain' it. Textbook definition of a charlatan...
Chriopractor can give you short term pain relief but they basically never fix anything because the problems are typically muscular.
sub_3_is_the_goal wrote:
If you watch chiro videos on youtube you will notice they do the same exact adjustments regardless of the problem. They have 3 or 4 things they can do to make you temporarily feel better, and that's it.
That's a good point. It was usually like that in my appointments too. I'd go in for a specific issue and no matter what they would always do the standard adjustments.
Read the wikipedia page-- it's pretty damning:
My personal feeling is that chiropractic is a bunch of B.S. When I was much younger and less of a confirmed skeptic, I saw chiropractors a few times on occasions when I had "tweaked" my back (by "tweaked", I mean that seemingly common event where your lower back bothers you, often out of nowhere, and it's really difficult to bend over or do just about any normal activity). And it seemed to help a little, and eventually I got better.
In later years I noticed that on those occasions when I would tweak my back and NOT get any treatment, it still got better in the same way as it did with chiropractic treatment, i.e. several days to a week or so later. It reminded me of the joke about Vitamin C (or Zinc or whatever) and having a cold; with massive doses, your cold will only last 5-7 days. Without taking anything, your cold will last about a week.
Some chiropractors are downright kooky, and think they can fix anything by cracking your back. Others, to be fair, can be somewhat helpful. I have a good friend who is a chiropractor and also a former competitive runner. He treats a lot of running injuries. Most of his treatments seem to involve ultrasound, massage, stretches, strengthening exercises, and so on. He seems to be fairly effective; or at least, his clients like him. I do sometimes wonder if he ever thinks, hmmm, maybe I could just do away with the spinal manipulation part altogether.
I had seen chiros off and on over the years, some good and bad. Good ones I ended up losing due to moves. My recent one I seen for awhile but he kept wanting me to go every two weeks and every time I did go it was always the back, neck and ankle but I felt the real issue was my glutes. I addressed it as an issue and rarely did he ever do anything. I eventually stopped going when he suggested I get adjusted every week closer to my marathon and I didn’t see any improvement in my time versus when I didn’t go. Instead I sought out a PT
Sure, guys. The same MDs you trust also rarely "fix" illnesses and also put you on regular/lifelong regimens, typically of drugs they're agreeing to shill from big pharma, where the actual medical scientists work.
I would let Mondragon chiropractic from YouTube wreck me in a heartbeat.
brien evans wrote:
Sure, guys. The same MDs you trust also rarely "fix" illnesses and also put you on regular/lifelong regimens, typically of drugs they're agreeing to shill from big pharma, where the actual medical scientists work.
I would let Mondragon chiropractic from YouTube wreck me in a heartbeat.
I had back problems, and went to a chiropractor, costing me a small fortune and making the problem far worse. I went to an osteopath and physiotherapist, the problem was solved in two sessions. It might be I just had a bad chiropractor, but it all seemed to be a load of quackery.
I had a brain tumour, detected and resected by the MDs I trust 16 years ago, they "fixed" my illness (I was having regular seizures, terrible headaches, my vision was affected, my hearing was affected), they didn't put me on regular/lifelong regimens. I haven't been prescribed any drugs for 15.5 years, the only lasting symptom is that my field of vision is not as wide as before. Had I gone for the alternative medicine approach, I wouldn't be in any pain, I would be dead. Also because i was in the UK, didn't have to have expensive medical insurance.
JRH (PT) wrote:
You are putting yourself at a much greater risk of an adverse side effect or even death undergoing a surgical technique then you would receiving a chiropractic adjustment or PT manipulation. Personally, I will stick to the the least invasive way of treating my problem.
Chiros > MDs when it comes to treating pain
And this includes injections, which should not be a first choice due to long term side effects.