Why do elite runners see chiropractors if they have been proven full of it by medical associations?

I've had a few times where my athletic trainers/PT people in college or in my post college training group would have weeks of no progress in some injury, then decide to go to my chiropractor on my own and I'm better the same day or within a day. Sometimes the chiropractor is the answer.

The PT approach is that your muscles or something aren't strong enough and it's causing the injury, or you need to strengthen something to make the injured spot not have to work so hard. This often takes forever, and no real progress is made. When in reality the current state of your muscles is pulling on something else weird and that's what is causing the injury. Going to the chiropractor makes things align properly and the injury goes away. It will likely come back if you don't also strengthen those muscles that need attention, but it's a quick fix that at least gets you back out there training again.

This is my opinion.

Medical associations are made up of physicians on the take from pharmaceutical reps to overprescribe drugs to patients.

Chiropractors are not “proven” full of it. In many cases patients do not notice a difference, much like surgeries gone bad, but in other cases they work wonders. I had a shoulder injury for 2 years and went to several chiropractors with no luck and then bam, ran into the correct one and was fixed in 30 seconds. Never needed a return visit.

Because doctors and the medical organizations are liars

There is good and bad everywhere really... like LHRC said about finding the right person.

Chiropractor dramatically helped my back pain but did nothing to prevent recurrence. Relied on recommendations from PT to strengthen core before problems recurred. I have no problem recommending a chiropractor in general but just know what you're getting or not getting. Can say the same for most doctors except doctors charge more and are less likely to be covered by insurance.

Yes, chriopractors are quacks, but so are most "medical associations," in particular the most powerful groups who have the government pull, and whose primary concern is influencing regulators to exclude competition from the market. While the public perceives them as bastions of legitimacy, medical boards are great evils in society, are themselves the very thing they claim to be "protecting" us from. There is no scientific evidence that government medical bodies protect the health of individuals. The notion that it does is actually the archaic one. In antiquity, and the medieval times, there was strict government control of science medicine. There were things that only certain people were allowed to do. The average person was not to think, only to have faith in authority. The Enlightenment, with gave birth to science, was a period of gradual DE-REGULATION of medicine, finally reaching its culmination in the early period of the United States, when medicine was virtually an unregulated fee market. The standard of care advanced more rapidly during that period than at any other time, before or since. Today medicine is stagnant because one again, it is government-dominated. yes, chiropractic is quackery, but so is the whole product of American government-run medicine. America is NOT a "for profit, free market" heathcare system , it is an ANTI-COMPETITIVE, government owned one.