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Chiropractic medicine is bullshit, right? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by GoebbelsDeezNuts@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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My mother has been experiencing back pain for a few months now, and insists her chiropractor is making it "tolerable."

Whenever I plead with her to see a doctor or a physical therapist, or suggest that maybe the chiropractor is the problem she gets very upset with me. There is no convincing her of any alternative, she won't even get a second opinion and I'm not quite sure how to help at this point.

My sister got her got her an appointment to see a massage therapist, which she went to and said nothing but good things about, but she will not budge on the chiropractor.

I dunno maybe I'll just shut up about it, but it all just seems like quackery to me.

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's nonsense and the outcome ranges from decent massage to life-changing injury.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What happened to Kevin Sorbo is fucked

The guy who invented it was taught by a ghost, and claimed the the first adjustment he preformed was perfect and that every subsequent adjustment preformed by anyone would decline in quality, which is not how medicine or science works

[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Chiro turns you into a born again Christian nut job?

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He had a stroke after a chiro cracked his neck and seemingly had a personality shift after.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Forced Fettermanization, you hate to see it folks

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Many such cases

[–] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

holy shit, I had no idea about this.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

It did to Sorbo