askchapo

When I was suspended from college for drugs, I had to get drug tested monthly at a local chiropractor and he weirded me out. He was always wearing a tux vest and a bowtie. And I guess offering drug testing was just another easy cash flow.

Once I slipped and dropped my piss all over his nice bathroom, he was furious but it was funny except I had to chug some water and generate more piss.

Anyway, chiropractic is 100% a sham medicine with a very dubious history that for some reason we tolerate and treat as if it is real medicine. It's a strange synthesis of various crockeries with an "eastern" veneer. If you really wanted alternative medicine, I would go to a legitimate traditional eastern practicioner before I ever went to a chiropractor, because at least traditional eastern medicine has millenia of history. Chiropractors can certainly fuck up your shit worse then how you came in.

And fuck off with anyone performing chiropractic on animals or even infants which I have seen.

And also as others chatters say, your mother probably needs to see a psychical therapist to actually get at the root of her problems. I am young (ish) but had some back and hip pain recently flare up, losing 10 lbs and gaining a tiny amount of strength pretty much made it go away.

I'm guessing your mom is older and probably will always have some level of back pain, but PT is the best way to get some relief. My dad recently had both knees replaced and it helped his back pain immensely, so I would also suggest looking into potential knee or hip problems that cause back pain due to the way she compensates. Of course, that's a pretty drastic surgery, which obviously costs money if you live in a shit hole like the USA, with its own tough recovery that requires it's own PT (I am very happy my dad got to medicare age and is a good patient when it comes to PT)