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[-] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Chiropractic is sneaky bullshit. At the root of it is a belief that all kinds of ailments can be cured by chiropractic "adjustments" - and we're not talking back aches and sore joints here. It's woo along the same lines as homeopathy and acupuncture.
But many/most chiropractors hide that bs, and seem to stick to back/joint issues. But in that case, are they really as qualified as a physiotherapist, osteopath, RMT or actual doctor? I mean, if their schools are teaching that you can cure, say, autism with a back adjustment, do you really want them treating you???

[-] voluble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, I get that. I hear a story occasionally where, I don't know, someone's ankle is fucked up or something, and they went to a chiropractor, and it got better. Would it have gotten better if that person took no action at all? Maybe, I think probably. I don't really contemplate chiropractics more than that.

There's a deeper story here about the availability of healthcare that's way more concerning to my mind. In any city in this country, you can probably find and walk into a chiropractor office this afternoon and be seen immediately (maybe I'm wrong?). While the waitlists for specialist medical doctors are absolutely insane, and bordering on immoral that people are forced to wait for months or years in pain.

[-] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I can walk into a fortune teller's office and be seen immediately. Skilled medical professionals are both in high demand, and limited supply. It's a problem, but we don't learn anything by comparing them to people who don't have those constraints. I do agree with you that there will one day be a reckoning that putting people on long wait lists without fixing the problems for decades amounted to something immoral.

[-] voluble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For sure, & I didn't intend to appear as though I was equivocating real medical specialists with chiropractors. Just observing that their popularity might be less about a population filled with woo ideas, and more about a deficit of real doctors & a bogged down & underfunded healthcare system. I agree, those chickens will come home to roost.

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