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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

There’s a lot of international folks here getting downvoted because

AMERICAN CHIROPRACTORS ARE QUACKS.

Can we please step out of our American bubble for a fucking second to realise there is whole world out there of real healthcare.

In the vast majority of the world Chiropractors are exactly the same as Osteopaths and Physios, they have to go to the same schools, lectures, have the same training. They are purely musculoskeletal. Why they are insane in America is anyone’s guess. But this is a problem with America, not Chiropractors.

That said, this is fucking hilarious and I have sent it to a friend to take the piss.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

Chiropractics literally started as an alternative to germ theory. The quackery was baked in from the start. They may couch their quackery in medical jargon now in some places but I've yet to see stats where people who went to chiropractors did better than people that went to massages or physical therapy.

Example from Australia last year:

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/fitness/exercise/gymgoer-29-died-after-chiropractor-cracked-her-neck/news-story/96b8084d70755d577a44091c976066e7

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yup. And I should say you can find good ones in the U.S., you just never know.

Mine was from New Zealand and worked with one of their Olympic teams. She never cracked my neck but gently massaged and manipulated it to release a whiplash injury after a car accident.

For every one of her, there are 20 quacks who claim they can cure cancer with foot baths.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

Doctor Glaucomen or whatever is his name has a lot of interesting content on bonebros.

[–] BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Maaan, I just don’t trust doctors. Not in a “you’re injecting microchips into my bloodstream so bill gates can control my mind” type of way. Rather a “you are another facet of the capitalist society a getting caught in the healthcare system is like getting caught in the justice system. Once you’re in, you’re in” type of way.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Can’t blame you. There are good doctors out there who hate the capitalist system and the insurance companies, but they still have to work within that system.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (18 children)

Regularly scheduled warning but chiropractor is not a real doctor and can paralyze you for life. You would receive equal or better results with massotherapy.

[–] The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Also the guy who invented it learned the practice from a ghost during a seance

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

you're fucking with me, right?

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 6 points 2 hours ago

D.D. Palmer "received chiropractic from the other world" from a deceased physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson.

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[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I have known a few chiropractors. Two were decent naturopaths who were also nutritionists, physical therapists, and masseuses. Whole body and nervous system health. Never cracked or popped a joint.

The third charges $35 bucks, no insurance needed, and just pops your middle back and gropes you. Absolute worst and he bought the business from one of the first.

Good chiros are about nervous systems. Bad chiros, the vast majority, are witch doctors selling bunk cures.

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

nutritionists

Just a heads up, but anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. It is not a protected term. You don't have to pass any exams. The only thing you need is to be interested in the subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionist

The actual professional term is dietitian.

In the US it is even worse. Like Certified Clinical Nutritionists (CCN), which are quacks and prescribe things like homeopathy and herbalism. They are neither Certified nor Clinical.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I was using common nomenclature. I don't recall if they were licensed dietitians or not.

The one sold supplements and vitamin tinctures his wife made, so they weren't far off from the unlicensed category. But they were both also licensed/certified physical therapists and masseuses. He had done some kind of sports medicine if I recall correctly before starting his business.

The other guy was really into the whole gambit of chinese herbology and such, but he kept himself grounded with physical therapy regimens and promoting tai chi every other sentence.

[–] username123@sh.itjust.works 1 points 54 minutes ago

Iono chief, still doesn't sound great to me. Being good at physical therapy by a different name? Great! Also misleading patients into wasting time, money, and energy on stuff that doesn't work? Find a new person. The willingness to believe bs will lead to some big error in judgement, sooner or later. 

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Good chiros aren't chiros.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The inventor of chiropracty said that a ghost taught it to him during a seance. Yes, really, I’m not making that up.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah I think he also said he fixed a deaf janitors hearing by popping a neck vertebrae into alignment, if I remember the lore. This was 'drink heroin for medicine' era too.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 4 hours ago

Beware the iatrogenic death dealers, and the cowboy-chiropractors both.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 13 points 7 hours ago

I had a bit of back gain and I went to a chrio once and this tiny Asian women beat the living shit out me. I swear she elbow dropped onto my spine. It made my back so sore I was unable to move for 3 days. I called to tell them it had gotten significantly worse and they replied that means its working come back for another session. I never returned and it healed up perfectly fine.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 36 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

i was in the hospital and just had had a few major organs removed. like, hours before. a chiro i had never met but who went to the same cult as my parents walked into my hospital room unannounced and started lecturing me about how i would have been able to keep my organs if i'd let him give me a spinal adjustment.

my friends, a chiropracter was saved by an orderly that day.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Flip side:
Woke up in agony. I couldn't walk without aid. Why to GP, "it's sciatica. It'll be ok in a few weeks. Two months at most"
6 months later and I can't walk still.
Hospitals did the scans, X-rays, MRI, etc etc, but found nothing wrong. They did acupuncture, physio, hydrotherapy etc.
All slightly helped. However two years later I still couldn't walk without help and then just kept on offering me pain killers.
Nope!!

My mate, "Hey, try my new chiro guy. He did wonders for me"
Me, "Lol, quacks."
My mate, "What have you got to lose?"
Me, "Money..."
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Mate, "Hey, told my chiro guy about you. He said pop in. The first month is free. If no improvement after then you go separate ways. What have you got to lose?"

Long story short.
On that first appointment he said he thought it was piriformis syndrome. Not back problems.
Within a month I was sitting almost pain free for the first time in two years. Within 3 months I was walking unaided for the first time in years. In 6 months I was running again.
Within a year I was 95% of what I was before the back issues. I'll never be 100% because it wasn't diagnosed in time and everything had 'healed' incorrectly.

Now, with that said, the guy was more than a chiro. He did sports body mechanics, and other things that I can't remember now. He worked with the local lower league football squad for about ten years. And whilst they were no Manchester United they wouldn't just let any quack work on their team.
Plus in the UK chiro's have to be registered and follow guidelines. If they do anything illegal they are fucked.


Flip side to my flip side:
The mother in law went to a chiro who said he could cure her spine curvature disorder. Anyways I find out when she's complaining of (extra) back pain, so I tell her to stop going as the guy is obviously a dodgy bastard. Within the year the guy was arrested for his illegal shenanigans.

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It sounds more like you didn't see what the US would consider a "chiropractor", but rather an orthopedics/sports medicine specialist. Maybe he was just advertising as a chiropractor to attract clients or maybe your buddy was confused about his credentialing?

Chiropractors don't need to be licensed or registered with anything in the US. It's all pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago

So that's why I keep getting confused because around here, a chiropractor absolutely needs a license and I never heard them taut the cure-all bullshit I keep reading about.

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

They absolutely require licensing. It's by state.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Chiropractors in the US don't have medical degrees

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He did sports body mechanics, and other things that I can't remember now.

Ok, so he had more training than most US chiropractors.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

So many are basically malpractice that it’s safer to say the whole bunch is spoiled atp

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

let me tell you the first illegal thing the chiro did the day i saw him

walk uninvited into a hospital he was unaffiliated with.

short version, he lost his license. we ran him out of the state.

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