this is great and funny and hi! i used to work as a receptionist at a chiropractors office. some things!!
The vast, vast majority of chiropractors are anti-vax! And many are anti traditional medicine i.e. any kind of drug, but ESPECIALLY any drugs that treat mental illness. more on that later.
They’re also not doctors! No really THEY ARE NOT REMOTELY DOCTORS. They receive a 4 year degree in chiropractic school and it is NOT MEDICAL SCHOOL. They often pretend they don’t WANT to be doctors and that’s totally why chiropractics is a separate field from medicine. This is untrue. They are not ALLOWED to be doctors.
They believe that getting your joints cracked regularly can prevent you from getting the flu. Or a cold. Or any sickness and disease. They have no scientific explanation about this they just say it ‘boosts your immune system.’
They believe children should have their joints cracked! Even infants! Regardless of a VERY HIGH LIKELIHOOD of injury and the inability of young children to explain if and where they have pain or side effects!
People have in fact died from chiropractic treatments. People particularly at risk are folks with spinal compression and injury. YES THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD SEEM TO BE THE BEST CANDIDATES I.E. THAT HAVE ACTUAL SPINE INJURIES are actually MOST at risk for having traumatic injuries like cervical artery dissection, nerve injury, disc herniation, strokes, fractures, and more!
Chiropractors are snake oil salesmen at best. They will often try and sell ‘packages’ of treatment for folks regardless of if you have an injury or not because ~bone upkeep~ which is complete nonsense. At worst they are true believers that are as dangerous as christian evangelists but their jesus is cracking noises.
They often run in scientology circles because of COURSE. Hence a lot of the disbelief in mental illness and treatment and such even though again they are not DOCTORS much less psychologists or psychiatrists but that won’t stop them giving advice on things that people assume they have knowledge of as medical folks (but they’re not!!!).
If you are a person who has gotten relief from chiropractics that’s cool and i’m happy for you i’m a fan of placebos if they work even but did you know physical therapists do the same type of thing but they are wayyyyy safer to visit on average? just make sure they’re accredited! I’ve had chiropractors and PTs work on me and i have gotten WAY better results for chronic pain from PTs plus they can put a rib in if it’s out anyway!!
And yes as mr fink says up there the entire concept behind chiropractics came about because this one dude had a dream and insists it was actually ghosts delivering him sacred knowledge of how to fix people’s injuries.
for more info on how chiropractics is a pseudoscience at best, there’s a short book called At Your Own Risk: The Case Against Chiropractic by Ralph Lee Smith that gets review bombed occasionally. most research and info about chiropractics out there is (shocker) written and circulated by chiropractors so it can be hard find good info, but this book has a shitton of citations which makes them SUPER mad. It’s from the 70s and they still freak out about it.
there is always in my chest a bird made of rage about chiropractics after working at an office for 3 months before I quit and seeing countless people scammed and misinformed in that time. Please look at these dipshits the same way you would a scientologist or pseudocure asshole on shopify selling crystal hair shampoo to cure your ADHD.
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