Meanwhile this was what various medical professionals in that reddit thread had to say about it.
They do not, in fact, love it.
Wasn't chiropracting invented by a guy who claimed to have learned it from a ghost, or is that a tumblr myth?
As an active spiritist, D. D. Palmer said he "received chiropractic from the other world" from a deceased physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson. "The knowledge and philosophy given me by Dr. Jim Atkinson, an intelligent spiritual being, together with explanations of phenomena, principles resolved from causes, effects, powers, laws and utility, appealed to my reason. The method by which I obtained an explanation of certain physical phenomena, from an intelligence in the spiritual world, is known in biblical language as inspiration. In a great measure The Chiropractor's Adjuster was written under such spiritual promptings."
He did, in fact, claim to have learned chiropractic from a ghost of a dead doctor.
[ID: reddit comment by u/PancakeParty98 that says:
A bad chiropractor is a killer. A great chiropractor is really basically just a mediocre physical therapist.
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[transcript:
#one of my coworkers is going to school to be a chiropractor #and he temporarily paralyzed someone and just kinda shrugged it off as part of the learning process #i was like ‘why on earth do you want to do this’ and he was like ‘i love it :)'
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[ID: reddit comment thread that goes as follows:
u/etherealwasp:
Don't forget neurosurgeons and anesthesiologists! Source: am anesthesiologist, have had several patients come straight for emergency neurosurgery after chiro adjustments
u/asdgrhm:
Don't forget ER docs! (Source: am ER doc. We have sections on common chiropractor injuries in our textbooks)
u/DiscourseDM
Just posted further up. Imaging tech here. Done numerous CTS and mris on patients via er post chiro "adjustment" 'does your neck hurt?' Not even a bit in fact I can't feel anything below my shoulders…. Or move anything below my shoulders. Thank God for my chiropractor!
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