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  • As a kid I had a chiropractor diagnose me similarly. Specifically one leg had been longer and my body was used to it then the other leg had a growth spurt and was now the longer one. He showed me the difference, popped my back a few times and hooked up a TENS unit into my muscles (incidentally, that sounds so nice right now). Then after a few sessions I was fine and never went back.

    I say all this because it was the best case scenario, it worked, by skill and integrity or dumb luck, I don’t know which. This is the sort of experience we have to acknowledge and argue against when we argue against this profession, because the fact remains that they’re quacks. At best some of them are mirroring modern medicine in the form of physiotherapy. But we can’t know they’re doing it well and good at it. Even the good ones share a profession with the quacks and provide cover for them.


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    “Some conditions benefit from a treatment in line with chiropractics” is wildly different from “the core idea isn’t a scam and performs as well as traditional medicine”.

    That said, plenty of evidence it doesn’t. There’s plenty of evidence it can do real harm.

    But the core idea of it is fucking nuts and I can’t do it justice, so please peruse the Wikipedia article on the topic.

    If you need physical manipulation of the bones, seek a physical therapist. They’re bound to evidence based medicine.