Are most chiropractors really quacks?

I Do not believe that most chiropractors are quacks.

I have been to two chiropractors, both of them legitimate practitioners, both referred to me by my physician at the time (also reputable practitioners), both provided very specific relief for very specific issues. I had vetted both thoroughly as to training and education beforehand.

I‘M glad you got relief.

I do not think all or even most chiropractors are quacks. There are people of integrity in every [profession.

Not most. All.
They are all quacks, because the entire field is based on the pseudoscientific assumption that most, if not all, illnesses are caused by a misaligned spine.

They’re quacks who also happen to perform overpriced massages and physical therapy. People may benefit from overpriced massages and physical therapy, but that doesn’t really validate the specialty. The idea that illness comes from Subluxations is ridiculous.

A friend was in a car accident where she got bumped around a lot from the airbag and the total collision, but was not otherwise injured.

The auto insurance suggested and covered a year of chiropracty for massage and realignments, eve though she was not an adherent of chiropractors. Insurance companies don’t pay for quacks.

But where they fall into quackery is ascribing some if not all illness as a result of being out of alignment. That’s like a car mechanic saying your fuel filter is clogged and your battery is failing because the wheels are out of alignment.

I have never been to a chiropractor so can’t speak from personal experience. I do, however, know many who were helped by a chiropractor and swear by the services offered.

I also have a friend who went to a chiropractor for massages, along with her husband and two sons, totally paid for by insurance. Each “massage” was $350 that he billed to the insurance company. When she added up the rough total for the four family members to get massages, it came to about 60k a year.

I am currently seeing a Chiropractor /Physiotherapist who is assessing my back problems to enter into at training get fit program.

( I injured my back in 2000 with my bike which threw me over the handle bars hitting the pavement so hard that it resulted in a squashed vertebrae).

I recovered enough that it doesn’t bother me in any way, but as a precaution I am seeing this specialist to determine what exercises to do and not do for my particular problem.

I had been to a chiropractor when at age 23 years old when carrying my then baby daughter

down the stars to our basement apartment I lost my footing ( carrying too much) and pushed

myself backwards to avoid my daughter from falling forward, this resulted in my then back

injury of which I saw this specialist who aligned my back and relaxed my muscles to aide in

healing faster, since then I had no more problems with that injury.

One thing though at that time and presently I found that specialists of any kind are salesman

too, in that they try to get me to purchase items that they sell like mats,exercise equipment ,

books , plus the first one wanted to do my neck ( painful treatment of twisting a certain way

until it cracks( sound) ..I did like that feeling and declined after the first treatment!

Years late I heard about a patient who also had this “neck alignment treatment” by a novice

chiropractor who caused more problems for his patient..as it did not do it the right way!

Hence, I DO NOT agree to that treatment done on me, even though years ago it helped me.

I’ve been going to a chiropractor for around 15 years. I was in the car with my parents when we were ht by a drunk driver. Both my parents perished that night and I was left crippled for life according to the medical doctors. My adult life was just getting started when this happened and I had no desire to grow up in a nursing home or spending my remaining life in a bed. It took me a while; but after doing a lot of research, I convinced my sister to take me to a chiropractor. Maybe I was lucky, but the guy that I went to worked wonders. It took almost a year, but I was finally up and walking. The medical doctors kept telling me that there was no hope for a recovery and that I needed to accept the fate that had been dealt me. It took a lot of hard work on my part, but I eventually made it into getting a job and a family

I didn’t find my chiropractor to be a quack and he allows me to determine when I feel that I need an adjustment. I don’t have to go near as often as I used to; but when my leg starts dragging in place of walking, I know it’s time for an adjustment. I’ve also noticed that my bouts of depression don’t come around anywhere near as often as they used to as well

Oh yes, he only charges $50/visit which lasts up to an hour. The medical doctors were charging me $350 for a similar hour visit and that didn’t include all the meds that they were prescribing that made the problem worse. The massage therapists charge $300 for a 90 minute visit, so I’m still coming out ahead

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/category/chiropractic/

There are good ones and bad ones, similar to doctors as well as experts in every other field. My daughters have been helped enormously by (most) chiropractors. My husband has mostly had poor experiences, but he was desperate and went to one last summer in Colorado that worked wonders for him.

We recently discovered that our daughters have a condition that makes their joints go out of socket easily. We spent many thousands of dollars at a university medical center (X-rays, MRI, physical therapy, etc), as well as local chiropractors trying to help one of them who had excruciating pain in her arm. They finally decided she needed mental help. Meanwhile she just lived with the pain.

Years later she went to one of the few chiropractors in Japan. He discovered that her wrist was slightly out of socket. He put it back and she hasn’t had a problem since with that arm. After talking it over, we realized she had been injured while roller skating when she was 13, She fell forward onto her hands, and because of her loose joints, that was enough to jar that one wrist enough that it was slightly dislocated. Why did all those other chiropractors and medical experts miss that fact?

I had dislocated my leg and was in a cast for a month. When I got the cast off I could not bend my leg or walk. A physiotherapist helped me to bend my leg and walk again. I don’t know the difference between a physiotherapist and a chiropractor, but I would have been stuck on crutches for a long time.

Another time I had bursitis and the physiotherapist used electric stimulation, and it did not help.

I’ve always been nervous about them, I’ve never gone to one. I had a back injury years ago and lots of people suggested I go, but I didn’t. When I had vertigo from an accident people suggested I go, I didn’t. I have a fairly negative view, but some people swear by their chiropractor.

@RedDeerGuy1 A physiotherapist is an allied health care professional who uses science and evidence to get you independently mobile, and teach you home exercises. A chiropractor is a fake doctor who uses made up hypotheses and made up diagnoses to crack and potentially injure your spine, while their goal is to get you dependent on them with the goal to use you as an income stream.

Some chiropractors are quacks. But not all.
Great relief can come from good ones.
Here are some warning signs that are associated with quack chiropractors:
1) The first visit is only verbal consultation. No adjustments are made.
2) The chiropractor snaps his fingers or spends an inordinate time hammering your pain spots, instead doing any real adjustments
3) The chiropractor claims that his services can cure or treat diseases that have nothing to do with back pain or neck/head pain. Such as Covid or cancer.

A GOOD chiropractor treats you on the first visit. S/he does real chiropractic adjustments. Not finger snapping or nerve hammering.

My experiences with medical doctors has been that their goal was to make me dependent on them and/or their drugs with their ultimate goal to use me as a permanent income stream. When the insurance stopped paying, they suddenly had no idea what to do for me

^^yep @SEKA