Are chiropractors real doctors or quacks?

[fsu1jreed]

95% quacks

Id probably put it closer to 85, but yea they are quacks

 

[NoleATL]

More times you have to go see them, more quack they are!

This... If they try to sign you up for a 20 visit package at a discounted rate, RUN!

 

[Rifler]

Father was an MD,.. he used to call them witch doctors.

 

[ClarindaA's]

Hey Clarinda - do you know John Stader from Bettendorf? His approach seems similar to yours - more grounded and rational 🙂

He’s helped me through both foot and ankle issues quite well. Super nice guy too.

Name is familiar but I’ve lost touch with that side of the state

 

[ClarindaA's]

Good chiropractors are very good when they stay in their wheelhouse. Back/neck pain caused by nerve and soft tissue issues. Mine is a lifesaver when my low back, between shoulders etc get painful. I walk in with pain, walk out with none. When they start talking about curing allergies and other stuff is where they lose me. Bonus points for me, my chiro office recently brought in a younger model who used to be a college wrestler. He is actually very good at muscle/soft tissue stuff and that seems to be where much of my problems originate. He's a smoke show, as you straight/celibate folks say. Celibate included for you, @BrianNole777

I do ART and some IASTM(scraping). Its a game changer

 

[beanerhawk]

Like many have said they are good if they stay to what they should. I had a pinched nerve in my right shoulder a few years back and two visits fixed that, it was a childhood friend that became a chiro that I went to.

That said even he would make fun of being a chiro when we would get a beer. He did it for around 8 years and went into medical sales because he didn't care for it.

 

[tumorboy]

Some are miracle workers. I’d call them more in the lines of physical therapist. After my worst spinal surgery. Where they had to dig into the spinal canal and cut out a tumor. I really don’t know what I would have done without mine for a couple years. Most likely hooked on pain killers.

 

[QChawks]

ironically a good friend of mine is a chiro and also has about 12 pyramid schemes going at a time

quite fitting for that profession

 

[Bulldogs1974]

ironically a good friend of mine is a chiro and also has about 12 pyramid schemes going at a time

quite fitting for that profession

this.

some are ok. But this profession has a shocking number of educated scammers. The state of utah thanks them.

 

[Nole-4-Life]

I went to a chiropractor for a while back in the 80s. Minimal help. My ex worked for a DO (doc of Osteopathy). At a party at his house he cracked my neck one time and I've never had another problem. When I heard the crack I figured I was paralyzed, but it was amazing.

I vote Chiros are quacks.

 

[ClarindaA's]

ironically a good friend of mine is a chiro and also has about 12 pyramid schemes going at a time

quite fitting for that profession

I hate those kind.

 

[OrlandNole]

Chiropractic is considered pseudo-medicine, but some people swear by them. I've never been and probably never will.