Can anyone expand more on this? I have seen chiropractors twice in my life, both times for back pain and not for anything else, they seemed to help and I've been tempted to try and see one again just to get my spine "aligned". The wikipedia page and many places say its basically pseudoscience but I have heard some people say that getting their back "aligned" helped their posture + activity (it didn't magically cure all their ailments) and the pseudoscience claim seems to be about everything besides actual back pain and posture.
Stop. Talk to your GP and ask for someone you can consult.
It's a plain and simple case of correlation and causation. If you have backpain and you're actively seeking ways to fix or alleviate it, you will likely find a way. Whether it's more excercise or massaging, or seeing one of these chiros.
Which one helped? You'd automatically like to think the treatment which costs the most money helped the most.
Then, comparatively, did you see a physiologist too, who are often qualified to give you tips and treatment? Likely not.
If you're worried about posture and activities enough to spend money on it, you'll likely take the necessary steps to fix it too. It doesn't mean the chiropractor helped you. It's the same as these dumb electricity saving scams sold to idiots who then take caution to turn off electronics at night, and then they're amazed they saved on their bills.
Maybe the chiro did help, who knows. If a dice is rolled enough times, you just might get numbers less than 2, 10 times in a row. The pseudoscientific aspect of that claims all issues stem from this mechanical alignment bullshit, and they just happen to have the solution, a very bad one unlike other quacks. This is a bold claim that better established alternative medicine fields wouldn't even make, like CTM.
I'm not doubting that it happens but I am guessing the prevalence of it must be extremely low and it kind of seems like the risk of it happening is about the same as any medical procedure (I know someone who had to go into critical medical care because they visited the dentist and plaque somehow made it into their bloodstream).
http://whatstheharm.net/chiropractic.html
Lots and lots. These were otherwise healthy people with no hidden allergies or conditions that could lead to adverse reactions when they say, take a vaccine.
Their injuries and deaths happen right after the treatment.
Like ritalin and many medications can cause Priapism (a prolonged erection) and generally you have to go to a hospital and have a needle inserted in the side of your cock to drain the blood out--but that doesn't stop it being widely prescribed because the chance of it happening is so miniscule.
That is true, many medications might bring adverse symptoms. The difference here is documentation.
When you take a certain medication, you are told directly to dial emergency if X happens, drink a lot of water if Y happens, what to do if you miss a dose or if you get that into your eyes and so on.
What are you supposed to do with chiropractic accidents? Do they tell you anything? No. You just die in agonising pain or become wheelchair bound.
Sure, the medical field is filled with malpractice too, from lack of patient consent with cell gathering (like HeLa) and outright fabrication in the Oxycontin (Sackler Family) case. Each time something like this happens, heads start rolling. That never happens with quack alternative medical treatments. These are the exceptions to the norm.
To give you an extreme example, some people in Nigeria believes in voodoo human sacrifice and cannibalism practices, even politicians have been implicated in "buying a healthy child" and "sacrificing them to win an election". Fuck all happens.
A lot of time this has to do with unearned nationalist pride as well. The belief that "our medicine" is better than "western medicine (I loathe this term)".
I can rant on more but it's meaningless. "Western medicine" as a concept doesn't even exist. It's just medicine.
Ritual killings:
