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Re: chiropractic: ever had it solve a problem not related to your spine? - Black - 03-28-2012
Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=Dennis S]...I know there are all kinds of people and organizations out to get them.
Huh?
All kinds of organizations out to get them?
Seriously?
They sell massage at a markup as a "medical" treatment and preach a religion about dangerous spinal-manipulation curing all known diseases.
They hardly need detractors.
The profession is a bad joke. It's where college dropouts go when their parents threaten to kick them out of the house if they don't go back to finish a degree.
It ought to be outlawed. It's quackery at its worst.
I feel like I'm sensing bias here (maybe.)
Re: chiropractic: ever had it solve a problem not related to your spine? - Chakravartin - 03-28-2012
Black wrote:
I feel like I'm sensing bias here (maybe.)
A bias towards truth.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jul/29/simon-singh-science-chiropractic-litigation
http://skepdic.com/chiro.html
Re: chiropractic: ever had it solve a problem not related to your spine? - Lux Interior - 03-28-2012
Eddie Izzard on Chiropractic:
So I had to go see a chiropractor in New York, and they're different to osteopaths, chiropractors, because of the spelling. Of course, they're both very powerful figures on the Scrabble board, though... "Chiropractor... chiropractor... chiropractor... 93 letters, chiropractor."
And they crack your bones, that's what they do, they crack your bones! And they take x-rays, but it’s pointless, because whatever is wrong with you…
"You've got a bad back, I'm gonna crack your bones.”
“You've got diphtheria, I'm gonna crack your bones.”
“Your head's come off! I'm gonna crack your bones.”
“It looks like your mother! I'm going to crack your bones. "
And then, when they crack your bones it goes ( painful sigh ) and then, “Ahh!” but not sort of ( relief sigh ), but ( disconcerted sigh ). All the way up your spine, "Crack your bones, crack your bones, crack your bones."
And they sort of arrange you into a nice, comfortable ( mimes chiropractor’s actions ) And sometimes it doesn't crack! Sometimes it just goes, " ". Then they pull a mallet from their belt and they try to make the noise. “Make the noise! I live for the noise..." And they do your head as well, around here, and they get it into a nice position, and you're thinking, "Where the…? No, I don't think it's supposed to go around that...!"
In the end, you just trust them, you trust them. They could have their fingers in your nostrils, one foot on the back of your underpants, and they're pushing your spine away with a broom.