chiropractic, what's the deal?
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26-10-2014, 11:54 AM
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chiropractic, what's the deal?
I used to compete in the "Iron Sports", weightlifting, powerlifting, and to a smaller degree bodybuilding. I worked out for about 18 years, nearly half my life. I've spent a good portion of my life throwing heavy weights around the gym. (the gym owner wasn't too happy,
![]() I know people are skeptical of it but is there a chance that even if subluxations don't exist that chiropractors are onto something and we should maybe study it more? Maybe it's simply a fancy massage. It's possible that I just got temporary relief while my back healed on it's own. Whatever happened, I'm glad I went to this chiropractor (my old man calls them "chiroquackers"). |
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26-10-2014, 12:02 PM
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RE: chiropractic, what's the deal?
(26-10-2014 11:54 AM)matt1162 Wrote: Maybe it's simply a fancy massage. It's possible that I just got temporary relief while my back healed on it's own. You answered your own question. See here they are the bruises some were self-inflicted and some showed up along the way. - JF |
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26-10-2014, 12:15 PM
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RE: chiropractic, what's the deal?
You wouldn't risk back surgery but you'd risk someone "popping" vertebrae?
Read that a few times, go ahead think about that. "I don't have to have faith, I have experience." Joseph Campbell |
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26-10-2014, 12:37 PM
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RE: chiropractic, what's the deal?
(26-10-2014 12:15 PM)grizzlysnake Wrote: You wouldn't risk back surgery but you'd risk someone "popping" vertebrae? One man pushing lightly on your back is pretty low risk compared to being cut open and having a knife cut through nerves, bone, soft tissue between vertebrae, etc. Chiropractors have the lowest malpractice insurance costs of any type of physician. There's a reason for that. Now, read what you posted a few times and think about it. |
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26-10-2014, 01:31 PM
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RE: chiropractic, what's the deal?
(26-10-2014 12:37 PM)matt1162 Wrote:(26-10-2014 12:15 PM)grizzlysnake Wrote: You wouldn't risk back surgery but you'd risk someone "popping" vertebrae? Go get a good massage, it's the same thing without all the woo. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.... on Donald J. Trump: He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, Ill-fac’d, worse bodied, shapeless every where; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind, Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. |
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26-10-2014, 02:01 PM
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RE: chiropractic, what's the deal?
(26-10-2014 01:31 PM)dancefortwo Wrote:(26-10-2014 12:37 PM)matt1162 Wrote: One man pushing lightly on your back is pretty low risk compared to being cut open and having a knife cut through nerves, bone, soft tissue between vertebrae, etc. Chiropractors have the lowest malpractice insurance costs of any type of physician. There's a reason for that. Now, read what you posted a few times and think about it. Nope. It's not. I've had both, they're different. Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims. Science is not a subject, but a method. ![]() |
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26-10-2014, 02:09 PM
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RE: chiropractic, what's the deal?
I am a skeptic, and there is no evidence for many of the claims of chiropractic, nor of the mechanisms they say underlie problems.
So I was horrified when one of my brothers became a chiropractor. ![]() I have had chronic lower back, neck, shoulder, and hip pain for many years due to sports injuries, car accidents, bicycle accidents. I figured that my brother was offering free chiropractic, so I'm thinking "Why not? Let's do the experiment." Well, the spinal manipulation temporarily decreases, or even eliminates, some kinds of pain. The rest of the claims? Probably nonsense. Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims. Science is not a subject, but a method. ![]() |
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26-10-2014, 03:07 PM
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RE: chiropractic, what's the deal?
My wife swears by her chiropractor and she's as skeptical as I am. She says the body manipulation helps her but she doesn't place any credence when the chiro says she's going to release the bad vapors, whatever the hell that means.
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.”~Mark Twain “Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.”~ Ambrose Bierce |
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26-10-2014, 03:28 PM
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RE: chiropractic, what's the deal?
(26-10-2014 02:01 PM)Chas Wrote:(26-10-2014 01:31 PM)dancefortwo Wrote: Go get a good massage, it's the same thing without all the woo. Oh, that's true. But a good massage without woo is great. The other thing that helps pain is one of those isolation tanks. They put a ton of epsom salts in it which makes you float and it's good for muscle pain. This is another case where lots of woo is added to make it seem magical. Um, it's not magic, the epsom salts and floating simply relax the muscles. Nothing more. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.... on Donald J. Trump: He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, Ill-fac’d, worse bodied, shapeless every where; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind, Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. |
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26-10-2014, 03:52 PM
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RE: chiropractic, what's the deal?
The chiropractor my one grandmother frequented assured her that all the snaps and pops she heard during his 'treatments' were normal. As was the discomfort.
I suppose the bone cancer that killed her would have been more successfully treated if she hadn't believed that the chiro could cure her. Funny that after that and snapping a neighbors neck so that it caused her death, he packed up his family in the middle of the night and left the country. Bastard. See here they are the bruises some were self-inflicted and some showed up along the way. - JF |
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