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Not ALL chiropractors. Only those who use questionable claims and junk “science” to promote “cures” which have no grounding in actual medical science.
Since I was 8, I’ve been using chiropractors to help with my joint & muscle problems. When your feet are completely flat, they throw everything else out of alignment, which leaves you in constant pain. So, you need frequent visits to someone who can restore that alignment, if only for a week or two.
When we found a chiropractor who could do this well, we’d stay with him/her until they retired, and then had to start the search again.
During these searches, we often encountered chiropractors who’d make all sorts of outlandish claims, about heavy metals, etc., and promoted long & very expensive programs to treat this.
My parents have always checked things out thoroughly, so we began researching the matter, and soon learned the truth behind those outlandish claims. And it disgusted us that these charlatans were using these claims to defraud people.
For the past few years, we had an excellent chiropractor. But then, he got into deep financial trouble, and he began making the same outlandish claims, trying to sell us the expensive “diagnostic testing” and “treatments” as the charlatans had.
Disgusted that he’d do this (and that he assumed we were foolish enough to fall for it), we stopped seeing him and are now, again, searching for a new chiropractor. We feel deeply betrayed that the care-giver we trusted for so long, would become so unscrupulous that he would try to defraud the people who come to him for help.
Chiropractic care is supposed to be about bones and muscles. It is NOT about detoxes and heavy metals and herbal cures. That’s a different field. It is also NOT about using tricks like pushing down on different parts of a person’s arms, to show how the treatment has “restored your centre of gravity”. I know the tricks now, and I won’t fall for them again.
It’s those bad apples (especially the most recent one) who have given the chiropractic profession a bad name.
It sounds to me like you’re one of the GOOD ones.
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