I swear by them, but they can be expensive. Don't be surprised if the initial treatments take up to 6 months.
Chiroprators: are they helpful?
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The key is to pick a good one, one indication of a good one is that he/she will spend at least 30 min.session instead of 3 min.of crack, crack thank you man. Make sure that he/she will massage you and loosen up your muslcle bebore he/she crack you up.
I would not go to the one that had 3 rooms of patient waiting.
Nor the one that tells you that you have to come back twice a week.
It took me 4 years to find a good one and I have been seeing him for 8 years now.
It's work great for me.
I would not go to the one that had 3 rooms of patient waiting.
Nor the one that tells you that you have to come back twice a week.
It took me 4 years to find a good one and I have been seeing him for 8 years now.
It's work great for me.
Yes, I found them helpful; but, I had to shop around.
While I'm sure most tried their best, it took about four or five tries to to find a really good one. In the process, some of them helped to a degree - excercise also helped a great deal. This was assisted by a physical therapist.
People have different degrees of problems. Mine are pretty well cleared up and I no longer see either a chiro or PT.
While I'm sure most tried their best, it took about four or five tries to to find a really good one. In the process, some of them helped to a degree - excercise also helped a great deal. This was assisted by a physical therapist.
People have different degrees of problems. Mine are pretty well cleared up and I no longer see either a chiro or PT.
WARNING: Chripractors are full of shit and it's all a scam. For christ's sakes my GF can relieve me of back pain with a massage and a hot towel on my back, the same accomplishment a chiropractor will do for $600 and rediculous repeated visits to him at $75 a pop.
These chiropractors are a scam and they will try to milk you for whatever money you have with silly appointments that go for ever.
For all those that claim here their chiros "helped" them with their back pains I have news for you, that's called a "placebo", if you don't know what that means Google it.
These chiropractors are a scam and they will try to milk you for whatever money you have with silly appointments that go for ever.
For all those that claim here their chiros "helped" them with their back pains I have news for you, that's called a "placebo", if you don't know what that means Google it.
Now let's not flame. That was his experience and that's fair. (From what I've read, many MDs argue that chiropractic treatment is little more than a placebo effect.)smylee52 said:
Music_Box - did you try a number of chiros or only one? If only one, perhaps it's the case that this particular individual didn't work for you.
The impression I'm getting is that, more so than any other health profession, chiropratic is hit and miss and one really has to shop around. From what's been shared, it seems there's great variation in terms of skill and philosophy. Where philosophy is concerned, I gather that chiropraptors fall into two groups (broadly speaking):
1. Practitioners who subscribe to the BS chiropractic spinal chord theory and will keep you coming back forever with the belief that regular adjustments will help to alleviate every illness you could possibly contract;
2. Those who realize the limitations of chiropractic treatment and will be up front with you about that.
Chiropractors are useful when they treat spinal and joint disfunction through manual manipulation. However they are not licenced to take or interprete xrays or write prescriptions. Some chiropractors give their profession a bad name when they attempt to treat allergies, impotence, eye problems and many other ailments with spinal and cranial manipulations, or when they attempt to sell vitamins, mood altering music, water pillows, special shoes, orthotics with dubious guarantees of results not backed by conventional scientific research. OHIP, advised by physicans has cut off all benefits to chiropractors as they view the profession for the most part as a sham, with some exceptions. No Canadian university currently wish to be associated with chiropractic medicine, with York University choosing to fund an Astronomy faculty over having the Candian Memorial Chiropractic College join them a few years ago, during the time when a patient allegedly died from a chiropractic neck manipulation and chiropractors malpractice insurance when sky high and their crediblility went in the opposite direction.
The last two posts have some pretty good points but I have only one thing to say:
It works for me. Maybe not everyone, maybe it is a placebo, who cares? My back doesn't hurt any longer after I go for a crack and I can walk...that's all that matters to me.
Now the practice of putting tuning forks at different spots on your body, well that's just hooey lol
It works for me. Maybe not everyone, maybe it is a placebo, who cares? My back doesn't hurt any longer after I go for a crack and I can walk...that's all that matters to me.
Now the practice of putting tuning forks at different spots on your body, well that's just hooey lol
The line from 2 1/2 Men says it best:
" Chiropracters are just massage therapists, without the hot oil"
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" Chiropracters are just massage therapists, without the hot oil"
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Thou they're trained (just not lic'd) by CMCC to interprete xrays. On the other hand, there's good Chiro who are also trained Naturopath.lomotil said:
