Since Chiropractic medicine was invented in America by a spiritualist quack, I would say trying to use the same name for valid medical practices in another country is the mistake of whoever decided that was ok to do. It’s like saying yes, wizardry is bullshit in America, but in many other countries it’s a valid form of pharmacology. Just call it the valid term that has regulations.
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ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
There’s a lot of international folks here getting downvoted because
AMERICAN CHIROPRACTORS ARE QUACKS.
Can we please step out of our American bubble for a fucking second to realise there is whole world out there of real healthcare.
In the vast majority of the world Chiropractors are exactly the same as Osteopaths and Physios, they have to go to the same schools, lectures, have the same training. They are purely musculoskeletal. Why they are insane in America is anyone’s guess. But this is a problem with America, not Chiropractors.
That said, this is fucking hilarious and I have sent it to a friend to take the piss.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Chiropractics literally started as an alternative to germ theory. The quackery was baked in from the start. They may couch their quackery in medical jargon now in some places but I’ve yet to see stats where people who went to chiropractors did better than people that went to massages or physical therapy.
Example from Australia last year:
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Cases like this should obviously be taken seriously, as it was here. But it doesn’t invalidate the whole field any more than it does for medicine, physiotherapy etc.
In this case, the woman went against medical advice, and did not tell the chiropractor about her injury or give him her notes. This is why it was recommended to be standard practice to request them. This chiropractor was also clearly an idiot.
These types of cases happen all the time with all medical professionals, it would be disingenuous to suggest otherwise. In fact, here, it also happened with the paramedics.
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Yes it does. One is a scientific evidence based approach backed by studies and the other is a pseudoscience proven to have at best no positive outcomes at worst detrimental for your health.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
They’re insane in the US because the fucking weirdo cult leader who started US chiropracty based on his dreams about literal ghosts was fucking insane.
It has nothing to do with medicine, and it should be illegal to impersonate medicine like that. It’s shameful.
Everyone who has been swindled by it should file a class-action suit, since that seems to be the only recourse.
ywain@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Massive amount of misinformation, every country has a protected name and registration for real medical jobs. Chiropractic stuff is a US pseudoscience and a negative impact on patients the same as homeopathy.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The “chiropractors” in other countries that aren’t quacks, are simply a mistranslation of some sort of real medical field. Anyone in an English speaking country called a chiropractor is at best an amateur masseuse scamming people and at worst a dangerous cultist.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
AFAIK it’s the same in Germany too. Unregulated. I could just go and call myself a chiropractor, trying my best to fuck you up.
ickplant@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Yup. And I should say you can find good ones in the U.S., you just never know.
Mine was from New Zealand and worked with one of their Olympic teams. She never cracked my neck but gently massaged and manipulated it to release a whiplash injury after a car accident.
For every one of her, there are 20 quacks who claim they can cure cancer with foot baths.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
Doctor Glaucomen or whatever is his name has a lot of interesting content on bonebros.
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
No. This is wrong. I would like you to update your post to not spread wrong medical information :
Everybody can be a chiropractor or a osteopath. I could even open a private school to teach both without even learning them. Same as acupuncture. If I want to be a physiotherapist, I need a university degree.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
This is Americentric. In Sweden it is different: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiropraktik