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Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 days agoChiropractics 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 3 days 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 3 days 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.