Regularly scheduled warning but chiropractor is not a real doctor and can paralyze you for life.
You're cured!
Submitted 17 hours ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Aeri@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Also the guy who invented it learned the practice from a ghost during a seance
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
you’re fucking with me, right?
TransNeko@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
regularly scheduled reminder that real Chiropractors are highly trained and not paid extra money to prescribe you a medication that has a warning label that includes the very minor side effects of… may cause: dizziness, nausea, rashes, cancer, and a mild case of death.
DragonAce@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Chiropractors are not doctors in any shape or form. There is no scientific data to backup the idea that popping random joints somehow cures illnesses. They’re nothing more than snake oil salesmen who have no clue WTF they’re actually doing.
expr@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Who are these mythical “real chiropractors” that you speak of?
It’s pseudoscience, and always has been.
shane@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
A highly trained phrenologist still cannot diagnose personality problems by feeling bumps on your head.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Bullshit. Chiropractors cannot prevent or cure any disease or condition. They can help you manage lower back pain. That’s it.
Thanks to immunotherapy, I am now four and a half years cancer free. See if a chiropractor can do that.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 6 hours ago
Ok your comment may have been dumb, but for $50 I’ll remove all the evil ghosts from your keyboard, and maybe you won’t get downvoted next time. Deal?
Comrade_Spood@quokk.au 4 hours ago
You can also go to a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) who is an actual doctor and will crack your back in scientifically backed ways.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
i was in the hospital and just had had a few major organs removed. a chiro i had never met but who went to the same cult as my parents walked into my hospital room unannounced and started lecturing me about how i would have been able to keep my organs if i’d let him give me a spinal adjustment.
my friends, a chiropracter was saved by an orderly that day.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Flip side:
Woke up in agony. I couldn’t walk without aid. Why to GP, “it’s sciatica. It’ll be ok in a few weeks. Two months at most”
6 months later and I can’t walk still.
Hospitals did the scans, X-rays, MRI, etc etc, but found nothing wrong. They did acupuncture, physio, hydrotherapy etc.
All slightly helped. However two years later I still couldn’t walk without help and then just kept on offering me pain killers.
Nope!!My mate, “Hey, try my new chiro guy. He did wonders for me”
Me, “Lol, quacks.”
My mate, “What have you got to lose?”
Me, “Money…”
…
Mate, “Hey, told my chiro guy about you. He said pop in. The first month is free. If no improvement after then you go separate ways. What have you got to lose?”Long story short.
On that first appointment he said he thought it was piriformis syndrome. Not back problems.
Within a month I was sitting almost pain free for the first time in two years. Within 3 months I was walking unaided for the first time in years. In 6 months I was running again.
Within a year I was 95% of what I was before the back issues. I’ll never be 100% because it wasn’t diagnosed in time and everything had ‘healed’ incorrectly.Now, with that said, the guy was more than a chiro. He did sports body mechanics, and other things that I can’t remember now. He worked with the local lower league football squad for about ten years. And whilst they were no Manchester United they wouldn’t just let any quack work on their team.
Plus in the UK chiro’s have to be registered and follow guidelines. If they do anything illegal they are fucked.
Flip side to my flip side:
The mother in law went to a chiro who said he could cure her spine curvature disorder. Anyways I find out when she’s complaining of (extra) back pain, so I tell her to stop going as the guy is obviously a dodgy bastard. Within the year the guy was arrested for his illegal shenanigans.zikzak025@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It sounds more like you didn’t see what the US would consider a “chiropractor”, but rather an orthopedics/sports medicine specialist. Maybe he was just advertising as a chiropractor to attract clients or maybe your buddy was confused about his credentialing?
Chiropractors don’t need to be licensed or registered with anything in the US. It’s all pseudoscience mumbo-jumbo.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
He did sports body mechanics, and other things that I can’t remember now.
Ok, so he had more training than most US chiropractors.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
let me tell you the first illegal thing the chiro did the day i saw him
walk into a hospital he was unaffiliated with.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Chiropractors in the US don’t have medical degrees
ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 16 hours ago
I mean, the chiropractor is technically correct. You’ll say goodbye to a lot of things, including IBS.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 hours ago
Cured of all ailments, including the terminal illness known as “life.”
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
So, ibs has an unknown cause, right? Does it persist indefinitely in donated organs or does it eventually subside? I might have it, albeit undiagnosed, so I got curious as I’m an organ donor
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
IBS is doctor speak for “we don’t know what’s wrong and we give up, but we recognize you have symptoms”
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
You can get feces transplanted to treat a c. diff infection. Like, you swallow a pill made from human shit and it can help you. So if you need the whole ass organ transplanted, you need that.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
visited a friend’s family reunion and met his chiropractor uncle. dude said he could cure diabetes and cancer.
he could barely pronounce diabetes. I will never ever understand chiropractor quackshit.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
In most cases, it seems like temporary relief. Like when your bigger, older brother picks you up and cracks your back. Feels great in the moment, but not a long-term fix.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
In my experience it was for old insecure guys who were uncomfortable going to a massage or doing any structured stretching regularly so they’d get an adjustment from a quack a few times a year instead.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I understand chiro quack shit the same way I understand crystals and essential oils quack shit. It’s all just quack shit.
What I don’t understand is why insurance actually pays for chiro, at least sometimes.
BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Maaan, I just don’t trust doctors. Not in a “you’re injecting microchips into my bloodstream so bill gates can control my mind” type of way. Rather a “you are another facet of the capitalist society a getting caught in the healthcare system is like getting caught in the justice system. Once you’re in, you’re in” type of way.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 35 minutes ago
I really wanted to become a doctor when I was in college, so I went to pre med meetings.
You are not going to be a doctor if you have to work in college. No, you need to have time to “volunteer” at the right places and scribe. Don’t take challenging classes, because your GPA needs to be perfect.
The US artificially suppresses the number of doctors who can enter the work force every year - doctors have lobbied to keep the number of residencies and thus admissions to medical school low. And these rich fuckers are going to go into dermatology or other high paying fields, while family doctors in rural America are non existent.
ickplant@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Can’t blame you. There are good doctors out there who hate the capitalist system and the insurance companies, but they still have to work within that system.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 hours ago
I had a bit of back gain and I went to a chrio once and this tiny Asian women beat the living shit out me. I swear she elbow dropped onto my spine. It made my back so sore I was unable to move for 3 days. I called to tell them it had gotten significantly worse and they replied that means its working come back for another session. I never returned and it healed up perfectly fine.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I have known a few chiropractors. Two were decent naturopaths who were also nutritionists, physical therapists, and masseuses. Whole body and nervous system health. Never cracked or popped a joint.
The third charges $35 bucks, no insurance needed, and just pops your middle back and gropes you. Absolute worst and he bought the business from one of the first.
Good chiros are about nervous systems. Bad chiros, the vast majority, are witch doctors selling bunk cures.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
nutritionists
Just a heads up, but anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. It is not a protected term. You don’t have to pass any exams. The only thing you need is to be interested in the subject.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionist
The actual professional term is dietitian.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Yeah I was using common nomenclature. I don’t recall if they were licensed dietitians or not.
The one sold supplements and vitamin tinctures his wife made, so they weren’t far off from the unlicensed category. But they were both also licensed/certified physical therapists and masseuses. He had done some kind of sports medicine if I recall correctly before starting his business.
The other guy was really into the whole gambit of chinese herbology and such, but he kept himself grounded with physical therapy regimens and promoting tai chi every other sentence.
themaninblack@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Good chiros aren’t chiros.
Comrade_Spood@quokk.au 4 hours ago
Yeah, they are DOs
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I mean, that’s kind of the implication.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
The inventor of chiropracty said that a ghost taught it to him during a seance. Yes, really, I’m not making that up.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yeah I think he also said he fixed a deaf janitors hearing by popping a neck vertebrae into alignment, if I remember the lore. This was ‘drink heroin for medicine’ era too.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 7 hours ago
Beware the iatrogenic death dealers, and the cowboy-chiropractors both.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 5 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.
ywain@lemmy.zip 25 minutes 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.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
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.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 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:
news.com.au/…/96b8084d70755d577a44091c976066e7
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 44 minutes 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.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 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 4 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 4 hours ago
Doctor Glaucomen or whatever is his name has a lot of interesting content on bonebros.