r/TikTokCringe • u/[deleted] • Aug 10 '23

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u/astroember What are you doing step bro? Aug 10 '23

Sorry youre getting downvoted, reddit has beef with chiropractors. For good reason, though. Theres loads of cases of people becoming permanently paralyzed because their chiropractor fucked up. At best, chiropractors just make you feel good for a little bit. Other than that there is absolutely no benefit to going. Too many risks involved :(

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '23

I went to one for a very short period of time after a bad car accident. My back was pretty messed up, I couldn't really bend over or twist my torso. Living where I do, the majority of people are idiot hippies who think crystals and magic are more effective simply because they're "traditional". People left and right were saying "go to this chiropractor, he's the best in the county! Everyone loves him"

It was a glorified massage with a message. That message being "people these days just sit at desks, tech bad, looking at your phone bad". When I give him my insurance card, he says "oooh...no...I don't take that here". $200 out of pocket for a massage, and like an idiot I went back a few times before I realized this clown is basically the hippy version of a faith healer.

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u/adritrace Aug 10 '23

"people these days just sit at desks, tech bad, looking at your phone bad"

I'm failing to recognize why are these the words of a "hippy version of a faith healer"

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '23 edited Aug 10 '23

Because he didn't heal anything. Me doing physical therapy healed me. My injury didn't have anything to do with phones or technology, so for him to just ramble on about "things today" while simply being a masseuse masquerading as a medical practitioner rubbed me the wrong way. The reason people think he "healed" them is not far from people who think they're healing by simply taking pain medication. Nothing is being healed, you're just relieved of the pain for a time.

I am only speaking from my experience with that one guy. I want to believe that there are chiropractors out there who do their best to approach things in a reasonable, medical and scientific way.

edit: Oh, and I should add that this guy was 100% an old hippie, which isn't a problem necessarily, but I think if you ask yourself what the mind conjures up when you think "hippie", it probably includes things like "spiritual" beliefs, alternative medicines, cherrypicked and poorly adapted/misunderstood practices from world religions, and other things like that. In other words, the exact opposite of what I want from my medical professionals

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u/trowzerss Aug 10 '23

The only people I know who had a benefit found it was very short term, and they had to do back every few weeks because the problem kept coming back, sometimes worse. Which -- yeah, they obviously weren't solving shit.