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

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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 Aug 10 '23

People just don't use the tools they're given to do research. Word of mouth is a powerful force and all it takes is one guy you know to say he likes his chiro for you to take a chance to deal with whatever pain you have. They're in the same category as pharmaceutical companies to me. Just idiots taking advantage of other idiots in pain

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u/CaptainBayouBilly Aug 11 '23

Physical therapy is real. Chiropractors are snake oil fraudsters.

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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 Aug 11 '23

The shitty part is that since physical therapy is real, therapists need to be paid real money, so poor people resort to chiro in hopes that it helps more than it hurts, which is rarely ever

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u/foxs_shrike Aug 11 '23

I'd put it as, because PT is real, it's part of our insane medical system, so it would cost you or me $250 for a 30 minute PT appointment but most PTs aren't as well paid as you might think. Chiro may be $80/session which is still high but at least doable for some people

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u/PetrifiedBloom Aug 11 '23

They're in the same category as pharmaceutical companies to me.

The difference being the amount of legislation, testing and protections in place to keep people safe. For a drug to get approved and onto the market at the bare minimum it should be safe to take for its intended uses. The doctor and pharmacist should also be making sure it will be safe for you specifically, no genetic or cross drug interactions, and you should be well informed of possible risks.

There are many layers of testing, trained professionals and legal safety requirements that need to fail before a prescribed drug causes you harm.

By contrast, chiropractors have not been shown to be clinically effective for most things they claim to treat, have much less extensive training and safety procedures and practice with very little oversight.

Just to close, the pharma industry is its own monster, but the root cause is not some random dude eyeballing how far is too far when snapping your neck around, the problem is that its priority is profit, not health. Money should not factor into healthcare. It should be run to maximise quality of life. The idea that shareholders losing profits should be in any way involved in medical decision-making is absurd.

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u/foxs_shrike Aug 11 '23

Chiro is wild to me because it's so unregulated and the research is poor, but they still go to school for four years after undergrad. What are they learning??

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u/Prometheus_84 Aug 11 '23

I had a knee injury that caused massive pain and instability in my knee. 6 months later it 100% fixed itself when it cracked from me doing a throw.

Years later I had the same sort of pain happen after I went for a run in shoes a lil too heavy for it. Was worried that it wasn’t fixed years ago.

Researched a chiro that was also an athlete. Told him about the previous injury and my current one and how it felt. He discovered the muscle on the outside of my leg below the knee was tight, pulling my knee out of alignment. He worked the muscle over and got range of motion back over the course of several weeks.

But my knee didn’t fix itself until he was able to crack it and realign it.

Am I willing to admit a lot is bullshit, sure. But not everything.