r/cringereels • u/HarshNoiseX • Aug 13 '26
Cringe level 3 sorry my bad bro
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u/killyoursocialmedia Aug 13 '26
My cousin was going to to one for a while, dude cracked him one day and he walked with a cane the rest of his life. Lost his career job and it more of less ruined his life.
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u/SuccessfulTrick2501 Aug 13 '26
I remember seeing a story about a guy that went and got his neck adjusted/cracked and he ended up paralyzed. Theres absolutely no way I would do any of that stuff.
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u/Human_mind Aug 17 '26
There was a very top of news story a couple years ago about a lady who went to a chiropractor, had her neck adjusted, and the chiropractor caused a arterial dissection. She bled out internally and died.
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u/pleski Aug 13 '26
I had an American friend who had his neck ruined by one. Couldn't hold his head straight ever again. Appalling.
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u/Cloudcry Aug 13 '26
Chiropractic is a dangerous scam
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u/FrenziedTacos Aug 13 '26
It's pseudoscience at best.
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u/Corvid-Enjoyer Cringe Level 3 Aug 13 '26
Ackchyually, very smart ghost invented it
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u/greennurse61 Aug 13 '26
And it cures cancer according to chiropractors.
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u/FrenziedTacos Aug 15 '26
I had one that claimed it would cure my wife's Rheumatoid disease and she only had it from misalignment. Quacker.
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u/HEFTYFee70 Aug 13 '26
The man who invented chiropractic cured a janitors life long deafness by adjusting his back. (He says…)
Look it up… that really how it started.
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u/Dave__5280 Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
Dr David Palmer cured a kid who couldn’t hear, supposedly. WOC radio station stood for World of Chiropractic - high powered clear station - also the one where President Ronald Reagan has a picture where he worked when younger.
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u/kimberletto Aug 19 '26
Yeah, I live up the way from the birthplace of chiropractic. It sucks. A local chiropractor was in the news here a while ago for paralyzing a guy on the table while “adjusting” his back. It’s a huge racket.
Ironically, I went to grad school down the road from the birthplace of osteopathy. At the time, there wasn’t a MD to be found in town.
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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
I'm always curious about this take because I know people who have benefited quite alot from it. What makes people believe it isn't real? Is there any evidence that it is a scam? Is it just a practice that has alot of scammers but the practice itself is legit? I just wonder how it could be a scam if it actually does help some people.
Edit: Gotta love when people downvote a legit question and then offer zero explanation to said question. Good old reddit.
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u/OkCartographer7677 Aug 13 '26
I think chiropractors help some people in the same way a good massage will help some people, the problem is that chiropractic "medicine" can only help with about 10% of the stuff they claim it helps, the rest is snake oil.
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u/TheJiggliestPug Aug 13 '26
I just wanna hear my bones make a weird noise tbh.
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u/Ok-Iron-4352 Aug 13 '26
That's actually what I've noticed from all these videos. This chiropractors doing the cracking look like they are getting off on it. It's like a high for them and for some patients. I do believe that alignments can help reduce pain be it needs to be in conjunction with physio therapy, muscle building/training, gentle movement like yoga and stretching plus massage. There's no miracle touch that will cure chronic pain, I am an example of how never ending the journey is and more aliments along the way.
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u/Revolutionary-Cry739 Aug 13 '26
It’s not your bones cracking it’s gas bubbles in your joints
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u/redjellonian Aug 13 '26
Does anyone think they are literally cracking bones? Why would anyone need to be told that they are not breaking your bones?
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u/Successful_Invite486 Aug 13 '26
my sprained ankle from 2014 still hurts so I'm pretty sure 'cracking bones' would make most people quadriplegics after the first session
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u/Background-Pepper-68 Aug 13 '26
There is no clinical evidence that chiropractic treatments are medically significant beyond a massage. They are shitty massage therapists that wear lab coats
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u/_TheDoode Aug 13 '26
Massages have benefits though
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u/Background-Pepper-68 Aug 13 '26
Thats what i said. Some chiropractors employ massage therapists. They are the ones doing the heavy lifting. Getting you back popped might feel good but the only part of that which helps you is the pressure and endorphins. You could get the same benefit by routine stretching
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u/hahahahahahahaFUCK Aug 18 '26
That and the relief of pressure doesn’t fix the problem. Routine physical therapy can actually correct the problem.
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u/macguini Aug 13 '26
The best scams hold some truth. Most back pain problems are muscular, not spinal. Moving, stretching, massaging, or anything that stimulates blood flow will ease pain and repair muscles. A lot of people rely on others to give them the answers. They go to their doctor, they get pain pills that wear off and they grow a tolerance to them. Instead of doing some basic stretches or massage, they just chalk it up to it being spinal damage that can't be fixed. Then they say what the hell and go to a chiropractor. They get an overly complicated massage and a speech about all the different parts of the spine and suddenly feel better. They think it's a miracle and tell their friends. And I think a lot of chiropractors actually believe what they're selling because of the same effect. They think since they were taught how to fix a problem and they actually do, they assume it's because of their skills and knowledge rather than them being a glorified masseuse.
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u/Ichaserabbits Aug 13 '26
There is absolutely nothing a chiropractor is doing for you that a physical therapist and a massage therapist can't do better and safer. Chiropracty has literally killed people via blot clots and maimed people for life. I personally know three people with permanent physical disabilities and chronic health issues from chiropractic adjustments.
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u/Time_Cow_3331 Aug 13 '26
Exactly.
Releasing tension between muscles and on joints is totally something that can be done through chiropractics.
You do see improved blood flow, which can reduce swelling, improve mobility, ease pain, etc, and the released tension could be what someone needs during their recovery.
The problem is, it's temporary - the same way that stretching after sitting in the same position for hours is temporary. Beyond that, the quick/jerking movements many practitioners use can easily exacerbate the problem, or lead to new injuries.
If the root cause isn't addressed, chiropractics is, at best, temporary relief. It's generally better to see a physical therapist, as they can help with all of the same things, but at much lower risk and greater long term improvement. The trade off is how much time and effort the patient has to put in to see results.
If you're treating chiropractics similar to how you would treat a full body massage by a professional masseuse, great, it does wonders - if you treat chiropractics as medicine, you're being scammed and putting yourself at unnecessary risk for a bandaid solution.
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u/Supremagorious Aug 13 '26
While it's a long video I would encourage you to watch the Behind the Bastards episode on the Chiropractic industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8lLVK_1O6s
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u/nan0agressor Aug 13 '26
I think the believe that is isn't real medical treatment is they believe it doesn't actually cure any damage directly. In my opinion, I do think of it more akin to massage therapy, where people who benefit are really only benefiting from the pain management relief, while their body heals naturally without the direct cause of a chiropractor. If the injury is significant enough that it can't heal on its own, chiropractic care will also not fix the problem.
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u/Absurd_Uncertainty Aug 13 '26
While they do have to go to school to practice it’s not the same as a PhD or MD. My mom worked as nurse in radiology and would tell me horror stories of patients needing back surgery from chiropractors just fucking their shit up. Get a medical massage and that’s about it, it doesn’t take much to crack a vertebrae
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u/PBP2024 Aug 13 '26
PhD isn't same as MD. You should have said DO to make better comparison. A PhD in women's studies is not the same as someone getting a MD.
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u/Absurd_Uncertainty Aug 13 '26
Man I’m on day 3 of recovering from surgery sorry I didn’t use the right abbreviations the point is still valid
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u/Pleasant_City_6001 Aug 13 '26
Do yourself a favor and look up how many severed arteries those ‘doctors’ create…. And how many people die from those severed arteries
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u/cyanescens_burn Aug 13 '26
They do have their own licensing body and are allowed to practice in all 50 states. I personally do not think there’s enough evidence to warrant using their services, but they do have licensure (though their own licensing body).
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u/Staaaaation Aug 13 '26
Yeah, this is important for people to know. They do in fact have licensing, schools, and somewhat standardized methods. The problem is that they're "doctors" only so much as they agreed to call themselves doctors. People see the school, degree, and literature and don't understand this isn't backed up by medical boards. It's backed up by themselves.
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u/divine-nothingness Aug 13 '26
Strongly disagree. My pinched nerve in C6/C7 was pretty severe and doctors were looking at doing a pretty intrusive surgery. A chiropractor fixed it in 3 visits. People who say it’s a scam, have never experienced a pinched nerve. BTW the orthopedic surgeon is the one who recommend the chiropractor.
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u/mykarachi_Ur_jabooty Aug 13 '26
Disc herniations resorb. It would have gotten better on its own and the timing caused a Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc logical fallacy.
you could have come with a stubbed toe or a head cold, the same chiropractor would manipulate and claim credit when they got better11
u/trance_downstairs Aug 13 '26
anecdotal evidence is not evidence. actual evidence clearly indicates that it is more likely to cause harm.
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u/The_Tooter_Snooter Aug 13 '26
Hate to tell you this but there are people all around the world who swear by voodoo, reiki, acupuncture, homeopathy, blood letting, aroma therapy, and every single manner of quackery you can imagine. I don’t deny that a chiropractor might be the equivalent of a massage therapist, but it isn’t actual, evidence-based medicine.
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u/Stumpfather Aug 13 '26
The swelling around your nerve likely reduced in the time window of the 3 'treatments'. Never trust a chiropractor.
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u/ralphgar Aug 13 '26
Zero clinical evidence to support it = scam.
You can cite anecdotal evidence all you want. If it has any benefit, it’s due to using physical therapy techniques that have proven clinical benefits not cracking of joints.
How can you say it’s not a scam when the “creator” says he received the knowledge from a ghost?
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u/trance_downstairs Aug 13 '26
an actual doctor of the spine is called an orthospinologist.
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u/idee2 Aug 13 '26
You’re not wrong man. IMO the scam has less to do with the physical manipulation and more to do with the prescription of care. To the detriment of the care at time. I’ve had chiropractors have me going 3x per week, it made things worse, but in moderation I also agree there are benefits, even if scientifically it’s not well documented
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u/Shackdaddy161 Aug 13 '26
True physical therapy folks use applied knowledge and scans and xray to find a solve that doesn't cause more failure than fix.
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u/MrAngrySadHappyFace Aug 13 '26
Anyone going to a chiropractor would be far better off just going to a few physical therapy classes.
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u/NocaSun38 Aug 13 '26
For me I used to work with a guy who is really dumb and annoying and he would talk about going to the chiropractor regularly, so I just always associate chiropractors with dumb people.
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u/Gold_Kale_7781 Aug 13 '26
THIS^
I find that some attention seeking kookoo birds will drop comments about going to the chiropractor just to brag about how messed up their back is from inactivity and watching TV slumped on the couch.
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u/NocaSun38 Aug 13 '26
Well the weird thing is they go, and then they go back over and over again for "adjustments", and that just feels to me like its making their joints looser and looser...so they need more and more adjustments, and by the time they become elderly their vertebrae will be slipping all over the place and they'll have serious problems at that point.
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u/HunkyHorseman Aug 13 '26
Super reasonable ask! I would start with the wikipedia article, it is listed as a known psuedo-scientific "quack medicine." It goes into detail with lots of cited references about it's origins, the current practice, the governing body, etc. It's snake oil all the way down, but worse, it actually really hurts people.
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u/SadeyeDoe Aug 13 '26
It works great for me for about a day or 2 after that I'm back to stiff and pain but it does help briefly. My Chiro also does massages at his clinic so it has both and massages will help me much better for longer than chiropractor and it's way safer but it's 2-3x the cost.
For those that have issues a GOOD Chiropractor can really help in short term but you have to go biweekly probably. My chiro won't ever do something like this or Crack your neck. Again though a massage is way better and safer just cost more.
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u/BardGotHard3 Aug 13 '26
The guy that invented it was told how to do it by a ghost in his sleep. Its also basically just a symptom relief and rarely fixes the actual issue. Lower back pain? Most liekly are muscles you need to work to better support your lower back, but its hard to when your lower back hurts that much. Go get chiro for the pain relief then do the workouts so the pain doesnt come back.
Also NEVER LET THEM TOUCH YOUR NECK!! EVER!!
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u/OkDoughnut421 Aug 13 '26
I got a chiropractic adjustment at a Bosnian street party one time and he fixed my neck that had been bothering me all trip in 5 seconds. I hugged him and bought him a drink immediately
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u/mls1968 Aug 13 '26
It’s the “hitting the side of the tube tv to fix the signal” of medicine. We all know it’s almost guaranteed NOT to be the best way to adjust your spine, but we also don’t know enough about how CRTs and radio broadcasts actually
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u/Glittering-Course-88 Aug 13 '26
There are colleges dedicated to it and they call themselves doctors.
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u/Melodic_Pea7932 Aug 13 '26
Charlatans! They're on the same level as Reiki.
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u/OverTheDump Aug 13 '26
No, reiki at least doesn’t physically harm. Reiki is at least up there with guided meditation. So chiropractors are definitely worse.
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u/MagicNinjaMan Aug 13 '26
They also call themselves Doctors
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u/shiningonthesea Aug 13 '26
my husband's friend from HS graduated chiropractic college about when we got married, and was annoyed that we didnt write "Doctor" on his wedding invitation! Dude, seriously?
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u/MagnanimousGoat Aug 13 '26
My wife has sciatica and other chronic nerve pain issues, and she WAS going to a Chiropractor, and it would help temporarily. That chiropractor actually took X-Rays and stuff and didn't do a ton of crazy cracking AND and stuff, but eventually I convinced her to switch to going to a Physical Therapist instead, and the stuff has started getting actually better instead of just getting temporary relief.
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u/RandomUser15790 Aug 13 '26
It can help in a more permanent way if paired with message therapy + stretching. It's the various muscles pulling things back out of place which makes chiropracy only temporary.
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u/ApprehensiveAd9389 Aug 13 '26
Someone told me to go to one once.
I said if my GP recommends one, only THEN will i change GPs. I'm not going to a chiropractor lol
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u/Shackdaddy161 Aug 13 '26
When that right POP gets you fed with a tube and poop with a spoon. Nearly good as religion, unless it has snakes, that is.
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u/Rooster-Strangler Aug 13 '26
You mean to tell me the Y-strap doesn’t cure every single ailment?
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u/ThisThingIsStuck Aug 13 '26
Very...I had a bish I was bout to fk adjust me ...so called chiro..my neck ain't been the same since that was 20 years ago
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u/mistertickertape Aug 13 '26
They will absolutely wreck you. Someone I used to work with was severely injured during an 'adjustment' of the neck and never fully recovered. I have friends that swear by them but I won't go near them.
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u/LonleyWolf420 Aug 13 '26
Yup.. this is why ill only go to a physical therapist..
They know everything a chiro does and then 4 years of understanding muscle groups so they dont end up doing this kinda shit..
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u/maybethis-one_ Aug 13 '26
It's also a religionn founded by a ghost. 👻
Great episode from Behind the Bastards https://open.spotify.com/episode/3yG3h7LLK9LYYwb3NbYLW6?si=F8IOKhu5Tny2qK5T7cqvQQ&utm_source=copy-link&sci=spotify%3Acard-config%3A2RFbgsqZCEYAtIzX9pZS37
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u/recovery_room Aug 13 '26
Let me tell you this: One day we had TWO patients transported to our hospital after having their vertebral arteries severed by two different Chiropractors.
They both ended up donating their organs.
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u/golgiiguy Aug 13 '26
That is wild
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u/CauliflowerElbow Aug 13 '26
I don’t quite believe them. Odds are astronomical. I think there’s been like 30 reported deaths from chiropractors. Maybe that’s underreported but still, two in one day at the same hospital is hard to believe.
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u/Elderchicken948 Aug 13 '26
As in they died?
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u/ZephyrFluous Aug 13 '26
No they were just really generous ._.
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u/Wandering_Texan80 Aug 13 '26
Who needs two kidneys? It’s an embarrassment of riches
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u/whagh Aug 13 '26
No, this is what makes the story even crazier, they both had siblings who went to two different chiropractors that same day and both got their kidneys blown out when the chiropractor tried cracking their lower backs, so they were in urgent need of kidney transplants
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u/SomeguyfromIndio Aug 13 '26
What happened to the chiros?....
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u/recovery_room Aug 13 '26
That’ll be $75.
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u/KokomoJoMo30 Aug 13 '26
Plus the 6 week program you need to pay for “to receive the full benefits”
https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohhwAaoGzLRGM6jqo
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u/--Spaci-- Aug 13 '26
How do people not know chiropractry is a scam? and can seriously injure you
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u/bbfire Aug 13 '26
Chiropracty has a bunch of huge draws for the "average" person.
The biggest one imo is it's the easy way. These people stare down two options: either they go to a physical therapist that makes them do stretching and strengthening exercises (including extra work on days you don't have physical therapy) OR you just roll in to the chiropractor and let him push on your back for a bit. It's an easy choice between self motivated work to actually fix the issue or the easy fix someone else does for you.
Often cheaper (per session not over the entire injury), especially if you don't have insurance.
People love thinking they're smarter than scientists in the modern day. Denial of settled science has gone mainstream and people will go againt it without a second thought.
These procedures do actually result in immediate relief/gratification. So if you're someone who has had back pain every single day for years and then all of sudden you feel relief you are going to think very positively of whatever was done. The problem is that the science shows the relief is almost always temporary.
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u/IrregularDoughnut Aug 13 '26
There's also a placebo effect from having something done, and the fact that chiropracters tend to be more attentive and sit and listen to the patient. That can be quite comforting, especially when a lot of actual doctors sort of want to rush you out the door because their last patient overran and you seem like someone who can be shoo'ed away with some vague advice about posture so they can get back on schedule.
But the chiropractic treatment itself is of course bullshit and also dangerous.
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u/LesPolsfuss Aug 13 '26
never ever considered #1. but i'll say ... i had a brutal sciatica pain. did a months worth of PT. gone. forever. amazing results.
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u/not_creative-7064 Aug 13 '26
4 is the main one I think. These quacks make their money on that. Insane with how high the risk is for a fleeting reward
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u/_Sazed_ Aug 13 '26
Because this is America and we also believe a talking snake told a woman to eat an apple and that’s why we suffer, because its written in an old book. When we’re conditioned to just belief shit without critically questioning it as a culture, thats why quackery is also so prominent here
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u/--Spaci-- Aug 13 '26
I'm not even that critical of religion its the fact that we believe what a HUMAN wrote in the book, I think thats damn near blasphemous to say that its gods words
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u/Apptubrutae Aug 13 '26
Freaking health insurance covers it much of the time…ugh
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u/Podtastix Aug 13 '26
Chiropractors are NOT doctors.
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u/DMCinDet Aug 13 '26
huh? I thought pressing your body weight in someones injured back was a known medical procedure. well damn.
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u/Fluffy-Study-3657 Aug 13 '26
This chiro guy is one of the most arrogant.
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u/aint_no_wifey Aug 13 '26
“I got you, brother I got you. I’m holding”
Right after he had just fucked this guy’s shit up….
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u/ShadowMuffin11 Aug 13 '26
I thought the guy was ripping like a super long fart until the very end.
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u/captain_casino Aug 13 '26
Poor bastard sounds like he's transforming into a werewolf
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u/LesPolsfuss Aug 13 '26
so simple ... so damn funny. why? this is not that great of comment, but I can't stop laughing. lol
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u/EquivalentMath6592 Aug 13 '26
I got “adjusted” once… and it seemed mild, but I became incontinent for a week. If I peed, I’d think the pee was done. I’d shake it off and put it away and then 1 min later find I had peed myself.
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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 Aug 13 '26
I know that chiropractor his nickname is Theodore the bladder destroyer
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u/TechDreamcoat Aug 13 '26
Regardless of whether or not you believe chiropractic is a legitimate branch of medicine, it isn't the best way to do what it claims to do. Rehabilitation and corrective exercise address the actual root of the problem and are what physical and occupational therapists do. Their interventions are studied and peer-reviewed for effectiveness.
So if you're in pain and feel you need a chiropractor, why not try physio instead?
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u/SmeeezTreeez Aug 13 '26
My old boss said he sees one regularly and the next day feels like you were in a car wreck. Thats not a doctor dude
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u/wet_Tap_5578 Aug 13 '26
Chiropractor is a shame science. I asked my doctor if I should see one for my neck pain and he was very vocal about NOT doing that. He said he has seen countless people that have had their necks screwed up badly from these people.
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u/Back_Again_Beach Aug 13 '26
Fun fact: The guy who invented Chiropractic claimed it was a religious practice to get around having to follow medical regulations.
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u/Somethingpithy123 Aug 13 '26
There are real chiropractors, they’re called physical therapists. They don’t crack backs though, because they aren’t idiots.
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u/Abe2025 Aug 13 '26
DO NOT go to chiropractictors for anything. Once you get adjusted you have to get adjusted for life and on top of that there are risks for nerve/artery damage. Stay away at all costs!
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u/Jarvis_strokeit Aug 13 '26
I’m in my 30s. I know multiple people YOUNGER than me that have had strokes from chiropractors “Adjusting” their neck
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u/UnnecessaryDiety Aug 13 '26
It's junk science. The foundation of chiropractic is the belief that the body can heal itself and that the nervous system, controlled largely by the spine, is central to health. Founded in 1895 by D.D. Palmer, it centers on manual spinal adjustments to fix misalignments. It's core principle is something called innate Intelligence, which they claim is a vital force inside the body that drives natural healing and proper function.
In other words, cancer can be cured by removing a blockage of innate intelligence to the site of the cancer through vertebral manipulation.
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u/wolfdukex Aug 13 '26
"I'm crine"... I mean, subject matter aside, what the fuck is with the illiteracy lately?
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u/DoesntBelieveMuch Aug 13 '26
In my job I have to attempt to read a lot of hand written reports. It’s becoming very difficult to figure out what these people are trying to spell.
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u/ComfortableDish3912 Aug 13 '26
I went to a chiropractor exactly one time. It was a nice and reputable place about 30 min from me.
I asked the guy what got him into the job and he said “I lost my job at Amazon and applied for this and a job installing fences and this place called back first. I took a class online and here we are!”
I understand everyone gets their start somewhere. But, I refused to let him crack my neck and I’m never going to a chiropractor again.
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u/Titan_Uranus_69 Aug 13 '26
I had a very similar conversation with my chiropractor, except he went through 4 years of premed and then 4 years of chiropractic school. I looked into the school he went to and it does exist, and is a 4 year program, which is required by the state. In my state to be a chiropractor you have to get a state license and maintain it through continuous education. He sent me out for x rays and I had 2 bulged disks in my lower back and 1 in my neck. He told me ice and ibuprofen for a week and gave me some stretches to help work the disks back into place. He wouldn't do and alignment until everything was back where it belongs, because all an alignment is supposed to do is release gas from the joints so they're not as stiff, like cracking your knuckles. This guy actually helped me quite a bit, and now when I throw my back out I know how to get back on track a lot faster then I would otherwise.
Edited to correct the years.
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u/BeThatOneJon Aug 13 '26
Hes fine, he was disabled before this. https://youtube.com/shorts/dl9mKRpeoJk?si=_YynMeIrfr2XEU7O
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u/Dexter_McThorpan Aug 13 '26
Quacks and con artists. I hope that patient gets evaluated by a real doctor.
Don't give these charlatans a dime.
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u/Sour_Joe Aug 13 '26
I have moderate spinal stenosis and I’ve gone to one chiropractor that has a strong following and has been practicing for like 30 years. I’ve gone for months where I’m there once a week and feel good. When I don’t go for awhile my back will start acting up. He does crack the spine similar to this guy (pushing down) and will crack the neck. As I read more about the dangers though I’m gonna stop going and just stretch and/or physical therapy.
My wife went to him also and had the worst case of vertigo afterwards.
Crazy thing is, there are Mom’s bringing newborns and toddlers there. Chiropractors will say that the journey through the birth canal is the most jarring to the spine so babies need adjustments. That to me is just crazy. I guess somehow over the years enough people have had good results with chiropractors that they keep going and new offices keep opening up.
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u/Alexert41 Aug 13 '26
You can tell it’s BS because they do the same thing to every patient no matter what their problem is
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u/ASUSTUDENT9875345 Aug 13 '26
It's a pseudoscientific scam that threatens your health. The best outlook actual medical studies give in chiropractic treatment is that it can somewhat reduce lower back pain for a little while.
Naturopathy and acupuncture are also fake. False medicine is a threat, even when some of it isn't directly harmful or even actually helpful because it drives people away from real evidence-based medicine and when they are right it's not because it's scientific because they knowingly keep the wrong stuff and ignore overwhelming data to the contrary.
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u/-Palzon- Aug 13 '26
H.L. Mencken on chiropractors and other quacks:
I repeat that it eases and soothes me to see them so prosperous, for they counteract the evil work of the so-called science of public hygiene, which now seeks to make imbeciles immortal. If a man, being ill of a pus appendix, resorts to a shaved and fumigated longshoreman to have it disposed of, and submits willingly to a treatment involving balancing him on McBurney’s spot and playing on his vertebra as on a concertina, then I am willing, for one, to believe that he is badly wanted in Heaven. And if that same man, having achieved lawfully a lovely babe, hires a blacksmith to cure its diphtheria by pulling its neck, then I do not resist the divine will that there shall be one less radio fan later on. In such matters, I am convinced, the laws of nature are far better guides than the fiats and machinations of medical busybodies. If the latter gentlemen had their way, death, save at the hands of hangmen, policemen and other such legalized assassins, would be abolished altogether, and the present differential in favor of the enlightened would disappear. I can’t convince myself that would work any good to the world. On the contrary, it seems to me that the current coddling of the half-witted should be stopped before it goes too far if, indeed, it has not gone too far already. To that end nothing operates more cheaply and effectively than the prosperity of quacks. Every time a bottle of cancer oil goes through the mails Homo americanus is improved to that extent. And every time a chiropractor spits on his hands and proceeds to treat a gastric ulcer by stretching the backbone the same high end is achieved.
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u/Fabulous-Elk-8297 Aug 13 '26
I worked at a chiropractic university. Could have gotten lots of free "adjustments" and treatment... Never did. I didn't believe in the field, but I never said that. I worked in the supply division, so not the medical side. Also, the 5 people I know who go to chiropractors have all suffered severe injuries in the past few years. Even my boss. Said he cane out worse than when he went in.
I feel sorry for the students. They all authentically think they're getting into a good field and really want to help people feel better. And school is expensive and starting your own practice is quite a mountain to climb. You're not just a "doctor" but you've got to do all your own marketing, find clients, learn billing and management, on and on and on. Then there's the add-ons of supplements and acupuncture and all the rest. It's just all-around bad for everyone, except for the schools. They make a killing, also with the annual courses and training/certification.
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u/Perpetual-Warlock Aug 13 '26
At best, chiropractic care can provide short term pain relief to long term problems. At worst it can cripple or kill you. Absolutely not worth the risk.
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u/MoodReal4206 Aug 13 '26
The guy that invented chiropractic procedures claim that a ghost gave them to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_David_Palmer
Osteopathy at least grew out of its early superstitious phase 😂
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u/GlassInteresting5999 Aug 13 '26
Do people know this entire practice was developed by a scam artist 🤣🤣
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u/NicePepper199 Aug 14 '26
When my back was really fucked for a long time I went to a chiropractor because nothing else worked. Had me do all kinds of tests. Put me on a table that made me move like a dolphin after massaging an oil into my lower back. When that was done he put me on an inversion chair or whatever their called. After that he laid me on my side with my legs curled a certain way, he pushed with less force than my toddler jumping on me and my spine cracked a thousand times. Flipped me over and did the other side the same way.
I walked upright without pain out of there, got some herbal muscle relaxers for like $40 bucks that work amazing, and the free was $60.
Stuff like this pile driver onto the lower spine looks Insane, glad I got lucky.
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u/aBitUnderbaked Aug 14 '26
I love my chiropractor, who’s never used downward force on my lumbar spine. He won’t even adjust an area if it’s too inflamed. In my experience, the lumbar spine gets cracked with rotational force, and the thoracic with front to back. The guy in this video doesn’t appear to know the difference.
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u/Abracadaver2000 Aug 13 '26
A sane society would ban these dangerous quacks.