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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The problem with Chiro's is the same as the problem with any borderline quackery, they are so defensive of their 'specialty' it blinds them to their own boundries in a way you wouldn't normally see in a, for example, ear nose and throat doctor who finds evidence of something they cant treat.
Regular doctors happily pass off patients to other specialists, they don't seem to feel the need to claim their speciality will cure everything the way homeopaths and chiro's seem to.
There might be some limited efficacy to chiropractic treatment, but it is so limited and so lacking in scientific grounding that those that practice it are in reality little different from any other cult, and cults, without the usual grounding and boundries always end up thinking they are the only answer for everything, whether they are religious or 'medical'.
When I can ring up a chiro with a bit of neck pain and he or she tells me there is nothing they can do for me as statistical evidence shows they are only useful for a limited area of lower back pain, at that point they can call themselves 'medicine' and also that is the point they will stop hurting people.
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I don’t take any issue with this characterization. That’s pretty fair, and once I looked into all the evidence I found that chiropractic was very limited in it’s ability to treat. But that being said, it isn’t useless either.
My problem has always been that chiropractors want to be the messiah to their patients, to “change their lives” and get them out of the medical model. To me that’s unethical.
I should mention that my father is a chiropractor as well and is one of these “messiah” types. I have challenged him repeatedly but he is so indoctrinated that he cannot listen to reason. And yes, before you ask my father is an anti-vaxxer and I have repeatedly begged him to change his mind, but to no avail. I have found this with many others who are “dyed in the wool” so to speak. It has been so contentious that my father and I rarely speak anymore, which has been personally very difficult.
I’ve been through the ringer on these subjects. It’s been personally and professionally very difficult for me to reconcile the reality with what I was raised to believe. Had I known what the profession was really about I would never have signed up, but it’s too late for that now.
I guess what I would say is that if the culture or climate around chiropractic did change I wouldn’t have any objection to young people going down that road. As it stands right now, I would beg any young person to reconsider becoming a chiropractor.