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Originally Posted by Titan2
I will offer an alternative opinion. Full disclosure my wife is a chiro. She graduated from the UofA with a physiology degree and attended the Canadian Chiropractic College in Toronto. All of her non-chiro classes were taught by faculty of the U of T med school. She has been practicing in Calgary for about 25 years. She has taken continuing education annually as well as additional courses such as graston technique, taping, etc.
To say she is not trained in manipulation or the mechanics and treatment of necks, the spine or the entire musculoskeletal system is simply ignorant and not based on the actual facts. I won't comment on the qualifications of a kinesiologist other than it only requires a 4 year undergraduate degree, is not a regulated profession and has a voluntary certification. If they wish to manipulate they can take additional courses, the same as a physio. Four years of daily hands on training or several weekends of courses. You decide.
Chiropractic is recognized by the Health Professions Act and is a regulated profession.
I know there is an incredible bias against the profession on this board against Chiro. None of the comments I have read over the years have been based in fact. Chiros treat and help millions of people a year whose ailments generally improve after intervention.
It doesn't help everyone, like most treatments.
Not all chiros are good. Some are better, some are worse. Some are simple grifters trying to get rich. Same as most professions. (except teaching. No one is getting rich teaching)
Sometimes people get hurt. That is sad but again, no different than any other treatment and much safer than some.
Chiro is not backed by science. This is simply not true. A simple google search will show the amount of research that has been conducted.
Anyways. I tend to turn the other cheek when this is brought up and don't wish to have a debate. I just tire of the drive by insults like the above that are not based in fact.
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My buddy is a chiro. He's the only chiro I'd go to if I needed that level of manipulation. Based on his training and mentality, I'd say he's closer to a sports therapist and physiotherapist with chiropractic training than pure chiropractor.
He's worked with high performance athletes before and I actually spent a few months poking around and feeling him out before agreeing to going to him regularly for adjustment. In my personal situation, he waited until about the 2nd or 3rd appointment before adjusting my neck, which was actually one of the primary reasons why I went in the first place. I was having such severe neck/back pain and tension that I'd random run into debilitating and paralyzing pain that would manifest into a nearly full blown back/shoulder/neck spasms. Other physiotherapy, activities/rolling/exercises, regular massages, acupuncture etc. weren't effective and so in desperation I decided to add chiropractic adjustments to the regimen to address the issues.
I've chatted with him about the multiple lines of chiro. He is of the style (also went to U of T) that is science backed. He agrees that the line of chiropractic thinking where they think that there's fluid and stuff in your spine that causes diseases and stuff is pure bull#### and even other chiropractors disagree with that BS. He isn't like one of those online grifters that is most focused on ASMR and getting hot girls to hop on the table for them to film for the views and clicks.
Each time we basically discuss the lifestyle attributes that have occurred since the last appointment. He checks the state of my body + adjusts it and we discuss what seems to be working and what doesn't seem to be working. For me, it's not like a massage where it's just physical manipulation, shoot the #### and rinse and repeat with no further investigation and analysis. Like I said, my relationship with him and the services I request from him are much closer to physio and sports therapy with him basically using the chiropractic part to physically checking parts of my body on a regular basis to see if there's improvements or damage that's going on. The physical adjustment stuff for relief now is basically bonus for me and I haven't had debilitating spasms since I started going to him 1.5-2 years ago. I used to get spasms so bad I'd typically be locked in a position due to paralyzing pain for around 5-15 minutes with tears streaming down my face. This would happen a few times a month. I literally could kinda time it because the TV would be playing and I'd see how time had elapsed on the program.
As someone who also has defended chiropractors, you have to have a bit thicker skin and address the fact there's more than one school of thinking. My buddy took that head on and said that there's schools of thinking in chiro that are stupid and dangerous and not scientifically backed, but he is not of that school of thinking. He and I have defended that aspect to my wife. My wife literally has had to go to the emergency room due to a bad chiropractic experience before I met her. She will never go to a chiropractor ever again. My buddy and I defending the chiro stance is so that she doesn't freak out about me going to get chiropractic adjustment from him. He even apologized on behalf of all chiropractors to the bad experience she endured. My wife as acknowledged that there seems to be major differences in how my buddy describes how he'd approach her care and what was done to her. She still will never go to a chiropractor, but she respects my buddy working on me and my buddy respects that she doesn't want to go with him or any other chiropractor.
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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
Just wait until you're in your 50s and sneeze wrong.
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Oh my god that's bringing up a bad memory. I sneezed wrong and immediately fell to the ground in pain. Then to add insult to injury, the spasms kicked in. My wife found me groaning on the floor and I had to try and calm her down in that painful state to avoid her calling an ambulance for me. It wasn't helping that my eldest was like "Is daddy dying?" while my youngest crawled over and was slapping me in the face. Every laugh or cry or crying laugh hurt so much.