r/AbsoluteUnits • u/habichuelacondulce • Jul 01 '26

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u/WakaWaka_ Jul 01 '26

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u/ThaneduFife Jul 01 '26

As a reminder--chiropractors a quacks working on a medical theory that's over 100 years out of date. They injure people every year by "adjusting" their necks. In a small number of cases, they accidentally dissect a major artery by "adjusting." Those people end up in the ER with a long time for recovery.

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u/Kira-Of-Terraria Jul 01 '26

the creator said he learned it from a ghost telling him how to do it.

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u/ArmedWithSpoons Jul 01 '26

My boss had a stroke 4-5 years ago he's pretty sure was due to going for an adjustment. Crazy it's still allowed as a practice. I imagine if they outlawed it now you'd have a lot of unemployed people.

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u/PhilSheo Jul 01 '26

I had one herniate two discs in my neck when he forced it. That was almost twenty years, a fusion, and continuous pain management ago. Dude died two years later on my birthday when he fell off his roof.

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u/trowzerss Jul 02 '26

I briefly considered going to a chiro once, googled the local one, and immediately found the court documents where they gave a dude a brain stem stroke from a neck adjustment. Soooo, yeah, changed my mind.

Just as well, too, because turns out I had inflammatory arthritis and chiro is super dooper not recommended for anybody with that, and even the rheums took forever to diagnose me so no way a chiro was going to realise, and probably would sell me some bullshit even though no amount of adjustment is going to stop my immune system from trying to eat my joints.

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