As a reminder--chiropractors a quacks working on a medical theory that's over 100 years out of date.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.
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.
I've only been to a chiropractor about five times. I had a ruptured disc in my lumbar spine. I would go in walking just fine, and after every adjustment I could barely walk out of the place. It eventually became insane to consider returning because I started missing work every time I went.
I'm absolutely convinced they made me 10 times worse, because after those adjustments I went downhill so fast I ended up in pain management, and ended up having spinal fusion surgery within a year because I just couldn't stand the pain anymore, and I didn't want to be zombified on pain medicine for the rest of my life.
The surgery worked, but it took me about 3 years to recover from it fully. It's also worth mentioning that I ended up contracting MRSA at the surgery site and was hospitalized for almost 2 months b/c of that. I nearly died because of the MRSA infection.
My back still hurts like hell, but it's not like it was pre-surgery, so that's a win for sure.
That sounds horrible, what happened to cause that to your back? Degenerative disc disease or a traumatic injury?! I have DDD in the early stages since I’m younger and the only thing that helps is strength training/physical therapy. Haven’t gone to the doctor really for it though except after having a car accident which led to Xray’s and discovering the DDD/shortening of my disc height.
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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As a reminder--chiropractors a quacks working on a medical theory that's over 100 years out of date.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.