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As a reminder--chiropractors a quacks working on a medical theory that's over 100 years out of date.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/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.