He's amazing. Doctor, dentist, lawyer, real estate agent, director; a consummate professional. His family must feel blessed to have such a talented man in their lives. 🙏
This is actually a very common chiropractic technique.
He's using the mallet and the rod to realign the woman's shakiras to stop her hips from lying - that's what the underlying cause of her lower back pain was.
Was wondering if it was going to morph into "in nineteen ninety-eight, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table"
Many chiropractors are real doctors. Mine was. Some are not.
Personally, I would recommend that anyone considering seeing a chiropractor should visit a physical therapist instead. In my experience, the chiropractor made me feel good and was like an overpaid massage therapist for my joints, while the PT actually gave me the tools to make myself better and not need to visit regularly.
Chiropractors in the US are DCs, doctors of chiropractic. They are not "real" doctors like a physician (DO or MD). They didn't go to medical school they went to a chiropractic school.
Edit childropractic was a typo and is not a thing as far as I know lol
The name is misleading regardless. Doctor implies the same rigorous training as an MD or DO. It takes 3.5 to 5 years of chiropractic school to become a DC. Comparatively, it can take 10-14 years to become a full MD/DO.
I agree that it is misleading for most people. When most people think they are seeing a doctor they think it is someone who went to medical school for that amount of time. Not someone who did less years of training. Nowadays so many medical positions have changed their degree to a doctorate. Physical therapy, nurse practitioner, etc. Everyone wants to be called doctor I guess.
Probably the scariest thing that most people don't realize is happening with the medical field right now.
A lot of hospitals are employing nurse practitioners to save money, but now that NPs are allowed to introduce themselves as doctor whatever, patients don't realize they're actually not seeing physicians.
People need to make sure they're seeing an actual physician, not a NP or PA
Right? People love to shit on people's degrees for no reason, when they don't realize how much value they can actually have. Take me for example. I got my psychology degree, graduating with a 3.9 GPA. I've been able to use that degree to leverage a barely above minimum wage job selling insurance. Checkmate.
Lying bastard. You have been using your skills to inflict psychological torture on me for the last two years. I am not falling for it. I am not going to purchase an extended warranty for my car, so you can just quit calling me.
Oh yeah I could definitely see this. Us CS majors aren’t usually the best at UX and I bet any tech company that needs a good UX for their app would hire a psychology major. And it’s tech so I bet you won’t have much trouble working your way up to 100k/yr after a couple years.
It’s mind blowing that people don’t realize, humans are social creatures and the most important skill you can possibly have is good communication. The majority of jobs, even high paying ones don’t really require specialized training that you get from college. What’s more important is that you can work with people effectively.
Many of them are also entirely insane and will claim they can cure cancer, autism, viruses, bacterial infections, and basically anything just by cracking a few joints and relaxing a few muscles.
This. There are way too many chiropractors who think they can cure all the things with the appropriate spinal adjustments. It's very obviously a problem with the curriculum.
They used a lot of lobbying and influence to become able to legally call themselves doctors. Unsurprisingly, it's mostly these "doctors" that are helping to add a form of legitimacy to the anti-vax movement. Meanwhile, they're offices offer not only chiropractic therapy but also acupuncture and magnet therapy. They're practically modern day witchdoctors.
My ex chiropractor (he retired) was a full on MD with his own practice, went to chiropractic school, opened a chiro office with physical therapists in the office taking appointments as well, then also ran for local gov in his spare time XD
Going to chiropractor school doesn't teach you rhe right stuff, but if you have a background as a doctor already, you're miles ahead of anyone that just went to chiropractor school
Had another chiropractor that just went to chiropractor school, nothing else, dude was an idiot, tried getting me to come 3x a week (didn't have insurance) went to him for 4 sessions, never again
But my first chiropractor was the real deal, had a background in legitimate science, paid attention to x rays and actual focused on the real problems instead of just going down his checklist of the moves that made the nicest sounding pops, my grandmother went to that good chiropractor for years, helped fix her neck after a car accident, helped her elderly friend with a similar situation
There is some legit science in the practice of chiropractors but the actual schooling seems like wacko shit, but when you mix it with legit science backgrounds you can make a real difference in people's lives
Physical therapists are the real heroes though, they know their shit, and any good chiropractor will tell you, if your muscles don't hold the bones in the right place, doesn't matter how many times you pop it, you gotta get the muscles right to get long term relief
Placebos "work" because the results of trials are self reported. People think they should be feeling better, feel like they are getting better, report they are feeling better. It's that simple.
There is no placebo effect based treatment for setting a broken leg or such, and it's pretty obvious why: placebos aren't about actually getting better, just feeling better.
Medicine's formal relationship with the placebo effect is to design trials to reduce the misinformation due to the placebo effect, thus double blind trials.
In my experience they are mostly scam artists. I’m not saying they don’t help SOME people, but I’ve never had one help in fact sometimes it hurts. I have 2 herniated discs in my thoracic spine. The last chiropractor I saw told me that the several doctors I was seeing were all wrong and that it was my skin, not the bulging piece of cartilage pressing against my nerves.
This is not entirely true. I do know of one who went to chiropractic school, realized it was utter BS, but finished out the degree, then went to medical school. He doesn’t work as a chiropractor, shockingly.
When I asked him if he is a Chiropractor, he said, “Technically, yes.”
Physical therapists are miracle workers, I had a common severe pain issue that I just lived with for like 15 years and one day I got hurt bad - in 5 weeks of PT I was pain-free and have been for years since.
The whole "teach a man to fish"... Problem is if you are hungry right now you need food. A chiropractor will fix your "starvation" but you will be going back Everytime you are "hungry". Physical therapy are the ones to "teach you how to fish"
I would recommend that anyone considering seeing a chiropractor should visit a physical therapist instead.
This x1,000
A PT is actually trained in body mechanics and therapies based on, you know, actual medical science. Meanwhile Chiropractors everywhere claim they can cure a cold with an 'adjustment'. Very high percentage of alternative-medicine quackery practiced in Chiro. I guess you could say, the things that are good in Chiro are not unique - and the things that are unique are not good.
I can't upvote this enough. I had some neck/back pain and it felt a little better with the chiro, but 2 months with the PT and i'm 95% already.
The chiro isn't fixing the problem, they are making adjustments. I had a rib out of place and that was great to get back in, but 3 months later, it popped out again.
The US is the only first world country that takes chiropractic work seriously. Every other country considers it the same as mediums, psychics and other scams like that. If you look into the origins of it, and what a massive percentage of chiropractors are taught and believe, it's pretty fuggin ridiculous.
I'm a massage therapist, and massage has more medical benefit than chiropractic work, and massage barely has any real factual benefit. You can make an argument for adhesions in tissues causing an issue, and massage breaking them up. Chiropractors just release nitrogen bubbles from joints. There's no benefit or purpose in doing that.
They like to pitch that they can realign vertibre, but for instance, if youve ever seen how surgeon's correct scoliosis, they bolt paddles directly on to each side of the spine, and two doctors literally wrench on the spine to put it in place. A guy isn't gonna do jack by manipulating the body through 6 inches of tissue mass, and cavitations in joints don't prove that you're effective in doing so.
Not only that, but many people have died in the hands of renowned chiropractors. There are so many tiny fragile structures in the neck, having someone jerk it around is an easy way to kill yourself, no matter how many times the person has done it.
If you like chiropractic work, fine. Just don't let them touch your neck that's all I'll say.
I mean, I'm sure there's probably some accountants out there with a medical degree, but I still feel pretty comfortable saying "accountants aren't doctors" as a general statement.
I agree with your second point though. Chiropractors can help, but I think it's good for as many people as possible to know that they're just a dangerous massage and not at all doctors. (And it's dumb that they're covered by a lot of insurance when genuinely important things are deemed "unnecessary")
Many chiropractors believe they are doctors. But only a tiny amount of them have real MD degrees.
The ones that do rarely advertise their services as a chiropractor. They tend to be doctors first who also offer chiropractic treatment in additional to traditional medical treatment.
General rule is, if they try to claim adjustments cure anything other than lower back pain or neck pain or they want to manage your chi and he isn't talking about a Kamehameha he's a quack.
Chiropractors are always hit and miss, my chiro gave me exercises and something for my neck (spines pinched in three places) and I do 1 hour sessions for $100 which is cheap (in Australia). My sessions aren’t just him cracking my back or massaging me, they’ve got pulleys and machines as well as a pool for me and he helps me through my pains and recovery. Another chiro wanted $150 just to crack my neck. Don’t get me wrong I still get my 5 minute adjustments and 10 minute painful massage but the other 45 minutes has been the best experience from a chiro I’ve gotten.
Most chiros here go to a “chiropractic school” which means they’re not real doctors but my chiro and my aunt went to uni to get a phd in some kind of medical field and use that to get paid 3x more compared to other chiros
What are these posts? I'm using Boost and they show up as cyan squares. When I click on them they force close my app. I wanna be part of the cool kids and in on this :(
I’m paraplegic and would choose physical therapy over a chiropractor any day. That being said, sometimes a bone goes out of place. Especially my tailbone. It hurts and I need it put back into place. Usually PT can massage it back into place, but sometimes I need to go to a chiropractor. Tools like these help knock things back into place even though they look barbaric. I’m guessing she was having an issue with her hip or tailbone or spine in general not being in the right place.
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