Chiropractors, Thoughts and Experiences?

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Alright I have awful back problems ever since a big Snap-On tool box ran me over a few years back along with a combination of me not taking it as easy as I should with a lot of things. My spine feels like it's been tied in a knot and the muscle in my lower back constantly ache. My regular doctor gave me a back brace and some pain pills and said just to rest when it hurts...since that isn't something I want to do consider I dislike taking any kind of pills.

I've been tossing around the idea of going to a chiropractor since many people swear by them. What are your guys thoughts on them? Are they worth it? My health care won't cover it obviously and it's about $20 a visit. I don't know how often I need to go but this could get pricey quick.
 
I go usually once every 3 weeks. $25 a visit and boy is it worth it. I used to have terrible posture from sitting poorly at my first computer and having to hunch over school desks that weren't my size. So, chiropractics has helped me fix it. Just stay away from the guys who want you to get adjusted like every day and stuff.

Anyway, depending on your situation a massage can be better than an adjustment. You shouldn't need pain pills and a back brace unless you're seriously injured. I would say just go get adjusted and then book yourself a neck/back/leg massage.
 
I see a chiropractor once a week due to my car accident I suffered last summer. Some days I cant wake up and be in pain from my neck to my lower back and after stopping in and having him adjust my neck and back everything is so much better. Although I went to him just a day after my accident so I couldn't say if you would gain much going to one after a few years. In come cases you could reduce the pain but you might not. Still it wouldn't hurt to go once or twice and see what comes if its only $20 a visit.
 
My mom is at the Chiropractor atleast 3 days out of the week, she's had back troubles for a while, and up until recently we were also doing a thing called "Naet" (Pronounced as Nate), which is a system for curing of allergies through chiropractic methods, they even have stuff to rid you of allergies caused by certain emotions.

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My mother went to a chiropractor for many years for neck problems. One random day in her mid 40s, she had a really bad migraine and weird vision problems. Two days later she had a cerebral drain and had top neurologists trying to find out where the blood came from that caused her stroke. They never figured out where the hemorrhaging in her brain stem came from.

Her chiropractor called her to confirm an appointment a few months later as she had missed some, and she told him what had happened. He hung up right away and we got a letter in the mail informing us to only communicate with him through his lawyer henceforth.

Keep seeing people with real MD diplomas on their walls.
 
I'd say you have two options here:

- Go to the Chiropractor, feel awesome, and not feel too bad about ponying up the $20

- Do yoga. Seriously. Its the only way I've ever felt anything close to the "release" of a Chiropractor
 
My dad had awful back problems in the past as well.

He went to take acupuncture, and it helped. But since acupuncture is only against chronical pains, my dad gave up on it since he didn't want to take those sessions so many times a month, and here, they're pretty expensive.

So my dad began to sport, but nothing really helped. Turned out that his hips were the problem; His right hip is higher than his left. So all of his shoes are now customized :p

He also bought a new matrass to improve his spinal form during his sleep, his now free from back problems 👍


I'd say to visit anyone with knowledge, but don't start those expensive sessions already, some are some real rip-offs...
 
Don't do that route. If your spine is out of place or something then you have a problem larger than what a chiropractor can do.

Remember: CHIROPRACTORS EAT THEIR DEAD!

let me know if you don't understand that reference.
 
The guy I have lined up is a real MD so it's none of that holistic crap, I made sure that I was seeing someone who knew what the hell they were doing first. I'm pretty sure I'm going to try it out, couldn't hurt.

Also I might try yoga, Kate's been trying to get me to do it with her for a while now.
 
My mother went to a chiropractor for many years for neck problems. One random day in her mid 40s, she had a really bad migraine and weird vision problems. Two days later she had a cerebral drain and had top neurologists trying to find out where the blood came from that caused her stroke. They never figured out where the hemorrhaging in her brain stem came from.

Her chiropractor called her to confirm an appointment a few months later as she had missed some, and she told him what had happened. He hung up right away and we got a letter in the mail informing us to only communicate with him through his lawyer henceforth.

Keep seeing people with real MD diplomas on their walls.

Someone had a guilty conscience!
 
Just remember what Penn & Teller call chiropractors - "Sick baby twisting mother:censored:ers!" :lol:

My wife went to a chiropractor for a few weeks for her lower back/hip and it didn't help. Neither did medication. The only thing that gave her long term relief was exercise. I'm going to agree that yoga is your best bet, especially since you have someone to do it with.
 
mine wasn't a fake chiro, either.

for those of you who got burned or hurt by Chiropractors, don't lump them all together as charlatans! we alienate any MORE health Professionals, all our MD's and nurses are gonna leave. they're already paying through the nose because of the idiots that screwed up (i read that doctors walk away because their malpractice insurance premiums shot up to a million a year because of screwups and money happy lawyers)
 
I go usually once every 3 weeks. $25 a visit and boy is it worth it.
And therein lies the problem.

Chiropractors are like heroin dealers. No one ever goes to the chiropractor ONCE. It's always 'come back in 2 weeks... for the rest of your life'. In fact, I know not one but TWO people who became so addicted to going to the chiropractor that they quit their own professions - both highly paid - and became chiropractors themselves!

I think I'm also down with exigeracer's advice above - keep seeing real MDs.
 
$20!? I know a bloke who was paaying £30 a session, that's $60!

Never been, but have you tried yoga on Wii Fit? :D
 
And therein lies the problem.

Chiropractors are like heroin dealers. No one ever goes to the chiropractor ONCE. It's always 'come back in 2 weeks... for the rest of your life'. In fact, I know not one but TWO people who became so addicted to going to the chiropractor that they quit their own professions - both highly paid - and became chiropractors themselves!

I think I'm also down with exigeracer's advice above - keep seeing real MDs.

Wow. Yeah, it feels good to go and get adjusted, but it's not like I have to go. Like I said, I only choose to because I have to sit for 5 hours hunched over tiny college desks, so after 3 weeks of that crap I start getting out of whack.

Chiropractors of course have the interest of keeping you in their offices forever. That's why you have to take treatment seriously and change other parts of your life (like exercising and keeping good posture). Right now I'm being subjected to an environment where I can't really help how I sit, so I get adjusted periodically until, with exercise and some massage, I no longer have to be uncomfortable.

I wouldn't lump those kinds of situations into those of detrimental addictions.
 
My cousin has had lower back pain, but he doesn't know what it's from.

After going to 3 different chiropractors, they all tell him to "quit doing whatever you're doing that causes it to hurt, and just rest."

That doesn't help much because the pain is always there, and he doesn't know what caused it in the first place.
 
My wife goes about twice a month. She says its worth it. I've only been about four or five times throughout my life, but they really help.

Its worth it in my opinion.
 
But the point is that you have to keep going back.

No you don't. You go back as you see fit. If you don't think you need to go, then you don't.
 
I've tried real doctors and all they do is push pills on me, something I hate. I don't like putting things into my body that I don't know what they are, especially addictive things like pain pills. I'm willing to try something else to see how it goes.
 
I would recommend it I went to a chiropractor a few months ago for a snow boarding injury and it did provide temporary relief but I misaligned my hips and tail bone and walked around in pain for a month so the damage is past what the chiropractor can do, so I stopped going. My mom is a massage therapist and many people say its great and helps them a lot.
 
hate to tell ya...i only did a few sessions with a Chiro, and didn't go back, ever. hell, I can crack my own back, now :P
 
I've tried real doctors and all they do is push pills on me, something I hate. I don't like putting things into my body that I don't know what they are, especially addictive things like pain pills. I'm willing to try something else to see how it goes.

This is so backwards it's not funny. You don't want to see a real doctor who knows what he's doing, giving you pills he knows what they do, but you're totally willing to go to someone who wishes he was a doctor doing some he doesn't know what he's doing. There's a reason why the profession is tainted with a bad reputation.

Stick to people who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and a decade perfecting their profession. I can open a clinic tomorrow and pull at people's bodies and call myself a chiropractor. It may feel good right away but who's telling what kind of damage it will do in the long-term. Certainly not the guy wearing the latex.
 
Due to where I work and the field that I’m studying, I’ve done some research on this kind of stuff, and I just don’t get the mistrust of drugs – it seems like anti-science hysteria to me. I forget the exact figures, but a typical pharmaceutical take something like 7–8 years to go through zillions of clinical trials and pass FDA regulations. The people who synthesize these things are geniuses (and I hope to be one of them someday); the people who deal with safety and efficacy and regulatory issues are geniuses; the people who administer these drugs are geniuses. For any one particular drug, you’re talking about millions of man hours of science and testing and safety analysis, as well as learnedness on the doctors’ part. If you trust crossing a bridge, you should be able to trust taking a pill from a professional.

Chiropracty, on the other hand… its basic tenant is actually, in all seriousness, described as metaphysical. That’s just screaming BS. I have no doubt that you can get some effects, but mostly just because cracking your back feels good. If you read the effectiveness section of the Wiki article (which is well-cited, BTW), you’ll see that chiropractic treatment hasn’t been found particularly effective for anything.

“Alternative therapy” is another way of saying “Unproven therapy”.
 
People hear the bad stories of pharmaceutical drugs, but forget the far greater amount of good stories of them. Drug testing is so thorough and so detailed. There will be some cases where they can be a problem, anti-depressants being one of the most common I'd have thought, but then that is a totally different type of drug to the others.

Getting addicted to painkillers does happen, but it's on such a small scale.
 
This is so backwards it's not funny. You don't want to see a real doctor who knows what he's doing, giving you pills he knows what they do, but you're totally willing to go to someone who wishes he was a doctor doing some he doesn't know what he's doing. There's a reason why the profession is tainted with a bad reputation.

Stick to people who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and a decade perfecting their profession. I can open a clinic tomorrow and pull at people's bodies and call myself a chiropractor. It may feel good right away but who's telling what kind of damage it will do in the long-term. Certainly not the guy wearing the latex.

Many chiropractors have medical degrees and are real doctors, the one I'm looking at going to does. And pushing pills and tells me to rest and wear a brace isn't trying to fix the problem, its putting a band-aid over it.
 
Seriously, that's what you think?

Yes, giving me pills isn't going to do anything. I have tried numerous times to get my doctor to get me into physical therapy, but he refuses. I have HAP so I can only go to certain doctors. I hate the medical industry because all they want to do is cover over the symptoms instead of fixing the problem.

Some chiropractors have medical degrees, the one I'm talking to graduated from Wayne State.
 
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