[Seaplaner]

IIRC, the Palmer method of chiropractic teaches that 95 % of all human disease arises from spinal misalignment. The tragedy of chiropractic is that many with treatable disease states go to the chiro instead of a doc, and either miss out on a correct dx or lose precious time while a disease progresses.

If I wanted a spinal manipulation, I would go to an osteopath, not a chiro.

[editor-surveyor]

"IIRC, the Palmer method of chiropractic teaches that 95 % of all human disease arises from spinal misalignment."

YDRC! As ancient as Palmer is, it never taught any such thing. Chiropractors were the first to recognize that back pain is due to microbial inflammation. The mainstream has caught up only in the past two or three years.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“teaches that 95 % of all human disease arises from spinal misalignment.”

This seems typical of ALL “alternative” garbage. They claim to be all “cures” to all problems. That is a red flag for any of these silly snake-oil schemes.

Seems chiropractic generally claims that (don’t know about this “Palmer” thing). Worse, I fear it has hurt people (just like acupuncture).

People who think it helps are probably having their bodies shape up just in time - coincidental.

I don’t know why people don’t just go to PHYSICAL THERAPY if they have musculoskeletal problems. PT has helped me much, for sure. They don’t claim to cure anything with “just aligning this 1 thing”, nor to cure DISEASES like these charlatan/quacks do.

[the OlLine Rebel]

BTW, this whole scheme of chiropracty was thought up by some pseudo-scientific man in the 19th century. I can’t believe how people actually think this is viable. If it were, the whole “mainstream Western medical establishment” would be out of business.

[Ditter]

I don’t think an osteopath is any better than a chiropractor. My dad spent 2 months in an osteopathic hospital while his broken spine got worse.

“Just a few more whirlpool baths and you will be good as new sir.”