As someone who has been in the law you’re both right. There is medical benefit to chiropractic, but the medical benefit ends at 6 or 8 weeks at the outside. After that, sure it feels good if I give you a back rub, but it’s of no medical benefit. Yet chiropractors will continue to “treat” patients for two or three years, once or twice a week. That’s why they have such a bad reputation ... as an industry they shamelessly overtreat to jack up their bills. You can imagine the surprise of personal injury victims when the adjuster tells them to stick their chiro bills.
Over the years I’ve been using chiropractors, the ones that have treated me were pretty honest.
My son was in a car wreck and was seeing our family physical therapist. The guy does wonders. Treats us once or twice and gives us exercises for home.
I’m guessing he had worked on my son’s spine for 6 to 8 weeks, and thought he had a couple more weeks left. The insurance company had my son go into their doctor and said he was fine. I trust our guy over the other doctor, and my son is still in pain. I told him to either go see his own doctor to get a second opinion, or I would just pay for the next two weeks.
Of course it has been a month now, and I’m guessing his muscles have tightened up so much again that it will take a month of rehab instead of the two weeks. I guess I was that way when I was his age. Now as soon as I tweek something I go in and get it fixed. The longer it stays tweeked, the longer it takes to work it out.
Several times we have something going on and we go see doctors and they do whatever and can’t figure it out. My one kid had headaches and they couldn’t see anything on the x-ray, so they were going to do MRI’s etc.
Then my wife had the idea to ask our physical therapist and he diagnosed the problem and sent us to a specialist that took care of the chronic headaches in about two weeks! (The doctors could have done 10 MRIs and brain surgery and never would have figured it out.)