I say it this way; "Chiropractic always works...Chiropractors do not always work."
I want to thank you for being a reasoned, logical voice on this topic.
I am often disappointed in the judgmental epithets that are ignorantly thrown around here.
Chiropractic evolved from bonesettingwhich has been around for thousands of years - even before Hippocrates!
One famous bonesetter was Dr. Reese:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Reese
Interesting story, the medical doctors in Ohio tried to quash his practice (he was upstaging them, doncha know) - long story short - he helped the crippled woman they had presented him with (as a test and a trap). They granted him a license!
I know what you mean-exactly.
There was a time, a long time ago, when Chiropractic was largely unregulated, and there were older practitioners who should not have been practicing, people who WERE “quacks”. That largely ended in the Seventies, if I read the histories correctly.
I keep in mind that there were people practicing medicine, physicians, who were really “quacks” as well, and far more of them, under a legal shield of the AMA.
Now, even the medical community has grudgingly accepted that Chiropractic has a place. Even professional sport teams have Chiropractors on retainer, and some of them even perform adjustments on the sideline during televised games.
In the end, whether someone understands or believes in Chiropractic or not, empirically, it works. I certainly know it from being in the healthcare industry, but I also know it from intimate firsthand knowledge as a chiropractic patient.