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The doubt is that the "treatment" MADE you better.

There is no doubt. The treatment I receive does not coincidentally make me better eventually; it makes me feel better instantly. I am physically fit and active and in tune with my body. I exercise frequently but occasionaly tweak something. Sometimes stretching or ice/heat or a hot tub will work, sometimes it does not. When I seek chiropractic treatment, it works 99% of the time. If it does not work, my chiro has referred me to a PT (recently for Patellar tendinitis as an example) or to a doc if necessary. I speak not from blind faith, but experience. I am reluctant to admit I am a lawyer for fear of starting a different type of flame war. But I have no dog in this hunt.

From what experience do you speak?

I'm not sure how your profession relates to the issue. Your experience, however, does NOT prove that the chiropractic treatment is responsible for the healing. Most minor musculoskletal injuries/illnesses resolve spontaneously. A good massage no doubt would have given you equal benefit.

A chiropractor however claims that certain spinal "curvatures" are responsible for certain illnesses, and that correcting the curvature corrects the illness. This has NEVER been proven. What HAS been proven is that patients with low back pain develop muscle spasm, and this spasm is almost always unilateral, such that the mobile spine is pulled to that side, causing the curvature. The curvature is in fact the RESULT of the illness, rather than the cause.

The root of the problem is that the chiropractor quotes a faulty unproven "science" to guide his profession, whereas in fact the good results that are achieved are the result of the spontaneous healing that occurs from most minor musculoskeletal injuries, or from placebo effect, or from the effect of a good massage. It is GOOD that some patients feel so much better after seeing a chiropractor [for the above reasons]. It is BAD that the poor science on which chiropractic is based lead people to believe that the improvement is more than what it is: the effect of healing, placebo, and/or massage. And the poor science causes chiropractors to such acts as to treat abdominal pain which eventually turned out to be appendicitis [I knew the patient].