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I had a chiropractor work on my alignment after my first pregnacy. I loved going, felt better, and my skepticism wore off.

My question to you (welcome aboard, btw :)) and any FReeper chiropractors...

Can anyone explain to me, what the heck it was that this guy and his wife were trying to prove to me in the following example?:

Mr. Chiro had me do some strength tests with my legs. Then like a magician's assistant, in came Mrs. Chiro to "interpret" my ailments and weakness by "reading" me via energy or something which traveled through a human chain.

What in the heck was that? I thought I was involved in an alien encounter.

Something else baffling me most right now, is how you posted before you became a FReeper (lol!).

Let me start by saying that I don't personally use muscle tests, but we were taught about them in school. Sounds like they were trying to use muscle testing to determine what was going on in your body. Did they mention anything about "AK" or Applied Kinesiology? That's what it sounds like to me.

Here goes the rather voodoo-sounding explanation: they were trying to "ask" the body what is going on, maybe by having you hold something (a vitamin or food), or by testing muscles that somehow correlate to organs, etc. The theory is, you test a muscle, if it's strong, you apply different stimuli, like "hold this vitamin" to see if it stays strong or goes weak. Same applies for starting with a weak muscle and testing to see what makes it go strong. You would then avoid/consume whatever the testing showed, or work on whatever organ or gland showed up as a "problem".

It's out there, I know. That's why I don't do it. I'm not saying it couldn't work, I just personally don't believe in it. That's part of the problem with chiropractic today -- there are so many different people doing so many different things, but all are called Chiropractors.

BTW, I signed up for a FR login on Friday, just before my first post in this thread. Is there some info page that says I joined later??? I'm obviously a newbie, so I don't know how everyone keeps looking this up (someone on another thread mentioned me joining Saturday...)??? I'm sure you have a name for people who just nose around but never join -- I've been one of them for about a year, but couldn't contain myself when this thread popped up.