[TomB]

But some D.C.s are very good healers. (A lot of chiropractors mix their traditional chiropractic stuff with acupuncture, with occasionally very impressive results.)

I don't doubt that spinal manipulations may help with lower back pain. But the problem I have with Chiro is that not one of them can consistently articulate what it is that they do that helps. Go and try to get a consistent defintion of "subluxation". Take a back picture to 10 Chiros and you'll get 10 different diagnoses.

If someone is going to help me, I want to know what it is they are doing to help.

[aruanan]

I don't doubt that spinal manipulations may help with lower back pain. But the problem I have with Chiro is that not one of them can consistently articulate what it is that they do that helps. Go and try to get a consistent defintion of "subluxation". Take a back picture to 10 Chiros and you'll get 10 different diagnoses.

Subtract all cases of the placebo effect and you'll have an even smaller pool of successful outcomes; successful, that is, in terms of a real condition being actually ameliorated by the "treatment" in a causal fashion.