[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.

[des]

Osteopathy is an alternative. Osteopaths are physicians.

[TomB]

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.

I find it incredible that there is a completely independent field of "healing" that cannot produce one study verifying that their methods work better than tradition medicine, or even no treatment at all, and that this field cannot adequately define or describe the basic pathology they treat or the treatment for it.