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PSA: Chiropractors aren't doctors, they aren't better than any other "alternative" healer and at worse are conmen and can fuck you up permanently. Don't ever go to chiropractors.
Just to add - Physical Therapist is what you call someone that deals with the same things, but has y’know a medical license to practice these things.
Kinésithérapeute in french (the good one).
Ostheopathe in french (the quack one).
N'est-ce pas un chiropraticien ou chiropracteur ?
Osteopaths and chiropractors are slightly different kinds of liars.
Osteopathic Medicine in the US is legit though, they go through basically the same training as MDs. There's some philosophical differences but osteopathic doctors are actually doctors.
This is true. For this reason, US doctors of osteopathic medicine generally don't like to be called "osteopaths", to avoid being associated with their pseudoscientist counterparts.
In English be warned though, osteopaths (at least in America) are real doctors just from a med school that took a different path to get to more or less the same place of evidence based medicine. D.O.s are more or less indistinguishable from M.D.s
Spanish:
Fisioterapeuta (the good one) Quiropráctico (the bad one)
My PT referred me to a chiropractor colleague of his, back when I didn't know what a chiropractor was...
There's a word for that, too.
Corruption.
I'm a paramedic. I had two patients in my fifteen year career who experienced a broken spine from a chiropractor (different chiropractors), which is more than I saw some rare conditions like Steven Johnson Syndrome (antibiotic reaction that causes immune system burns) and cavernous sinus thrombosis (caused the lady's eye to pop out of her head). Also dated a girl whose mom worked for a chiropractor, the guy constantly insisted he could cure- not treat, cure- type 1 diabetes with vitamins and spinal adjustment.
At least a lot of other woo woo healers are just without effect. Chiropractors are actively dangerous with what they are doing.
You would think that. Especially with Homeopathic nonsense with diluting things with water until none of the molecules of the original substance are present.
You'd think that an aspiring Homeopath conman would just start with purified water, and call it a day.
That's not what happens. Instead they seem to actually use the highly toxic whatever, usually deadly nightshade, and then skip the water dilution.
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It's nothing more than a high risk massage.
Homeopathy is safer (and also surprisingly normalised, being sold near actual medicine. At least in some countries)
And utterly ineffective too. It’s not in the medicinal level of even a humble aspirin.
They sell grape sugar pops next to medicine too. And poisons.
D.C. = Doctorate of Chiropractic. Who hurt you bub?
Go look into the founder and how many deaths they've caused. It was start by a guy who believed he was chasing and manipulating energy ghosts.
Take a fast look through all medical literature, you will never find the made up word Chiro in any of them. Thats a clue.
Did you never learn Greek or Latin roots? https://www.etymonline.com/word/chiro-
So I can get a ChiroJob?
No they can't "fuck you up permanently" that is just conspiracy nonsense. Their malpractice is the lowest of any that practice medicine. Why? Because it's minimally invasive and nowhere near as dangerous as a medical doctor incorrectly prescribing the wrong medication. Many countries also require lengthy degrees for Chiropractic of 5yrs, which includes some similar studies of a regular medical doctor (so that they know what not to try to handle and refer out). And a lot of the spinal manipulation techniques are being adopted today by physical therapists because they see the scientifically based advantages. Stop spreading disinformation.
Not going to spend much time on this, but this will be good enough I think. To say this is a conspiracy without evidence seems to be verifiable disinformation.
Adverse effects of spinal manipulation: a systematic review Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Doesn't seem safe to me
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/adverse-effects-of-chiropractic/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/chiropractic-injuries
It's alternative medicine (ie not medicine) and pseudoscience (ie not science). Chiropractic injury rate may seem lower in some cases for two reasons: significantly more people without injuries visit chiropractors and some forms of real medicine do carry real risks, eg real surgery carries obvious risks.
Your primary argument for chiropractors is that some real therapists use some of the same techniques, so why not go for real medicine instead?
Futurama: "You've got a degree in baloney!"
http://whatstheharm.net/chiropractic.html
They regularly kill and paralyze patients... Look it up.
I told this to a friend of mine who swear his quackosnapper is the best of all quackosnappers, and he says "ya well doctors kill people too!" And Im like, yeah but Id rather die for a treatment I needed to save my life than to die for a completely unnecessary "treatment" which wouldn't have done anything.
He went pretty quiet after that.
People tend to return to Chiropractors each month for "adjustments", where as because physios are science based they tend to actually solve issues and remove the need to return.
Glad it sounds like you helped your friend escape.