Health Chiropracty

[lewigie]

Myopractors do the same sorta thing, but they adjust muscles, not bones. I've found that a myopractor I went to helped alot more than a chiropractor.

 

[Messenger]

Had a read through here as i just started seeing a chiro about a fortnight ago. Ive back aches and pain for ages but the main reason i went is I had developed a stabbing pain in my side which would come and go. First visit was just about diagnosis, asked a lot of questions, made me bend and stretch and put texta marks on points of my back and pushed and proded a bit. Told me there that i had a sublaxation in my lower back which was most likely causing the side pain, but sent me for x-rays before he tried to rectify anything. X-rays showed up another sublaxation in my neck and and some scoliosis in my middle back. Im no medical professional but i could easily see everything that he pointed out and vertebrae not being in a straight line. Told me nerves sending wrong messages is the main issue and that wont improve until everything is re-aligned. First 2 treatments left me in a lot of pain and weird sensation in my back but had another this morning and no real after effects at all this time. Im still a bit skeptical as to how cracking cetain places actaully re-aligns it all but the pain in my side seems to have gone. Ive been given about 3 month timeline of recovery with visits becoming less frequent as it progresses, but this is due to my injury's being a quite old and the muscles developing wrong to compensate. Im not pro-chiro or anthing but i just got to the point where i didnt want to live in pain anymore.

I'll be upfront and tell you I'm not a fan of chiropractic (as you would have gathered reading this thread) and I work in medical imaging.

My first word of caution is on allowing a chiro to manipulate your neck. DO NOT.

Second thing I'd say is that spines have a natural curve to them viewed in the lateral projection. Did he/she show you what a normal spine looks like?

Keep your films. If you wish to continue then ask to be re-xrayed after a period your chiro specifies should generate a positive result for you. Have the films compared. If there is no change ask why not. Don't accept that they have you and your wallet by the short and curlies ad infinitum.

A scoliosis will certainly be evident on a Post-Ant projection. I would question their ability to fix something like that.

I know people, including a family member, that swear by this stuff. One friend has seen a chiro every week for three years for zero result. At $110 a visit. Someone is getting rich.

 

[prankmonkey]

i'd be very wary if they use the term subluxed and then procede to manipulate you. the term subluxation means a partially dislocated joint, meaning that the joint is already unstable. applying a high velocity thrust technique in those spots would create further instability. sounds to me like they're confusing their terminology there.

also xrays are not definitive in diagnosing non-specific spinal pain. there are very few things (disc end plate changes, spondylolisthesis) that you can definitely say is causing spinal pain. a huge majority of the time it is soft tissue in nature and will not show up on xray imaging

 

[Messenger]

i'd be very wary if they use the term subluxed and then procede to manipulate you. the term subluxation means a partially dislocated joint, meaning that the joint is already unstable. applying a high velocity thrust technique in those spots would create further instability. sounds to me like they're confusing their terminology there.

also xrays are not definitive in diagnosing non-specific spinal pain. there are very few things (disc end plate changes, spondylolisthesis) that you can definitely say is causing spinal pain. a huge majority of the time it is soft tissue in nature and will not show up on xray imaging

Chiros have a different definition for subluxation. It's far more vague.

 

[HarryTiger]

I'm a professional medical chiropractor. I passed the test on the first try.

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[Caesar]

I always tell people who take chiropractic seriously to read up on its history. It was invented by a crank who ran a magnetic healing business and went around pretending to be a doctor.

There's been big efforts in recent decades to legitimise it by retro-justifying its precepts along traditional medical lines, but its fundamental principles and ideas are rooted in nothing but mysticism.

I'm yet to see anything that credibly shows the benefits of chiropractic to be anything more than a placebo effect.