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visited a friend's family reunion and met his chiropractor uncle. dude said he could cure diabetes and cancer.
he could barely pronounce diabetes. I will never ever understand chiropractor quackshit.
I understand chiro quack shit the same way I understand crystals and essential oils quack shit. It’s all just quack shit.
What I don’t understand is why insurance actually pays for chiro, at least sometimes.
I watch ASMR to fall asleep and quackery of all kinds is very relaxing to me. I’ve noticed that chiro and chakra/aura reading/crystal and herb touching all have the same vibe. The difference is that chiro sells itself as medical, uses a lot more scientific sounding jargon in a professional looking office, where aura stuff is mystical and spiritual with candles, incense, and mandala tapestries. It’s woo-woo for people who think woo-woo is beneath them.
yeah never understood how it flies under the radar of quackery
In most cases, it seems like temporary relief. Like when your bigger, older brother picks you up and cracks your back. Feels great in the moment, but not a long-term fix.
In my experience it was for old insecure guys who were uncomfortable going to a massage or doing any structured stretching regularly so they'd get an adjustment from a quack a few times a year instead.
plausible!
don’t write it off completely… yes there’s a bunch of bullshit, but it’s also not entirely quack shit
australia’s healthcare system covers chiropractic in limited circumstances, and our system is generally very good at evidence-based health (you’re allowed to get private health insurance to cover alternative medicines if you want but stuff the government pays for is well supported by evidence)
with a GP referral and chronic condition management plan (written by your GP: this is an offical well defined thing) you get up to 5 total visits to “allied health” professionals which includes chiro, physio, dieticians, etc
Nonsense. It gives the same benefits that a simple massage does but a massage doesn't put you at risk of paralysis or death.
It's quackery.
In germany some health insurances pay for homeopathy. It's still bullshit. Same for chiropractors.
yeah there's another load of shit I've never been able to fathom. one drop of this, diluted a zillion times, will uh, fix ya right up...
and i agree for things covered by health insurance alone: we have similar… you can get private health insurance in australia that covers crap like homeopathy too, and they also cover a huge amount more chiro than the government does
The inventor of chiropracty claims a ghost taught it to him during a seance.
I mean this is where all great medical advancements come from, right?
The fact that insurance does or doesn’t cover something is not evidence of medical efficaciousness.
i agree… the fact that public health care does, given the rigorous structures that are in place to follow medical advice, does though
To help you out, chiropractors and their practice are full quackery and pseudo-science. HOWEVER, osteopathic medicine practiced by a DO is real medicine. Osteopathic medicine and osteopathy are two related but different things. The difference being that osteopathic medicine originates from osteopathy but they ditched all the pseudo-science and actually backed it up with science.
TLDR: If you want to get your back cracked scienctifically, find a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (aka a DO).
Its a pretty narrow scope
https://www9.health.gov.au/mbs/fullDisplay.cfm?type=item&q=10964
To me this reads like coverage for massage or other forms of non-curative pain relief, intended for those with chronic conditions that have exhausted all other options, or can't get an appointment with a physiotherapist. I really don't think it would be prescribed to treat the chronic condition.
The inventor of chiropracty claims a ghost taught it to him during a seance.