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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

With a professional the difference is like day and night.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Well, what have we learned?

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (50 children)

Regularly scheduled warning but chiropractor is not a real doctor and can paralyze you for life. You would receive equal or better results with massotherapy.

[–] The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also the guy who invented it learned the practice from a ghost during a seance

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (14 children)

There’s a lot of international folks here getting downvoted because

AMERICAN CHIROPRACTORS ARE QUACKS.

Can we please step out of our American bubble for a fucking second to realise there is whole world out there of real healthcare.

In the vast majority of the world Chiropractors are exactly the same as Osteopaths and Physios, they have to go to the same schools, lectures, have the same training. They are purely musculoskeletal. Why they are insane in America is anyone’s guess. But this is a problem with America, not Chiropractors.

That said, this is fucking hilarious and I have sent it to a friend to take the piss.

[–] yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

No. This is wrong. I would like you to update your post to not spread wrong medical information :

Everybody can be a chiropractor or a osteopath. I could even open a private school to teach both without even learning them. Same as acupuncture. If I want to be a physiotherapist, I need a university degree.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

No, this is not American centric. I am European. Pretending that Chiropractic is anything else than pseudoscience is spreading misinformation. Period.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 19 points 20 hours ago

I’m in Australia, it’s quackery here too.

It’s quackery everywhere.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

They’re insane in the US because the weirdo cult leader who started US chiropracty based on his dreams about literal ghosts was fucking insane.

It has nothing to do with medicine, and it should be illegal to impersonate medicine like that. It’s shameful.

Everyone who has been swindled by it should file a class-action suit, since that seems to be the only recourse under the US system.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago

Since Chiropractic medicine was invented in America by a spiritualist quack, I would say trying to use the same name for valid medical practices in another country is the mistake of whoever decided that was ok to do. It's like saying yes, wizardry is bullshit in America, but in many other countries it's a valid form of pharmacology. Just call it the valid term that has regulations.

[–] ywain@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago

Massive amount of misinformation, every country has a protected name and registration for real medical jobs. Chiropractic stuff is a US pseudoscience and a negative impact on patients the same as homeopathy.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Chiropractics literally started as an alternative to germ theory. The quackery was baked in from the start. They may couch their quackery in medical jargon now in some places but I've yet to see stats where people who went to chiropractors did better than people that went to massages or physical therapy.

Example from England last year:

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/fitness/exercise/gymgoer-29-died-after-chiropractor-cracked-her-neck/news-story/96b8084d70755d577a44091c976066e7

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

The "chiropractors" in other countries that aren't quacks, are simply a mistranslation of some sort of real medical field. Anyone in an English speaking country called a chiropractor is at best an amateur masseuse scamming people and at worst a dangerous cultist.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

AFAIK it's the same in Germany too. Unregulated. I could just go and call myself a chiropractor, trying my best to fuck you up.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

i was in the hospital and just had had a few major organs removed. like, hours before. a chiro i had never met but who went to the same cult as my parents walked into my hospital room unannounced and started lecturing me about how i would have been able to keep my organs if i'd let him give me a spinal adjustment.

my friends, a chiropracter was saved by an orderly that day.

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (18 children)

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.

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[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 126 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I mean, the chiropractor is technically correct. You'll say goodbye to a lot of things, including IBS.

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