eli5 chiropractor adjustments

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i’m sure most of ya’ll have seen those videos where chiros crack peoples entire bodies calling them “chiropractor adjustments”

but.. are they really beneficial and get rid of the pain? because isn’t the popping noise essentially just nitrogen bubbles popping?

does it actually relieve the pain or is it just placebo?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Chiropractic is fake. 

It was made up by an anti-medicine con artist who first tried waving magnets at people and declaring them healed, then one day said that the secrets of chiropractic were given to him in a dream by the magical ghost of a dead doctor.

I am not making any part of that up. 

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s just a placebo. The field started as complete quackery although some modern chiropractors do try to take a more rigorous approach. Still, there’s no the adjustments themselves provide any benefit although some benefit may come from the tissue massaging.