I know so many people to go to a chiropractor on a weekly basis and either pay out of pocket or have benefits cover it BUT I seen articles or posts pop up that refer to it as junk junk medicine and on the same level as a holistic practitioner???
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1) The origin of chiropractic is very much junk medicine. The idea that you can cure disease by ‘adjusting’ the spine and so on…
2) The present-day practice has been split between two groups – the ‘straights’ who follow the 1800s scam-science, and others who don’t ascribe to that viewpoint (eg, won’t claim they can cure your cold by adjusting your back) more or less become massage-therapists who call themselves ‘Dr’.
3) People perceive benefits for back-pain and soft-tissue injuries from the 2nd group, and thus demand their insurance cover it.
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