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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To quote Wikipedia:
> D. D. Palmer founded chiropractic in the 1890s, after saying he received it from “the other world”; Palmer maintained that the tenets of chiropractic were passed along to him by a doctor who had died 50 years previously.
Chiropractics is not based on real science – the foundational principles behind it (“vertebral subluxation”) are nonsense. Systematic reviews and studies on chiropractics consistently find no evidence of it working beyond a placebo effect (outside some treatments for lower back pain). There is also some evidence that it is dangerous.
But the placebo effect is really powerful. Chiropractic “treatments” can make people feel better, the same as any placebo treatment, so chiropractics appears to work in a limited way. It is also cheap – in part due to not having to involve actual medicine, medical research or medical training/professionals. This can make it a cost-effective “treatment” in some situations. Plus there is a bunch of politics around it; fake medicines always have a certain appeal to them, promising easy cures to problems that actual medicine cannot fix but can only manage.
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