As a kid I had a chiropractor diagnose me similarly. Specifically one leg had been longer and my body was used to it then the other leg had a growth spurt and was now the longer one. He showed me the difference, popped my back a few times and hooked up a TENS unit into my muscles (incidentally, that sounds so nice right now). Then after a few sessions I was fine and never went back.
I say all this because it was the best case scenario, it worked, by skill and integrity or dumb luck, I don’t know which. This is the sort of experience we have to acknowledge and argue against when we argue against this profession, because the fact remains that they’re quacks. At best some of them are mirroring modern medicine in the form of physiotherapy. But we can’t know they’re doing it well and good at it. Even the good ones share a profession with the quacks and provide cover for them.
As a kid I had a chiropractor diagnose me similarly. Specifically one leg had been longer and my body was used to it then the other leg had a growth spurt and was now the longer one. He showed me the difference, popped my back a few times and hooked up a TENS unit into my muscles (incidentally, that sounds so nice right now). Then after a few sessions I was fine and never went back.
I say all this because it was the best case scenario, it worked, by skill and integrity or dumb luck, I don’t know which. This is the sort of experience we have to acknowledge and argue against when we argue against this profession, because the fact remains that they’re quacks. At best some of them are mirroring modern medicine in the form of physiotherapy. But we can’t know they’re doing it well and good at it. Even the good ones share a profession with the quacks and provide cover for them.