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But aren't spinal misalignments the diagnosis for just about all ailments?

If you listen to most chiropractors that's what they'll tell you.I have never been to a chiropractor and probably never will. I think they're just one level above quacks. They are the same 'health professionals' who will tell you to take herbs instead of FDA approved prescription medication.

I have never been to a chiropractor and probably never will. I think they're just one level above quacks. They are the same 'health professionals' who will tell you to take herbs instead of FDA approved prescription medication.

I have been to chiropractors. None of them was anything like that. I have also been to see an orthopedic MD for my back pain. The MD did nothing that helped. The chiropractic treatment did.

I have heard that there are some chiropractors who claim that spinal manipulation will cure just about everything. I have never met one. I do not judge all chiropractors by excesses of a few.

This stuff is true and real. The chiropractors cannot perscribe drugs, and will tell you they can cure everything that ails you with manipulation.

I am proud to be a physician (anesthesiologist) with a stron background in internal medicine. One day at the Minnesota State Fair last September, I went to the exhibition hall where there was a chiropractor booth. The propaganda said free chiropractic evaluation, will help cure disease.

Here is the scary part -- remember that I CAN READ XRay (although I did not tell him that). He shot a back film, told me that my back was entirely out of alignment and that I would need extensive chiropractic manipulation. He also said that I am on a lot of medications that should be stopped for vitamins. I am on NO medicines, and I looked at the xray -- and there was NO misalignments...

Remember -- these are the people that stop perscriptions, which IMHO probably kills many more people than vertebral artery disruption.

Finally, the vertebral artery supplies the lower brain, stroke of this artery can produce lock in syndrome where the upper brain is fine (Thought, emotion) but motor movements, including speaking, is gone...

Chriporactors need to be taken out of medicine.

I have been to them and have received great help with back problems. If the alternative is them or MDs who load you up on mindnumbing pain pills or surgery, I will take the chiros ever time.

However, you are never cured so unless it is a specific and manipulatible injury I never go as long as they wish.

Mine is one of the best in Chicago and he does not go for herbs and such just the adjustments which he makes only after examination of X-rays. But he can spot the problem just by a visual exam in most cases. Just puts his finger on a spot and says does this hurt here.

However, I have been to those who don't have a clue and don't help.

>>They are the same 'health professionals' who will tell you to take herbs instead of FDA approved prescription medication. <<

I went to a chiropractor for a couple of months. I just thought he would do the adjustment type things you think of chiropractors doing. But from the first visit he started talking about these nutritional supplements (the method of diagnosing which ones you should use was interesting to say the least)and at about the third visit he actually tried to sell me a bunch. I don't know why but the whole ordeal reminded me of some guy trying to con you into a pyramid scam. I don't really have anything against the whole natural medicine phenomenon I just don't care (and my medical insurance doesn't cover it enough to make me the least bit interested in learning about whether or not I should care.) He just seemed more of a used care salesman rather than a doctor (are they even docotrs?)I stopped going when he wanted to to put my feet in some water while he ran an electrical current through it. I don't like electricity that much and I most especially don't like the mix of electricity and water.