[knuthom]

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.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

When I was in my late twenties, raising 2 kids without a husband and working full time, I had terrible tension headaches. I went to a chiropractor and his chiropractor wife who were clients in the very posh ocean front Ft. Lauderdale office of the gentleman I worked for, who had a seat on the NYSE. All of that is anoher story.

The Married manipulators of the spine told me it was impossible to have a tension headache, the brain has no nerve endings. When brain surgery is done in some instances, the patient is awake, with only a local pain killer to enable the incision. I am now well beyond midlife and have never had another headache. Once in a while a sinus headache or a too little sleep headache plays with my mind, but I honestly have never had another headache.

My father, his mother, and my grandaughter all suffered and suffer from the most awfull migrains. They have to be triggered by nerves in the spinal cord and somehow transmitted to the head. I do not have a clue! It is awful to watch. I am glad I do not have headaches. I know they are not acting, it is not false. My granddaugher at 6 mos old would grab her little head and scream, and nothing but a back tickle that put her to sleep, consoled her, to this day, and she is 30. Her husband is a keeper.