Comment on YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective"

• BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Testing” for allergies or nutritional deficiencies by holding a sample up to your forehead and then applying downward pressure to your outstretched arms to “determine” sensitivity. Weird stuff like that.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always knew it was pseudoscience, but damn, how is that even allowed?

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    • AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      how is that even allowed

      lobbyists, I presume

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    • LapGoat@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      your insurance would much rather pay for someone to touch your back than pay for someone to provide medical care.

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• soulless@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The core tenet of chiropractics is that “life force” flows through the spine and “blocks” in that is what causes diseases/pains.

  Most people think they are some kind of spine experts, while in reality it is nothing like that and more like concepts of Chi and meridians.

  The thing is, a lot of chiros don’t delve into that crap, because it’s such obvious bullshit, but some do and will tell you in all sincerity that cracking that L6-8 might just kill your cancer.

  In any case, stay far far away from them.

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  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …cracking that L6-8 might just kill your cancer.

    In a roundabout way, this can be true. No host, no disease.

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    • soulless@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Scorched earth medicine, effective in 100% of cases! Life’s overrated anyway.

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    • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, L6-8 would likely just make you impotent and unable to shit. When they do rapid adjustments to the cervical vertebra and release a blood clot because they're not trained to listen to the carotid artery with a stethoscope at least before doing that is when the real fun begins.

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  • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Chiropractic was invented by a guy who learned it from a ghost.

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    • Stamau123@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who knows better about relaxing the spine than a ghost that doesn’t have one?

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