Acupuncture can also fuck people up. Unsurprisingly it’s dangerous to have someone with no medical training inserting long needles into your body.
Anyone benefiting from chiropractic probably just needs a real physiotherapist.
Furbag@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is one of those things, like acupuncture, that I will not fault anyone else for engaging in. There’s no hard evidence that they are effective, but if it helps you with your problem (even if it’s all in your head), then it was worth it, was it not?
I know people who have had their lives improved and their mobility restored thanks to chiropractors. I also know one or two who swear they got scammed for years because the pain always comes back really quickly.
I may not personally recommend a chiro to someone as a solution to their back or neck pain, but I won’t discourage them from going if they are considering it.
Sunfoil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Oh you have back pain? Let me lightly stab you, I’m sure that’ll help.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
hell yeah, nothing wrong with scamming desperate people out of money
Furbag@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I guess my point is that it doesn’t really matter if their practice is backed up by hard science or not if some people still experience tangible benefit from doing it. Is it still a scam if the scammer provided you the product that you paid for?
Like I said, I would never advocate for someone to go see a chiropractor, an acupuncturist, a homeopath, a shaman, or whatever alternative treatments that might be out there over going to a real doctor or therapist, but if they’re already going to one and claiming that it’s working for them, why bother trying to convince them otherwise? You can tell them it’s pseudoscience until the cows come home, they’re not going to be inclined to listen.
arc@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Acupuncture is quackery too. At the very least it should not be part of any public health service, or insurance policy, and people gullible enough to go for it should have to pay out of their own pocket.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I used to think the same thing, now I am torn. Are you familiar with the organ that is the interstitium?
Agrivar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you mean the network of collagen fibers and fluid-filled spaces that underlies the skin and surrounds the gut, muscles, and blood vessels? Calling that an “organ” is a ginormous stretch.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Why isn’t it an organ?
It makes up 20% of your body weight, that doesn’t seem inconsequential. It has signaling functions, and that’s just the start of what we know about it. We also discovered it’s how cancer can end up so far away after it’s undergone metastasis.
Lazhward@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Except chiropractors also occasionally maim and murder people.
saze@feddit.uk 11 months ago
And doctors don’t??
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
There’s a difference though. Doctors are trained professionals so when they kill someone it’s by accident (hopefully), but quack doctors are not professionals, when they kill someone it’s the degree murder.
There’s a difference between negligence and being unsuccessful but the only way to tell the difference is if the person has a reasonable chance of actually being successful I.e. a medical professional.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
source ?