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It's like any other profession: there are some excellent chiropractors, some awful ones, and everything in between.

Chiropractic was preceded by one of the branches of Chinese Medicine- Tui Na, practiced for thousands of years in China. Tui Na includes soft tissue manipulations (we call that massage therapy) and joint manipulations (we call that chiropractic).

It sounds like chiropractic did not work for you, but you found some different things that do work by listening to your body. I know many people who swear by chiropractic, and could not live their lives without it, and some people who were hurt, like you were. Maligning the entire profession isn't cool. For instance, just because I came across a bad bookkeeper, I don't dismiss the entire profession.

The best things for your health are diet and exercise. Get vaccinated and don't smoke. Education remains the best predictor of longevity. For most of what goes wrong in life, there isn't much to be done, no matter how much you spend. People have problems, and quacks of all kinds sell interventions that don't really help. I don't dismiss medicine entirely, nor even chiropractic, but 90% of your health depends on (a) your own behavior, (b) genetic factors outside anyone's control, and (c) dumb luck. There is little or no correlation between how much you spend and what benefit (if any) you get, in fact above a certain point there is probably a negative return on investment.

I used to crack my neck because it was so uncomfortable. Regular doctor couldn't help me so I tried out a chiropractor. He adjusted my neck, and it helped me out SO much. I think they could be quacks, but some are great.

There are some excellent chiropractors that know their "art", I have found advanced Activator chiropractors very helpful, no bone cracking. One can check out the Activator technique by searching for their site.

Indiana Jones says

It's like any other profession: there are some excellent chiropractors, some awful ones, and everything in between.

Yup.

I've been to chiropractors who refused to treat me until I was cleared medically. I've also been to one who billed my insurance for "supplements" I never received. There's good & bad.

Go to: chirotalk

They are a group of ex-chiropractors who warn people from going to, or becoming chiropractors.

Depends upon if the "happy ending" is included as part of the massage.

Michael Cooke says

quacks practicing pseudoscience

In other words, they'll soon be mandatory. Can they operate a C-T scanner and call it "preventive care"?

If you want to know what quackery is, just look at western medicine as a whole. Western medicine is all about cutting and precriptions.

I had two surgeons tell me I needed surgery for a herniated disk in my neck (C4/C5). I had an MRI done and took it to a chiropractor. I had tingling in my fingers and I couldn't turn my neck. Two visits per week for a month and a half. This chiropractor saved my financial life.

So who is the quack? The surgeons or the chiropractor?

My dad had a quadrouple bypass 30 years ago and is still alive, his angina disappeared.

Which part of the body do you crack to arrest heart disease?

Any "Medical Procedure" developed by a Green Grocer from Iowa after getting a massage from his wife and feeling better is suspect.

When I was in my early 20's I was leaving a Home Depot, and at the door, there was a Backquack at the exit, doing impromptu screenings.
He had this portable device with what looked like a barcode scanner, with a long coiled cord connected to a relatively small grey unit with a small crude monochrome monitor on it. It had the size shape and look of a portable clothes steamer. I agreed and he ran the wand down my spine starting from my neck. Then the unit displayed a crude skeleton sketch of a spine (in graphical terms not an actual representation of my spine).
He then showed me in the neck region a few vertibrates in my neck region that were bent twisted and croocked. He told me he was supprised I could even walk. I told him, I've never had a problem and felt fine.
He then proceeds to dig his fingers into the back of my neck, asking me, "how about now, can you feel that?". I told him no, to which he just used more force, "how about now?". Finally a sharp pain shot down my arm and my neck was throbbing. "Ow! Yes damn it, I felt that!"
He then gave me his card and told me to call him for a visit.

I left the pain stopped, I tossed his card, and I never thought about it again until about a week or so latter. My neck was kinked, and I had a sharp pain down my right arm for three years after that. It was the main reason I got out of the Flooring business. I was rendered a manual labor invalid.

I could only sleep on my left side.
Finally after about three years the pain finally went away on its own. And I've never had a problem since.

If I ever see that guy again, I'll take a Gallagher hammer to his Quack-o-meeter.

Chiropractors are Quacks, they take bad backs and make them worse, while trying to convince you they are helping.

Forget my opinion. Go to: www. chirotalk This is a website of EX chiropractors who expose the whole chiro scam.

As it happens, I voted against (that is to say, did not vote for) one of the candidates for District Director of Health Care last week for being a chiropractor. Call it a prejudice if you must.