Chiropractic -- fraud ?

seems to me that this is just another way for those who are not intelligent enough to become doctors to get a "fake" doctors title and were a white coat...much like psychology.

REAL -

I fainted regularly from the time I was 8 until I was 20. I was having problem conceiving after marriage and had always had cramps that sent me to the ER several times a year. I had been picked, poked and x-rayed by the "legitimate" doctors in white coats. I'd been given all sorts of drugs, and actually belittled and insulted by them. Nothing helped. Then, after my mom was nearly paralyzed by MDs and their antics, my dad carried her into a Chiropractor. He straightened her out, quite literally, in no time. She kept urging me to go. I finally relented.

What the chiropractor found was that I was born with a deformed spine. I was missing bones, and had some malformed. My spine had been compensating by twisting, turning and making a genuine mess of itself. I was a state level athlete though, and that was what saved me from worse conditions than I had been suffering - the chiropractor said that I really needed to keep up the athletic training. Then, the chiropractor got things back in line, while giving me a couple of natural pills to deal with the ill effects the twisted spine had caused until I was straightened out. Before I was done with my treatment I conceived. I never passed out again, and never cramped again.

What that chiropractor had caught in a single x-ray, medical doctors had missed for years. You want to ask me who the fraud is? I'd be happy to tell you!!!! I (and my mother) are living proof that chiropractic not only works, but that the MDs are the ones crippling and maiming with their fake degrees so they can have a title and a white coat.

No it isn't. Chiropractic care is based on a science.
You should read up on it and at least TRY to understand it.
I suppose a PhD is a fake, too.

I have no evidence for my opinion, so it could be quite wrong, but I don鈥檛 believe in chiropractics. It does not seem healthy to manipulate the bone structure of others and if you succeeded in moving something you would surely cause damage. Don鈥檛 our vertebrae know where to be in our bodies? Having said that people who have had it swear by it.

I certainly don't believe it is the be-all and end-all of medical science. Chiropractors are highly trained and licensed health professionals like Naturopaths, Acupuncturists, etc.

It's very underhanded to disparage someone as "unintelligent" because they are not graduates of a medical school.

Personally my experience with chiropratic was not a good one. It did nothing to help with my back pain and did some damage to my neck.

Interesting that you should challenge it that way. Chiropractors are the #2 largest doctorate health profession, right behind medical doctors. So, are we to denigrate other "fake" doctors who weren't smart enough to enter medical school, get a doctor title and wear a white coat like dentists, optometrists, podiatrists, and so forth?

Just because they didn't obtain their education in medical school doesn't mean they're not a valued member of health care. We need chiropractors as much as we need dentists, optometrists, and podiatrists. I'd like to see how far you'd deal with life without a dentist.

one poster said "I don't believe in chiropractics"...did not realize it is a religion.

my chiropractor is great. solved headache problems that went unsolved by md's for 5 years. that is not a slam against md's, it is just the idea the chiropractor viewed the problem from a different angle.

it seems that the training and education that people go through to earn a doctorate in any field is a bit beyond some.

Tell that to these guys thousands of patients that they have cured when traditional doctors couldn't figure out what was even wrong with them !

http://www.pompahealthsolutions.com/
http://drjameswiner.com/

No. Mine is 1000 time more professional and smarter than my PCP who is an MD. I have had pain in my back to the point that ONLY a chiropractor could CURE. My doctor has yet to cure anything in anyone.