Chiropractic care - What do you think?

Understandably some people are against chiropractic care and some are for chiropractic care. I am wondering what your thoughts are, being for or against and WHY you believe what you believe.

Like any sort of care, it completely depends on the doctor you go to. Some chiropractors are excellent. Some aren't. Same with physicians. Some are top notch. Some you'd want to avoid like the plague.

As for chiropractic, the premise is to allow the life energy of the body to flow unobstructed via the nervous system. The whole intent of chiropractic is to enhance that flow of energy.

The challenge that most physicians and allopathic medicine have is that the premise of allopathy is to look at pathology and is very much based on a Newtonian/mechanistic type of thinking.

Chiropractic and many other holistic health approaches come from a vitalistic and more quantum perspective.

Thus, that is why there is such a dispute between chiropractors and medical doctors. Chiropractors and doctors are looking for entirely different outcomes and are looking at the same problems through entirely different filters. It's very much the metaphor of different people looking at an elephant and seeing different things because of where they're standing in relation to the elephant.

Many chiropractors and most of the chiropractic colleges are trying to align themselves with a medical perspective. However, the thing that makes chiropractic so unique is the vitalistic approach to health, and where the chiropractor's intent is to restore the body's healing capacity to a higher level rather than try to 'fix' or 'alleviate' symptoms or disease.

Chiropractors who work in the 'medical' model will try to fix symptoms, pain or illness.

Chiropractors who work in the vitalistic (and the way chiropractic was originally intended to be) will work on enhancing the expression of the innate healing intelligence of the body, thus allowing your body to maximize its healing potential. As a result of this enhancement the body will often move towards greater health.

I think its great it helps alot
As a physician, I have seen some of the complications of chiropractic care: patients with injuries to the arteries going to their brainstems resulting in paralysis, spinal cord injuries, etc.

There is minimal evidence that chiropractic care is effective, particularly for things other than muscular complaints in the back.

In short, don't waste your money or put yourself at risk for a questionable benefit.
I always thought chiropracters were charlatans, but about a year ago, an old back injury of mine started acting up, getting worse and worse until I could barely move. For several months I was in constant agony. Someone finally talked me into going to a chiropracter, and after about three weeks of therapy I was up and moving around again. I was surprised, but it really worked wonders for me.
I think a good licensed massage therapist would be the best. I don't want a person trying to crack my back. If you have something wrong with your back you need a medical professional.
I think if you don't have back/neck problems don't fool with your spine.

Personally I have been in a couple car accidents and I need to see my chiropractor for monthly maintenance. If this hadn't happened to me I would not be going to the chiropractor.

Every once in a while he does something that makes me worse rather than better. But on the whole it is positive results.

I have a 12 year old daughter and I don't take her to see him despite his persistance. Sometimes I feel like my chiropractor is just calling me to book appointments because he needs to get his monthly income up.

Plus it is like $30 for a two minute crack crack and your outa there.
My husband has been going to the chiropractor for over 20 years...every Saturday. If he does not go he gets major headaches.
He has a high stress job and is on the phone alot..with his neck always holding the phone...so he needs to get re-aligned.