Quote:
Originally Posted by Platapus
Not all chiropractors claim that. As a data point, every single chiropractor I have seen over the past 20 + years, as not shared this view.
Are you, perhaps creating a strawman argument here?
Can you provide a citation that supports your claim that all chiropractors feel that all diseases can be treated by spinal manipulation? I would be very interested in reading that.
|
That is the basis of chiropractic "science."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebral_subluxation
Minus an underlying scientific basis, guys doing stuff "manipulation" for low back pain, etc, are effectively nothing more than massage therapists. It's pure quackery. Osteopaths also sometimes do similar low back pain treatments, but actually have medical training, unlike "DCs."
I'm fine with quackery being legal, but they are not "doctors." You can always tell chiropractors, they call themselves doctor twice (Dr. So-and-so, DC), whereas real docs don't. I think it's confusing for the general public to see them allowed to be called docs. I bet a large % of the general population actually thinks they have medical training— Betonov does, for example. Regardless, letting them prescribe drugs is dangerous, and stupid.