Comments on: Chiropractic is stupid http://www.cockbucket.com/2009/06/04/chiropractic-is-stupid/ Documenting cock and bull since 2009 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:15:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: NotACat http://www.cockbucket.com/2009/06/04/chiropractic-is-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-34 NotACat Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:44:12 +0000 http://www.cockbucket.com/?p=156#comment-34 @f2point4: it's not so much the treatment of back problems by manipulating one's back---actually quite a reasonable claim if the manipulation is done properly and carefully---that raises hackles. It's the claims that similar treatment can affect completely unrelated afflictions such as asthma and colic. The fact that in connection with the latter they propose manipulating the spines of small children and even babies is unconscionable. @f2point4: it’s not so much the treatment of back problems by manipulating one’s back—actually quite a reasonable claim if the manipulation is done properly and carefully—that raises hackles.

It’s the claims that similar treatment can affect completely unrelated afflictions such as asthma and colic.

The fact that in connection with the latter they propose manipulating the spines of small children and even babies is unconscionable.

]]> By: f2point4 http://www.cockbucket.com/2009/06/04/chiropractic-is-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-31 f2point4 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:12:40 +0000 http://www.cockbucket.com/?p=156#comment-31 My entirely unscientific contribution to the subject is that while waiting for over a year to get a very painful impingement sydrome operated, I managed to get off the painkillers I was literally eating at some stage to be able to function by going to a chiropracter and accupuncturist. I lasted the remaining 6 months without touching my stash of powerful painkillers that before I hadn't been able to do without. Also I found that lots of the chiropractic treatments correspond to yoga stretches, so I can't quite understand the roundabout condemnation as charlatanery. BTW, I don't think that magnetism has much to do with chiropractics. :-) My entirely unscientific contribution to the subject is that while waiting for over a year to get a very painful impingement sydrome operated, I managed to get off the painkillers I was literally eating at some stage to be able to function by going to a chiropracter and accupuncturist. I lasted the remaining 6 months without touching my stash of powerful painkillers that before I hadn’t been able to do without.

Also I found that lots of the chiropractic treatments correspond to yoga stretches, so I can’t quite understand the roundabout condemnation as charlatanery.

BTW, I don’t think that magnetism has much to do with chiropractics. :-)

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