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Originally Posted by GeorgeK
I have personally seen more than one patient with tetraplegia after Chiro "manipulation". And it was not in national-socialist Germany.
Carotid dissection and spinal cord damage *does* take your mind off the neck pain...
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First off, the word is "adjustment", not "manipulation". They don't "manipulate" anything.
How exactly would a chiro do such damage? There is no rotation of the disks, there is almost no lateral translation of the disks. The disks have more range of motion when someone moves around during the day. More range of motion is forced upon them when someone leans back to get their hair washed at the salon, or when flipping their hair around out of their face. Even SNEEZING puts more stress on the spine than an adjustment.
It's funny listening to doctors get all huffy about chiros, and blaming them for doing something as severe as what you're blaming them for. you guys here are particularly good at it, I've never seen a forum with such a high percentage of self important doctors.
If you take your car into the shop with the biggest sign and the loudest commercials, you might get hosed. Do you then dismiss all mechanics as quacks afterward?
Find a local chiro that has a good referral base.
Stay away from the ones that like their traction machines and crap.
Stay away from the ones that don't want to sit down for an hour on the first exam to discuss everything.
Stay away from the ones that don't want some medical records, maybe x-rays, maybe MRI reports, especially if you've been injured.
Stay away from the ones that want to up sell you on pills, patches, trinkets, etc. Some make things available to you if you want them, but if they have big displays all over the office, then leave.
Stay away from any chiro that mentions wanting to prescribe medicine. It's a new bone of contention among them, a small but vocal group wants to expand into prescriptions, while the rest of them know that it is a mistake to do so.
Finally, if you don't like what your chiro is doing, say something. They can adapt their methods far easier than a doctor can, and they are FAR more willing to refer you to a different chiro if their technique doesn't exactly click with you. how often does a doctor send you off to a different doctor because you don't like their bedside manner?