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Originally Posted by 72doug2,2S
I've never been to see a chiropractic before, but a colleague at work suggests that many people who don't even suffer back pain would benefit from the work of a Chiropractor.
His reasoning is this, we have many falls from childhood up to adults and alignments of the vertebrae can fix these issues before they show up in pain and discomfort.
Does he have a point? It sounds reasonable. I don't really have back pain.
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Heh.
If your alignment is already good, you won't benefit. But then you probably wouldn't know, unless you got an adjustment. Catch 22...
And most people probably are out-of-alignment, and would never notice, unless there's actual pain/stiffness or lack of mobility.
So those folks would certainly benefit from a periodic adjustment - although I've never subscribed to the semi-spiritual qualities attributed to this by some chiropractors, there's no doubt that they can be very good at relieving back/neck issues either caused by damage or the body trying to do the wrong thing to deal with misalignment.
I've seen many chiropractors over the last 10 years, what with travelling, a degenerative neck condition and much back/neck damage from various misadventures. But none for the last 2-3. Which has to say something...
They can vary a heck of a lot. Like, from Jiffy-lube up to the very best - although they all charge much the same, and their offices/advertisements look very similar.
See if you can get a recommendation from someone that's seen plenty of them...
Personally, I prefer osteopaths; there seems to be less mumbo-jumbo, and I agree that, if the body is actually damaged, the approach of massaging the muscles the bones are attached to so that they're soft and relaxed BEFORE you adjust the bones/joints for their correct alignment seems to make sense (which seems to be the main difference between the two, when you discount the stuff I don't believe in much anyway).
Chiropractors are increasingly doing that as well, with either real massage, ultrasound treatment or massage tables before the adjustment.