“Systematic reviews of controlled clinical studies of treatments used by chiropractors have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[8] A 2011 critical evaluation of 45 systematic reviews concluded that the data included in the study “fail[ed] to demonstrate convincingly that spinal manipulation is an effective intervention for any condition.”[10] Spinal manipulation may be cost-effective for sub-acute or chronic low back pain, but the results for acute low back pain were insufficient.[11] No compelling evidence exists to indicate that maintenance chiropractic care adequately prevents symptoms or diseases.[12]”

  • chaogomu
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    901 year ago

    Strokes, but also broken necks.

    And some of these quacks do “adjustments” on children and infants.

    • @Fredselfish
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      271 year ago

      Saw that on episode of Bullshit with Penn and Teller. Anyone who would do that to a baby should be imprisoned for life.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      Yeah, the last time I went to a chiropractor for back pain, they also “corrected” my neck which in the past felt good but this time it just immediately pulled a muscle in my neck and left me in pain and barely able to turn my head for weeks.

      It’s better now, but I’ll never go back to a chiropractor again because of the risk of making things worse for essentially no benefit.

    • @BigDaddySlim
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      61 year ago

      Also animals, I saw a video of someone doing it to a pit bull and after he cracked the dogs neck the pit gave him the “I’m going to rip your fucking throat out” look.

      It’s straight up animal abuse.