You do realize you can call yourself a "Doctor of Chiropractic" with a high School diploma and a 6-month online course, or just 2 years at a "reputable" chiropractic "college", right?

@AnneWimsey is there something I wrote that makes you think I would walk into an arbitrary office because there’s a sign that says “chiropractor”? I research all health practitioners, including getting references, before choosing one. A diploma alone means little. The human being doing the healing is critical—their education, background, experience and patient outcomes. There are more cases of negligence, maltreatment and bad outcomes from accredited medical doctors and hospitals than one can shake a stick at. I would caution against not vetting any healer, traditional or not.

@Bobbyzen well, you go to chiropractors.........I repeat, standard high school diploma and 6 month to 2 years "training", and then they are snapping your neck, where the blood vessels are tightly packed running through the spine. I now have one vestibular artery vs. the 2 most people have, as the neck-adjustments severed one.

@AnneWimsey I’m terribly sorry you found a bad chiropractor. My mother is dead from the quackery of a heart doctor who colluded—they called it consulted—with a hematologist to anesthetize her at 90 years old for an unnecessary procedure from which she never recovered. She did not have a heart condition. She was not in a life threatening situation. In fact she was living with my father in their own home, independently, living a good and happy life, socializing, pretty damned healthy for their age. The procedure was not required. Why do highly degreed professionals anesthetize the elderly when it is known that it can cause dementia or death? Could it be the doctors and hospitals that participated in my mother’s death had a profit motive? Or were they merely incompetent? At least they weren’t chiropractors, eh?

Reseach your practitioners. Many have been harmed by traditional doctors, far more than will ever be known, always question any procedure. I too have had success with chiropractic and accupuncture when traditional doctors and medicine failed me.

@AnneWimsey Many (not all) board-certified doctors in all specialties eschew chiropractry as a viable practice, as well as acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, cannabis, traditional healers, etc. I am neither endorsing nor recommending these, simply stating that board-certified doctors berate other disciplines—neurologists are no exception—because those alternatives threaten their livelihood and stature. The AMA protects their own. I do not hold the AMA up as an icon, given the uncounted negligent and unnecessary procedures their members perform, too frequently without consequences. Again I’m sorry for your experience. But there are too many illnesses the medical profession is unable to deal with effectively. Alternatives are available to people who seek them and are willing to put in the time to learn about them and vet providers. Shaming people into disregarding alternatives is simply bad form. We simply do not know if we are shutting them off from relief or a cure if we funnel them through AMA-only approved treatments.

@Bobbyzen or, maybe they have seen & tried to "fiix" various paraplegicvictims of chiropractic, like me & the gal using the mouth stick, just 2 from a tiny area of a tiny state, CT. Once upon a time, doctors, especially neurologists, who see this type of patient all the time, spokeout against Chiropractors snapping necks...not in general, but specifically neck-snapping, because of the very imminent threat of serious damage/death from it. The Chiropractors Assciation sued the AMA & got a gag order. Maybe you ought to find some Facts! And BTW I am a huge fan of acupuncture, andif I had lingering lower back problems might even see a chiropractor, but NO NECK SNAPPING/JERKING!

@AnneWimsey You keep holding up the AMA as an icon. The AMA supports market-based strategies, vs. patient-need based, which we know have led to America being among the worst developed nations in terms of health outcomes. The AMA opposes “regulatory ‘burdens’” including those that would force insurers to cover high-risk patients, opining that mechanisms such as high-risk pools can cover high-risk patients. This of course leaves high-risk patients out of the general insurance pool and forces them into separate plans with higher premiums, deductibles and copays. The AMA supports limits on medical liability—no explanation needed. The AMA opposes Medicare for All because it cuts insurers and for-profit hospitals out of unfettered profits. In short, the AMA has agendas that would largely protect providers and insurers at the expense of the health of the people they should be focused on.

@Bobbyzen stating Facts is most certainly Not "holding up the AMA as an icon", you are projecting! I now realize you have a major agenda that will Never result in a normal discussion. Bu-bye.

@AnneWimsey You are correct. I have an agenda to to ensure free healthcare for all and the freedom to choose providers. You also have an agenda, which appears to be the demonization of a discipline that has provided relief where traditional providers fail. Again, your experience is awful. But we don’t demonize all hospitals and all providers despite documented, horrible outcomes.

@Bobbyzen yeah, and put me & many others into wheelchairs or the grave, but, oh well.....in a situation, unlike underlying disease/pathology, driving people to a doctor, who may or may not be the right one, that was COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE. Not asking much, justst don't snap people's necks, heellooooo, after numerous, documented, horrible outcomes...and they demand the right to do so in court.

@AnneWimsey my mothers death was pure negligence. The procedure that the heart doctor and hematologist colluded to provide was not indicated or called for. She was in good health, simply aging. It was COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE. Bad outcomes from doctors and hospital visits are not always the result of someone being treated for a symptom.

The 20 minute massage was undoubtedly the reason you felt better, not the "jerk".

@Rustee you are lucky that "jerk" did not sever one of the 2 major arteries running to your brain through the spinal column, and make you a paraplegic. After my chirpractor-induced stroke, I found out is pretty common...i am one of the luckier ones, my remaining vertebral artery took over supplying both sides of my brain.
These fools have a High School diploma and 6 months on-line or maybe 2 years of "chiropractic training", and then get to call themselves "doctor"!

@AnneWimsey - It was not ME, it was BD66 who had "the jerk"!! The only persons working on my spine were radiologists, surgeons, and physical therapists! But I agree with your comments..

@Rustee huh...sorry, I thought I hit the correct "reply" button, but, obviously, nooooo Sorry!

@AnneWimsey - No problem!!

Ah, yes, the ones who claim than can cure asthma, or whatever........

@AnneWimsey EXactly!! Those are the ones you run away from.

And they work great. Have one that I use on those rare occasions when I have back problems.