Chiropractors and Acupuncturists - What's your experience

[Kal Rubinson]

Originally Posted by Amfibius

Sorry, but all chiropractors are quacks, in the same way that there is no such thing as a witch who can perform spells. Seeing a chiropractor to cure your ailment is the same as seeing a voodoo practitioner instead of a lawyer to correct an injustice. If the premise of your claim is wrong, and you base a profession on the claim, then your entire profession is wrong. Would you argue that only some homeopaths are wrong? Actually, every last one of them, down to a man, is wrong.

Here is a simple question for chiropractors. With medical imaging, we can measure bone alignment down to a very fine resolution. Has anybody done a study to document precisely what subluxations are associated with what disease, and shown CT and MRI evidence that the said subluxation exists? Or better still, a follow-up CT/MRI to show that the manipulation has corrected the subluxation?

Answer: no such thing.

Some (many) years back, I ran a summer course in Medical Neuroscience and had students from many different schools and disciplines attending for remediation or advancement. One summer, there was a group of chiropractic students who did well and were very engaged. As we worked our way through the anatomical basis of neurological deficits, they often came up afterward and asked about why I never mentioned subluxations. My reply was that I had never seen any evidence it had any relation to the deficits being discussed. That school never sent any students to us again.