Eh. Still finding myself on the “fake medicine” side of things, as far as chiropractic is concerned.
Even if spinal manipulation therapy is itself effective beyond the point of placebo (which, from what I’ve heard, only seems to be the case for lower back pain), the science behind why it’s supposed to work (“A subluxated vertebra … is the cause of 95 percent of all diseases … The other five percent is caused by displaced joints other than those of the vertebral column.” - D.D. Palmer, founder of chiropractic) is bunk. And, in my opinion, that makes them all the way wrong.
If someone wants to start up an actual evidence-based spinal manipulation therapy clinic for lower back pain, then I’m all for it. But if they’re using the word “chiropractor,” then they’re subscribing to the pseudoscience made up (sorry, “received from a deceased medical physician”) by its founder.
