That pretty much describes every chiropractor I know personally, although admittedly that’s a small number. They can also correct conditions causing neck and shoulder pain, and some kinds of hip and foot pain.
I have to disagree. If I put beer in a bottle labeled wine, people who are allergic to wine but not beer will take no harm from drinking a flagon. Labels don’t define, and they don’t even necessarily describe.
Personally, I don’t really care what a physician believes; since they are human, most of them have belief systems that are an inconsistent hodgepodge of childhood conditioning, altruistic dreams and selfserving lunacy, just like the rest of us. I’m interested in what they can accomplish, and I’ve found that a stance of skepticism, reason and experiment observation that does not prejudge based on social status of practicioner labels serves me best.
I had a little bit of an epiphany in the Christian Science museum in Boston. I realized that at any given time, what a patient really needs is the least bad treatment, and what that is may change at any moment. In Mary Baker Eddy’s time, homeopathy was almost certainly the best possible treatment you could get, since it would never outright poison you or bleed you to death, and it would keep you hydrated. That was a big improvement of risks compared to most contemporaneous treatments!
