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[โ€“] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are chiropractors doing?

Placebo stuff? (e.g. nothing besides leaving an impression they helped)

Dangerous stuff that can work but could paralyze?

[โ€“] dax@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago

The explanations that chiropractors have for how it works are basically pseudoscience. It is for the most part a placebo (they pretend to fix alignment issues that just don't exist). But I'm not denying there may be instances where they actually fix something which could've been fixed by physical therapy as well. It's a dangerous gamble though, there are cases where people got paralyzed or outright died because of a chiropractor. This is a good overview: https://www.skepdic.com/chiro.html