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I need something clarified by someone who doesn't go to a chiropractor and never has.
I've heard it's all bullshit from multiple sources over the years. I've heard they aren't even doctors most of the time and that there's no empirical evidence that supports chiropractic practitioners at all.
Every attempt to research this is met with thousands of results from low quality sources all singing its praise.
So is it bullshit?
it is and it isn't.
it works for some things for some people, but it has no consistent or replicable results across things and patients, so it isn't scientific.
it's more like mental health therapy. therapy works for some folks in some circumstances with certain therapists... but again it isn't explicable. there is no general set of emotional therapeutic principles that will work for everyone.
and for many folks this type of stuff is a placebo effect. we all know someone who goes to therapy... but it never fixes their problems... but it convinces them that they are 'fixing it'. just like person you know who went gluten free who 'no longer gets headaches'.
compare that to drug where the entire point of a drugs/medical procedures where the entire point is reproducibility. a certain drug is supposed to cure a certain problem for all folks that have that problem.
Could you explain how you don't think mental health therapy is a science? We have psychology as a major in most universities, unlike chiropractic studies which are usually offered in different or specialized institutions. We have doctors of psychiatry that are actual doctors that can prescribe medications, just like general practice doctors. Therapy in different fields, whether it is in individual mental health or couple's therapy are active areas of research in academia with published works you can read up on. So I'm not sure how you're equating Mental health with Chiropractic practice.
It isn't a placebo effect, as you mentioned. Therapy isn't a cure/medication like drugs or a surgery for some diseases, therapy is more akin to exercising your mind so that you can face stress/fears/ any kind of emotional turbulence without losing it. Or as an avenue for personal growth or reducing effects of mental trauma. Saying it's a placebo effect without backing it up could be actively harmful for people who might be considering it and actually need it. Yes, it's not for everyone, and every therapists is different and every patient may or may not be willing to put in the work for it, but that doesn't make it ineffective or a placebo effect. But how is that different from, say, how the covid vaccine affects one person vs the other (some experience more protection and/or suffer from mild symptoms for a couple of days, etc.) or how chemotherapy may work for some patients but not for others?
it's not scientifically reproducible, that's how.
that isn't to say you can learn shit from it. but it's there are simple way too many variables to control. medicine is messy.
Look up Cognitive Behavior Therapy. It's a type of therapy that has some solid science behind it.