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Originally Posted by bbbbbb
Hi, I have gone to Chiropractors for years, have had 4 in this area without good results. A good Palmer Grad with ONLY hand adjustments can usually get me going again on alignment and it can be very good. Some in this area want to ( I call it play) with toys, and toys and the electronic devises, or otherwise, so be careful of the experimentation.!!!! I always check on fees before going in, I never have X rays, and even my West Coast Chiro, a real gem said he will not do x rays. He says if he cannot find the problem with hand examinations methods, then it is unlikely that x ray will do it. Unless you have a fracture, then why do x rays? Also an x ray will show arthritic conditions, so what? If you are over 45 you probably have some arthritic conditions. Also one chiro here after a seminar, just launched into our "ability to pay". Well if the dollar is the main issue then perhaps you need to go elsewhere and the same goes for rooms full of electronic TOYS. Just a few thoughts on my experience.
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Be afraid, be VERY afraid.
For example, we all KNOW a chiropractor can find an osteolytic lesion of a plasma cell dyscrasia WITH HIS HANDS!!!!!
I once had a patient show up in the ER nearly paralyzed from the waist down. She was actually a nursing supervisor at a local nursing home and had being going to her chiropractor for 10 months of adjustments and just getting worse. No x rays, no referral to a real doctor, just used "his hands". After her MRI showed multiple metastatic lesions compressing her lower spinal cord, I sent her for emergency radiotherapy. She lived 4 months. Had we found this problem 10 months earlier, who knows, but it could hardly be worse.
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Originally Posted by NYGUY
Personally I think Chiropractors are quacks, but are you telling me a $35 fee for a follow up office visit is unreasonable?. 
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And the above is just one of many reasons.