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Originally Posted by jbartle1
It’s not an “either OR” both are important, admittedly Chiropractic is a smaller part of our healthcare but should be respected. Fatalities by both professions have an enormous gap (26 to 250,000 (google), I would choose the conservative option of chiropractic with some diagnosis . The best part of chiropractic are the millions of folks that have been helped EVEN when their personal bias interfered with this choice.
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I have very mixed feelings about chiro’s. I think a good one can conservatively, and temporarily, help alleviate back and hip pain with proper adjustments. On the other hand, don’t ever let one of them give you a neck adjustment. One of my best friends, who is extremely fit and active, recently had a stroke which was caused by a damaged carotid artery in his neck. The neurosurgeons who treated him asked if he had seen a chiropractor and gotten a neck adjustment. Although they will never know if that is definitely what damaged his artery, they said they have seen the correlation between the two more often than a coincidence would indicate. Every neurologist my friend talked to said they would never get a neck adjustment.