My mother has been experiencing back pain for a few months now, and insists her chiropractor is making it “tolerable.”
Whenever I plead with her to see a doctor or a physical therapist, or suggest that maybe the chiropractor is the problem she gets very upset with me. There is no convincing her of any alternative, she won’t even get a second opinion and I’m not quite sure how to help at this point.
My sister got her got her an appointment to see a massage therapist, which she went to and said nothing but good things about, but she will not budge on the chiropractor.
I dunno maybe I’ll just shut up about it, but it all just seems like quackery to me.
It’s quackery and I’ll tell you this, actual physiotherapy from medical professionals is often around the same price as chiropractic care. If you have back issues that “need a chiropractor” then what you really need is physiotherapy where they can target the areas that are giving you trouble and help you develop muscles with exercises that strengthen the back and relieve the pain. Eventually, you don’t even need the physiotherapy at all anymore. Unlike chiropractic which will expect that you will never improve and need regular care for the rest of your life.
Everyone has a sacred cow. Chiropractic is my wife’s and I can not get her to budge even though when I’ve had pain I’ve done the physiotherapy route and gotten better.
I do think one funny thing is that chiropractic claims to align the spine, decrease subluxation, but actually does the opposite. It increases subluxation. Oops.