{"id":4418,"date":"2025-10-01T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:44:02","slug":"you-shouldnt-see-that-chiropractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memorialswordandshield.com\/es\/4418\/opinions\/you-shouldnt-see-that-chiropractor\/","title":{"rendered":"You Shouldn’t See That Chiropractor"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you open Instagram and search \u201cChiropractor,\u201d it\u2019s inevitable that you\u2019ll find a video of someone lying on a table, moaning in agony as their chiropractor presses down as hard as they can on their spine to realign it. It\u2019s hard, watching those videos, to imagine the amount of medical training chiropractors have to go through to put that amount of pressure on your body safely.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s even harder to imagine that Chiropractors spend less time in school than someone with a master\u2019s degree and receive almost no real medical training.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Knowing that, the question becomes \u201cWho on earth decided this was a good idea?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1895, outside of his \u201cmagnetic healing\u201d office, a man named D.D. Palmer met the building\u2019s janitor. The janitor, who had a hearing impairment, also just so happened to have a large bump on his back. Lillard believed that fixing the lump on his back would cure his hearing, and <\/span>performed the first chiropractic adjustment <\/span><\/a>on the spot. Where did he get such a wonderful idea?<\/span><\/p>\n

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He got it from a ghost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The inventor of Chiropractic medicine, the one who started an entire alternative health movement, <\/span>claimed<\/span><\/a> that he had spoken to the ghost of Dr. Jim Atkinson. More than that, Palmer had no medical training. In 1905, he was <\/span>jailed<\/span><\/a> for practicing medicine without a license.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Not all chiropractors are lying about having medical licenses, curing deafness, or doing time in prison. However, what most of them are doing is injuring people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a study done in 2020, around <\/span>50%<\/span><\/a> of people who had a spinal adjustment done by a chiropractor claimed that they had some kind of adverse effect. 82% of chiropractors admitted that at least one patient had experienced adverse effects after a spinal adjustment. To put that in perspective, you\u2019re twice as likely to have a bad reaction to a chiropractic adjustment as you are to have a bad reaction to <\/span>actual brain surgery<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A lot of that is because of how little training chiropractors have in comparison to brain surgeons. If you want to be a neurosurgeon, you generally have to complete <\/span>15<\/span><\/a> years of training to actually practice. Chiropractors need a minimum of <\/span>6<\/span><\/a> years. To put crazy amounts of force on your literal spine, they need just over one-third of the amount of schooling as neurosurgeons, who often treat things like spinal injuries. These spinal injuries can be caused by, you guessed it! Chiropractors!<\/span><\/p>\n

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None of this is to say that chiropractors are completely useless. It\u2019s only to say that if you\u2019re having health issues, you should go to a doctor to get recommendations. Chiropractors, especially those with more specialised degrees, can do a lot of good for certain people\u2019s health. At their best, they\u2019re more violent massage therapists. At their worst, they\u2019re people masquerading as medical professionals who do not have nearly enough training for what they\u2019re doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So the next time you see a video online, maybe featuring some super satisfying cracking sounds while a chiropractor pushes their entire body weight onto some poor sucker\u2019s back, imagine a much better ghost than Dr. Jim Atkinson. Imagine a ghost who reminds you that just maybe, you can book a normal massage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n



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