Yep, what everyone else said - adjustments curing colds and deafness is pretty woo, but a fair amount of it seems pretty commonsensical.

I got a neck/shoulder adjustment once and it was pretty amazing - something horribly awry in one shoulder, that laughed mockingly at ibuprofen and heat and ice and a lengthy massage by a very gifted friend; then another acquaintance, a PT with some chiro training, offered to give it a try. She spent a few minutes poking and prodding both the wrecked and the normal shoulder, and then she did something fast and super-painful, and then the pain by-God vanished, completely. That's my kind of woo.

Timelies all!

Need to clean the house, since we are having a party tomorrow night. Got a big case of the "don't wanna"s, though.

Yeah, my acquaintance the chiropractor made my back feel great, but also told me that what he was doing would help my digestion and the fact that I was boy-crazy.

well, I decided to speak to the manager about it. It was at a Panera, and I told him overall I was "having a bad visit." they didn't put the dressing on the side of my salad initially, so they had to remake it, and then I was charged for chopped egg, that wasn't on the salad, so I just was not particularly happy.

He wanted to get me another food item, but I had already eaten almost all of my salad and all of my soup.

He gave me a refund on the entire meal and apologized!

Most physical therapists I know talk mad shit about chiros. PTs believe their job is to help patients improve over the long haul while chiros give short-term benefits and make patients come back repeatedly. I am not sure what I think (never having been to a chiro) but the PTs point of view amused me.

I think EM's periodic chiro appointments over many years are what wrecked her neck. She was never in a bad accident but her neck would periodically get stiff and she'd go and get an adjustment. I suspect those wrenching adjustments broke down her neck and caused her chronic pain.

And then there are stories like this:

I'm a grad student in neuroscience at a major hospital. My adviser is a MD PhD neurologist. Every week, there's a morning case conference where all the neurology attendings and residents get together and present all the new cases that have come in in the past week.

Every single week with little or no exception, one of those cases is someone who died or became a paraplegic due to the actions of a chiropractor.

Every single week with little or no exception, one of those cases is someone who died or became a paraplegic due to the actions of a chiropractor.

Which is why neck adjustments freak me out. I suppose that since my lower back is already Frankenspine, I should be less cavalier about letting a chiro crack it, but it's always helped me. Except for that time I had surgery. (Uh, just to be clear, the chiropractic didn't *cause* the herniations. I already had severe pain and went to a chiropractor to see if it would help fix things; at that point I hadn't had an MRI and didn't know I had crazy herniations. Shit just hurt.)

Which, YOU GUYS, my surgery was 10 years ago on the 15th of this month. TEN YEARS. I still have all my Farscape action figures that various people sent me. Zhaan is guarding a teapot.

Ten. Fucking. Years.

Ten years?? That's unpossible.