Good post, Radcliffe.

What I meant by that though was a facetious way of saying the chiropractic was also a doctor. He was chief of the emergency ward at the local hospital and had a chiropractic practice across the street.

The acupuncturist was an on-call surgeon at a different hospital.

But, yeah, the perpetual adjustments certainly are what keeps those dudes in the money.

I'm all for holistic approaches, but I'd never use alternative medicine to the exclusion of traditional medicine. I used the acupuncturist because my damaged knees felt better after. Whether that was psychosomatic or grounded in some ancient Chinese nerve field tweaking, I dunno. But it did work. Didn't heal them, but they did feel better. Got to be too expensive, though, so now I rely more on walking 5+ miles a day.

I'm not about to paint all alternative therapies with the same brush. Some are good and some are bogus. Acapuncture is a case of the former (although the needle thing is a tad unnecessary now that electronic acapuncture can have the same effect).

Also, there will be incidences of chiropractors who have honest-to-god medical educations. Those anomalies WILL help their patients, but they'll be doing it with their own modified version of chiropractic.

I also think ozone therapy and magnetic field therapy show a great deal of promise, but neither will ever be implemented until some corporation figures out how to own the rights to naturally ocurring entities like ozone and magnetic fields.

anything will "work" if you really think it will - at least for awhile. my sister things putting warm stones will heal you. power of suggestion is pretty strong.

this chair fucking blows.