• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    I have known a few chiropractors. Two were decent naturopaths who were also nutritionists, physical therapists, and masseuses. Whole body and nervous system health. Never cracked or popped a joint.

    The third charges $35 bucks, no insurance needed, and just pops your middle back and gropes you. Absolute worst and he bought the business from one of the first.

    Good chiros are about nervous systems. Bad chiros, the vast majority, are witch doctors selling bunk cures.

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      1 hour ago

      The inventor of chiropracty said that a ghost taught it to him during a seance. Yes, really, I’m not making that up.

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        Yeah I think he also said he fixed a deaf janitors hearing by popping a neck vertebrae into alignment, if I remember the lore. This was ‘drink heroin for medicine’ era too.

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      nutritionists

      Just a heads up, but anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. It is not a protected term. You don’t have to pass any exams. The only thing you need is to be interested in the subject.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionist

      The actual professional term is dietitian.

      In the US it is even worse. Like Certified Clinical Nutritionists (CCN), which are quacks and prescribe things like homeopathy and herbalism. They are neither Certified nor Clinical.

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        Yeah I was using common nomenclature. I don’t recall if they were licensed dietitians or not.

        The one sold supplements and vitamin tinctures his wife made, so they weren’t far off from the unlicensed category. But they were both also licensed/certified physical therapists and masseuses. He had done some kind of sports medicine if I recall correctly before starting his business.

        The other guy was really into the whole gambit of chinese herbology and such, but he kept himself grounded with physical therapy regimens and promoting tai chi every other sentence.