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Originally Posted by ForgottenKnight
No. I believe that the chiropractor helped my body to get over the flu itself. By correctly aligning the spine, it allowed the body to use the nervous system to correctly communicate with the brain, thus allowing my body to cure itself.
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And as such we venture into the heart of quackery. I'm sorry ForgottenKnight, but you my friend, were dupped. You said you had the flu a week, got an adjustment and then 3 days later you were fine. Well guess what, your body did heal itself, only it had nothing to do with someone playing with your spine. Had you had your adjustment a week earlier you would have had your flu exactly the same amount of time.
The only place where chiropractic 'medicine' and I use the term lightly has shown to have any reproducable help is in lower back pain. Your nerve energy is not being cut off by your missaligned spine, nor does your body need that nerve communication to heal itself. This is quackery, it sounds good, but its bunk.
Back in 1973 Chiropractic theory was 'tested'. They wanted to see if spinal manipulation did anything to the intervertebral foramina (thats the space where the nerves run) and the only way to get a change in that space was to put enough force on the spine to actually break it. All a chiropractor does is give you an expensive back rub (at best).
If it makes you feel good, keep going, people have found comfort from witch doctors, psychic healers, laying on hands and the like for years, but what is being done is not based on anything close to reality. Personally I'd rather go to a psychic healer as at least they won't do any harm.
And for ANYONE even dreaming of taking a newborn to a chiropractor ...
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On the convex side of the laterally bent newborn column there was a significant increase in the size of the foramina, whereas on the concave side there was a significant decrease, to the point that the borders of the foramina made contact with nerves passing through them. However, the nerves were not markedly impinged upon and could be made to slide back and forth within the foramina when they were grasped with forceps. The extreme degree of lateral bending needed to cause encroachment of the foramina on the nerves could not occur in an intact infant because the internal organs and the body wall with its ribs would not permit it.
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It doesn't work!