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To be fair, let me stick my opinion in here...
I've been with Sage to her chiropractor plenty of times when he was doing plain ol' back-cracky kind of stuff to her and while I was skeptical of the whole thing at first I've seen first-hand how much better she feels after it and I say if paying 20 bucks every month or two (our insurance covers most of it) keeps her feeling good (she used to not be able to walk around the whole mall without getting terrible back and neck pain and general fatigue and now she can outlast me sometimes) then thats great.
Its just some of the other things he does that I don't really buy. One thing this particular chiropractor uses as a test of back nerves and such is to have you hold out your arm and see how hard it is for him to push down on it. Then, if you have nerves that are being compressed in your spine, it will be a lot easier for him to push down when they are being pinched than when they are straight. For example, he demonstrated on me by having me stand with one of my feet on a half-inch thick block of wood. When he pushed down I couldn't hold against it at all, whereas when both of my feet were on the same level I could resist fairly well. So I figure yeah, sure, makes sense, and he could show me exactly what he was doing.
Then he had me hold a vial of water up next to my chest and did the same thing. Supposedly this told him that I was dehydrated, because he could push my arm down. Meanwhile I'm thinking wait a minute, my arm's tired from the last time he did this, plus now my body is not symmetrical (I'm holding something against my chest with one arm and sticking my other one out to the side for him to push on). As far as I can tell (I wasn't with Sage this morning when he did the nutritional whatnot) this is the same thing he did for her.
Now I want to be clear in saying that I support Sage in whatever she feels is the best thing for her to do about her own health, and that if this is what she feels she wants to do then I'm behind her 100%. I am concerned, though, about it. When she told me all that the chiropractor told her I said that it sounded like he didn't say anything she didn't already know (eat less fat and sugar, eat more vegetables) and that I thought selling her a bunch of supplements (especially of things like raw pancreas extract) based on the "hold this bottle and let me push your arm down" technique sounded... well, less than medically justified.
I think what it comes down to for me is that I personally would not be comfortable receiving and carrying out medical/nutritional advice with that "test" as the basis, and I expressed as much to Sage. I don't think any of the things the chiro gave her to take could be harmful, but I do think that they might be unnecessary, and I don't think it's a good idea to be taking a bunch of stuff in pill form that one doesn't need.
Like I said, I'll support whatever she decides. Just wanted to throw in my two cents.
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