Often motivated by pain, fear or desperation some people are willing to try just about anything, if it is promising to help them, no matter how irrational.
There is a growing tendency for people whenever they don't find any resolution with their health problems at the regular doctor, to try alternative medicine.
One of this option is chiropractic care. Based on the believe that the missalignment of the vertebras in your spine if disturbed could cause all kind of disease.
Which is not entirely untruthful, there are a few disease for which there is evidence to prove that. For example herniated disc, although the claims don't stop here, there are other sensational health claims completely unproven.
Another claim they make is that you can correct someone's body alignment through spine adjustments.
This adjustments consist mostly in cracking, bending and twisting the joints for short periods of time, in multiple sessions.
In order to realign a joint, you have to alter the soft tissue that hold the joints in place, by putting pressure on it for long periods at the time. Short jolts of high pressure not only are insufficient to alter the structures of your body, but also dangerous that could lead to potential injury. There are some rare cases of people shortly dying after they got adjusted.
The duration of the pressure is to short to be effective and the intensity of it to high that could get you injured. Also the logic of what they adjust and in which order they adjust is wrong.
They don't seem to understand the relationships between joints and equilibrium, that one joint is influencing the positions of all the joints underneath in order to maintain equilibrium. Which is a clear indicator to me that they don't understand human physiology.
Offering nothing more than temporary relief, turning you into a regular customer. So how is this that much different than going to your allopathic doctor that doesn't treat the cause of your disease, but prescribes you painkillers!?
Not only chiropractors won't help but the entire philosophy of using an alternative whenever the main option fails. Is wrong.
An alternative is a different way to reach to the same conclusion. Whenever the mainstream approach doesn't work neither the alternative will.
If you want to create a different result you have to do something different completely opposite not alternative.