To ask your opinions on Chiropractors

[chellochello]

I have been suffering with pretty bad lower back pain for over a year now - I have contacted my GP on a few occasions but have been pretty much told there is nothing they can / will do to help (although no one has ever actually looked at my back!) So I decided to see if a chiropractor could help. I've started seeing one twice a week for the last couple of weeks and can feel no noticeable difference to the pain

A couple of people have told me they are basically quacks and I am paying them for nothing so was wondering if anyone had any positive outcomes of seeing one?

This is a very comprehensive article. Don't waste your money, go and see a chartered physiotherapist if you need to.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/18/osteopaths-chiropractors-back-pain-whose-spine-is-it-anyway

My osteopath is amazing. My back used to go every few months and I’d be bed bound for a couple of days then it would be a couple of weeks before I was back to normal.

I have been seeing him once a month for 18 months and my back has only given me trouble once since that time, and I would says it was only 25% as bad as previous times.

He doesn’t claim to be a miracle worker and also gives me lots of advice how to strengthen my back, such as making sure I walk 10k steps a day.

As others have posted, I’m sure there are good ones and bad ones.

I saw a private physio for sciatica during pregnancy (desperate not to wait for NHS) who was unhelpful. Needed a gym ball and crutches both of which they could not provide themselves.

Saw a chiropractor who during the time of treatment I thought was a quack but at the end of each appointment I felt a lot better.

@ cheeseisascheesedoes great article in your link.

I recommend an osteopath and a physiotherapist. Physio helps with appropriate exercises and massage and osteopath does massage and manipulation. The osteopath massively improved my pain levels in one session.

For anyone with bulging discs/sciatica, there’s a more than 50% likelihood that it will get better/the symptoms will resolve itself. There’s sometimes just a coincidence that it aligns with a course of chiro ‘treatment’.

A. Woman I met recently said. She went to one, he was treating her but it was getting worse so shwe went to a Dr and was sent for a scan and it turned out to be a tumor pushing on her spinal cord,. Having had it operated on she is fine now with some nerve damage.

I think these guys are unregulated and just working on guess work.