Can anyone explain to me how chiropractor's heal people please?

[FAB5]

DD had treatment last week. At one point he held his hand over DD's back and said he was applying some heat. He also left her to lie still for about 5-10 minutes. DH is very about the neat application.

I have to admit, I prefer osteopathy - but that might just be the luck of the draw with the practitioner. I have had chiropractic done here in Australia and it did me no favours at all - I had to go find an osteopath in Sydney to put me back straight again!

A good practitioner of either type will usually have fairly instant results, not complete results (especially if you've had something for a long time) but you should always feel some difference.

I was once treated by a very "interesting" man - he was an osteomyologist that a friend recommended to me (I didn't go back - he was creepy). My osteopath warned me that some osteomyologists call themselves that because they can't call themselves osteopaths - either because they refuse to be on the GCO register (it's expensive!) or because they failed their final exams to be a DO. You wouldn't know which - so best to avoid them, IMO.

I will admit it is easier for me to accept the osteopath who has treated my daughter knows what she is doing and has helped because I have had treatment and so has my baby son so there has been results I can prove, so when I see her being very gentle with my daughter I know that is how they work. She also picked up on a problem DD has that I hadn't told her.

I am pretty certain the man we saw did nothing to help dd and have to let it go though the £50 it cost is hard to bear.