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High School Chiropractic Maneuvers

 For simple *cracks*
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With the abundance of minor back, neck, and joint pain, many people are suffering. The pain is too weak to warrant an expensive visit to a chiropractor, but severe enough to be distracting and uncomfortable. Much of this pain feels like it could be cured with one good *crack*, but they are unable to do this themselves.

Basic chiropractic maneuvers should be taught in high school health class. Students would learn how to safely crack joints ailing from excess gas buildup. They would also learn to diagnose when the patient should see a real doctor. Emphasis would be placed on the latter.

Millions could be saved in often-uninsured medical bills. Millions of people would no longer have to live with their joint pain.

—Aq_Bi, Feb 01 2005

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       There's a fair difference between the controlled cavitation induced by a chiropractic adjustment and the simple popping of a joint.   

       I'm assuming you're talking about straight biomechanical chiropractic and not the "voodoo' practitioners who use pocket watches and pendulae?
—UnaBubba, Feb 02 2005
   

       I question whether there's a difference.
—bristolz, Feb 02 2005
   

       Between a biomechanical adjustment and someone waving a pocket watch?   

       One is simple physiotherapy; the other is quackery. I've used the services of a chiro many times. My guy is disdainful of the bullshit espoused by many in the "profession". He trained as a MD, before branching into chiropractic as a discipline of physical manipulation. There's a big difference between him and the AK freaks, believe me.   

       Scott uses positional therapy techniques, massage, cavitation, heat and cold treatments and pressure appliaction therapy. No systematic repeat visits, no tablets, no magic spells...   

       He annoys some patients because he tells them that "popping" the joint is merely serving to exacerbate the calcification that led to the initial problem.
—UnaBubba, Feb 02 2005
   

       Sounds like a physical therapist.
—bristolz, Feb 02 2005
   

       Maybe. It's a fairly large segment of the industry, here in Australia. As a people we are ill-disposed to magical cures.
—UnaBubba, Feb 02 2005
   

       //As a people we are ill-disposed to magical cures.//   

       Are you sure we're living in the same country?
—Detly, Feb 02 2005
   


 

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