Chiropractor
The new GF regularly visited a chiropractor for back problems. Wanting to curry favor, I went too. There was a weird cult-like energy about it: sort of a 1920's version of Scientology, featuring dusty human skeletons with tell-tale spider webs as totems. Not trusting him with my spine, I suggested he focus on my troublesome feet. For a half hour every visit, he pulled and pulled on my toes with enthusiastic energy, until it hurt to walk. I had to fake a conversion to yoga to squirm out of that.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 20:46, 7 replies)

Mr Quar talked me into trying that for a bad back
which was obviously from a pulled muscle.

Had my back pulled around and leaned on while the quack tried to make it go CRACK. Sometimes it did, sometimes not, but it was always tedious and unpleasant. Didn't help the back either.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 21:10, closed)

chiropracter=homeopath.
well not really but an osteopath i know hates them with a passion.
calls them worse than shite.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 30 Sep 2010, 21:32, closed)

So many clever friends of mine (all two of them) just don't understand that chiropractors are fake.
Meanwhile, there are perfectly good PHYSICAL THERAPISTS who can do the same job for less and with genuine results.
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 21:34, closed)

Find me a physical therapist who can do an accurate vector thrust.
Palpation may be one thing, correct treatment quite another.
For the record, osteopaths ftw, you won't catch me at a chiro.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 9:34, closed)

I always found vector thrust...
..to be the most difficult thing about Asteroids.
(NoveltyCondomHead Clanks Wams., Fri 1 Oct 2010, 9:51, closed)

Agreed,
though not as random as that warp thingy.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 9:57, closed)

Chiropractors==Fraud
I've had a dodgy back since, well, since I grew up slightly lopsided after a bit of an incident involving a plank, a greenhouse, and some bad 70's platform shoes.
Spend some months, and a fair wedge of cash going to the Chiro, which can actually help for lower back problems. Or I should say it helped for me, I went from hobbling about with two sticks to walking almost normally.

Last visit he stuck me in a room, lit some candles and told me that my back wasn't fixed permanently because I hadn't cleansed my aura and now it was time to get in touch with my sins and forgive myself so I could heal.

I think he might have been offended by the way I strode out of there (so good to stride!) laughing gently and refusing outright to pay money for such charlatenry.

I now see an osteopath every few months, similar price, similar effect, but no hippy shit.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 12:04, closed)