chiropractic.txt

# Chiropractic
- Based on Quackery
- Overtly against 'mainstream' medicine (science)
- No evidence of any use, other than possibly lower back pain

# Choice Quotes

> Chiropractic was founded in 1895 by Daniel David (D.D.) Palmer in Davenport, Iowa. Palmer, a magnetic healer, hypothesized that manual manipulation of the spine could cure disease.

>Chiropractic competed with its predecessor **osteopathy**, another medical system based on magnetic healing and bonesetting; both systems were founded by _charismatic midwesterners in opposition to the conventional medicine of the day_, and both postulated that manipulation improved health.

> Early chiropractors believed that all disease was caused by interruptions in the flow of innate intelligence, a vitalistic nervous energy or life force that represented God's presence in man; chiropractic leaders often invoked religious imagery and moral traditions.[206] D.D. and B.J. both seriously considered declaring chiropractic a religion

> chiropractors often aspire to become primary care providers, though they lack the medical and diagnostic skills necessary to fulfil this role."

> Its early philosophy was based on deduction from irrefutable doctrine helped distinguish chiropractic from medicine, provided it with legal and political defenses against claims of practicing medicine without a license, and allowed chiropractors to establish themselves as an autonomous profession.[35] This "straight" philosophy, taught to generations of chiropractors, rejects the inferential reasoning of the scientific method,[35] and relies on deductions from vitalistic first principles rather than on the materialism of science.

> The "specific focus of chiropractic practice" is chiropractic subluxation, a concept for whose existence there is no good scientific evidence. 

> Some chiropractors want to separate themselves from the traditional vitalistic concept of innate intelligence.[3] However, as a whole, chiropractic is classified as a field of pseudomedicine.

>  Systematic reviews of this research show no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[10] A critical evaluation found that collectively, spinal manipulation was ineffective at treating any condition.

> Its foundation is at odds with mainstream medicine, and has been sustained bypseudoscientific ideas such as subluxation and innate intelligence[28] that are not based on science.[10] Despite the overwhelming evidence thatvaccination is an effective public health intervention, among chiropractors there are significant disagreements over the subject,[29] which has led to negative impacts on both public vaccination and mainstream acceptance of chiropractic.

> The American Medical Association called chiropractic an "unscientific cult" in 1966

> Chiropractic's origins lie in the folk medicine of bonesetting,

> The 2008 book Trick or Treatment states "X-rays can reveal neither the subluxations nor the innate intelligence associated with chiropractic philosophy, because they do not exist.

> A 2008 commentary proposed that the chiropractic profession actively regulate itself to combat abuse, fraud, and quackery, which are more prevalent in chiropractic than in other health care professions, violating the social contract between patients and physicians.
Chiropractors, especially in America, have a reputation for unnecessarily treating patients.[51] In many circumstances the focus seems to be put on economics instead of health care.

> Chiropractic was founded in 1895 by Daniel David (D.D.) Palmer in Davenport, Iowa. Palmer, a magnetic healer, hypothesized that manual manipulation of the spine could cure disease.


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[Chiropractic#Conceptual_basis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic#Conceptual_basis)
[Vertebral_subluxation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebral_subluxation)
[Chiropractic_controversy_and_criticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_controversy_and_criticism)