[bmohlenhoff]

I've been to a chiropractor before and it really does work, at least for the problem I was experiencing (which was some sort of simple alignment problem.) The guy basically just pushed on my spinal column in different directions and I could clearly feel things moving back into place. I definitely would not lump them in with the quackery that is homeopathy, as long as you stay within the bounds of "pushing bones into alignment" and stay away from things like "improve the chi flow throughout your chakra nodes" or some such nonsense.

[jonprins]

Until you realize that your bones were 'out of alignment' because you have weak core muscles that you should build up instead. In fact, 'pushing spinal column bones into alignment' without any x-rays or further inspection sounds pretty dangerous to me. What if the chiropractor pushes it too far and strains something, causing me to return for another adjustment? Everyone I know who has tried a chiropractor ends up going back over and over again, like an addiction.

Meanwhile, I had some back pain and started doing pilates and it evaporated, because now my core can actually hold my backbone up.

/plural of anecdote is not data

[jrockway]

I've seen a chiropractor and x-rays are a part of the procedure. You can't do medicine without seeing that there is a problem, correcting the problem, and then verifying that the problem is solved.

[a-priori]

You can't do medicine without seeing that there is a problem, correcting the problem, and then verifying that the problem is solved.

No one is debating that. What we're debating is whether chiropractic is medicine.