Comments by "gwho" (@gwho) on "Joe Rogan - The Problem with Chiropractors" video.

  1. not that uni attendance length is what determines the validity of a theory.
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  2. you have to keep eating food too. great logic.
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  3. A chiropractor, after seeing several useless bad ones, allowed me to walk again after having major sciatica, not being able to stand or sit for a few minutes without incredible constant pain. I wasn't expecting much from him when I saw him, but omg the first treatment was so right and made me feel so much better. And just like he said with treatments that reduce in frequency as you get better, I was able to walk again and do all kinds of athletic things again. So single-blind test, check. I'm not a confirmation-biased seeking fanboy of chiropractic. I support it because of the empirical evidence. They're not quacks. They operate on the same physics and understanding of biology. The prescribed medical opinions are different, in the same way you get a second opinion at a mainstream, insurance backed, AMA-approved doctors from the same medical school of thought. Quacks tell you never to see x or associate with x's school of thought, rather than being scientific and giving you the reasons why. It's the medical equivalent of what cults do. Quacks also charge you a shit ton too. Mainstream medicine, at least the shitty doctors, which there are no shortage of. All my mainstream doctors wanted to do disc surgery prematurely, which wasn't even the real issue, given the empirical evidence of my chiropractor getting me better and to walk again without surgery. A study was done showing that half of the population will show herniated discs but they aren't all hobbling around or needing surgery. There is very shitty baseliness or control group-based analysis when doctors diagnose patients for this kind of stuff. It could be a ligament or tendon issue. The actual problem was a torn and inflamed and weakened sacroilliac ligament. There are protocols around it, sound healing theory with vitaminc C, perpendicular scar tissue formation, chiropractic adjustments to break the non-aligned strands, and keeping the ones aligned in the desired direction so that the overall macro-scale tissue is as parallel as we can achieve. This is all standard, known physics of what happens in the body that isn't disputed by mainstream doctors. The opinion about what is the effective treatment, what the causes are, and things like that are what are different among chiropractors and mainstream qaucks. You also have to keep in mind that there is a spectrum of quality no matter which field, industry, or school of thought you go into. You'll see shitty mianstream doctors, shitty chiropractors, and good ones respectively. Like I said, I went through about 5 useless chiropractors before I met the good one.
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