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Originally Posted by Rose76
Fifteen years ago, I was in an auto accident. My car was totaled (It was old.,) but I stepped out of the car with no injury and was able to go right to work. I'ld been hit by a drunk driver running a light. I got t-boned in such a way that my car spun and bounced off a few curbs, dispersing much of the impact. I was absolutely fine.
A co-worker of mine was a regular recipient of chiropractic care. She told me that her chiropractor was absolutely sure I was injured and wanted to see me. He'ld never met or spoken with me, but he knew I would benefit from some treatment. Over the next three weeks I received mail from a number of chiropractors who had heard I was in an accident. (I guess they monitor police reports of traffic accidents.) They all said that I probably was injured, even if I didn't think I was, and that I would very likely benefit from their services. There was nothing wrong with me, and I didn't pursue getting treatment from any of them. But I did draw a few inferences about the mentality of chiropractors.
There is hard evidence that chiropractors can help relieve some types of back pain. Alopathic physicians will sometimes refer patients with pain to alternative practitioners. I think their reasoning runs along the lines of: "Sure, why not?" Auto insurance companies will pay for chiropractic treatment. That's why I got all those solicitations in the mail.
Some people have been cured at Lourdes from bathing in the holy water. I suppose anything that you have faith in can probably help you.
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I was in a car wreck that I was not wearing a seat belt and anchored my hands together over the steering wheel when I realized I was going to crash to anchor me in. I too totaled my car. In fact - I made a perfect facial imprint in the windshield - could have made a mask from it. I had bent the steering column so the steering wheel was facing completly toward the roof of the car - smashed my knees and shattered the protective layering around the column itself causing severe damage to my knees, neck, and spine. It was the doctor who ordered chiropractic care after looking at my x-rays. The chiropactor then double checked that I even needed chiropractic care and where I might need it by doinv xrays of his own. I was scared to death when I went there. I did not believe in chiropractic care at all. However - I believed if a doc tells you to do something, you do it (I was 19 and naieve), so I did...and it really improved a lot of things for me. I could move my neck from my side to side where I could not before. I could walk without partially "skipping" since both knees only partially bent previously. And I could bend without having to stop halfway through... just to name a few examples. It is an actual practice recommended by doctors. Yes, insurances pay for it and thus will hound you about it (the "ambulance chasers") but the same is true of some of the non-reputable doctors and injury lawyers. They would not put something on insurance if it was not a reputable form of treatment.