Is the Chiropractor fleecing me.

[gerbrox]

Just wandered if anyone out there has been to a chiropractor, if so was it successful. Paid up front on C/C £300 odd for x amount of visits to sort issue with neck and lower back.

Been a couple of times and they cracked me all sorts of ways, anyway don't really think it's helping my neck problem and my back (lower) is very stiff. They said that it was the muscles working differntly and to be expected? Am I being ripped off?

[BBadger]

No your not... it will feel really odd for abit, but you should noticed a huge difference around a week later.
Things will ease up, if not ask about it.

[Speedy Claire]

Not sure really...... my experience was that I went about 7 times to see one, there was always loads of "cracking" noises from my joints but not much else. It didn`t help with the pain at all and in the end I went to see an osteopath.

My friend has also been to see a chiropractitioner for backpain and hasn`t had much luck either.

I`ve heard they can be good for lower back pain but not much else. Best of luck

[custard]

no my mates missus is currently training and she do say that it can take a while.

essentialy your muscles will grow around bones they way they are, so moving the bones about requires the muscles to change...

she had a go at my joints at the weekend for the first time and was amazed.

i came off a couple of years ago and landed face down on the left. all my ribs were out, my clavicles were at odd angles and my hips were squint.

after being manipulated i could breathe better, and my walk changed. that was sunday, unfortunatly over the week its seems things have shifted back...

[ralph]

go to a proper phisiotherapist on the nhs you pay into the nhs dont you. most lower back pains go in 3 weeks with simple painkillers and gentle exercises. not sure how ribs can be "out" but willing to be corrected. and it doesnt seem to have sorted the problem either

[Ed]

Have to say that the chiropractor made my sciatica worse. A physiotherapist resolved it.

[454697819]

a mixture of all three will sort it...

or buy a tuono... makes for get about all your other worries as your worried about when will it actually take off?

odd..

[wyrdness]

Not sure really...... my experience was that I went about 7 times to see one, there was always loads of "cracking" noises from my joints but not much else. It didn`t help with the pain at all and in the end I went to see an osteopath.

I had pretty much the same experience. I had quite a lot of sessions with a Chiropractor. They were really expensive and didn't seem to help at all. I then went to an osteopath instead and her treatment made a big difference very quickly. The Chriro practice was very dodgy, they used cult-like techniques to keep you coming back and seemed to actually do very little to me. The 'treatment' was often just a few seconds and cost a fortune. They also called themselves 'Doctor' even though they didn't have medical degrees, which I believe is illegal.

[Dangerous Dave]

There are different methods of Chiropathy, some work for some people and some don't.

[custard]

go to a proper phisiotherapist on the nhs you pay into the nhs dont you. most lower back pains go in 3 weeks with simple painkillers and gentle exercises. not sure how ribs can be "out" but willing to be corrected. and it doesnt seem to have sorted the problem either


thats exactly what i thought! i always thought they were in fixed positions, but apparently they can move. the proof being that she moved them back and i notice a massive difference in my breathing because of it.

[Stig]

Have to say that the chiropractor made my sciatica worse. A physiotherapist resolved it.

Me too. I spent an awful lot of money going to a chiropractor. Eventually I had a scan to find a collapsed disk. The only way it was ever going to get better was an operation. I had the disk removed and an a fusion of the lower vertebrae.

Not saying they are no good full stop, but it appeared to me they were quite happy making my back worse and happy to take my money.

I would say it would depend on what was actually wrong with you. Question is, how can you be sure what they are saying is the truth. The one I went to either blatantly lied to me or just didn't know in the first place.