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Wait, I thought a chiropractors were healthcare professionals!? Bit silly to put them in the same catergory as the others mentioned above?
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I don’t think so.
Complementary/Alternative Medicine.
The problem with it is there are Chiropractors out there who make outlandish claims about what they are able to do, like protecting you from COVID-19.
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No I think chiropractors fall into that category.
Physiotherapists don’t though, and they more or less do the same thing.
Into the same category as crystal healers? I just find that really odd.
They both have about the same basis in science. One is just more accepted by society basically.
Check out even just the C section of Wikipedia on alternative medicine. Cinema therapy? Coin Rubbing?
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They are. Chiropractors are regulated professionals. I know this because I had an interview with the General Chiropractic Council once before lol
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Yeah, I’m not an expert, but what they do has an obvious effect on your body, adjusting your joints, making them more mobile, etc… Pro athletes use their treatments normally, it’s not some exotic stuff. Yeah there are some among them who claim they have magical powers, but it doesn’t take away from their actual impact.
And the same goes for crystal healers. If it works, it works. 
I’m being a bit facetious. From what I’ve been able to make out after first finding out a bit of the history of Chiropractics it’s the ones who want to use weird tools and instruments that you would want to be weary off. The ones that don’t are kind of like physio’s. Though I’d still just go to a physio personally.
Went to a chiropractor once when I had a disc pop out in my spine at work, pain was unbearable, dude asked a few questions, did some funky thing where he pressed me down into the bed with one hand on my chest then threw one of my legs up towards my shoulder, really weird, disc popped right back and the pain receded in like 5 seconds from flashes of white light flickering in front of my eyes-level to absolute nothing whatsoever.
I mean of course this stuff works when people know what they’re doing, it’s bone stuck in weird positions causing pain and if you know what you’re doing you can crack it back into place sometimes. Nothing strange about that at all. It’s probably still difficult for traditional medicine to apply the proper scientific method to evaluate it, I get that, but by no means is popping bones/joints/etc stuck into funny positions back into place, placebo. No one thinks it is mumbo jumbo to pop a dislocated shoulder back into place.
Then I don’t know if there are chiropractors out there who “talk shit” about traditional medicine as the teweet implies, that sounds weird to me, my perception is that why would they, they study anatomy and work parallel to traditional medicine, not against it. But as with all other fields there are probably quacks there as well, I just never really heard of them.
Same with acupuncture, it’s more like pain relief by fucking with over-stimulated/pinched/malfunctioning nerves. They run all over the body sometimes so fucking with one in your back can help relieve pain in your shoulder for example. There is nothing spooky about that at all, it can work just as intended though I’m sure there are quacks there as well.
I struggle to think particularly many chiropractors or acupuncture people actually claim they can cure virus infections by popping joints or sticking needles in your arse though. Feels like that is just wind mill fighting, and I personally wouldn’t put them in the same category as crystal healers 
as I don’t think many of them claim to be able to do anything else than specifically what’s within their field, which would be getting oddly placed bones back into place or stimulating nerves for pain relief. But I might have missed that there are droves of fake advertisers out there in those fields.
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Exactly, that’s why I refuse to put it in the same catergory as healing crystals and rain dances.
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Not arguing against what chiropractors do, if it works or not. Some of them do however have questionable methods and are nothing more then quacks. I know this from personal experiences, going to one who is professional and another one who just called himself a chiropractor.
The same with acupuncture. My brother in law is a licensed physiotherapist and has a education in acupuncture. So I trust he knows what he’s doing as opposed to some random person off the street taking a two days course.
https://www.gcc-uk.org/news/entry/claims-made-about-the-effect-of-chiropractic-treatment-on-covid-19
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hey now let’s not hate on rain dances, might be a lack of proper rain dancing lately that is the reason we can’t keep global warming at bay.
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