#chiropracty

absolutely flummoxed at this chiropractic safety study on stroke risk in chiropractic vs medical treatment in older adults referring to a 183% increase in strokes in people who went to chiropractors as a "slight elevation in risk" but this is really really really typical for chiropractic studies. i look at them a lot and they absolutely flood the publishing landscape with stuff like this, so much so that it drowns out basic science-based medicine papers called like "CHIROPRACTY: BAD???? WE CHECKED AGAIN AND THE ANSWER IS STILL YES" and i think thats fully intentional because even if your pep pep tries to go online and look this stuff up, he cant

the layman's translation here is "you are almost twice as likely to have a stroke if you go to a chiropractor for neck pain, according to this study anyway" and i looked up the authors, they all appear to be chiropractors writing for a chiropractic journal (and reporting "no conflict of interest" of course but thats not what "conflict of interest" means in this context, which is why its important to check out the backgrounds of people who write studies generally)

whats even funnier is that the chiropractic patient group may have been, as a group, less likely to get strokes anyway in the short term and it was the chiropracty that fucked them up. impossible to control for in this data and purely evil speculation on my part but still funny to think about. their stroke risk was lower than the control group when the study started, and then got worse AFTER the chiropractic treatment

The title of this video is kinda clickbait-y but this man is a orthopedic surgeon in the US. He does a very good job of explaining why chiropractic adjustments can be dangerous and disabling

"Alternative medicine” is like “alternative facts”: not medicine, not a fact.

I can’t speak for the entire veterinary community, but this is a contentious topic at best.

The majority of the veterinary industry in Australia tends to lean on the side of not enough evidence that it works, really works, and don’t recommend it as part of their treatment plans. The chiropractic industry is not helped by the number of untrained people offering services and the number of straight up misdiagnoses chiropractic practitioners have made. They are mostly used by people who want an ‘alternative’ treatment or who want an ‘edge’ in competition. Personally I find it concerning how many of these practitioners also offer homeopathy, which is straight up woo that doesn’t work any better than a placebo and cannot work with the current laws of the universe.

There certainly are Holistic Veterinarian associations which advocate for chiropractic treatments among other things, but they don’t present many papers at conferences because the evidence isn’t adequate to convince the wider veterinary community.

And the Australian Veterinary Chiropractic Association changed its name to Animal Biomechanical Professionals Australia, dropping the word ‘veterinary’ all together so they are no longer exclusively associated with people who have trained in veterinary medicine first and foremost. This personally makes me uncomfortable because if an animal is going to be seen by a ‘chiropractor’, I would prefer it to be seen by one with a solid understanding of animals and their pathology so that other relevant conditions are not missed and have delayed treatment, which is certainly a potential outcome if a human chiropractor decides to branch out, so to speak.