how did humans manage to survive for so long without "chiropractors" ? 
Probably because they didnt need them. Scam artists, all of them. Why isnt massage considered a medicine too then?
Valid question but retarded argument. Almost no one needs chiropractic to survive. At least not in the crisis sense. But if all u want to do is survive then u will can also take below the required amount of vitamin D or stay out of the sun enough to get rickets, U will take in below the required amount of vitamin C and get scurvy, u can ingest just enough food so u do not die of starvation, u can drink just enough water so u do not die of dehydration. What is your definition of survive? I take it you mean that since the human race began up until around 100 years ago when chiropractic was discovered (although the practice of spinal adjusting has been practiced for thousands of years as seen in (srs) Egyptian hieroglyphics in which an ancient Cairo-Practor is seen seen curing cancer and bilking Queen Nephriti's woker's comp fund) that we had not gone extinct without chiropractic before that time.
Stupid argument. We prolly wouldn't go extinct without cars, nice homes, PCs, exercise, lifting weights, god I could list a million things that we now use that we didn't even have just fifty years ago that we use freely now that have had a positive impact on our qualities of life. See how dumb your argument is? Regularly I wouldn't insult anyone by saying that their argument is dumb but u insult me in your next sentence saying that we are all scam artists. but to each his own. It doesn't bother me that u feel that way. ok w me.
Yup, I believe that humans could survive without chiropractic. But with chiropractic they millions of patients have eased painful daily suffering and improved the quality of their lives.
You want to know the really thing about chiro? MDs like the ones cutting us down try to belittle what we do. Like its such a small thing. Because we aren't curing cancer (which by the way no MD has ever cured cancer. The cancer cases that have been successfully treated by MDs have removed or suppressed cancer cells to the point where the body can take over and heal itself) they joke about us being reduced to some kind of foot massage doctor. What docs like that do not understand is that to a patient, what we do is a very big thing. For a patient that has been suffering with horrible sciatic pain daily for years and no relief with traditional medicine to be suddenly pain free after chiro adjustments....yeah...it ain't curing cancer...but to that pt it may as well be. To the woman with constant migraines that trditional medicine failed to relieve and to be suddenly headache free after that patient forgot what it was to even be headache free...nope...not curing cancer again...but to that patient...may as well be.
See doc when u belittle us u don't realize that you really belittle yourself. Who do u think u r convincing when u tell a patient, that has had wonderful results with chiro, when u tell them that we are quacks? Prolly the majority of the time u don't realize that the patient goes right back to their chiro and tells them u ar a fucking asshole.
Anyway, just so u know I'll say it again. The last thing I'm trying to do is convince uberman or the MDs here bashing us to change their views.
Just want to present a better side to the story.
And I'm not even offended the Docs on here that comment harshly about chiro uberman or anyone else that bashes it. Hell I'll prolly be bashing someone else in another thread n laffing right along side u guys.
To each his own. Its not like I'm gonna try to convince a Pepsi lover that Coke is better. If u r that set against chiro n think we r all scammers then fine. That's how u feel.
oh yeah. forgot your other question. Massage is not considered medicine because its not medicine. They are not doctors. We are. Look at our training. I personally hate the term chiropractic medicine. I think its dumb and misleading and completely unnecessary but if u look at the def of medicine I can see why it was adopted not long ago. I still don't like it though
med·i·cine
/ˈmedisən/
Noun
1The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery).
2. A drug or other preparation used for the treatment or prevention of disease.
