Veterinary chiropractor
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I'd be careful good way to get bit.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Chiropractors are like pushers, you have to keep going back.
Quacks for dogs?
Regular chiropractors are quacks for people.
I sure wouldn’t trust this guy with my dog.
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Awaiting the video of his face getting eaten off......
you all think what you want but when you find a good one they can make a huge difference
Yaworski
Hawkeye
That's what they want you to believe. They get you coming back monthly, weekly, or even multiple times a week for "adjustments."
that may be true in a lot of case but not with the good ones I've used over the years
Yaworski
Hawkeye
In my six decades of walking this planet, I've never known anyone who visited a bone cracker who didn't need regular adjustments. Even irregular adjustments means that he didn't fix the problem. However, you do you.
I grew up in Kirksville Missouri. It’s the home of a school of Osteopathic Medicine. Which is like a chiropractor only better. An Osteopath is more “educated” They do a much better job of reaching the same goals. And they don’t ask you to come back weekly.
The look on the dog's faces after the neck crack was priceless! Kind of a WTF??? look. 
TDF
Single-Sixer
I rarely go to chiropractors. Like to stay stretched out and generally can get my own kinks worked out, but to the doubters I can tell you I have had 2 distict instances where I am positive the chiropractor was doing good. In high school I was on a kick return. Hit a guy at full speed and sprung my back. Stood on the sideline the rest of the game in a lot of pain. One of the assistant coaches is a good chiropractor. My Dad used him numerous times before. After the game I caught him in the locker room, and told him about the back pain. He felt around a little. Had me sit up and turn as far as I could one way. It was not very far, before a lot of pain hit. He laid me down, cracked me, and then had me sit back up and turn the same way again, and I could turn way further. There was still plenty of soreness which didnt surprise me, but ice and rest helped that.
The second time I was in a motorcycle accident. Really sprung my neck good t-boning a car. But didnt do anything about it immediately. 2 years later it flared up and turned into a pinched nerve that was causing spasms. I tried to get it myself for a week, but it just got worse. By the end of the week I had lost all the strength in my right hand, and couldn't hold up a coffee pot anymore. And my right thumb by now had gone completely numb. I finally called Dad and asked who the good Chiro in town was, so he referred me to a woman chiropractor. I went to her. She spent probably a half hour on me and said go home and ice it, and advil and give it a little time and see how it feels. Within 2 hours the numbness came out of my thumb. I went a week, then saw her again, and she worked on it some more, did that for four visits. The last couple visits she started showing me ways to stretch my neck, and ways to strengthen up the muscles. That was 15 years ago. I haven't been back since, but I still do those stretches and exercises.
That woman is not only a human chiropractor but she also works on animals. All the way up to horses.
I'm a believer.
TDF
The second time I was in a motorcycle accident. Really sprung my neck good t-boning a car. But didnt do anything about it immediately. 2 years later it flared up and turned into a pinched nerve that was causing spasms. I tried to get it myself for a week, but it just got worse. By the end of the week I had lost all the strength in my right hand, and couldn't hold up a coffee pot anymore. And my right thumb by now had gone completely numb. I finally called Dad and asked who the good Chiro in town was, so he referred me to a woman chiropractor. I went to her. She spent probably a half hour on me and said go home and ice it, and advil and give it a little time and see how it feels. Within 2 hours the numbness came out of my thumb. I went a week, then saw her again, and she worked on it some more, did that for four visits. The last couple visits she started showing me ways to stretch my neck, and ways to strengthen up the muscles. That was 15 years ago. I haven't been back since, but I still do those stretches and exercises.
That woman is not only a human chiropractor but she also works on animals. All the way up to horses.
I'm a believer.
TDF
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I thought the same thing. WTF? I’m gonna bite him, wait my neck feels better, WTF! I still might bite himThe look on the dog's faces after the neck crack was priceless! Kind of a WTF??? look.
.Colonialgirl
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My Uncle Floyd was an Osteopathic Doctor because he couldn't stand the sight of blood; He practiced in Kansas City, MO for many years and then switched to Psychiatry. After he retired and lived on the Lake of the Ozarks, he use offer Osteopathic services to his neighbors, he had a small building next to his home. He lived to be 101.
crstrode
Blackhawk
This is so. However, it is pure luck to find a good one.
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epags
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Ditto on positive results. I have some disks in my back with minimal cartilage and if I sleep incorrectly I get a pinched nerve that causes me to limp. Went for my semiannual teeth cleaning and the oral hygienist noticed my walk. Mentioned she also was a chiroparactor and showed me a stretch/pressure technique that would re-align my spine and that I could do anytime the issue arose. No charge.
I have used it along with back muscle strenghtening exercises. No more problems. Yes, for some issues I believe.
I have used it along with back muscle strenghtening exercises. No more problems. Yes, for some issues I believe.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Osteopaths now have the same licensing as a physician and surgeon as MDs do.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Osteopaths now have the same licensing as a physician and surgeon as MDs do. My cardiologist is a DO as is the endocrinologist that I see.
Don't confuse an osteopath with a chiropractor. At one point they may have been similar, but that was a few generations back. Unless I am mistaken, every state now recognizes a D.O. exactly the same as it does an M.D. From personal experience I have found chiropractic works for certain ailments, maybe in the same way that a physical therapist can help. But the underlying rationale of chiropractic medicine, i.e. the "subluxations" from the spinal cord to every part of the body is totally without scientific basis. A chiropractor can likely help you with chronic back or neck pain, or a stiff neck and similar ailments, but run as fast as you can away from a chiropractor who tells you he can treat heart disease, or cancer, or diabetes, etc, etc.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
1976, Purdue University Hospital had a DO as one of their clinic physicians. First time I had run across a DO. I had a sore throat and he wrote me a prescription for some anti-biotic. So it has been at least 50 years.
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I've been a Professional Dog Handler most of my life and successfully showing and winning with purebred dogs all over North America in AKC conformations shows! When judging conformation the judge must evaluate the dogs movement as well as it's structure! We've used Chiropractic both on ourselves and our dogs and it's helped keep the body of both us and our dogs from the aches and pains that inhibit proper movement! I've known animal Chiropractic that even talked about doing horses and elephants! It's a little understood thing that is real and is a valuable tool in assuring optimum body health in our animals as well as in humans!
jmca
Single-Sixer
I've seen videos of horses treated by a Chiropractor
JackBull
Hunter
Dont knock it if you haven't tried it.
You can tell by the dogs reaction that it worked.
You can tell by the dogs reaction that it worked.
