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i think it would still be ruined if it wasn't for the chiropractor, so they do have their uses
Having had surgery on my spine since, I wouldn't go near one now.
Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
What I have found is that most male chiropractors are quite aggressive in their treatment, and are more likely to do that sort of thing
The one I use very occasionally is female, and uses more gentle and careful techniques, and normally mostly uses muscle spasm-removing techniques.
Probably the worst thing about chiropractors is that they vary a lot, and there's more room for bad practice or poor practices.
However, I have found the same with physios. Most just give you ultrasound and or heat and leave you on a machine while they have a cup of tea.
Within the NHS the requirement for using only evidence-based treatments has become a culture in most places. There will inevitably be some "traditionalists" but not many these days. Basically, you're unlikely to get "heat" as a treatment in the NHS.
However, in private practice it's a different story. It's very polarised.
There is still the professional requirement to only use evidence based treatments but at one extreme you will find a lot more "traditional" physio treatments in private practice because (a) you've got the last cohort of dinosaurs; (b) it's a business and I have worked in private practices where it's encouraged to have three patients lying in three separate rooms simultaneously, each of them wired up to electrotherapy or some other passive treatment. So your physio, @ToneControl isn't having a cup of tea, he's seeing two other patients at the same time! (I've never worked like that btw.)
At the other extreme in private practice you have physios who are really at the top of their game and choose private practice because of (a) economics, of course; (b) to be able to work without the admin demands of the NHS (which, while understandable in a stretched NHS, can really conflict with the best clinical practice; (c) to specialise.
Lastly, all of this evidence which supports evidence-based practice is being produced overwhelmingly by the research community of doctors, scientists, physios, and others within the international science-based medicine community --- and rather tellingly not by chiropractors or even osteopaths.
As for scoliosis - someone in my family has it too, and the only person I trust with it, in the main, is the consultant who specialises in it.
If there is one thing that can make your life a misery if its not right: its your back.
I'd choose a physio every time over an osteopath or chiropractor. They cover all bases needed and IMO are far more safe and able.
However...I couldn't find any evidence of deaths due to physiotherapy (or osteopathy, which is probably borderline quackery itself). On that basis alone...physio, or a chiropractor? I'll go with the one that's less likely to result in death, thanks.
Happily, that's also the one that's evidence-based and actually has reliable results, and where the practitioners do accurately explain the risks of what they're about to do, rather than skip that part in case the customer leaves...
Big fan of osteopathy for back, neck and shoulder ailments - always had a positive outcome.
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To be clear, my son is being followed by an orthopedic since he was 6 when the scoliosis was detected and he is following the normal procedure in these situations which is to monitor to see how fast /much the curvature in the spine evolves. He also swims and goes occasionally to physiotherapy for exercises to reinforce his back.
If it goes above 25 degrees then a vest is normally recommended. It will not "cure"/ decrease the curvature but may help to stop it or slow it down to a point in which surgery is not required which I believe is bellow 55-65 degrees depending on whether or not any organs are being affected by the curvature.
I just feel the urge to do something to prevent it from getting worse - and I want to take the right decision: a vest now with all the implications in his daily life (few sports/ being pointed out as the odd one in school/ the discomfort of the vest) with no guarantees that it will prevent surgery OR just let it him get on with his life as normal and just accept that almost inevitably he will have to go through surgery as did his mother and cousin.
"You don't know what you've got till the whole thing's gone. The days are dark and the road is long."
Due to my poor posture when slouching over a desk I have at various times over the past 20 years needed to see a physio to sort out various neck, back, shoulder and arm things. The physio's skill and knowledge were tremendous, and cured the problem. Incidentally, when I mentioned the word "chiropractor" I could have sworn I heard the physio do a duck impression.
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
The Ioannidis piece has been used by advocates of radically opposing factions over the years.
It's an interesting piece, with strengths and weaknesses, and people (being people) tend to take what they want from it and use it to make their case.
I haven't got a clue what your case is!
i shouldnt have posted in this thread its the phrase i hate it ....
Contrast that with other methodologies, which - in a dogma-like way - by definition never change despite evidence to the contrary. Homeopathy, for example.
That's demonstrably bollocks, but they tried to convince her that they could easily sort out the pain, and the nerve damage was just the doctors trying to justify their salaries, even after being shown the imaging scans of the damage. The chiropractor couldn't even tell which way up the spine was on the images, despite the clear presence of the pelvic bone.
So...if that's the kind of person that the GCC allows to practice, then there's no way I'm going near any of them. That's in addition to their utter failure to demonstrate even the slightest objective confirmation that the subluxation construct is even close to being true, despite having had well over 100 years to do so.