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Personal Injury Chiropractor
Hello! I just moved to a new town and I was looking for a new chiropractor but the only one listed in the phone book says they are a "Personal Injury Chiropractor" so... umm, what does that mean, exactly? Is it like a personal injury lawyer? Scammers? The Dr. version of an ambulance chaser? Any ideas?
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For some reason, a while back, a lot of chiropractors started advertising their services as if they are a cure-all for all kinds of things from depression to cancer. It's all a fraud. Chiropractory is good for helping exactly ONE thing: spinal pain. And the jury's still out on how effective it is for that. Anything else that chiropractory seems to benefit is due to the placebo effect. This has been conclusively proven in numerous scientific double-blind tests.
A chiropractor is not a doctor; there is no licensing involved, no formalized training required, nothing. Anyone can put a sign on their door saying that they are a chiropractor. This is what makes the field so rich with fraud and deceitful practice. Certainly, there are some honest chiropractors out there, but there are also a lot of dishonest ones.
As for the "Personal Injury Chiropractor", one of the things about back injuries is that they are very difficult to disprove. A person can claim that they have hurt their back in an auto accident, and unlike most other kinds of injuries, a doctor cannot necessarily tell whether they are faking it; the cause of back pain can be totally undetectable. But, it helps in court to have someone confirm the injury, and that's where the Personal Injury Chiropractor comes in; he's a professional who can claim to be an expert and vouch for the reality of a back injury (even if it's not actually real, he can say it is and no one can prove him wrong).
My advice to you would be to go first to a medical doctor, preferably one who specializes in spinal issues and back pain, and then follow his advice. If you feel that you must go to a chiropractor, don't go to one who stresses the "personal injury" part; he's essentially an ambulance chaser, and his interest will lie in convincing you that you have a long-term back problem for which you will need many, many appointments' worth of "adjustments" - thereby paying for his vacation in Florida every year.
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