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I thank each of you for your thoughts. And its my fault for not getting to the next part of my story yet.

I believe there are good chiropractors despite my experience. I ended up finding a few who I believe have been able to reverse some the damage done prior.

To me there are good and bad doctors Good and bad chiropractors Good and bad attorneys Good and bad financial advisors (I was one for a short period into 9/11)

Shop around is my advice.

To the OP topic I would use any financial assistance first to address my spinal cord injury as opposed to further developing the RTS game mod I am creating.

And I guess my segment is no exception...there are good and bad homeless too.

We gotta look deeper than the labels!

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As with most disciplines, the variation between practitioners is bigger than the variation between disciplines.

If you have a practitioner who works for your problems, more power to you.

However, if you're looking for someone new - do not search among chiropractors. They are - on average - much more likely to harm you than a psychotherapist or osteopath.

Thank you very much for your comment. Osteopath just made my list.

It might be true that there are some chiropractors who are also skilled physical therapists or massage therapists.

But that's just a coincidence -- the name "chiropractor" does not imply those things. Chiropractic itself is not evidenced based in any way.

Aside: I wish you the best in your life and hope you find justice/success/happiness.

Thank you. I believe you are right. I was merely trying to identify the people in my story concisely and accurately. With a helicopter hovering 300 feet overhead. In the dark.

To me its the nut of the homeless problem bias. I did not cry 'WOLF'. I said 'Chiropractor' and the rest is inference and in this case I believe mistaken judgement but I would be curious to know what others think.

It's been a longstanding problem that chiropractors have tried to co-opt people's conception of physical therapy to believe it is one and the same as chiropractic, so as to legitimize chiropractic as a real therapy. So I don't think the severe reaction on here to chiropractic should be taken as anything personal.

Choosing Chiropractic over evidence-based science is a bit like saying gambling on slots is a good way to make steady income. There are good slot machines and bad slot machines, just like there are good jobs and bad jobs; find the correct one and you'll be well off!

> there are good and bad doctors Good and bad chiropractors Good and bad attorneys Good and bad financial advisors

How about clairvoyants, mediums, and dowsers? Sometimes a whole profession is just nonsense.

> We gotta look deeper than the labels!

It isn't empty labeling. Chiropractic is pseudoscience. This is neither a matter of opinion, nor an open question.

Excuse me but how are you still missing my point? I merely used the vocational terms to identify the people in my story.

If you can get past your witchhunt against chiropractors then I think you may understand more of what I am trying to say. With respect

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