'Cracked Like a Glowstick': How Chiropractic YouTube Hooks Obsessive Fans

The tear-jerking, spine-cracking videos are racking up millions of views, and sending more people to one of alternative medicine’s most controversial practices.

 Chiropractic and Dance: Protecting and Enhancing the Potential of the Human Body

Chiropractic is widely respected in the world of dance. Just like professional football or baseball players, dancers use chiropractic care to keep their bodies feeling pain free and able to perform at their full potential.

 Modern chiropractic therapy is based on evidence – and here it is

So what does the evidence say about its efficacy? A Cochrane Review of spinal manipulation therapy for chronic low back pain shows that at minimum, it’s as effective as exercise therapy, standard medical care or physiotherapy.

 The Chiropractic Controversies

An introduction to chiropractic controversies like aggressive billing, treating kids, and neck manipulation risks.

#DCMeToo: One Female Chiropractor’s Perspective on Gender Bias

Thanks to the bravery of women who are now coming forward with their #MeToo stories, a much-needed conversation has been initiated across the country, a conversation that illustrates the very different experiences that men and women can have in male-dominated professions such as Hollywood, the media, and yes, even chiropractic. The timing could not be better for the American Chiropractic Association’s new Commission on Diversity, which will focus on how to better support and expand opportunities for both women and minorities within the ACA.

A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain

A review of 80-plus studies upends the conventional wisdom.

Chiropractic Care Grows, and Gains Acceptance

The A.M.A.’s Committee on Quackery is long defunct, having gone out of existence after a lawsuit by chiropractors led to a 1987 federal district judge’s ruling that the medical association had tried to destroy the chiropractic profession. Since then, the number of chiropractors has steadily grown. Today it seems as if everyone I know is seeing one — and not just for the standard hands-on treatment of lower-back pain, but for an expanding range of interventions falling under the rubric of “integrative wellness.”

Chiropractic: Is it Nature, Medicine or Religion?

Many people assume that chiropractic has always been a non-religious health care option much like modern medicine but less interventionist...

For Bad Backs, It May Be Time to Rethink Biases About Chiropractors

Most back pain resolves over time, so interventions that focus on relief of symptoms and allow the body to heal are ideal. Many of these can be nonpharmacological in nature, like the work done by chiropractors or physical therapists.

Headaches… Research Keeps Proving Chiropractic Right

Research shows that spinal manipulation – the primary form of care provided by doctors of chiropractic – is an effective treatment option for tension headaches and headaches that originate in the neck.

How to Find a Chiropractor Who Won’t Mess You Up

Get your back cracked in the least-sketchy way possible.

New Medicare Data Reveal Startling $496 Million Wasted On Chiropractors

Over a century ago, D.D. Palmer believed, mistakenly, that he cured a man’s deafness by manipulating his neck. His son built Palmer’s beliefs into a profitable business, but neither of them would have dreamed that the U.S. government would one day spend half a billion dollars per year on chiropractic manipulations. If we want to start controlling the cost of Medicare, here’s an easy first step: stop covering chiropractic. We will save $496 million a year, and people’s health will improve.

Sept. 18, 1895: Is There a Chiropractor in the House?

1895: The first chiropractic adjustment is performed, and a new field of medicine is born, along with a healthy number of skeptics. It was the age of the talented dilettante, and the world’s first chiropractor certainly qualified on that score. Daniel David Palmer, variously a beekeeper, school teacher and grocery store owner, dabbled in magnetic healing and mysticism on the side...

Twenty Things Most Chiropractors Won’t Tell You

The following is a guest post by Preston H. Long. It is an excerpt from his new book entitled ‘Chiropractic Abuse—A Chiropractor’s Lament’. Preston H. Long is a licensed chiropractor from Arizona. His professional career has spanned nearly 30 years.

What can chiropractors heal?

Though it's a controversial notion, a vocal faction of chiropractors are aggressively marketing themselves as holistic, primary-care healers who can treat a broad scope of ailments ranging from acid reflux to infertility. Others in the field say chiropractors should focus on musculoskeletal disorders such as back pain, where evidence for efficacy is the strongest.