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Chiropractic Care - Legit or Pseudomedicine

First, I got my horoscope. Then, I got some blood let. Now, I'm drinking my laudanum at my chiropractor's office.

When I get home, I'm going to have some Airborne, and maybe some homeopathy with a side of phrenology.

My family will go to the chiropractor. I will not. I would see either a massage therapist or a physical therapist if that ever becomes necessary. For that matter, massage might be good just because.
 
millerj123 said:
First, I got my horoscope. Then, I got some blood let. Now, I'm drinking my laudanum at my chiropractor's office.

When I get home, I'm going to have some Airborne, and maybe some homeopathy with a side of phrenology.

My family will go to the chiropractor. I will not. I would see either a massage therapist or a physical therapist if that ever becomes necessary. For that matter, massage might be good just because.
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Interestingly laudanum (a combination of various opiate alkyloids including morphine and codeine) is probably one of the most important medications in history. It was developed in the 16th century and is one of the few if only medicines from the premodern-medical era that would actually have a therapeutic benefit. Opiates can have a wide variety of uses if it's the only thing you have- painkiller, anti-tussive, sedative, anti-diarrheal, etc.
 
A.Goldberg said:
Interestingly laudanum (a combination of various opiate alkyloids including morphine and codeine) is probably one of the most important medications in history. It was developed in the 16th century and is one of the few if only medicines from the premodern-medical era that would actually have a therapeutic benefit. Opiates can have a wide variety of uses if it's the only thing you have- painkiller, anti-tussive, sedative, anti-diarrheal, etc.
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Belladonna has the same effects. Granted, it does kill you.
 
A.Goldberg said:
I'm using "good luck" as a figure of speech here. ;)
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I'm still trying to get my head around @mscriv having lived through 15 car wrecks. I've put more than 600k miles on four or five "pre-owned" vehicles and now figure I've had way more than figure-of-speech good luck. My car wreck experience has been limited to maybe seven deer hits in more than 50 years of driving, and all of them left the vehicle drivable.

But living through 15 wrecks? Man, I'd figure on needing more than a chiropractor, I'd need some therapy even to get me back behind the wheel.

I've considered a chiropractor a couple times, usually after doing something stupid while gardening. I almost dislocated a shoulder once quite awhile ago, picking up a bucket too filled with stone left over from a driveway re-culverting project. Ended up settling for a couple ibuprofen and a mental note that my grandmother was right about haste making waste. I only meant to save myself two trips at the end of a long day and had no clue that a foot more depth of stone in a five gallon bucket I had carried half full before many times that day was going to prove maybe 8 inches too much in mass for me even to pick up.

That shoulder was useless for awhile there, I couldn't even pick up a kitchen trash bag weighing maybe 15 pounds without feeling it want to go south on me. I dunno if a chiropractor then would have helped, it was I think more about muscle strain than any need for re-articulation.
 
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