Quote (Braxton11 @ 28 Oct 2017 21:10)
We're trained to do everything that a chiro can do, but more.
A pt can easily help with curvatures and degradation by dealing with the muscles around the area that's affected which ultimately makes the problem less severe. A chiro can only manipulate it and say that he'll see you in a month to do it again. I don't want to say it's all they do because they do other stuff, but chiros mainly manipulate something to where they want, knowing that it will just go back after they fix it and will have to redo it after a given amount of time.
There's just no way anyone will ever convince me that a chiro is a better option than a pt for 90% of problems.
What about that 10% though? j/k
I know that physios are well-trained and I know that chiros are well-trained
The secret sauce for people with misaligned vertebrae is to get strong, which really they can only do on their own. That being said, it depends on the body. Some bodies really shouldn't lift.
I see a chiro to help me unstiffen because I get inflammation due to past injuries. I'm pretty mobile and fairly strong, but I don't see a physio b/c I don't have anything acute going on -- and ofc due to past bad experiences. What I should be doing is yoga.
The recurring injury I have is a displaced rib, or actually two of them. My chest/rib area has been bad enough that I had to have my pec shoved back into place once. It was originally a blunt force trauma injury but now it comes up with OHP sometimes. Physio had no idea where to begin, whereas my chiro fixed it in about one second. I actually fix it myself now (only once I couldn't manage it) and I haven't had a recurrence in several months.
I have to admit that this is one of three injuries (ankle//concussion+back+hip//rib) I've had where physios couldn't help but magically my chiro could. In the case of my ankle injury, I did see physio for a while but after I missed a tryout I tried a chiro and suddenly got better.
This was just my personal experience and it informs my bias. I know other practitioners professionally, and my assumption has been that the chiros were better than the physios because of my personal experiences. At the professional level, I know mostly entrepreneurs, and I don't really give much attention to anyone who doesn't have a thriving or growing practice.
e: also, to be sure, I can only suppose that you're a good practitioner and a good representative of your profession. In relating my own experiences, I certainly don't intend to say that you would have provided the same experience.
This post was edited by RewtheBrave on Oct 28 2017 09:15pm