Chiro is entirely pseudo and unproven. The cracks you hear are not bone but muscle stretch usually and its usually a 16 minute fix before you fall back into the problem. Just stretch and work out, you ll achieve better results
This actually happened to somebody I know. They had their knee out of alignment and went to chiropractor, but never got totally OK. Then they fell on some trash on their knee, and it the pain went away 🤣
*They had their knee out of alignment and went to chiropractor* There's the problem right there - many chiropractors describe themselves as "primary care" providers based on pseudoscientific principles, when their profession only helps (and very incidentally) with certain types of back pain. Methinks someone should have visited their GP or a physiotherapist.
@@rethguals Yeah, I've had chiropractors that were actually good. When I got an x ray of my neck, it also caught part of my jaw where I could see my wisdom teeth impacted. Instead of making an opinion, he just said "probably should see a dentist." Lol
Was he advised to see the chiropractor on a weekly basis where cracking the back gave some temporary relief but ultimately achieving nothing, which resulted in mounting chiropractor fees over the long term, making the chiropractor rich by essentially curing nothing?
For anyone wondering the ending "forget it Homer, its chirotown" is a reference from the ending of a popular movie called "Chinatown" where they say "forget it Jake, its Chinatown"
This strikes me so much as a person with scoliosis who often visits a chiropractor. The advice given by the doctor in this scene is a spot on from mines as well and I often hear lots of people questioning their general practices. Though I would still prefer going to them for now because the other option is to be treated via surgery and I cannot afford that.
Here in my country surgery is free but people still choose chiropractors because surgery implies a lot more preparation, pain, anesthesia, painkillers, recovery, stitches..
@FuckYouAllToPieces you don't need to go to a chiropractor to be conscious of your posture, and the idea that it makes you taller is absurd. You also can hang upside down for a few minutes and become a half inch taller for a few hous
@FuckYouAllToPieces Elderly people are typically hunched over because of degenerative spinal changes predominantly accentuated by a varying degree of bone density loss. It's not usually as a result of posture but more from a lack of activity in later life.
@@bencarruthers6321 Exactly. Age-related sarcopenia (muscle atrophy) also plays a part in it, as older people literally don't have the muscle strength to carry themselves upright. Physically inactive people can lose as much as 3% to 5% of their muscle mass each decade after age 30, which - when you added up - means an 80 year old person who has been physically inactive (e.g. not participating in strength or resistance training) for 50 years could lose as much as a quarter of their muscle mass. It has little to do with walking around with poor posture for years.
Something similar happened to a relative of mine that had back problems and she was advised to visit an acupuncturist. She asked her doctor "But isn't that just a bunch of nonsense?" and the doctor said "We can't prove anything but for some people it actually works." It worked for her atleast. Don't know if it was "power of suggestion" or anything like that but she became "better" and she didn't have to rely on heavy drugs to manage her pain. True story, take it for what it is.
@@tesseract2144 Maybe, but still it worked. Better to do this then do heavy drugs when no cure can be found. Or maybe those old chinese coots have found put someting we cannot explain (yet). The nerve-system is a complicated thing, instead of dismissing it we should investigate why it works for "some". Keep in mind, if you told "doctors" back in the 1700s that disease was caused by invisible little microorganisms they would have laughed at you and pointed out that it was scientific fact that illness was caused by inbalance of bodily fluids and bad air.
"give me surgery and drugs!" "well I love to, but..." I don't know, it's just something about those type of jokes really getting me quietly. Pretty great.
think about the irony has stuck with me since this episode came out lol and patent pending also "1, 2, better not sue" this episode had some good stuff
I enjoyed this but you can tell that this was getting to the point where the series went downhill by the fact that they had a forced cameo from an earlier episode, just so the fans would be like "oh hey, I remember that!", yet didn't even bother to get the voice actor, or make it a character they could actually get the voice actor for... or even a character that people actually cared about.
I think it was an episode of Joe Rogan where he talks about the history of chiropractic science in that the original "doctor" said he cured a deaf man by cracking his back
@Max RV It's probably for the best. I'd feel bad for that kid being raised up by that psycho. And who knows what her husband (who looks NOTHING like me) would've done to the kid.
This might be on the same subject sort of what I always wondered. That is when I worked at Walmart I swear I wanted to lay on my back on the rolling cars that you push freight out of the trucks. Not for fun but to see if it would make my back feel better. 3-5-19
"It's chiro town" OMG OMG I GET IT NOW CUZ I WATCHED CHINA TOWN TWO MONTHS AGO (FUCKING HATE THAT ENDING, I WAS SOOOOOOO MAD....) but yea.. now this makes sense lmao.
You think you can fix my sciatica? I don't know what that is so I'm going to say yes. Its most commonly caused by a pinched disk. It's very painful back injury that can take two years to heal. I know to people who've had it.
@Closed Since nobody actually answered "what's meant" by it, (only mentioning the reference) i'll actually explain. It's about turf. You put "town" after anything to say that's what/who's town it is. This was Moe saying, let it go, this is their town. (the chiropractors town. chiro for short) You could think of it today with Taxis vs Ubers. Has NYC been taken over by the Uber business? This is Uber town. (or city in that case. lol) And to explain why it's a reference. Saying "(some)-town" isn't a reference. This was only a reference to the movie "Chinatown" because of the line "Forget it, Homer. It's Chirotown." (original "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.") They of course set the scene similar also. On the street at night, ending with Noir music. But that's just bonus reference. It's also possible they could've never seen the movie (or it never existed) and still had Moe say that same line. But of course the rest of the scene confirms that it is a reference. If it didn't exist, or you never saw that movie before then (me, still) you can still understand what Moe meant by "Chirotown" the same way you'd understand the meaning of "Chinatown". You just wouldn't know it was a reference to something you don't know about. Sorry for the in-depth article 9 months late when it's irrelevant to you. But hopefully that clears it all up. lol
Diego D I know; it’s almost like the entire premise of the episode, was specifically designed, just so they could end on that reference... ...I know that probably isn’t the case, but I’d be absolutely fine if it was haha.
