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What are some notable scams in history that went unnoticed for so long? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

See an osteopath instead, in the UK at least, they are trained and regulated unlike chiropractors who regularly kill or permanently disable people with unsafe and inappropriate "manipulations".

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    osteopath

    Thanks, I'll check it out (though I'm in the US). Also, I researched my chiropractor very thoroughly to ensure that he's not likely to kill or disable me.

    edit: turns out my insurance covers osteopathic manipulative medicine, and there's 1 practitioner in my area (25 miles, probably more in the 50 mile range since I'm close to a big city). I will be making an appointment with her. Thanks kind stranger!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    The guy who told you to see an osteopath is a little misinformed and had things a bit upside down. Osteopathy is basically just chiropractic and has the same pseudoscientific origins.

    However, for historical reasons osteopaths are very different either side of the Atlantic.

    In the UK, osteopaths are basically just chiropractors with pretensions. In the US, doctors of Osteopathy are basically just doctors who went to a school that teaches osteopathic nonsense alongside real medicine, and they are licensed and operate as real physicians.

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