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Comment author: CronoDAS 17 March 2016 11:05:31PM *  0 points [-]

Never mind. My original source was my father (who's usually pretty reliable when it comes to pseudoscience) but apparently the current Cochrane review says it's no better than placebo. (The subluxation theory of chiropractic is nonsense, but it's not ridiculous that fiddling with someone's back can relieve back pain - massages, for example, tend to feel good.)

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23169072/?i=3&from=/22972127/related)

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 18 March 2016 05:10:22PM *  0 points [-]

The thing you linked is not from Cochrane. They say:

http://www.cochrane.org/CD005427/BACK_combined-chiropractic-interventions-for-low-back-pain

I paraphrase: (it works, a bit, it's as good as anything else as far as we know, we have no clue really, further research is needed.)

That looks like science. I am glad they do what they do.

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