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Foot/knee/back pain: chiropractor or physiotherapist?

Hello,

I have understood chiropractors as providing short term pain relief and physical therapists who facilitate long term pain relief by strengthening the muscles to prevent injury.

What is your experience?

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4meAndyou · F

My experience is that you have to be VERY careful with chiropractors. If the chiropractor does not begin his treatment with an xray, you are dealing with a quack. I have had one chiropractor in particular misdiagnose my shoulder pain, and he hurt me horribly, stating that my collarbone needed to be popped back into the joint, when in fact I had a very bad case of arthritis right in that spot.

Physiotherapists provide much better and more practical help, and because you have seen a doctor before you see the physiotherapist, there is less chance of misdiagnoses and quackery.