A Chiropractor Debunks Common Chiropractic Myths

“A lot of the things that we have to spend time dispelling in our practice are myths that patients come in with”
Chiropractor, Dr. Shawn Thistle [B.Kin (Hons.), D.C., Medical Acupuncture, ART, CSCS, F.R], addresses the top 5 most common chiropractic myths.

[@lylcanadaful]

Excellent, As a physiotherapist I can see you from a different perspective, much more positive. Thanks for embracing current evidence and honest work.

[@zenithzott9554]

What about the people who have died as a direct result of chiropractic treatment?

[@OurFreeSociety]

Can I get your proof pls.

[@drpolica]

I applaud you for being one of the bravest Chiropractors out there.

[@me-hk4rl]

how about not even a chiropractor? what ignorance.

[@BearHumphries466]

@@me-hk4rl He's a chiropractor with some integrity, not that you'd know.

[@me-hk4rl]

not that you'd know, since you don't.@@BearHumphries466

[@ultramet]

The best chiro info ever. Evidence based and just the facts. You can indeed benefit from chiro care, but don’t just accept explanations that are not evidenced-based. Great job.

[@me-hk4rl]

what a dolt. how easily the ignorant are impressed.

[@nikushim6665]

Chiropractic is mostly a pseudoscientific practice (it's not evidence based).

[@milou66]

He gave the whole game away at the end. Chiropractic "treatment" is just about making your spine make noises like when you crack your knuckles. It sounds impressive, but it does nothing.

[@jmxc8278]

Not what he said. Basically to put it short the audible pop you hear when 'cracking' your knuckles etc is due to a cavitation within a joint; which is the rapid increase and decrease in pressure within the synovial fluid of a joint. Although people enjoy this sound and may correlate this as the treatment being successful, there is no evidence that currently suggests this audible pop creates a successful treatment. It is just something that happens during treatment, a byproduct of treatment that just creates a satisfying sound.

[@milou66]

@@jmxc8278 I've wasted enough money on chiropractic treatments to know that chiropractors count on the popping sound to make it seem like something is happening. I've never once been told by a chiropractor that the popping means nothing, even though we all know that it's that sound and feeling that makes you believe something real has happened. It's a parlour trick. After spending thousands on treatments for my back pain that never got better, I realized I'd been duped and I turned to yoga, which fixed me right up. I had a similar experience with traditional Chinese medicine. I saw a practitioner for a couple of years (more thousands) for my intestinal troubles. Sometimes it would get a bit better, but it wouldn't last. Then I saw a western doctor. Within the first minute of talking to him, he rolled his eyes and told me I just needed to take Metamucil. So I did. Fixed me with the first dose. I'm just saying.

[@jmxc8278]

@@milou66 Glad you were able to finally find the answer to your issues and find comfort! And tell me about it, really rubs me the wrong way that there are a category of chiropractors which do that. Its just pure negligence on their part. Science is science and individuals with the title should treat using evidence-based practise with the intention of helping people and not just drawing them in to make money. It really does disappoint me that the chiropractors you've seen cling onto this fixation that the popping sound is essential to treatment and means something. At the end of the day like you've said its just wasted your money due to their negligence in not saying to visit an actual medical doctor for further evaluation.

[@Faithandseekerofchrist]

A couple of hours later: you scream in agony and angry as hell at them because you wished they had never touched you because the pain you feel is more intensified that you can't move and have to be in bed for the rest of the night and then the next day you're drained and then go through the same cycle of being adjusted three to four times a week! Then the worst part is that you tell them what happens and then they said it's going to take time for you not to feel pain but keep coming back or they say, " no pain, no game!" More like "no pain, no pay!" You are better off going to a massage therapist, a physical therapist, an orthopedic or even a neurosurgeon!

[@treybell649]

This was an amazing video. I am a PT and I love this my guy.

[@claireshort9435]

Brilliant video! As osteopaths and chiropractors we should all delete the word misalignment from our brains!

[@me-hk4rl]

what an idiot.

[@me-hk4rl]

how gullible are you?

[@BearHumphries466]

Agree Claire! Delete all nocebos and money making quackery!

[@OurFreeSociety]

You must be in Canada. Did you know (I assume you do), that the mafia allopathic industry in the US doesn't allow osteos to practice unless they get an MD & then once they do, they go over to the dark side & NEVER practice osteopathy? JUST TERRIBLE. Finding one in the US is like pulling teeth. I've only ever come across one osteo who actually helped me in Windsor. The rest in Toronto & one overseas made me feel well for that day, but nothing was ever permanent. Oh, & I had one overseas who did such a great job with my colon that I have a perfect BM literally right after that in his bathroom which was strange & he didn't even think he could help me with my digestive issues. SMH. Do you know how hard it is for me to have a perfect BM LOL The one in Windsor had magic hands. The one overseas he changed his hours so I could never go back to him. I was seeing a woman & when she started telling me to go see a whitecoat for my health issues, I lost all faith in her. Holistic practitioners should NOT be telling you to go to low IQ dangerous whitecoats. sigh

[@projectm1373]

Great video! Think it's great you were able to make a clean, straightforward and concise video. As a DC myself I would not have been able to do this talk without going off on a huge rant

[@megankeily4858]

Me too lol

[@davidballard6443]

I love the more technical explanation of the "crack". So, as you move a joint to its end range of motion, you get a separation of joint surfaces that are sealed within the synovial joint cavity. As the synovium is pulled apart, it creates a vacuous negative pressure on the joint fluid. If you drop that pressure low enough, the boiling point of water meets the human body temperature and the joint goes "pop" because all of the synovial fluid instantaneously boils not because of a change in temperature, but a change in pressure. That altitude density equates to roughly 52,000'. So, if you were to remain liquid and not freeze solid at 52,000 in the air, your blood would boil right out of your body!

[@megankeily4858]

Wow 👏 what an explanation

[@our2ndbrain230]

First honest CD ever. Thank you.

[@thomast6741]

Maybe it would be more honest to abandon "chiropractic care" and focus on real physical therapy to help strengthen muscle groups which actually does lead to healing.

[@manningchiro]

Nice vid doc. As for "subluxation"... the term should be dumped. In the Palmers' day, it was fine. In fact, it seemed quite plausible and possible that spinal segmental dysfunction could actually "impinge upon" or "pinch off" the exiting spinal nerve. We know, without doubt now, that there is no support in the literature for segmental dysfunction's (subluxation, if you must) causing ANY impedance of EFFERENT (or FROM brain TO tissues, muscles, organs) nerve supply. There is ABUNDANT conclusive, indisputable research however, that there is AFFERENT (TO the brain FROM the tissues) compromise resulting from segmental spinal dysfunction. In fact there are ALWAYS central nervous system consequences!! As we know, the better term for the antiquated "subluxation" is DYSAFFERENTATION. As far as Ken Baker's comment -- we could go on and on. I'd suffice to say that ALL 32 NFL teams have doctors of chiropractic on staff. 90% of the world's elite, professional and Olympic athletes use chiropractic regularly. I've practiced chiropractic Applied Kinesiology for 35 yrs. You do not know what you are talking about.

[@megankeily4858]

This is really interesting !

[@MsBritabroad]

I have seen chiros in 4 countries. The money-grabbing "long-term packages" approach is rife in Canada; not so much the other countries! And, yup, "sublixation" imaging was definitely a cornerstone to one of those greedy DCs. To be honest I'd rather stretch and do postural correction through other modalities nowadays.

[@OurFreeSociety]

Canada is a scam country & people think the US is bad. Yeh, no. You can go hire a lawyer in Canada & they will steal all your money. In the US there are actually some lawyers who care about your case & give you discounts on their bill. That's unheard of in Toronto. I finally got legal aid in Windsor & the lawyer didn't even know my case when she stood up in front of the judge & I was furious. She charged the mafia gov't for my call to her asking for directions to her office. I have no problem stealing from the mafia gov't since they steal from us, but that's beyond sleazy & she ruined my case.

[@MrRezillo]

There's a hilarious article from the 1920's by H.L. Mencken. The main reason "chiropractic" came about after Palmer's snake-oilery: After the advent of the automobile the profession of blacksmithing started to die out. All the blacksmiths needed a new hustle so they sent away for Palmer's mail order course and voila: chiropractic!

[@CraigCastanet]

OMG. Say it ain't so.

[@blickygobrrrrr]

Exactly. And that's just scratching the surface of the pseudoscience sham that is chiropractic "medicine." BTW, why do these practitioners always call themselves doctors when they are not? Optics! It's all part of the hustle.

[@MrRezillo]

@@blickygobrrrrr "BTW, why do these practitioners always call themselves doctors when they are not?" Ha, ha, because they took a mail order course that included a "diploma" to hang on your wall.

[@SantanuSamanta108]

Daniel David started in 1800s, Indiana are doing this from ancient times. First Arabs bring this to Spain, from where it transferred to Europe.

[@allborosnyc4544]

Thanks for the very informative information. Question: Regardless of the patients issue it seems that all chiro's do the same techniques.

[@briang.7206]

I have a chronic condition and require long term care. If I go without a few months my back becomes stiff.

[@ryanferguson9249]

You probably have a calcium or vitamin D deficiency. Mineral deficiencies can cause tight muscles in the back. I would get a hair-sample nutrition test done in a professional laboratory if I were you.

[@TruckerPhilosophy]

“Palmer realized that adjusting...” What you meant to say is that the ghost of a doctor came to him in a dream and showed him that diseases were caused by a misadjusted spine. A. Ghost.

[@BearHumphries466]

The founders were dickh**ds lol. No self respecting DC looks up to them (unless it's about marketing lol)

[@milou66]

TruckerPhilosophy He's a knowledge transfer entrepreneur. Have some respect.

[@selahchunem8447]

He could have been a demon and he was demon possessed or oppressed? 😆

[@convicted.]

bro started beef under a chiropractor informational video

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

@@convicted. Yeah, but most of us are probably here because of the weird origins of Chiropractic. Big elephant in the room.

[@robyncorby2606]

Can I ask what’s happening when I get my back cracked while laying down, when I get up I get a headache and pains in the eyes?

[@Melora908]

Very common myths debunked, great job.

[@francisguevara1688]

Finally someone makes sense

[@Sackeynimh]

Can I ask which chiropractic school you graduated from? Because I like a lot of things you said but the primary thought that bones dont misalign is incorrect. Joint misalignments can small, big, and/or complex and that is documented by research just not the particular scholarly article you decided to show. You can find research for anything.

[@BearHumphries466]

YOU find an article. This guy makes literature reviews, he knows the science lol.

[@dianemcallistertarot]

This was great. Going to Chiro today first time in years for si joint issues. I hope. She follows these guidelines thank you!

[@visualizecreate2530]

Excellent

[@andre18762]

Should have watched this video before seeing my chiropractor.

[@therealdeal26]

..SO WHAT IS YOUR SUGGESTION?..

[@petramarion]

Love this, great video!

[@KineticLabsInc]

Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!

[@manningchiro]

OOPS -- don't know why my comment has repeated here... my apologies. Dr. J

[@jamesohaver899]

Lose the sound track I can't hear what you're saying!

[@OurFreeSociety]

Maybe get a hearing aid. I have hearing frequency tones if you can't hear well.

[@footyball66]

music too loud in this.

[@markedmunds1966]

Why go to a chiropractor when you can go to a physiotherapist who’s practice is evidence based.

[@jackychan198427]

Chiropractic is not evidence based? Are u kidding me?

[@markedmunds1966]

@@jackychan198427 No. It’s based on unverified and unverifiable energy channels in the body. The treatments are supposed to unblock the energy channels. Woo bs at its worst.

[@jackychan198427]

@Mark Edmunds Actually if u gave an open mind, u can search a lot of research

[@markedmunds1966]

@@jackychan198427 It’s exactly because I have an open mind that I know what chiro is based upon. Unfortunately the original premise being what it is means it’s impossible to prove or disprove chiro practice. Meanwhile you have Physio therapy which starts from a position of evidence based practice.

[@jackychan198427]

@@markedmunds1966 maybe u need to see more chiros. I don't know what chiros u have seen before

[@thedudeabides503]

Yeah what I've recently learned is chiropractic medicine is really just like the guy said popping your knuckles. That's it. They dont realign your spine. But I've found that it does feel great just like cracking your knuckles feels good. Is it medicine? Idk seems like a simple method that has been over complicated with wrong explanations.

[@BearHumphries466]

Whilst it may seem simple, the added stuff that you don't experience is worth the money (history taking, diagnosis, rehab, etc.) You wouldn't realise how complex it is unless you understood.

[@jaketramor651]

History diagnosis rehab? What planet you are from. It’s all bone cracking

[@briang.7206]

Lets not forget many practice natural medicine.

[@JakeKoenig]

Well if a CHIROPRACTOR is vouching for the industry that provides his income, then you know it must be true. 🤣 No bias here! Just the facts, guys. 😂 I worked in physical therapy for six years, and out of the thousands of patients I encountered during that time, not one of them was prescribed chiropractic sessions by an ortho surgeon, PT, OT, or general practitioner. Not for post op rehab, not for acute injuries, and not for chronic pain or chronic conditions. There was ZERO practical application for chiropractic adjustments according to every single health care provider in every inpatient and outpatient facility I ever worked at. So you can either believe every other medical professional that chiropractic is complete bullshit, or you can believe someone with a financial dependence on that industry that it's TOTALLY legit. 👍🏻

[@OurFreeSociety]

LOL, you work for the mafia allopathic industry & you are making it seem like they know everything & aren't dangerous? LOL They killed thousands of people during the scamdemic & not just in the US either. Get off your high horse. Physio doesn't help either.

[@colindunlevy2953]

Great video - well done.

[@jamesdoeberling7830]

I believe it is restoration of normal movement that is being achieved actively, assisted to active assisted. Hypomobility, overuse, trauma. Movement is life however we call it.

[@owl6496]

The last one adjustment is dangerous is a fact not a myth. People die or get injured from it

[@lomasbomb]

Hmm not true. I've read the research on this topic and manipulation does not cause anything besides some residual muscle soreness (when done correctly). If manipulation is done to a patient with underlying pathology, like a stroke in progress, it can make it worse. The problem lies in practitioners not screening a patient for serious disease, not in the manipulation.

[@taylorbarnett1199]

Why is this still being taught in chiropractic schools then? What about the myth that the spine somehow affects the entire nervous system? What about the myth that chiro helps the immune system? And other things? Why are you a chiropractor at al?

[@lekiahaynes]

It’s not a myth that the spine affects the nervous system … it’s what hosts the root of it. If you want answers get off of KZbin and do your own research & stop looking for others to give you the answers.

[@drpolica]

Great video

[@octavia.n]

Myth 1: Chiropractors are medical professionals

[@CraigCastanet]

I graduated in 1986. I'm glad to hear all that nonsense is no longer being taught in schools.

[@jordanlazaro1676]

Everyone takes a crap on chiropractors when Osteopaths (DO Physicians) learn a procedure where they transmit energy from their fingers to the patients head to heal them. It's annoying the people glorify MDs and DOs as if they are the only people in the world that can treat illnesses.

[@El_Superhombre_Blanco]

Then what is the point of your profession?

[@thisisobviouslybait]

Its not so much a profession as it is a cult. Spend a few minutes looking into its founding and it's laughable disturbing that this still exists.

[@davidgardiner4720]

Why is this BS still legal?

[@jaketramor651]

Cause it’s in the category of alternative medicine, same as acupuncture, homeopathy, and osteopathy ( not to be confused with medical osteopaths)

[@roop-a-loop]

Common chiropractic myth: chiropractors can adjust the spine

[@TheRealBatCave]

Pseudoscience , any1 reading this please do read up on this guys chiro founder lol great story, chiropractors dont police themselves they litteally can do what they want.

[@alexanderspinoccia2903]

WHAT lmao. Who cares about someone from 1895.

[@OurFreeSociety]

LOL, you actually think the mafia allopathic industry that kills & harms people every day doesn't polices themselves? You are hilarious. Let me guess, you think the FDA cares about you. SMH

[@democracymanifest3247]

Lost me at the knowledge transfer bit.

[@KineticLabsInc]

Believe it or not they actually have "Knowledge Transfer" graduate programs these days to help bridge research and clinical practice

[@rainbow20112011]

Hi FXNL Media, Can cranial subluxations cause headaches?

[@ChiroJohnston]

'Knowledge transfer' = push an agenda.

[@ChiroJohnston]

This shows your ignorance of neurology. The vestibular nueclus is found in the upper cervial spine. It contains the cell bodies for cranial nerve #8- Vestibulocochlear. The Trigeminal Cervical N. is also found in the upper cervical spine. It contains cell bodies that send fibres to the Trigeminal nerve, cranial nerve #5. This supplies 5 muscles that cross the TMJ and is the major sensory nerve of the face. These are only 2 examples. You might want to brush up a bit.

[@BearHumphries466]

Look up cervicogenic HA. It's widely accepted that the top 1-3 (sometimes 1-5) vertebrae can cause the feeling of a HA.

[@tadstar]

Not a Doctor

[@scotthawkins7128]

The myth is that they actually work

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

Number 5 is not a myth. People have literally died.

[@MG-yg9sp]

U r not a doctor . Period

[@77raymondt]

Fake news.

[@drpaulgroulx434]

Anatomic Body Shaming.....??? Really?

[@thebristolbruiser]

You are not a doctor.

[@mattmaleyd.c.4047]

Well put together. Heidi Haaviks research is promising, if anyone is interested.

[@BearHumphries466]

She seems more interested in marketing...

[@mattmaleyd.c.4047]

@@BearHumphries466 I agree with that statement, but I kinda take the good with the bad. If the information is not marketed then it gets lost in the endless piles of research never read or implemented. I simply found most of her published work with basic searches on PUBMed and such and use it as a learning tool.

[@BearHumphries466]

@@mattmaleyd.c.4047 she seems to want to blend vitalism with science, which I don't like but I spose at least she's trying, she is a phd after all! I will need to do some more looking at her actual research though.

[@me-hk4rl]

this person apparently knows nothing of the true purpose and practice of chiropractic. one clue is his use of the term spinal manipulation in place of adjustment. they are not synonymous. bones do misalign and fixate and cause nerve interference. unfortunately he is typical of what so-called chiropractic colleges graduate of late.

[@me-hk4rl]

get stuffed air head.

[@BearHumphries466]

God, read a book or a science article that's from after 1940 you nunce.

[@me-hk4rl]

why would someone consider failures a go-to source for knowledge?@@BearHumphries466

[@BearHumphries466]

Plenty of conmen make good money.

[@me-hk4rl]

that's right. take the field of medicine as an example.@@BearHumphries466

[@rongetman6375]

​ FXNL Media I'm a retired D.C., and have corrected MANY loss of cervical curves, pelvic imbalances, high shouldesr, postural short legs, etc. with spinal manipulation and postural exercises... If I didn't know better, I'd assume that this video was produced to debunk Chiropractic, (yet again!). Clearly, this D.C., went the research and intellectual direction, and never LEARNED the proper history, exam, and procedures to manage and correct the conditions he mentions.

[@jaketramor651]

Ron Getman lol corrected cervical curves? Don’t make me laugh. If you could do even one, you would have been front page. There is an epidemic affecting all chariopractors called grandiose delusional

[@PCGamesAndTek]

Practicing scammer.

[@manningchiro]

OOPS -- don't know why my comment has repeated here... my apologies. Dr. J

[@manningchiro]

Nice vid doc. As for "subluxation"... the term should be dumped. In the Palmers' day, it was fine. In fact, it seemed quite plausible and possible that spinal segmental dysfunction could actually "impinge upon" or "pinch off" the exiting spinal nerve. We know, without doubt now, that there is no support in the literature for segmental dysfunction's (subluxation, if you must) causing ANY impedance of EFFERENT (or FROM brain TO tissues, muscles, organs) nerve supply. There is ABUNDANT conclusive, indisputable research however, that there is AFFERENT (TO the brain FROM the tissues) compromise resulting from segmental spinal dysfunction. In fact there are ALWAYS central nervous system consequences!! As we know, the better term for the antiquated "subluxation" is DYSAFFERENTATION. As far as Ken Baker's comment -- we could go on and on. I'd suffice to say that ALL 32 NFL teams have doctors of chiropractic on staff. 90% of the world's elite, professional and Olympic athletes use chiropractic regularly. I've practiced chiropractic Applied Kinesiology for 35 yrs. You do not know what you are talking about.

[@dymetz]

They also have massage therapists. Now, they have suction cups, hyperbolic Chambers, whirpools, saunas. All designed to assist MUSCLES and TISSUE. Chiro is the only claiming to "align" bones. If light touching can manipulate spinal alignment, as you claim. How long would a person be able to stay aligned? 20 minutes? Particularly athletes. 15 minutes? It fails the logic test on many levels.