And people wonder why I am dead-set against Chiropractic?

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47. I also saw an Osteopath instantly fix one of my children, whose spine came out

of alignment during a basketball game.

They sent him to the doctor because he was having severe chest pain. The only doctor available happened to be an Osteopath. After examining him, he asked my son a couple questions, and then did a couple quick things and my son's relief was instant and complete.

He explained that my son's pain was referred back pain, not chest pain; and that he had been growing so fast that his muscles weren't strong enough yet to hold his spine in place, and he also gave my son some exercises to do and told him what to do next time it came out of alignment. (And the procedures worked the other two times it happened.)

I said that what he had done looked like a chiropractic adjustment, and he agreed that it did. He said that chiropractors had borrowed the techniques from osteopaths.

Our insurers in WA recognize that these treatments are helpful in the right situations and they pay for both Osteopaths and chiropractors.