My mother has been experiencing back pain for a few months now, and insists her chiropractor is making it “tolerable.”
Whenever I plead with her to see a doctor or a physical therapist, or suggest that maybe the chiropractor is the problem she gets very upset with me. There is no convincing her of any alternative, she won’t even get a second opinion and I’m not quite sure how to help at this point.
My sister got her got her an appointment to see a massage therapist, which she went to and said nothing but good things about, but she will not budge on the chiropractor.
I dunno maybe I’ll just shut up about it, but it all just seems like quackery to me.
PT/massage/stretching (it’s free) is how you’re actually supposed to treat this type of pain
I think people’s issue is that they hear physical “therapy” and assume that those people are only there to treat major injuries. Like all those movies where someone learns to walk again after an accident. To the average person, it sounds like going to a surgeon when you’re just complaining about a headache.