6 comments

  • ElijahLynn1 hour ago
    This is good to read about, and nice that it has and research referenced.<p>It&#x27;s interesting to know that it&#x27;s gas collapsing. And nothing to do with the bone rubbing.<p>And it makes you wonder what chiropractors are actually doing when they&#x27;re popping your back... It&#x27;s probably not doing anything to help you with your pain. And it&#x27;s probably not actually adjusting anything.
    • PaulDavisThe1st57 minutes ago
      I recommend reading up on the actual history of chiropractic ... I&#x27;ve seen articles that seem to make it clear that it was long con right from the start.<p>I acknowledge that this is not the only view on the history.
      • chneu8 minutes ago
        Its a con that is trying very hard to become legitimate.<p>Chiros started as a scam, continued as a scam, and are now a widely accepted scam. The legit work they do is often just physical therapy.<p>Just go to a physical therapist.
      • bena48 minutes ago
        “You have a fever because of the ghosts in your bones”
    • wahern14 minutes ago
      Chiropratic can help with pain, but not for the claimed reasons. Studies show it&#x27;s as efficacious as massage therapy. I believe the same is true of cupping. Insurers increasingly cover these sorts of therapies, and primary&#x27;s increasingly prescribe them, because they&#x27;re cheaper than a real doctor&#x27;s time, especially a specialist&#x27;s, <i>and</i> the patient is more likely to feel better than if they were subjected to a long diagnostic gauntlet with an inconclusive end.
    • selectodude1 hour ago
      If a chiropractor could adjust something by pushing on your bone, imagine what tripping and falling would do.
      • BenjiWiebe46 minutes ago
        Tripping and falling can mess you up for a long time. And I don&#x27;t mean broken bones.
    • LeoPanthera53 minutes ago
      It&#x27;s surprising that it&#x27;s not common knowledge that &quot;Chiropractic&quot; is not medicine, nor a science, and the field is associated with vaccine misinformation and unproven supplements.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chiropractic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chiropractic</a>
  • eth0up54 minutes ago
    Bruce Lee cracked his knuckles a lot, and he died in his 30s. He was in great shape too.<p>But I think it&#x27;s mostly just escaping gases.<p>Edit: ^ is my way of asking why this is on HN, which I never do, cause then someone could ask the same about me.
  • analog311 hour ago
    Not in my house. It&#x27;s annoying.
    • anigbrowl1 hour ago
      I have bad news for you about what happens your joints as you get older
  • abstractspoon1 hour ago
    Betteridge says?
  • dgritsko1 hour ago
    TL,DR: No, unless you&#x27;re doing it so hard that you&#x27;re straining your joints. But don&#x27;t crack your neck.
    • ranger_danger1 hour ago
      &gt; don&#x27;t crack your neck<p>The article makes a point to mention specifically that excessive&#x2F;forceful neck cracking can be dangerous, but then switches to just &quot;Cracking your own neck is not recommended&quot;... but to me it sounds like they&#x27;re referring more to the forceful kind, such as the manipulations on youtube they reference.<p>I suppose it&#x27;s like asking people to stop using q-tips... they&#x27;re probably not going to, and the amount of people accidentally injured from either seems to be quite low.
      • s1artibartfast42 minutes ago
        Yeah, and with the q-tips, it seems trival to do it safely. For some reason, be aware or careful always gets compressed to avoidance
        • lokar32 minutes ago
          YouTube has some pretty awful videos of ear canals full of cotton fibers. Touching the eardrum is not the only risk.
          • sublinear21 minutes ago
            And you think YouTube represents the average user of q-tips?<p>Even when YouTube has videos uploaded by doctors having to put up with this kind of stupidity, it doesn&#x27;t change the fact that hardly anyone does that. The vast majority of stuff uploaded to YouTube isn&#x27;t even that. It&#x27;s losers trying to get views.