From World Bird Sanctuary
Chiropractic care for birds? We're trying something new for some of our patients with torticollis, a condition where the head is twisted partially or fully upside down! Torticollis can be the result of a number of injuries including head trauma, lead toxicity, and infections. Physical therapy has long been a part of our treatment for torticollis, but isn't always effective. We'd like to thank Heather Seaver for her donation of her chiropractic services to give some of these patients another care option to help them recover. So far, chiropractic seems to be very relaxing to the patients receiving it.
Shown is Barred Owl 24-519 during a chiropractic session. The chiropractic seems to help relax him and there was notable improvement to his muscle tension after his session. 519 is suffering from lead poisoning, some older ocular trauma, and torticollis. When he was found, he kept making it up into a tree but was then not able to fly straight and kept falling back to the ground. This could be from the torticollis, or from the lead poisoning which is causing him to clench his feet and legs abnormally some of the time.
I was a bit surprised to see this. I know there tends to be some debate on if chiropractics is a good thing or not. I'd be very nervous with those hollow bones!
Yikes! Chiropractic is very much a pseudoscience. The reason people like it is because when the chiropractor cracks your back, it makes your body freak out and release adrenaline, which makes you feel less pain. But as soon as the shock of having had your body yanked wears off, the pain comes back. Plus chiropractors often cause their patients all kinds of spinal injuries.
Which is also not to mention all the other even crazier pseudoscience BS (NET, essential oils, healing touch) that often comes along with it.
Yeah, IIRC the guy who invented chiropractic said that it was taught to him by a ghost
Okay, but in his defense, that ghost was a doctor. A real one. Not a chiropractor.
I thought this was a joke, but it seems not!
From Wikipedia
“The knowledge and philosophy given me by Dr. Jim Atkinson, an intelligent spiritual being ... appealed to my reason,” Palmer wrote in his memoir “The Chiropractor,” which was published in 1914 after his death in Los Angeles. Atkinson had died 50 years prior to Palmer’s epiphany.
From LA Times
Well, them, it's gotta be true!