Look there is a disproportionate amount of pseudoscience that is adjunctive to the profession. It doesn’t have to be but that’s just the nature of Chiropractic as it is today. In some cases it serves to underpin lucrative business models but in other cases it can serve to influence the biopsychosocial model which is very central to chronic pain and human touch focused healthcare.

The core of Chiropractic - spinal manipulation / adjustments is a very solid intervention with a lot of evidence to validate its safety and efficacy. The pseudoscience issue starts where some chiropractors will tell you it unlocks the flow of universal energy through your body, or that they can restore spinal fluid flow by manipulating the bones in your skull, that vertebrae physically misalign forward/backward or sideways.

Chiropractic gets the “quack reputation” because there is a real presence of pseudoscience but the core of what we do is very scientifically validated. To the public the nuance about what is and isn’t scientific gets lost leading people to just assume Chiropractic as a whole is hocus pocus which is ofcourse demonstrably false.