HTT - Adjustment Edition

Many of you will be shocked to find out that my Target obsession continues even though I was seriously injured at a Target store four years ago. While examining some folding chairs with Mrs. R, a loose rack filled with chairs broke off and came down on top of me. I actually wasn't going to say anything, but a Targeteer came by and made me fill out a claim. Good thing because when I awoke the next day my back was in serious pain.

Mr. Dub's family frequents chiropractors so he recommended I go and see their ... doctor, practor, dude? Anyway, I needed some quick relief so I made an appointment to get an adjustment. First mistake - I told them I'd never seen a chiropractor. Second mistake - going there. Because rather than give me a quick adjustment like everyone else appeared to receive, they took me back in a room and asked me to put on a black leotard. Yes, a black leotard. They had a whole closet of leotards in varying sizes. Reluctantly, I put on one to accommodate my adequate shapeliness.

Then, they placed little orange stickers all over my body and took pictures, I kid you not. This is the point where you think I was a victim of some doctor/practor/dude with a freaky leotard fetish. It's still a possibility, but since there were several female assistants in the room with him, I'm not sure. Turns out, he had some sort of computer program that would draw lines from my different body parts to see if anything was out of alignment ... or so he said.

He then went on to assure me that all my health problems - thyroid issues, endometriosis, bad hair - could be cured by chiropractics/wizardry. (I add the latter because this guy actually rubs a rock to locate people's pain. Also, there were anatomical pictures all around the room, but with words like "life force" where it should say spine. And I'm pretty sure life force isn't a scientific term.)

Anyway, after two hours and no adjustment, I fled his office, never to return. I ended up using another chiropractor, who fixed my problem in a few weeks by hooking my back muscles up to an electronic massager ... and Target paid for the whole thing.

But even though I had some success with the second chiropractor, I'm not totally convinced. I think they do help in some cases because they combine physical therapy and massage to decent results, but I don't believe they can usurp modern medicine. And I do not believe in a life force.

In fact, I think a lot of it is a placebo effect - or just that people like massages.

But what do you think?

Are chiropractors fo' real or super freaky?

Discuss.