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Chiropractors are closer to masseuses than doctors. They can make you feel better for a while by straightening things out, but there are very few problems they actually solve. If you go to one consistently (like they want you to do) they can keep you straightened out a good percentage of the time, which has some value, but it's similar to how getting a massage regularly would keep you feeling good.

And then to add to that: almost all of them are convinced that they are accomplishing more than they are...and many/most add in a lot of pseudoscientific nonsense as well. Most problematically they aren't bound by the Hioppocratic oath so "do no harm" isn't hard cooked into what they do (especially the pseudoscience-prone ones). The overall package isn't worth it for most people, I say, although they do enough good in some situations that they can/should exist.