Sure, but individual experiences are anecdotal. my own first experience with a chiropractor was also a good one, but his practice was physiotherapy-oriented, and he also had degrees in pathology, microbiology and education. He did EMS on my feet to help with my arches and had me do (proper) exercises to help after a broken ankle.
The history of Chiropracty itself is less than stellar however. It started after D. D. Palmer adjusted a man’s spine and claimed it cured his deafness. Palmer himself was huge into pseudoscientific hoodoo.
There’s no medical training involved in chiropractic and a “doctor of chiropractic” is not a medical degree. The main theory behind it is that tiny misalignments of the spine lead to any manner of ailments and diseases. They coopted the proper medical term “subluxation”, despite the fact that true subluxations are incredibly painful dislocations of vertebrae, but chiropractic “subluxations” are so minute that they cannot be measured or viewed by any modern equipment.
It’s made worse by the fact that scientific studies have shown chiropracty does almost nothing for people, with the small exception of lower back issues of which medical or physiotherapeutic treatments produce similar or better results. Chiropractic training still teaches the subluxation concepts.
But chiropractic adjustments *can* cause damage to the spine and in some cases, stroke/arterial damage or even death.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reference/chiropractic/
