So I've recently been seing this Chiropractor because it is the trendy thing to do in the Brown family and since I just wanna fit in I decided to give it a try. Now I'm the kinda guy who is inquizative by nature. I like to understand how things work it is really the reason why I decided to endure engineering school. I wanted to understand how more things worked so I could eventually build my own things like space ships and antigravitation devices. Anyways I'm getting off topic. So I've never been to a chiropractor before this and so I really am at the begining stages of my investigation of things but I've found out some interesting things.

Like the founder of modern Chiropractic was Daniel David Palmer in Davenport, Iowa, USA. Originally working as a magnetic healer, Palmer tried to find a single cause for 100% of all diseases. Palmer's interest in spiritualism had a major role in his claims regarding the spiritual origins of chiropractic. He claimed to have received the principles of chiropractic "from the other world" (during spiritistic seances), from a "supernatural source", the long dead medical physician, Dr. Jim Atkinson.

Another weird thing I learnt is that the popping sound you hear when you crack your backs is some gas escaping when the pressure between joints is released.....I still don't get it, like where is this gas coming from and why is it accumulating and then popping...I thought it was just the bones rubbing and then slipping causing the sound.

So my doctor uses this tool and a method known as the activator method. The tool is a spring loaded device that releases and spins either direction. This tool is used to induce a reaction within your muscels or tissue or something. Relying on the speed of the tool's release to be quicker than the muscels ability to react and thus resulting in some kind of manipulation that is in effect supposed to help readjust your vertibrai.



Anyways there are a lot of claims about this proceedure and my curiosity is perked so I'm trying to understand how it all works but have been unable to get into the fundamental principles on which it is based. I just can't understand how some poke and twist could make my spine adjust.

Have you ever been to a chiropracter? What happenend? Did they use the activator method?