I have tendinopathy in my left shoulder, so I filed a claim with my work's medical insurance (it's faster than the public system).
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I have tendinopathy in my left shoulder, so I filed a claim with my work's medical insurance (it's faster than the public system).
I got the approval for treatment today, and it's depressing to see that two of the five treatment options were chiropractors. It's alternative medicine, and based on pseudoscience. It should not be an approved form of treatment for coverage at all.
The other three options were physiotherapists, which are at least medical practitioners.
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I have tendinopathy in my left shoulder, so I filed a claim with my work's medical insurance (it's faster than the public system).
I got the approval for treatment today, and it's depressing to see that two of the five treatment options were chiropractors. It's alternative medicine, and based on pseudoscience. It should not be an approved form of treatment for coverage at all.
The other three options were physiotherapists, which are at least medical practitioners.
@veronica Yeah, chiropractors have done a great job of convincing people that their magic-energy-based treatments are somehow science-backed. (There is evidence of measurable benefit for lower back pain. Last I heard, that was it.)
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@veronica Yeah, chiropractors have done a great job of convincing people that their magic-energy-based treatments are somehow science-backed. (There is evidence of measurable benefit for lower back pain. Last I heard, that was it.)
@nitpicking I mean, they do some of the stuff physiotherapists do, but that's what physiotherapists are for. They also come in different grades of quackery.
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I have tendinopathy in my left shoulder, so I filed a claim with my work's medical insurance (it's faster than the public system).
I got the approval for treatment today, and it's depressing to see that two of the five treatment options were chiropractors. It's alternative medicine, and based on pseudoscience. It should not be an approved form of treatment for coverage at all.
The other three options were physiotherapists, which are at least medical practitioners.
@veronica I've had 2 chiropractors save me when my back was so messed up I could barely move. Like immediate relief. There are things they can't do, but there are also things they do that nobody else is willing to do.
