I am looking for a chiropractor, and went to check out one I got a good reference for.

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14. Not necessarily. My son has loose joints, and they were even looser when he was a teen.

His back popped out of alignment when he was playing basketball, and an osteopath who happened to be on call fixed him up with just a couple manipulations. I told him that I thought it looked like what a chiropractor might do, and he said chiropractors "stole" it from osteopaths.

My father had the same loose joints as my son and he had learned over the years that a chiropractor worked better and much more quickly for him than any physical therapist. I think it all depends on the individual patient and the individual provider.