Indeed, I have chronic back pain due to years of computer work with bad posture. I used to go to a chiropractor and I can understand the purpose. There are time

Indeed, I have chronic back pain due to years of computer work with bad posture. I used to go to a chiropractor and I can understand the purpose. There are times where my spine seems to get really out of whack. Maybe I will sleep on my side and my neck will be really tight on one side. What I now do is yoga to stretch and loosen the muscles around the affected area, and then through regular circular motion of the affected joints I will usually, after sometimes a couple of days of stretching, get the joint to "pop" (again, just from slow movement that eventually loosens things up) and I will feel relief. It may be better to do the slow yoga approach, but there are times where I am in a lot of pain for days in a row. Having a trained professional to look at my body, find the tense areas and apply heat to loosen things up before giving it a good push seems like a valid mode of treatment for what can be debilitating pain. Similar results could probably be achieved from massage, but a masseuse will never give the joint a push to try to reset things, and in my non medical opinion it seems like that could be a useful treatment at times.