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 paulson games wrote:
I've always been a bit puzzled about people calling it quackery, if you feel that's it's BS have you ever personally been to a chiropractor due to pain?
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I don't know about chiropractic, but it's possible to know if a treatment is quackery without personally experiencing it by referring to medical research. For example the German government did a huge study into acupuncture that found it was only of any value due to placebo effect.

The placebo effect of course is well known and is used by doctors, so it should not be dismissed out of hand even though the mystical basis for the treatment is rubbish.

The OP is in the UK so can access the NHS for medical treatment for free. The NHS considers Chiropractic to be a 'complementary' treatment, which is not usually available from the NHS.

Chiropractic seems to me like a kind of massage or perhaps related to pilates or Alexander technique, a musculo-skeletal system of treatment or exercise. Any of these systems can cause damage if done wrongly. There is also the danger that you are paying for a treatment and denying yourself a conventional treatment that has a better chance of success. Like the people who practice Breatharianism rather than get surgery for cancer.

That said, back pain is notoriously difficult to treat by conventional medicine.