I have been lurking on this board for about 4 months now and this topic is the one that is "bringing me out of the closet".
First, just a quick history about me. My family, friends and I went to Cozumel in early August for vacation. While there, I tried an intro to scuba course at the resort I was staying in. As everyone on this board has learned, diving is a fantastic hobby. I got so hooked on the intro course that my wife and I went back to the same resort two weeks later just to get our OW certification (I'm sure that will open a whole other can of worms!!).
The information I have learned on this board is tremendous and I applaud everyone for taking the time to share their experiences and knowledge.
Now to my point in posting. I was introduced to Chiropractic by my wife. When we first met, she asked me if I wanted to go with her to see her brother who is a doctor as she was having trouble with an ear ache. What I didn't know until we arrived at the doctors office was that he was a Chiropractor. Due to the fact that my family is heavily involved in the medical profession ( doctors, nurses, respiratory etc...) I was very skeptical, actually laughing on the inside. Short story even shorter, her pain immediately subsided after one treatment and by the next morning, all tenderness and fever was gone. My degree is in chemistry and response/reaction is always linked regardless of the catalyst.
Her immediate recovery was enough for me to wonder how this could have happened, especially by manipulation. Anyway, after lots of RESEARCH and by spending numerous days with her brother in his office, I was amazed by the results he was getting with all types of disorders. Most of his patients were people who were not getting results from "traditional" medicine. Arm, back, leg pain, bedwetting, ear infections, ulcers, high blood pressure, diabetes...you name it.
So, we can argue drugs vs. manipulation all day long but what cannot be argued is results. If it didn't work, then the profession would have died a long time ago yet the number of folks turning to chiropractic as a primary health care substitute is growing by the thousands every day. You can sell someone snake oil once, but never a second time if it doesn't work ...especially when you are talking about ones health.
Lastly, any statement about chiropractic being unsafe is totally ridiculous.....Want proof? Unbiased proof? Well, just for example, my old college roommate who is now a Chiropractor, pays about $1800.00 per year in liability insurance. My brother (MD), who has a family practice pays about $20,000. per year in insurance. So which method do you think is the safest? Believe me, if the chiropractic profession were unsafe, insurance would be unobtainable, much less 1/10 of the cost of the medical community ( of course, in medical specialities, the premiums are 2-3 times that amount).
IMHO
If you haven't spent four years in college studying it( not including four years of undergraduate), or at least even tried it, then don't comment, regardless of whether you are a doctor, nurse, painter, trashman etc...because, you simply don't know what you are talking about.
Oh, also, I am still certainly very much pro medicine. I can't begin imagining life without it. But it too has its place.
will we ever know for sure maybe not but she is better now. 
