Thread by @GidMK

There is a lot of medical nonsense out there that is depressing and sad, but every once in a while it's worth remembering that large animal chiropractic exists and is both very silly and incredibly funny to watch

Here is a video of a chiropractor 'adjusting' a giraffe's spine by poking it. A giraffe has vertebrae that are ~30cm thick, you can't adjust that without a large hammer of some kind

Here's a video of someone adjusting the spine of a ~600Kg dairy cow with their bare hands. The cow does not even notice

In a similar vein, here is a chiropractor working on a 400Kg pig. The pig stays asleep the entire time its spine is being 'adjusted'

Anyway, chiropractic in humans is probably not much more than therapeutic massage with some theatrical placebo attached, but when you're doing it to an animal that weighs 5x as much as you it's just quite humorous to watch