Ask any three or four guys lined up at the bar of the favorite watering hole on a Saturday night what they know about chiropractics, and you will undoubtedly get a lot of jokes about rib cracking, bone mashing, and easy fees. It is sad, really, that a large segment of the American public is still somewhat ignorant when it comes to the advanced methodology of chiropractics. While it is true that the practice owes its origin to alternative medicine, spiritualism, and – some say – early hypnotherapy, the modern truth of the matter reveals that chiropractors have many tools in their belts that they are not afraid to use.