Having crippling back pain when I’m only 23 yrs old, I go to chiropractors because I haven’t found any useful help elsewhere. You get pretty desperate when in pain. I’ve been to five different chiropractors, three of which sucked. One works fairly well that I still go to him. The last was AMAZING, but I discovered him just before I moved and he commutes to CA so I have a difficult time seeing him.
So in my opinion there’s a lot of chiropractors out there that are scams, or who just aren’t knowledgable enough to do much help for people. But there are a few gems out there who really know their stuff. The one that helped me the most, I know others he’s helped as well who couldn’t find relief elsewhere, even with things such as arm pain. He called himself a Craniosacral Chiropractor, I’m not sure what it was but he just worked magic.
If anyone cares I’ve found that foam rollers, core exercises etc at home have helped the most in relieving my pain. I go to the chiro when I’m desperate.
In my experience, the more expensive, the worse the service I received. In fact the most expensive of the five I’ve seen kind of screwed me up worse. The cheapest one was the best one.