Benson Chiropractic in Cloquet.  Bit of a drive but totally worth it.  He asks questions, he's very practical, and he is honest.  Will go out of his way to make you feel better.  He's great!  (218) 879-6049.

Swan - 

Chiro has healed, helped, mended me when nothing else would work. Massage will not push that little bit of bone back into place, will not re-align those disks and cartlidge.

I suspect you don't UNDERSTAND chiro, thus fear it, thus feel you must criticize it. Or maybe you read somewhere that it was quackery.

Either way, you are sadly wrong.

Troy Bolen in Piedmont

John Peplenjack.  He does simple but effective adjustments out of the Hunter Building on Wednesdays.

Kenwood Chiropractic! Dr. Bob Torgrimson is the best. He helped my hubby tremendously.

Some chiropractors are good people who can actually help you. Others are indeed complete quacks who use magical machines to measure invisible nonsense and charge you a fortune. As with any service provider, always check them out with people you trust first. A friend of mine is a PT who taught me 3 simple low impact exercises and I have not had back pain in 10 years.

BadCat:  I feel your pain!  I have gone to Jerry Priely for years who now practices with Fisher Chiropractor on East Superior St.  He has helped me through a number of back situations including the fracture of three vertebrae.  He also saw me immediately one time when I threw my back out at Menards lifting dirt-I called and he got me right in.  You also might consider yoga-recommended to me by my enlightened physician. Note today's paper and the article on yoga.  The teacher and the studio the article is about are both fabulous.  Molly McMannus and Yoga North are both knowledgeable and helpful.  In yoga terms it might help you to "strengthen your core muscles" from the time you injured your back they have probably loosened up a bit as you favor your sure back.  Been there done that. Plus Molly in her weekend job mixes a mean manhattan!  Good luck!

http://www.naturallychiro.com/meetthedoctor.htm

David Fisher, Fisher Chiropractic on Superior Street.

Swan: so you have back and shoulder problems that were not affected by a few chiropractic treatments, therefore all chiropractors are a sham?

Despite your extensive research into this issue, I think I'll try my luck

Swan -  Thanks for your response to my somewhat snarky comment. I'm still a bit confused why you labeled chiro quackery when you admit that it works...for some people.

When I was having major spinal issues, I tried massage therapy, as well as other remedies. None worked for me. Yet, I did not declare them quackery just because they didn't work...for me.

To Baci's original inquiry: Jill Jacoby cured (permanently, apparently) a debilitating neck/spine problem in 2 sessions for about a hundred bucks.

Now, I would like to talk about that foot-pad thingy that you put on your feet overnight, and in the morning the pad is black and all of the awful toxins have been expelled from your body into the Magic Pad. Now THAT is quackery.

Melissa Jantzen in Lakeside.  I have to ask her when to come back, rather than her telling me to come in every other day for the next six months.  She's awesome.

She also has a good story about meeting Andy Hillstrand from Deadliest Catch when she was visiting Alaska.