For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 10, 2022

PUT your back out? I’ve never heard it said like that before.

Find another doctor John. This one’s a pain in the back!

I like John’s expression in the second panel…

The least of what I’d want is a doctor who has a sackful of dad jokes when I’m in pain!

I love it when a certified chiropractor has to ask the new patient, what seems to be the trouble? Well, doctor I’ve got this terrible stomach ache, and diarrhea. Can you help me? Sure I can, just let me pull on your neck and stretch your throat and you’ll feel the built up pressure relieve itself.

While he fixes your back, the receptionist will be racking up your bill.

The last thing one needs is a doctor who does schtick.

Listen; do you hear the sound “quack, quack”??

See this week’s “Katzenjammer Kids” on Comics Kingdom.

‘John’ is saying ‘Can I really be getting a lecture on terminology ??? Just ’FIX MY BACK’ ! ! ! ! !

Whenever Lynn draws someone with a goofy smile like that, you know they’re going to be a goofy, annoying person..

I went to a chiropractor for years with little to no help. I tried a physiotherapist and within a month my problem was solved and I was educated about how to keep the problem from recurring. :D

What do you expect from a chiropractor named Laycock?

Oh. He should be in the funny pages….wait!

Try slapping the chiropractor John, it won´t cure your back but you will feel MUCH better.

What this Chiropractor needs is a straight man for his lame jokes.

Went to a quack and will soon be walking like a duck

Not feeling like a chuckle here Doc. Just make the pain stop and then I will be happy to giggle for you.

Clearly they don’t teach bedside manner in chiropractry school.

“Crack!”

It looks like the doc has already prepared the bill before he even says anything useful. Besides, he has no feeling for his patients. Maybe he missed his calling and should’ve become a stand-up comic.

He put his back out with the dog, and they became fast friends

This guy thinks he’s Henny Youngman.

The guy is right but also obnoxious.

Chiropractor, Shmiropractor. If it’s a muscle, manipulating bones isn’t going to change anything today. Take some ibuprofen and keep moving.

That chiropractor’s teeth are terrifying.

This guy has the bedside manner of ground glass!

When I was a kid I thought chiropractor was the same as choir practice.

Hardy har har indeed…..

When someone is in that type of pain there is no humor. Wait until that Dr. goes to the dentist!

In Canada, Chiropractors are licensed “doctors of chiropractic”. They have a MINIMUM of 7 years post secondary education. There’s even a “College Of Chiropractors Of Ontario” for Lynn Lake and the rest of Ontario.

What he states makes sense. For me when I was stepping on a workforce bus like a motor home, I had the worst pain spasm pain, finally went to Dr. he said I sprang my back, he gave a muscle relaxer, and it relaxed all of me.

Why does the phrase “justifiable homicide” keep popping into my head?

DEAR DR. PATTERSON:

Next time you suffer a major muscle spasm in your back, shoulder, or neck, simply take 600-800 mg. of ibuprofen, lie down on the couch, and immerse yourself in a good book for three or four hours. Works for me!

I would be leaving – NOW

Was his back on fire? If so, he should be glad he was able to put it out.

Doc should first figure out why his body is grey. (Or the comic strip editor.)

Time to find another chiropractor!

If that chiropractor took a look at my back X-rays and CT scans and told me what he told John, I’d be out the door before he could put his clipboard down.

Interesting that when I daily, for eight or so hours, sat relatively straight at an office desk, I had occasional back muscle pulls, with accompanying pain, sometimes lasting as long as a week and needing prescription pain meds. Now I slouch and recline at my desk and computer at home, and now otherwise have more bend-over activities, but have not had a back issue…none in the past several years.

Whaddya know, a chiropractor who lets a dentist write his jokes!

No one could ever put this man “straight.” Plus the back is not a firm solid straight vertical part of the body.

You need a physical therapist or a real doctor who will probably refer you to the PT. And get a real massage therapist while you are at it, not one who will charge extra for a happy ending.

20 some years ago back started hurting. Bad office chair position, I think, not my golf which I’d stopped temporarily because of tendinitis in the shoulder (fixed a year later by acromioplasty.)Saw a neighboring rheumatologist who blithely saw oh you do have a stiff muscle there let me massage that. Over the next 9 months it got progressively worse despite the massaging and even cortisone injections until I ended up not being able to walk comfortably except on all fours when my regular GP told me to go and see a real back man; who operated asap and said that95% of my disc had herniated. Not a twinge since!

And they laughter is the best medicine.

If that doctor continues like that, he may soon need a dentist.

Since my own back is hurting today, and I’m a retired IT worker, I suggest an IT solution: IT workers only need two tools, one of which is a screwdriver. Since the screwdriver obviously will not do the job, I’ll use the other one, a crowbar. On the chiropractor, not the dentist.