They're midway between physical therapists and eastern medicine practitioners. They know a little bit of both, but not necessarily all.
My advice: try a few PTs, if that doesn't work try acupuncture or something in that vein, and if all else fails then sure, go for it.
I know from personal experience managing industrial (((insurance))) claims that 90% of chiros will expand a little problem like a thumb strain out into "fixing" your perfectly fine back, and drag what should be a month long recovery process out into 6 months, in order to jew you out of your money.
To be fair, on my end they're jewing the insurance company so that's not necessarily bad, but still lol. It's basically like trying to find an honest lawyer. You might, but you are likely to get burned. On the other hand, PTs have, guaranteed, spent several years of their lives learning techniques and remedies for different issues.
I've used both and have received greater, faster benefit from a chiropractor. That said, I've found zero quacks who are PTs and have found an abundance of quacks who are chiropractors. Finding a sane chiropractor can be challenging. Sadly, I find people are quick to judge the entire field of chiropractors by the quacks rather than the professionals who really are good at what they do. In fact, many "treatments" provided by PTs are modifications of what is taken from chiro-practitioners. Of course, they won't offer that.
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