Reply #6: Not "illegal" but Fake. He was NOT a chiropractor. Here's more...

[uppityperson]

This is not a chiropractor who was illegal, but someone who was not a chiropractor at all. Taking 1 massage class 60 yrs ago does not qualify anyone to be a chiropractor. Go to school for many yrs, lots of classes, lots of intellectual and hands on training. Take the licensing test and pass it. Then you can call yourself a chiropractor.

It sounds like this guy was acting far beyond what he should have been doing. I know a massage therapist who does adjustments, have had people ask me to adjust them like that mt does and I always say "hell no". Not enough training to ever do that.

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_9587937

Fake chiropractor accused of killing patient


SACRAMENTO—Sacramento police say a 76-year-old man operating an unlicensed chiropractic clinic out of his garage is suspected of killing one of his patients with a neck manipulation. Antonio Arellano was booked into the Sacramento County jail Friday on suspicion of murder.

Police Sgt. Matt Young says 64-year-old Jose Lopez sought help from Arellano for pain in his extremities Tuesday. Arellano adjusted the victim's neck, seriously injuring Lopez and leaving him unconscious.

He was placed on life support but was declared dead two days later.

Arellano's only apparent training was a massage class he took in the 1940s, but Young says Arellano had a following and handed out business cards in his neighborhood.