Hi everyone,
I’ve been experiencing persistent lower back pain for a few months now and am considering seeing a chiropractor.
Has anyone had positive experiences with chiropractic care?
I’m curious about how effective it really is for relieving back pain or improving mobility.
Are there any risks I should be aware of? Also, how do you find a reputable chiropractor?
Any tips or personal stories would be really helpful.
I've studied under a Chiropractor who specialized in nutritional treatment.
He was a wealth of information and helpful. However, he utilized 3 massage therapists who were of little to no benefit. I am not a massage therapist, but have practiced it on family, animals and self to much improvement that relieved what was otherwise turning into unbearable pain.
My latest patient was my Mom.
The hospital treatments only made her suffer. Nurses might have meant well, but we're too arrogant to learn anything helpful, but only made her worse. Mom appreciated my simple PT and massage therapy and was able to sleep much better with less restless leg syndrome and other bed restricted issues the medical hospital offered. If you have family, ask for their help with this.
Hospitals in general are a money making institutions, not healing centers.
That doesn't mean I have all the answers. Some chiropractors are beneficial for some, but not others. In my personal experiences, many just string out office visit fees as they offer temporary relief. This is better IMHO than drug addictions that kill more people in my state than illegal activities. Drugs only offer temporary relief if pain, while causing tissue damage to organs and often the areas that they are supposed to relieve. Then there are hypersensitivity responses that eventually make the pain duration longer and much worse. I understand that some need certain pain meds temporarily in order to sleep, but that cannot be an indefinite plan. Anyhow, I digress.... Back to the subject.
I had a serious injury that nearly killed me a long time ago. I went to a number of chiropractors with little temporary relief from week to week and month to month. Many chiropractors, treatments and styles of chiropractic were used. Not all chiropractic styles are the same, nor the skill of practitioner. I wish I could tell you that there was an easy way to determine this.
My neck and back was severely messed up and healed with scar tissue that limited my range of motion so that I had a hard time looking left and right at an intersection. Had to turn my torso because the head couldn't turn much. My local chiros adjustments did not work over a year.
I finally decided to take my Dad to Noah Erickson who worked with Dr Martin Gallagher in South Eastern PA.
He was way overpriced IMHO for tests, supplements and treatment, but my Dad needed special help that I thought might benefit. He did end up helping him, thank God!
While I was there, he did a couple adjustments. One was for chronic TMJ I had for years that didn't allow me to eat without my jaw popping, especially sandwiches where I had to open wide.
He corrected it altogether!
The other adjustment was my neck.
When he did it, I heard the scar tissue tear. It wasn't painful, but I could actually hear it tear, which concerned me. It cost $400 for me and I think around that much for Dad in addition. That was cash out of pocket in full.
It was a lot, especially when money had a lot more value. However, his adjustments did more than the sum of all the adjustments that the other chiros did. The many visits over a long period of suffering with little temporary relief cost more than the one long drive and appointment.
I am different than most people because I wanted to make sure the scar tissue didn't return and limit mobility again. Exercise physiologists, and Drs know that scar tissue reformation is a major problem that is rarely addressed. Often the patient has back or neck surgery and a bunch more as adhesion tissue and scars are removed. This is a vicious cycle that is repeated with more surgeries that cause even MORE scaring. As long as surgeons get paid, that's the way their game is played.
I did my own physical therapy and nutritional therapy otherwise I would have healed improperly in my professional opinion as a Nutritionist. All glory goes to God because He answered my prayers for direction, information, healing or I would have had a permanent injury. Today I no longer have that disability and I have truly had the Lord's intervention.
I encourage you to seek Him with all your heart for directions. This might include asking others who has been helpful. My heart goes out to you for I have suffered like you with back injuries, knowing what that is like.
The Great Physician has been very kind to me. I want to take what He has taught me through many good Nutritionists, Doctors of Osteopathy, Integrative, Chiropractic and Cellular physicians and bless others.
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