Re: Thanks for the advice :)
- From: <Hawki63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:43:14 GMT
top posted
personally...and professionally...I believe in chiropractic...
with a caveat
chiros are NOT first line treatment....they are NOT medical doctors..and
should NOT be diagnosing..nor taking xrays...in my humble opinion
once a person has been tested and diagnosed...by orthos for instance...then
perhaps a very good chiro can be of help
I personally see a chiro...WHEN my neck goes out to the point of not being
able to get decent range of motion...
my chiro is gentle...never causes me pain..is cheap at $50 per visit...and
has NEVER asked me to have xrays etc at his office...
my h.o. only
"TALULA" <maddalinoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello everyone,
I would really like to hear some of your opinions on CHIROPRATORS. My
husbands Lawer has him going as many times a week as his schedule will
allow, which seems to be around 3 times per week. The first visit they
"adjusted" him, meaning cracked his back, and his pain went through the
roof, and he let his Lawer know, and the Lawer called the office
demanding he never be adjusted again. So now he gets a massage, some
sort of electrode things put on him that make the muscle it's near
spasm, and then there's "this gun looking thing" that he pulls the
trigger at the nerves. I read a few pamflets about CHIROPRACTIC HEALTH
and It seemed that one would have to dedicate a whole lot of their time
to reap their so-called benefits. It has been 2 weeks since my Husband
had the accident and has been going to this chiropractor, and everyday
I ask if It's helping and he does say a little, or that the initial
soreness from the accident is subsiding natually. I know when we
flipped his work truck we were soooo sore for at least 2-3 weeks, but
the accident in this story wasn't as bad as the one I was in with him,
So I don't know if his body is just naturally healing the soreness,
instead of it being the work of the Chiropractor, Or as my opinion is:
maybe it's a combination of both.
They did a few more X-rays, and after hubby saw for himself the damage
done, and the Chiro insisting on him giving an adjustment another try,
he agreed to let them give it another try, probably on Friday. My hubby
never complains about pain, and in his profession there's plenty of
pain involved, so to hear him complain about pain breaks my heart,
because I know it's got to be excruciating for him to even mumble a
word about it. When we were teenagers he was a skater, and if you ever
watch the X-games or just see them guys ,then you've seen them fall a
lot , and hard!!! Well that was him breaking his arm once, shoulder
another time, and never a peep about pain. Same goes with his career,
not a peep.
Can a chiropractor actually make him worse is what I would like to
know?
Anyone with expierience with chiropractors, I would appreciate hearing
about your exierience and opinion on the subject. Since he won't take
narcotics, unless it's after work and he just can't get comfortable
enough to relax. This seems to be his only option for any relief, and
now that the muscle sorenes is subsiding he can tell the damage that's
been done to his spine, not muscles, and he refuses to have to be on a
narcotic for the spinal damage for any length of time, for now 2-3mgs
of a percocet is all he will take and that's only maybe twice a week if
at all. He's one of those people that will break a 5mg percocet in
half, and still gets cloudy headed and he hates feeling like that!
The only thing he's taking regularly is naproxen, and flexeril 2mg. I
know he's a tough guy, but the pain is affecting his mood, he's not the
happy go lucky sweetheart, that I know and love , he tries hard to be
but after 16 years of being best friends I can see it in his eyes that
he's hurting badly, and needs to get some relief.
They say it's standard to wait 30 days after an accident to get MRIs so
along with the X-rays he recently got, He will also be getting the MRIs
in 2 weeks from now, I'm thinking that's their way to see permanent
damage, is to wait a month after an accident.
Regardless, he will keep busting his but out in this southern heat,
Thats why he's Vice president of the company, it's his knowledge ,
acuracy, and his damn stubborness to go to work every day no matter
what amount of pain he's in , he wouldn't have taken that initial 10
days off if his doctor and lawer were so sturn about him having to. He
couldn't move much anyway at the time.
Any opinions would be greatly appreciated, and as I said I'd like to
hear the expieriences of those that have or are going to a
chiropractor.
Thanks a bunch!
Talulah.
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