I'm going to the chiropractor

[meltdown75]

My back has been bothering me since I got out of bed Saturday morning. It has reached a fever pitch - I can't even get comfortable sitting on my ass at the office. This is a supremo ass-lounging chair if I ever saw one. I guess playing an 18-hole scramble that day couldn't have helped, and shooting hoops yesterday maybe wasn't too smart either.

I have like a nagging, pinching feeling in my lower back, on the right side. There actually seems to be a little swelling there when I touch it.

Are these guys quacks or what? I read another thread and the views seemed to be mixed. I've been once a few years back just to have an "adjustment" or something, but that pain was more central to the spine area.

I'll update to let you know how it goes.

 

[opticalmace]

well, it's not so much about your age... i had some pretty bad back problems for a couple weeks last year, when i was 20, so it can happen anytime.

pinched nerve?

 

[Kipper]

If it was a pinched nerve he wouldn't be able to move without absolutely agonizing pain.

My guess is it's a pulled muscle.

 

[MagicConch]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
Are these guys quacks or what?

I would not go see one for certain. I wondered why chiropractors find so many more spinal irregularities in X-Rays then physicians and I found out many of them put the part you stand on at an angle (one freely admited to me that he and others do this). I am not saying physicians are the only ones to go to for medical care. Podiatrists are very good at what they do IMO, as are optometrists, etc. However I would stay far away from chiropractors and their 'adjustments'.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: MagicConch

Originally posted by: meltdown75
Are these guys quacks or what?

I would not go see one for certain. I wondered why chiropractors find so many more spinal irregularities in X-Rays then physicians and I found out many of them put the part you stand on at an angle (one freely admited to me that he and others do this). I am not saying physicians are the only ones to go to for medical care. Podiatrists are very good at what they do IMO, as are optometrists, etc. However I would stay far away from chiropractors and their 'adjustments'.

Don't listen to this guy. Go try it out and see if he can help you. If your pain is alleviated then it was money well spent. If not, then I guess you'll have to try something else. A chiropractor helped me when I had a muscle spasm in my lower back years ago. One visit and I felt at least 50% less pain than when I walked in the door. After a week I was almost 100%. With a regular doctor it would have been weeks of bedrest and muscle relaxers.

 

[Hav0k99]

I went to see a chiroprator a few times and I like him alot. He adjusts me and puts together physical rehabilitation activities for my back.

 

[meltdown75]

Well, I went in and he did his adjustments. It was only my second time ever to a chiropractor but it was basically the same. Snap crackle pop and off you go. Cost me $51.75 for that visit though, moreso because I was a new patient, and it'll be $25 each visit from now on. They scheduled me for some "EMG surface scan" for Wednesday, and I'll go only because I'm not golfing that night. I'm definitely checking tomorrow to see how much of this my work is going to pay for.

Perhaps it is just a pulled muscle. I didn't feel any immediate relief in the precise area where I feel the pain, but it is definitely less sharp now. I cut the lawn when I got home and it didn't seem to be bothering me as much.

*shrugs*

chiros = meh but i guess they do *something*

 

[iliopsoas]

sounds like a muscle spasm. get a massage.

 

[PlatinumGold]

most MD's i work with agree that chiropractic medicine has it's place. mostly for temporary relief.

i had spasms in my back starting about 3 weeks ago. they are just now easing up. i did it on my own with back exercises and stretching.

i know from experience that i would have gotten the same level of relief about 2 weeks sooner if i had gone to a chiropractor.

 

[Safeway]

Yea, Chiropractors used to be in high demand ... but have been faded out. Only people with persistant back problems seem to frequent them.

 

[Maximus96]

when my chiro cracked my neck for the first time, it scared me sh!tless, but it felt real good afterwards. then he cracked my back in much more spots than i can crack on my own. it sounded real nasty but felt good.

 

[klah]

Chiropractic founder Daniel Palmer imbued the term "subluxation" with a metaphysical and philosophical meaning. He held that certain dislocations of bones interfered with the "innate intelligence", a kind of spiritual energy or life force dependent upon God that connects the brain to the rest of the body. Palmer claimed that subluxations interfered with the proper communication of this innate intelligence with the rest of the body, and that by fixing them 95% of diseases could be treated.

Make sure they wave some magnets and fairy dust over you too.

 

[rgwalt]

I pulled a muscle in my back a few summers ago, and the chiro I went to put me on a regiment of stretching for that muscle, and then adjustments to keep everything in place while I healed. Now, I don't know what a real doctor would have done for me, but I liked not having to deal with X-Rays, pain meds, and muscle relaxers.

R