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The purpose of this article is to go into some detail about my experience of chiropractic treatment as an effective cure for chronic back pain.
After my doctor explained to go home and take painkillers for my bad back of many years, I decided to take matters into mine hands and look at methods for fixing the root cause associated with my pain, not just the symptoms.
The first idea that popped into my head was to look and see a chiropractor. I imagine this is certainly hardly a huge revelation for some of you. Of course you go and see a chiropractor when you have a bad back.
Where I live, there are several chiropractors dotted for the main drag. I did a certain amount of research on them; we have a good local online forum where people post their experiences of assorted local businesses and one of the chiropractors got consistently positive opinions. Well that was that selection made, a quick phone call later and I was booked in for the initial consultation.
As i got down there later that week I remember sitting filling out the registration form and considering this poster in the reception. It was of a huge iceberg. The smallest tip of which was just the thing above the surface. Below the top however lurked the huge bulk of the 'berg. There were two arrows, one pointing to the tip and one pointing to the hidden monster in the water. The caption next to the arrow pointing to your tip was "your symptoms" along with the caption next to the arrow pointing to all of those other iceberg read "your problem". This immediately made all sorts of worse-case scenarios flooding through my mind. What if my tender back was actually the symptoms of spinal cancer or some such other horror?!? It's like this chapter in Three Men Within a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (by the way if you haven't read that, the funniest book in everyone then get yourself onto Amazon and get a copy) where M starts reading a medical dictionary and realises with dismay he has every condition in there above and beyond, it appears, Housemaid's Knee!
Just as I was beginning to worry the worst my unassuming chiropractor doctor ushered me into his office. I told him about my own bad back and he made me do the same sorts of stretches my general practitioner had done before sending me home using a bottle of Tylenol. He even rolled a small to medium sized sharp metal wheel a bit like some of those things you cut pastry with across my thigh. Eventually after lots of scribbling on his chart he explained that what I needed was a few X-Rays. Only then he claimed, can we see what is happening. So off I went on the local X-Ray man which funnily enough was at another chiropractor's office across town. An hour later and I had my X-Rays and was heading into iceberg-central to hear the bad news.
What my chiropractor explained was quite surprising. He said that there was nothing really the matter with my back. The problem, your dog said, was my neck. Shelby Twp Chiropractor, chiropractor shelby township, nucca chiropractic