06-26-2008, 07:36 AM
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Originally posted by punafish
Knowing Dr J is a chiropractor, just wanted to jump in and say that I have benefited greatly by chiropractic care over the years. I've only been to one chiropractor who was questionable. But I've seen many more medical doctors who give away antibiotics like candy. One was willing to prescribe pain medicine for the rest of my life for chronic neck pain. That's when I decided to give chiro a try. And it worked.
Recently I had serious neck pain that continued 24/7 for over a month. Finally found a local chiropractor (the best I've ever been to) and after about 5-6 adjustments, I was back to normal.
So just wanted to say to Dr. J that I respect what you're doing. Hopefully you're one of the good ones :-)
I was not aware of our neighbor's profession. My experience has been quite the opposite of yours. I went to a chiropractor with some minor back problem, was "cracked," and lost much of the feeling in my leg. I was also unable to walk out of the office without help, and was in excruciating pain. I ended up having to have emergency spine surgery the next day. This was from a licensed guy who even taught at a local chiropractic school. To make matters worse, the chiroquacker told me that the injury he inflicted on me was my fault because "you don't want to get better." The MRI suggests that the problem was a disk that never should have been manipulated in the first place, not my attitude.
I've heard my story repeated by others again and again. My view is that any kind of intervention should be done as a last resort. My two back surgeons both felt the same way. The first had to go in or I could have risked permanent nerve damage. The second waited to do a fusion only after months of physical therapy failed. The first surgery was successful in the sense that it took away the pain for five years and restored nerve function to my leg. The second (on the same disk) was done ten years ago and I have been pain free since. So while I am skeptical of any medical doctor who wants to cut into me and any nonmedical "healer" who wants to crack me, I did benefit from going under the knife.