Re: Chiropractors

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In a message dated 9/12/00 11:03:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
kathy_mayeda@atce.com writes:

<< I have gone for as long as 6 months without visiting my chiro if
 I am good at keeping myself in shape, but usually I do something
 to tweak myself, like getting tossed! >>

Ditto, I generally only need chiropractic help with acute injuries.  I 
started with a good chiropractor after over 10 years of excruciating chronic 
neck pain that was not helped by anyone or anything, including occasional 
tries with pretty heavy-duty pharmaceuticals.  I had been told all my life 
that chiropractors were quacks, and I was a complete skeptic.  I got 
IMMEDIATE relief, but did require repeat visits for quite awhile to 
maintain--until I was able to strengthen my neck and get those ligaments 
healed.  I was chiropractor-free for a few years, other than occasional 
visits for acute injuries--and soon found that if I sought timely treatment, 
there was considerably less damage, and most thing were helped in one or two 
visits.  (And by the way--I DID get before-and-after x-rays in one incident 
when I spent an excruciating night in the ER with a back injury--the idiot 
radiologists called my back films "normal" in the before shots, which was 
B***S***--lumbar spine was out of alignment something like 8 degrees, and you 
could SEE the variation in density between the muscles on one side and on the 
other side.  Films 2-3 hours post-adjustment showed a straight lumbar spine 
with no difference in muscle density...)  Most recent incidents for me have 
been a car wreck with serious whiplash (1997) and my shoulder injury this 
July.  Both DID require multiple visits, but both progressed FAR more rapidly 
than the MD's said they could.  (And I am NOT in any sort of fit athletic 
condition, nor am I the most motivated or obedient patient.)  Nope, they 
haven't cured my allergies or made my hair grow faster.  But they darn sure 
make a difference in specific types of injuries.

Heidi