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From: "Alamaine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> About 20 years ago I wrenched my back lifting an odd shaped
apparatus. About a
> half hour after the event ended, my back felt like someone had
winched every
> muscle above my derriere to the breaking point. Sitting down was in
super slow
> motion. The AMA approved quackermeisters dispensed drugs, applied
ultrasound
> to the affected area, and did some other things too disturbing to
mention here.
> This BS went on for six months. Then I decided I would give the
chiropractor a
> try. One X-Ray and three visits later, I felt as though I had never
had an
> injury.
About 10 years ago I was rundown by a motorist who was in too much of
a hurry to
cut into traffic...with the result that I flew 40-something feet
before crashing
back down on the pavement.
I'd already utilized chiropractors in the past, for muscle tension due
to stress,
and bad posture at work. In fact, I was lucky (lawsuit/insurance
company-wise)
that I'd started going to a new chiropractor 6 months before the
accident, and as
is their normal practice with new patients, the chiropractor took a
complete set
of Xrays of my spine at that time (so I had proof of the status of my
spine before
the accident)...
The accident caused a subluxation of my lower spine, e.g. a "slipped
disk"...
luckily the chiropractor had a good relationship with a neurologist
who respected
'alternative' treatments (my first appointment with the neurologist, I
was glad
to see a large 'coffee table book' on the workings of kundalini on his
desk...
Took 3 months of hydrotherapy (prescribed by the neurologist), and
over a year of
treatments with the chiropractor (starting out at 3 sessions a week
plus 2 massage
sessions a week, ending with 1 chiropractic session a week and 1
massage every other
week), but at the end I hardly had any symptoms of the accident (just
a few reminders,
like I can no longer sit for any length of time on the bare ground
without getting
very sore and painful)...
At that time, I also used to treat myself to a manicure every other
week...and one
time, about 18 months after the accident, I heard one of the other
nail techs talking
to a customer about their mutual back problems...the other client
apparantly worked
at the local hospital as an admission clerk or some such, and
goosestepped to the AMA
party line...
Turns out both these gals had already had at least one operation to
fix their backs...
but still suffered pain sufficiently strong enough to effect their
lifestyle, e.g. very
often they were bedridden, or had to scale back everyday activities to
accomodate their
affliction...
So I finally felt I had to put my 2 cents in, and opined that they
should consider
going to a chiropractor. Well, you would think I had suggested they
go to a witchdoctor.
Both vehemently condemned chiropractors, the hospital worker the more
vehement of the
two. But when I asked if they had ever gone to one, the denied it
(the hospital worker
acting like I was nuts to even think she'd ever think of going to
one), and it turned
out that neither one even KNEW anyone who utilized chiropractors.
So I presented myself as one, who was extremely satisfied with my
experience. I
explained about my accident, and the regime I'd gone through, adding
that the chiropractor
worked in conjunction with a neurologist...but the hospital worker
interrupted me and
stated that no 'reliable' MD would ever work with a chiropractor...
So I shut up, and let them go on with their mutual tales of woe. My
own nail tech was
more openminded towards alternative treatments, and we both agreed
that in our experience,
everyone we knew who ever had a back problem who pursued the standard
AMA prescribed
treatments never got any better...especially if they underwent back
surgeries (as the 2
gals next to us had)...while almost everyone who went to a
chiropractor was always
satisfied with the treatment, reporting either a complete elimination
of symptoms, or at
least a great reduction in the severity...
And as we listened, the two next to us, who had loudly decried
chiropractic as 'quakery',
had gone on to gossip about all the back doctors they had gone to, and
the hospital
worker dished the dirt on one MD after another, describing in great
detail all the
mistakes and botched operations one MD after another had done, which
of course the
hospital where she worked had covered up...
I finally had to interrupt them, and point out the irony of how they
decried chiropractors
as 'quacks', and yet had just gone on for almost half an hour about
the quackery of the
MDs they were so enamored with.... ;-)
June
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