Anonymous wrote:Oops forgot chiropractors
I used to look askance at chiropractors, and I silently judged my family and friends who swore by them.
Then I developed spinal stenosis in my cervical spine and began suffering excruciatingly painful episodes of cervical radiculopathy. The pain clinic MD sent me for physical therapy which was months of sessions that provided only modest relief.
After my most recent episode that had me living in agony and losing sleep and teetering on the edge of suicidal ideation, I finally listened to my employer and my cousin and went to see a chiropractor.
She had me from a baseline of 8/10 on the pain scale to a 0 in six ten minute sessions. It was like a freaking miracle had happened in my life!
I have a strong science background and was once pre-med, and I’ve worked in healthcare for over a decade. I know that some doctors don’t endorse chiropractors and some lay folks (like me for decades!) don’t either.
But I swear by it now and am incredibly grateful for the treatment I’ve had these last couple of months. I continue to go every other week because the things she is doing to my musculoskeletal system are steadily improving all kinds of other pain I had come to accept as just the price of a sedentary desk job coupled with aging; I am feeling younger and more flexible and it has motivated me to be more active and to get back into lifting and barre work which I hadn’t done in a long time.
So while I’m sure there are some bad chiropractors like there are bad in every profession, mine is fantastic and I sing her praises!