Two things:
1. I own the tape Dead Doctors Don’t Lie. I haven’t listened to it in a while, though.
2. My chiropractor has a picture on his wall of a guys back that had one disk that was REALLY out of allignment. The reason? He explained that there are three types of nerves coming out of each vertebrea. One is the one that causes pain when it is pinched. The other two are either for maintenance of organs or repair of organs. I’m giving the simplistic explanation here. Anyway, the nerves in the picture were clearly atrophied, but the one that would cause pain did not. However, the others controlled the kidneys. The guy died of kidney failure.
I started going to the Chiropractore at age 32 and am now 59. My back has, since that time, felt better than it did in my 20’s. I know this becaus it had always been painful to wash my car before that time. With the exception of a couple of bouts of back injury, that has not happened since.
BTW, If you have not seen it, go to youtube and search for the movie, “The Beautiful Truth”. The whole thing is there. It is like “Dead Doctors Don’t Lie” on steroids.
OK putting ‘The Beautiful Truth’ on my must see list.
For me I’d never had any back problems even after a bicycle accident that nearly killed me, my helmet was crushed but not my skull. I broke my collarbone, shoulder blade [completely in half vertically], and a rib, but the worst was the swelling on my hip. It wasn’t broken like I’d thought, but the swelling was about the size of a catchers mitt and even now about 2 pancakes.
When I thought I’d re-broken my shoulder blade getting slammed through a wall, I went to the chiro b/c he offered the cheapest x-rays in town [no insurance/no desire either -I’d rather get out of divorce debts first].
Also I bought the ‘DDDL’ vets colloidal minerals - tasted awful and felt I was getting ripped off.
So I investigated further[ b/c to make any lie credible you must mix in some truth] into vitamins/minerals/diet. Even swear by magna-therapy to this day b/c all minerals have magnetic qualities.
Whenever I torque an ankle or knee usually playing racquetball I take a multi-vitamin/mineral and wrap it over night and with these magnets. The healing is always much much faster. Usually only takes 1-3 nights.