That is funny in a coincidental way. Just started treatment at a chiropractor today. It is going to take awhile.
Bkmk
That said, manipulative therapy likely spared me from more invasive measures, such as back surgery.
The surgeon who did my neck surgery would not do surgery unless the patient had previously tried chiropractic and physical therapy.
For many years, chiropractic manipulation of the “snap-crackle-pop” variety saved me from back pain that more or less crippled me. I’d go into the chiropractor’s or osteopath’s office unable to take a full breath because of the pain, and would walk out of the office breathing normally, with a little residual soreness.
Surgeon: “Nothing heals like cold, hard steel!”
Ping for later.
90% of spinal disk rupture and displacement are caused by piriformis syndrome. Yes, if an L4-L5 disk ruptures or displaces it could require surgery. After surgery though, the problem will return unless and until the patient receives massage relief of the piriformis entrapment which causes it.
Whether the entrapment causes back pain or sciatic leg nerve pain depends on individual configuration of the two piriformis muscle leads in relation to the two sciatic nerve leads as they pass through the pelvis’s sciatic foramen.
Swelling of the piriformis muscle is caused by deteriorated, unremoved collagen in the piriformis muscle. It takes targeted massage to remove the old collagen and relieve the inflammation. You can do it with a tennis ball beneath your hip joint.
I go once/month and walk out like Gumby...or pokey...and feel great.
It’s like my own great reset
I go to an upper cervical chiropractor that has helped me way more than a conventional practitioner.
Since I am off blood thinners I went to my first acupuncture session in a long time. It helps with pains, especially the way my lower back aches sometimes since the bouts of hospital this year.
A real back massage also has helped me a lot every so often.
My solution to lower back issues to to do a dead hang for 1 minute once a day. That usually pops out all the crimped joints in my spinal cord. I can feel them popping. Then whenever I can, I’ll stretch my back over a big beach ball. Then for the area around my mid back to shoulders I’ll roll back and forth on a cylindrical black roller for 60 to 80 back and forth rolls. I don’t roll down to the small of my back.
All that together seems to help.
Chiropractic care and physical therapy has kept me from being put under the knife for over 30 years.
I have a herniated disc in my lumbar region. Before I retired from the military I had to pay out of pocket for a chiropractor because the military wouldn’t approve it.
Now I go regularly and love it! I feel so much better after a visit.