07-31-2011, 12:28 AM
(07-30-2011, 05:19 PM)About Wrote: I would recommend you go to a chiropractor. If you are treating something that ends up chronic, you run the risk of your body healing in the state you've been in for the past x weeks/months/years.
For example, if you tear your shoulder muscle at the deltoid and do not surgically replace it, within a few months the muscle that could be repaired via surgery may have shrunk due to atrophy. If that happens, the person who tore the deltoid would never be able to repair his shoulder and have full range of motion again.
Now I'm not sure what happens when you let things involving back injuries alone, but I can't imagine it would be better than seeing a doctor and making sure you heal properly.
While it is worth going to a chiropractor to get an x-ray and a proper diagnosis, it can be costly to get the kind of treatment they recommend. When I went he recommended decompression which was going to cost about $10,000, I think and that was just an alternative to back surgery. The regular treatments that chiropractors offer can do very little for the pain in my experience, because I was going two times a week for a while and it didn't do much of anything. Surgery was out of the question as well, because anyone I've ever seen who has had surgery on a herniated disk has been far worse off after they've had the back surgery. My cousins husband is pretty much permanently disabled from it. I took all those things in to account when I decided there has to be a better way. It can be a difficult problem to fix. It just takes time.
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