No, he's not a chiropractor, he's a photographer, he does weddings etc. Before that he used to fix computers, none of us are alternative therapists.
My chiropractor didn't 'crack' anything, nothing went crack. It was quite gentle. He gently moved C2/3 (they are fused) back into the correct position and the headache went immediately for a few hours. I had felt twisted up for months and could barely turn my head and could not 'un-twist' myself, couldn't sleep etc. Well, the twisted feeling went straight away. I wish my doctors had checked my neck instead of just giving migraine drugs because they would have seen this too.
On the second adjustment he adjusted a few neck muscles and spent half the time doing this massage which was the most pain relieving thing I have had in years. I had no pain that day, the next day I got a fever and was completely wiped out which I took as a positive sign that the immune system was finally trying to kick this problem. I have not had any headache since (I know it's only been a few days but that's amazing considering I've had this intractable headache for 17 months). All I have now is a bit of nerve pain in the shoulder (that started before the chiropractor). I have two more sessions and hope that it will all be sorted by then.
There were plenty of side-effects to the medications I was taking, and to the hip injection I had for osteoarthritis but I still had them because I was in too much pain to function. That's how I feel about chiropractic adjustments, whose side-effects are probably much less than the treatments I had already had.
Believe me, I was in SO much pain I was bed ridden many days, dosed up on very high level codeine and muscle relaxants just to go out of the house for a little bit. It didn't even respond to steroids or anasethetic. I was so desperate I asked the doctor to open my head and remove the nerve, and I am not the type of person that likes invasive actions but I was losing all quality of life, so I know there is no way that my adjustments were placebo effect, I was too ill for that. I fully expected the anasethetic blocks to work so technically should have had a placebo effect with that, yet it didn't work.
I didn't actually think the chiropractor would help because I figured if this headache is so stubborn it sticks around for 17 months then nothing is going to shift it. I think it's perfectly biologically plausable, if the spine is twisted that puts pressure on all the muscles and nerves and could result in a neuralgia. If then you put the cervical spine into the correct position and massage the muscles to relieve the strain put on them, you are taking the pressure off the nerve.
Well, the inventor of vaccines burnt women at the stake for being 'witches' and practicing 'black magic' and he even wrote a book about witch killings. I personally think that is crazier :)
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No, he's not a chiropractor, he's a photographer, he does weddings etc. Before that he used to fix computers, none of us are alternative therapists.
My chiropractor didn't 'crack' anything, nothing went crack. It was quite gentle. He gently moved C2/3 (they are fused) back into the correct position and the headache went immediately for a few hours. I had felt twisted up for months and could barely turn my head and could not 'un-twist' myself, couldn't sleep etc. Well, the twisted feeling went straight away. I wish my doctors had checked my neck instead of just giving migraine drugs because they would have seen this too.
On the second adjustment he adjusted a few neck muscles and spent half the time doing this massage which was the most pain relieving thing I have had in years. I had no pain that day, the next day I got a fever and was completely wiped out which I took as a positive sign that the immune system was finally trying to kick this problem. I have not had any headache since (I know it's only been a few days but that's amazing considering I've had this intractable headache for 17 months). All I have now is a bit of nerve pain in the shoulder (that started before the chiropractor). I have two more sessions and hope that it will all be sorted by then.
There were plenty of side-effects to the medications I was taking, and to the hip injection I had for osteoarthritis but I still had them because I was in too much pain to function. That's how I feel about chiropractic adjustments, whose side-effects are probably much less than the treatments I had already had.
Believe me, I was in SO much pain I was bed ridden many days, dosed up on very high level codeine and muscle relaxants just to go out of the house for a little bit. It didn't even respond to steroids or anasethetic. I was so desperate I asked the doctor to open my head and remove the nerve, and I am not the type of person that likes invasive actions but I was losing all quality of life, so I know there is no way that my adjustments were placebo effect, I was too ill for that. I fully expected the anasethetic blocks to work so technically should have had a placebo effect with that, yet it didn't work.
I didn't actually think the chiropractor would help because I figured if this headache is so stubborn it sticks around for 17 months then nothing is going to shift it. I think it's perfectly biologically plausable, if the spine is twisted that puts pressure on all the muscles and nerves and could result in a neuralgia. If then you put the cervical spine into the correct position and massage the muscles to relieve the strain put on them, you are taking the pressure off the nerve.
Well, the inventor of vaccines burnt women at the stake for being 'witches' and practicing 'black magic' and he even wrote a book about witch killings. I personally think that is crazier :)
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