| I have only recently begun going to a local chiropractor in Prescott, AZ - Dr. Carey over the last 18 months. I can't tell you what a relief it has been. I used to have terrible pain in my left heel, even 10 years after the car accident that started the situation. Some years ago xrays by my family doctor showed a fish hook like bone spur. I saw the xray. It looked terrible! Apparently through the years it absorbed & became non-visable on x-ray. But depending on my activity, the pain became ubearable at times. I went to a podiatrist who xrayed my foot. It looked 'clean' of any spur. He injected it with cortisone & that provided total relief, for 6 or 8 weeks. I was in heaven! for awhile. Then the pain returned. I tried heel protectors, DSMO, ibuprophen, glucosamine, arch supports & exercises. Nothing really helped. That Dr. said he felt I might need surgery which would have left me incapacitated for several months.
A short time later, a few hours into a 2 day road trip to Canada, I began to have pain in my siatic nerve & low back. When we arrived I located a chiroprater who was recommended by a relative of mine. This being my first visit t & expericnce with chiropractic medicine, I was pretty nervous when he cracked my neck & showed me how 'out of whack' my body was. I made 2 more visits before we headed home & by the timew we left, I was virtually pain free. As had been advised, I found a local chiropractic treatment, (Dr. Carey) who I have gone to as needed ever since . He has advidsed me to exercise regularly in an attempt to lessen my visits & it has. Also, without realizing it, the pain in my foot has never returned since my visits. This has made me a believer.
I'm sure there are many horror stories passed around in the traditional medical community. Some may be exaggerated. The one below is a true experience I had.
Having been a nurse for many years I saw some incidents of what I would call real 'mistakes' by chiropractors. Many years ago during my clinical nursing experience, I remember an obese obstrition swaggering out of the delivery room with a smirk on his face. It was obvious he had a story to tell. All the staff gathered to listen. Apparently the new mother's husband was a local chiropractor who had been treating his wife for back pain for 3 months. He had repeatedly done x-rays on her lumbar spine, looking for a 'slipped' disk. Well her disk was slipped alright! She was 3 months preganant by the time they figured out that was what was causing her back pain. So Dr. Fat Swaggeralot, who did not like chiropractors, said "That is a really ugly baby, but luckily healthy, in spite of his parents." Of course we all laughed. |
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