re: Chiropractic adjustment

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yep , snakeoil. Goto a Ortho surgeon to see what is really going on, may take an MRI do see what's up.

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My Pops was in his late 20s in the late-70s. He was to the point that he had taken short-term disability and couldn't work. He was scheduled for back surgery on a Wednesday that would have changed his way of life completely.

He had a friend he worked with who had been hounding him to go see his chiropractor. Pops finally relented and scheduled an appointment for the Monday before his surgery. The chiropractor asked him to bring in copies of his x-rays when he came. He looked them over and told Pops that he believed he could help him.

The chiropractor went through the initial appointment and told Pops to go home and rest. The next morning, Tuesday, Pops said he felt better than he had in two and a half years. By that afternoon he could actually walk and move around without pain. He called and canceled the surgery.

He continued going to that chiropractor, and got back to work a month later, ultimately retiring after 42 years with the same company. He never had a surgeon touch his back until about 30 years later when he had a bone spur on his "psychotic nerve" (that's what Pops called it, just being funny).

He regularly went to a chiropractor, the one who took over the practice of the original guy he first saw, until a a few months before he died of ALS. Unfortunately, that doc who had become a very good family friend, passed away of a stroke not long before my Pops. He was a good guy, a great chiropractor, and everything I mean when I say to find a good chiropractor.