Anyone believe in chiropractic?

[welloiledmachine]

I have a pre-med degree/Exercise Physiology and work as a Orthopedic Rehab Specialist in a very large physical therapy practice. Chiropractors are magicians, they don't fix anything. They only manipulate joints which give temporary relief. First off, you probably injured your siatic nerve when squatting. The sciatic nerve runs directly through the piriformis muscle , and if you were not stretched properly you may have pinched it. This can be fixed with an aggressive stretching routine. The piriformus stretch helps, you can google it and find pictures. If anything go see a sports specific physical therapist, Chiropractors are crazy.....

 

[njmuscleguy]

I have a pre-med degree/Exercise Physiology and work as a Orthopedic Rehab Specialist in a very large physical therapy practice. Chiropractors are magicians, they don't fix anything. They only manipulate joints which give temporary relief. First off, you probably injured your siatic nerve when squatting. The sciatic nerve runs directly through the piriformis muscle , and if you were not stretched properly you may have pinched it. This can be fixed with an aggressive stretching routine. The piriformus stretch helps, you can google it and find pictures. If anything go see a sports specific physical therapist, Chiropractors are crazy.....

Spoken like a true PT! Well, I hate to break it to you, but I saw a "sports-specific PT" for my knees and shoulders and c-spine for over a year and got NO relief whatsoever... I was also seeing a "top-notch" Orthopedic Surgeon from NYU at the time, and he said I should have arthroscopic surgery on one of my knees to fix some tears... both knees had tears...he did the surgery but didn't wind up fixing the tear, said it wasn't "bad"...to this day, my knees still bother me, I just deal with it.... needless to say I never went back to get my other knee done... as for my shoulders and c-spine, he ultimately said my options were surgery or cortisone injections... I'm of the firm belief that unless dire, surgery should always be the LAST option..

Anyhow, I've seen 2 different chiro's since then and I have to say that although they haven't "magically" fixed the problems 100%, I have much more relief than I ever have.... whatever it is they're doing, it's working. In fact, the chiro was the only person that was able to pick up on the fact that I had a straightening of my c-spine, which was causing a whole host of problems. Doctor's and PT's can throw out whatever medical jargon they want, when it comes down to it, the proof was in the actual results I got (or didn't get).

To each his own... it's just good to know that there *are* options.

 

[dougmug]

I couldn't live comfortably without them. I have been going for 14 years now about 1 X per week. My guy is top notch, however there are a lot of bad ones i've come across also. Good luck.
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[JeepMonkey]

I personally would never go see a chiro that didn't have a massage therapist in his office. Chiropractic work will not hold if the muscles are too tight. If you get an adjustment while your muscles are tight, the muscles will eventually just undo what the chiro just did. I'm a huge beliver in massage work before anything else. PT's are great if they are well rounded (massage, pt knowledge, some adjustment abilities, etc.) Good luck with all of your therapy.

JM