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About 3 weeks ago I developed one hell of a kink in my neck, couldn't really move my head without pain if I was lounging. When out and about or actively doing something it seemed to subside. I bought a heatable neck wrap and self-treated with heat and ibuprofen. Well, after about a week of this treatment it got better (maybe 50%) and about 2 weeks after it was nearly (95%) better and that is where I remain about 3 weeks later. My neck is still sore when I look completely to the floor forward or tilt it completely to either shoulder.
Growing up I utilized a quack-o-practor when I had a pinched nerve but have grown very skeptical of the pseudoscience that is Chiropractic. Should I go to a doctor with these residual symptoms? Could it be a slipped disc? I have had the flu once or twice since it happens but it feels more like a spine issue than just soreness from a virus.
Thank you for your help.
I've got loads of back issues.
I’ve been seeing a chiropractor for about two months now for migraines and also neck and back pain that seems to accompany it, but not always. Sometimes I have migraines and no pain, sometimes pain and no migraines. These sessions don’t seem to be helping and I’m getting frustrated.
I’ve been reading a lot of things that say migraines cause the neck pain, not that neck pain causing the migraines (which is what my chiropractor told me but duh, that’s his line of work).
Two months isn’t that long but I don’t feel much relief other than slight pressure off my neck. Some things I’ve read said you need to stick with it for at least a full year before you see results, which seems so long to me. I’m not looking for a magic quick fix, but a year or more and then it still might not even work? Idk about that.
My chiropractor also seems slightly frustrated that this isn’t working faster, which is odd to me. If I go in with a migraine he seems to think the cracking and therapy will make it magically go away, but it never does and then he seems upset.
Does anybody have experience with migraines and chiropractics?
So I recently went to a local chiropractor to ask questions, advice, or tips of the profession or what kind of path he took. Going into it, I was pretty excited to meet him and see his thoughts on a aspiring young chiropractic student. I had lined up a bunch of questions to ask him so I could get the best idea of what I needed to do moving forward. I have been teetering between Chiro school and PT school after I get my undergraduate degree in Exercise Science but I have been leaning more towards Chiro in the recent years. In the appointment he proceeds to explain the flaws of the profession and why it is an "unsustainable model". He talks about the debt you accumulate and how difficult it is to start your own practice and then claimed that working as an associate isn't sustainable either. He said his secretary gets paid more than an associate would at many firms (secretary at 40K a year and claims that associates normally make ~35K) (I also don't know whether to believe this or not either). He basically claimed that he got extremely lucky to get through Chiro School fully with $27,000 back in his day and said that isn't even close to what people are paying now.
All in all, I was really excited to learn about the profession and start to apply to Chiro school in the near future but now he has me rethinking what I should do. I don't want to be in a deep hole of debt and not be able to make a living but I also am deeply passionate about this and want to follow my aspirations of improving peoples health through spinal care.
People who have experience of knowledge on this subject I am just asking this....Is this really how it is like? Can I just take what he said with a grain of salt? Should I develop back up plans if this is really the way it is? What should I do?
Any of your input is super helpful, Thank you.
Hi, My new mattress is HEAVY! I have had severe backpain so I researched for a new mattress specifically for my backpain. I bought the Mattress Matthew Borderdale for a pretty penny. They told me it was going to be really heavy so they offered me free delivery into my room, which was great because I live in an apartment with no elevator. I didn’t want to get the bedframe until I knew I wanted to keep the bed so I had it on the floor for the past 3 months. This bed is amazing for anyone with backpain, seriously. It changed my life. Anyways, I’m keeping it now and need to get a bedframe for it, but they weren’t joking when they said it’s a heavy bed, it’s probably twice as heavy as any bed I’ve seen if not more. Most bedframes I see are so weak and rickety that I know for sure this mattress will crush it so I was thinking of making a pallet bed. Anyone else out there with a heavy bed that did this? How did it work out for you and what frame did you use? I’m thinking something like this would look bitchin’ https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/2f/4f/502f4f4f78868763dc027285e7a2b067.jpg It’s a great bed, but really expensive so I don’t want to damage it. If nothing works, I’ll keep it on the floor and save up for a good bed frame. This bed is amazing and I wouldn’t change a thing.
Pre-emptive: I'm not saying "don't see a chiropractor." It's just worth seeing the information and being informed.
Formal research tends to be lacking on chiropractic care. However, at least two studies indicate some significant level of risk associated with chiropractic manipulation.
The first study analyzed existing documentation to find that "[s]pinal manipulation, particularly when performed on the upper spine, is frequently associated with [...] adverse effects. It can also result in [...] vertebral artery dissection followed by stroke." The findings continue to state that "[d]issection of the vertebral arteries was the most common problem; other complications included dural tear, oedema, nerve injury, disc herniation, haematoma and bone fracture. The symptoms were frequently life-threatening, though in most cases the patient made a full recovery. In the majority of cases, spinal manipulation was deemed to be the probable cause of the adverse effect." Finally: "Collectively, these data suggest that spinal manipulation is associated with frequent, mild and transient adverse effects as well as with serious complications which can lead to permanent disability or death. Yet causal inferences are, of course, problematic."
The second study weighs two cohorts with each other: Medicare B beneficiaries aged 66-99 seeing either chiropractic providers or primary care physicians (but not both):
"The proportion of subjects with stroke of any type in the chiropractic cohort was [0.12%] at 7 days, and [0.51%] at 30 days. In the primary care cohort, the proportion of subjects with stroke of any type was [0.14%] at 7 days, and [0.28%] at 30 days. In the chiropractic cohort, the adjusted risk of stroke was significantly lower at 7 days as compared to the primary care cohort [...], but at 30 days, a slight elevation in risk was observed for the chiropractic cohort [...] [ indicated by this figure ]."
Among the diagnoses confirmed to have prevailed after a chiropractic manipulation were:
- Vertebrobasilar Stroke (ICD-10 I63.219)
- Vertebral Artery Dissection (ICD-10 I77.74)
- Dural Tear (ICD-10 G96.11)
- Horner's Syndrome
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