Jeff Bower
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Seeing Dave's thread about feeling no pain made me want to get ya'lls opinion on chiroprators. A few months ago, that nagging pain in my upper left back I'd had for a few years got real painful and then my fingers and part of my arm went numb occasionally. I went to my regular doc for something else and mentioned the pain. They told me it was probably muscle spasm and to let them know if it got worse. Well it did, the numbness was almost constant and the pain was bad. The doc was stumped so they ordered 2 MRI's on my shoulder.
The day after the MRI I went to my parents chiro and he took a quick xray, used some nerve analysis thing and felt around on my back. He told me he is almost positive he can help, needed to review the xrays and would call the next day. He called and said he can fix it and he can start treatment right away. That same day my chiro has shown me the xrays and how my neck is basically straight with no curve to it. This is causing major pinching of the disk and nerves in several places, "Your neck is really messed up" he says, but we can fix that. If I don't try and fix it I'm looking at neck fusion surgery within 5-7yrs. Meanwhile I'm still waiting to hear back about the MRI. 3 days later, the I get a call from my doctor's office and they tell me I have arthritis in my neck and cortizone injections might help but nothing else. By that time, I've seen the chiro 4 times and the numbness is gone, the pain is much less. It's been 2wks now and next week I get xrayed again to see how much the neck has moved back to where it needs to go...I'm happy, very happy and almost pain free. The only thing that I'm not happy with is that the copay for chiro's on my insurance is $35 a pop! My regular doc is only $10, and I do like them a lot but they were no help at all with this, but they were able to bill my insurance for 2 MRI's and 2 doctor visits...
I'm a true believer in chiropractors now and that's my story...anyone else?
The day after the MRI I went to my parents chiro and he took a quick xray, used some nerve analysis thing and felt around on my back. He told me he is almost positive he can help, needed to review the xrays and would call the next day. He called and said he can fix it and he can start treatment right away. That same day my chiro has shown me the xrays and how my neck is basically straight with no curve to it. This is causing major pinching of the disk and nerves in several places, "Your neck is really messed up" he says, but we can fix that. If I don't try and fix it I'm looking at neck fusion surgery within 5-7yrs. Meanwhile I'm still waiting to hear back about the MRI. 3 days later, the I get a call from my doctor's office and they tell me I have arthritis in my neck and cortizone injections might help but nothing else. By that time, I've seen the chiro 4 times and the numbness is gone, the pain is much less. It's been 2wks now and next week I get xrayed again to see how much the neck has moved back to where it needs to go...I'm happy, very happy and almost pain free. The only thing that I'm not happy with is that the copay for chiro's on my insurance is $35 a pop! My regular doc is only $10, and I do like them a lot but they were no help at all with this, but they were able to bill my insurance for 2 MRI's and 2 doctor visits...
I'm a true believer in chiropractors now and that's my story...anyone else?