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[miraje]

Here's a lesson in bone stucture ladies and gentlemen.

This is a normal, healthy spine for an adult:



This is my spine:



I want you to notice the upper back and neck area. See the wiggle on the left? Normal spines aren't supposed to do that. See how my neck curves forward while the other curves back? That's not normal either. And believe me, that little wiggle and curve hurt like a fucking bitch. The chiropractor thinks that this problem started with my car accidents, particularly my most recent graceful performance of rolling in the ditch. It didn't hurt at the time, so I didn't think I had an injury. Well, lo and behold, my neck gave me its first fit about three months later, and it has been happening on a yearly/bi-yearly basis after that. I'm on round number three now. Most of my pain stems from the fact that the muscles on each side of my neck are trying to compensate for the curvature by tightening on one side and loosening on the other. At least that's what it was doing in the beginning. Now, since the problem has been allowed to progress for a year and a half now, the muscle spasms have spread into my shoulder muscles. Mr. Chiropractor said that the heat readings he was getting off the muscles in my neck are almost off the chart, so they're pretty badly inflamed at this point.

I was hoping for a quick snap, crackle, pop today and then be pain free forever, but I guess my problem is a lot more severe than I expected. It's so bad, in fact, that I have to see Mr. Chiropractor 12 more times over the next 2 months. Yeah, that works great with my already crazy ass schedule. Sheesh. I sure hope my insurance is going to pick up the tab for this shit.

Comments

[eugeneoregon.livejournal.com]

Um, you also have to take into account that this is a chiropractor's diagnosis. I've never heard of a single person who's been to a chiropractor (even if they were feeling fine and went in for a free exam) who didn't have serious subluxations that would need to be treated with a series of weekly or bi-weekly visits. For that matter, there's a reason you don't have a whole lot of information about chiropractic care. Start reading about the whole foundation of chiropractics and chiropractic medicine and you may rethink the whole thing.

So frankly, if your insurance covers that stuff, I hope I'm not covered by your insurance company.

[miraje.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that chiropractics was a barbaric practice. It was always a joke in my family to call them quackpractors. His methods were a little bit wacky, too. *tap tap on the neck* *lifts feet* There, that looks good. Ahem, how does lifting my feet tell you how my neck is moving?

[g3k.livejournal.com]

This doesn't make me feel good about my own back... wiggles, neck curves... yeah. It may just be the bed here, but I've been having neck alignment issues even before I started work this summer. But I do not think they have chiropractors at collej, much less ones that will see me without lots of advance warning and a definite, cataclysmic symptom or event...

[miraje.livejournal.com]

Yeah, their scheduling policies are funky. I had to call around to several places before I could find one that would take a new patient on the same day I called. For the pain that I was in at the time, I could have shot every secretary that told me they could fit me in two or three days later.

[tikicult17.livejournal.com]

You should head over to Student Death and get some x-rays done.

-Dave

[miraje.livejournal.com]

They did x-rays at the chiropractor's. That's how I know my back is fucked up....other than it hurting.

[perdita-x.livejournal.com]

I wish my back look like that "good spine".. Instead it doesn't have enough curve in it and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it. *sigh*

[dvisions.livejournal.com]

Is it scholiosis or just curvature?

I feel you on back pain, my AS is a pain in the ass.

[miraje.livejournal.com]

It's not scoliosis. I was born with scoliosis, but the doctor guy said that he didn't see any evidence that I still had it. Even when they diagnosed it when I was a baby, they said I would probably grow out of it. The curve at the top of my spine is a result of injury. I just have to figure out which stupid thing I did caused it. So many to choose from... :/