I've hurt my back a few times playing softball - usually see the Chiropracter afterwards for a couple of weeks(depending on severity of pain..etc) and it definitely helps. The thing is that a GOOD Chiropracter will suggest ways to keep your back in line avoid injuries. Typically with different exercises and stretches. The thing with chiropractors is that they are usually into holistic approaches to medicine - that takes money out of the pockets of MD's and therefore makes them unpopular with many MD's.
The first time I went was with a what do I have to lose kind of attitude. I'd been in bed for almost a month. To finish a pee standing was excruciating. I had tried other "remedies" prescribed by the medical community... which had yielded no result, yet I was hopeful going into them. I had no reason to be hopeful about the chiropractor. The nutty art teacher at our school said what do you have to lose? This old codger gave me the violent-looking traditional kind of manipulation of which I was certainly leery if not fearful. I thought it was going to hurt, but no. And afterwards, I felt a bit better so I went back... two more times and canceled my surgery of a week later. They have helped me to manage to live with it without surgery. I'm not saying I would never have surgery but I don't mind avoiding it if I can. As Lynus said I have to be very careful and thoughtful about what I do and how I do it.... but I don't want the back pain so the choice is easy.
How's your dribbling/shooting with your off hand? And i dont see why there's hate for chiro's specifically. ANY doctor that's just trying to hide or postpone symptoms is a quack and there's plenty of those in every area. Many of them don't have time or don't want to give the time to find out what's really the cause of your problems. Meds, injections, or a quick manipulation are often used to contain the problem, but never fix it. Patients become dependent on the doctors and their temporary fixes. You want a doctor who's not going to stop at making it less painful or stopping the pain for a while. Find one that wants to solve your problem, that's the key. Also make sure they've looked into every option available and not just what's within their abilities. i went to severeal docs, specialist too, because years after a bad ankle sprain my ankle kept grinding terribly...i was positive something was misaligned, yet xray after xray concluded my ankle was aligned properly. Yet they all stopped at telling me my ankle was fine...no one ever asked more questions..i guess they assumed it was all in my head. Almost a decade later i find out it was a muscular issue....muscle imbalanaces due to misaligment further up was pulling the ankle up and squeezing the joint. Of course all these docs never caught it because they were only interested in how the ankle looked on x-ray, while it wasnt bearing any weight, which is when the muscles were relaxed. So find a great PT or a chiro or orthopedic who is a whiz with muscles and postural aligment. Most people assume posture is all about shoulders being back or slumped forward, but in reality it's everything from your neck being rotated a bit, to your thigh being rotated outward...or maybe your pelvis is slanted forward, and so on....pretty much everyone in a civilized world has issues like this because we live our lives favoring a certain side or area of the body (driving, eating, using the mouse, shooting hoops, etc) and never really spend time balancing out the other end/side. good read for anyone interested, it's somewhat related: http://www.easyvigour.net.nz/fitness/h_gluteus_maxintro.htm
As far as I can remember I've always had lower back problems. Someone suggested I had an immature bone growth. Short of surgery nobodies effort relieved me of my pain...permanently. Three months ago I bought an inversion table for me and the wife. I will swear by them. The best $300 investment for health I've ever made.
I'm the Shane Battier of pick-up basketball-- the best guy to guard all five spots on the floor with limited interest or ability in taking shots.
I've been dealing with both lately. For a misaligned back, my chiropractor is great. But, I've been having nerve issues with my leg due to my last injury and went to see an orthopedic doctor I had seen in the past. He had me go get an MRI and it was not good so Pain Management specialist for me today. Yeah selective nerve root blocks!
Totally agree. I've never understood why people (and insurance companies, for that matter) don't consider dental care a "health" issue. Are your teeth not part of your body? Don't dental problems affect your overall health? To not call a dentist by their proper title seems to be an effort to marginalize what they do. And I think what they do is very, very important. People seem to get hung up on the term "doctor" applying only to MDs. There are plenty of other types of doctors out there. I mean, really, "Doctor" is just acknowledging their educational experience. My brother has a Phd, and were I to address him in a professional setting, I would have no qualms about calling him "Doctor". My attitude is: he's done the work, he deserves the title.
I'm asking because a short leg is likely to screw up one side of your body, more than likely the off hand side, so i could see you having issues handling the ball and more with one hand than the other. Same issue with your shot. yup, all muscle and weight bearing related... another option is to become ambidextrous, or close to it, in everything you do...or at least in the most repetitive actions ...it'll balance the rotation in your body, which corrects your aligment and therefore releases your back.
I had adjustments done after a bad wreck. Mine told me this is temporary relief and that I am young and need to do the exercise to strengthen my back up again. Two adjustments at 8 weeks of PT and I was good as new. I know a lot of people who are addicted to adjustments becuase they won't do the exercises. Good thing is to find a certified PT and Chiropractor.
The Chiropractor hate is ridiculous. There is something to be said for actually making your pain go away which is what they do.
Actually, I kind of have a problem with all of it. Plenty of people 'put in the work' in lots of different fields. How come doctors are the only one that gets uppity when I don't call them something different? I've put in a hell lot of more work than some fresh out of school hospital intern.
No, you haven't. The average intern has already put in approximately 8,000 hours of patient care by doing their rotations. In context, the average resident continues working 80 hour weeks and by the time they graduate, they've logged 30,000 hours by the time they can even see patients on their own. That is the equivalent of 14 years of 40 hour work weeks completed in 7 years. And all of this is on top of at least 6 (4+2) years of formal lecture based teaching. Unless you're winning noble prize after noble prize, the average intern has put in a lot more work than you.
I also have some pretty nasty degenerative disc disease that I've been dealing with for over 10 years. My L3-4 and L4-5 and pretty much non-existent. I have found a doctor that is able to help me quite a bit by giving me discograms w/steroid injections a couple times a year. I know that eventually I'll have to get surgery, but the injections do help tremendously. Anyways, let me know if you'd like the doc's info and I can pass it along to you. Even though he's a surgeon he actually encourages me to hold off on surgery as long as I can, which is refreshing.
Yeah, I would like that. I need to get my MRIs redone and I still need to have my knee and ankle looked at. Shoot me an email at Lynus302 at yahoo. Thanks!
