Does anyone use chiropractor to relief back pain?
By ottster
@ottster (93)
United States
June 5, 2008 4:00pm CST
I've been having lower back pain for the last years, it doesn't really goes away I can always feel it. Sometimes it's worse then other time. But not to a point that render me useless for a day or more. When I have a really bad back pain I have my wife put tiger balm and massage my lower back right before I go to bed. It heats up and I tend to sleep better, the next day it would feels a lot better. But the acheness is still there. Maybe I should visit a chiropractor what do you think?
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
5 Jun 08
I think, if possible, you should try and find out what is causing the back pain. Could be a chiropractor would be exactly the correct person to go and see about it, but there could possibly be something causing it where you wouldn't want to see a chiropractor!
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
5 Jun 08
I haven't had to go that far, in my life. There's nothing wrong with my back that one of my husband's massages, or a dip in he hot tub, can't take care of.
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@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
6 Jun 08
I have visited chiropractors for many years, and two of the best ones taught me what stretching and exercise I should do to keep my back in order and it really helped.
If you find a good chiropractor, you could ask for an individual program to strengthen your back.
The last chiropractor I visited gave me so good instructions, that I have not needed to visit him after that! ..
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@thetruth4you (394)
• United States
6 Jun 08
I totally have faith in chiropractors. My son works in concrete doing swimming pool decks and he started experiencing severe back pain last year. Thankfully a personal friend of ours and one of my son's former football coaches is a chiropractor. The doctor would not touch our son without first doing an xray to determine what the problem was. As it turned out the problem was a bulging disc in his back. With treatments and doing the exercises he was taught, his back is almost 100% better.
My husband on the other hand has been a hold out for years. He has always said chiropractors are quacks...This irritated me because he had living proof that it helped his son(and our daughter has gone for years for a neck problem that was causing migrines). Well this entire spring my husband has been suffering with his sciatic nerve and it finally got so bad he went to a CHIROPRACTOR last week. The day after he went he said he felt like he had been hit by a truck and swore he would not go back. That was a lie because he went again on Monday and Wednesday. I asked him last night if he was feeling better and he admitted he did, but that it was sporatic. (Hey having him admit it is HUGE for me). As far as I know he has more appointments scheduled and has FINALLY accepted that this treatment can work on certain conditions.
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