Chiropractors

What caused your stroke, Lodi? Glad you are able to find some things that help you.

Marsky, I tried going to one a few months ago and, apparently, I went to a bad one bc I wasn't impressed either.

Thank you all for the prayers and concerns. I really appreciate it. It was a very tough week. My Dad was just able to sustain his own blood pressure yesterday so he was moved out of ICU after seven days in there. He's in a regular room, but being watched closely. Next is the rehab unit. I thought I was losing my last parent this week within a year of each other. Trying to make sense of it all. I've decided when God decides it's your time, it's your time. Until then you are invincible.

neekap said...
The problem with chiropractic is that it is not a legitimate medical treatment. It is pseudoscience. Your bones cannot become "misaligned" and then pushed back into some different alignment, it just doesn't work that way unless a limb comes out of its socket or something of that nature. The cracking of your back is not bones cracking, it is the release of air bubbles that come out of solution in your joint fluids due to a pressure difference.

Not to mention the whole theory of "subluxation". Chiropractic assumes that a vertebral "subluxation" interferes with the body's innate intelligence, a vitalistic notion ridiculed by the scientific and healthcare communities. Sure, some people may find some benefit from having someone push around on their back/neck, but I would never trust them personally. This is why they are not licensed MD's.

LOL, I won't even go there.... Complete ignorance on the subject made clear in the last sentence.

The biggest difficulty in choosing a chiropractor, is that you don't really know their treatment until they treat you. That's just the nature of the business.

I'm in agreement of avoiding bone cracking treatments and chiropractors who claim they can cure things. Also the ones who want to treat your mom's cousin's next door neighbour.

I'd encourage anyone who has problems with their knees, feet or hips; who walk improperly and have back issues as a result, to seek out a chiropractor who does A. R. T. It is a safe, very effective treatment.

Madpotter: When I had my stroke, it was in the mid 1970's. No CAT scans, no MRI's. They were able to determine that I had an inflamed blood vessel in my brain that effectively cut off circulation . They weren't able to determine what caused the blood vessel to inflame, or at least they didn't tell us if they knew why. I was treated with high doses of prednisone for several months; first injections then orally. With what I know now, I suspect I was 'hit' by some kind of pathogen/virus that caused the inflammation. I was paralyzed on one side for just a few days, then my movement began to return and gradually turned to spasticity. Fortunately for me I got most of my movement back, plus I was so young that that gave me a huge potential to improve.

I do suspect my incredibly bad memory might be due to that stroke, it just didn't show up at that time...who knows.