Neop2Lemus's Journal: A Chiropractic Alternative

In the past when I've thrown my neck out its taken months at the Chiropractor's office and quite literally hundreds of dollars to get back into shape. The alternative is regularly swimming which I did until I recently sublaxed my shoulders and strained my labrum while platform diving.

So for the past few months I haven't done any exercise, not biking, swimming, hiking, but just nothing at all, just sitting round the computer watching my gut reappear and my neck slowly slip out, while doing physiotherapy on my shoulder.

Yesterday my neck went out, completely, utterly and agonizingly, you know what I'm talking about if it's happened to you. So I took it to my physiotherapist. They applied heat and electricity, massage, and then some minor chiropractic 'adjustment' and after two visits, It's nearly completely back to normal again. Two Days.

No more being taken for months on end, if all it takes is physio and a skilled doctor, then I've found the end of the 'return visit' and an end to the inherent dangers of neck adjustment.

And I can't wait to start swimming again.

Sports physio

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I've not had this, but my Dad has - he crashed his motorbike in the 1995 IOM TT races and ended up hitting a wall. It wasn't his neck, rather his right wrist and forearm got smashed to pieces (so he's got steel pins holding everything together in there).

Every so often it gets a bit stiff and a lump of bone starts growing in the wrong place, so he visits a sports physio who puts it right in about 45 minutes. Can't beat a good physioterrorist,