How Chiropractic Care Gave Me My Life Back and How it Can Help You Too!

Until earlier this year, if someone had told me that chiropractic care could alleviate the pain I was feeling due to sciatica, I wouldn't have believed them. That has all changed. I have suffered with severe debilitating sciatica for almost ten years now. I was told by every traditional medicine doctor I saw that I would just have to live with it, and keep a standing order for Ibuprofen 800. With the use of Ibuprofen 800 on a regular basis and a heating pad I was destined to live with sciatica for life. My sciatica continued to worsen to the point I was stuck in bed for 2-4 days at a time.

When your back is inflamed heat is the worst thing you can do for it, it keeps your muscles inflamed and keeps the pain alive. Sciatica pain also kills your ability to do things that most people take for granted. For instance I could not sit on the bleachers at a baseball game like most people. The last time I did, I was in excruciating pain and bed-ridden for 4 days. I couldn't take long walks because of the hip and back pain that would follow. These are all things that many of us take for granted when our back is in good health.

Upon recommendation by a colleague, I decided to try chiropractic care. My opinion of chiropractors has definitely changed. I assumed that if a traditional medicine doctor could not help me why would a chiropractor be able to? When I went to the chiropractor I discovered shocking problems directly due to my negligence in good back care.

My spine had actually curved and I was leaning to the left when I walked, it felt natural to me so I didn't even realize that there was a problem. Worse yet, my left leg had actually shrunk to compensate for the tension being put on my back. The chiropractor has also since restored that as well. No more leaning or severe tension. However due to my age and health other wise, I have been able to make an almost full recovery.