I have had a stiff neck since Bill and Maggie's wedding.
Over two months ago! While I managed to make it through much of the night maintaining a medium to strong whisky drunk without embarrassing myself (much — or that I know of), it seems I drunken passed out in bed in some sort of odd position that left me unable to move my neck much for a week. Slowly, it got better, but about a month ago, it plateaued. I used to be able to push my chin up to crack my neck — no longer! It can’t stretch that far. Peering over my shoulder to see oncoming traffic or catch a fly ball can be a surprisingly painful experience if I didn’t take any ibuprofen or stretch earlier that day. Even sitting on the couch in the same position for too long can cause it to stiffen up a bunch and I have to stretch to be able to turn my head again.
In short, I am old and Bill and Maggie owe me a new neck.
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I’m assuming you believe that chiropractors are voodoo practitioners and refuse to utilize their services.
I do believe that and, despite my completely-rational-and-based-entirely-on-scientific-research opinion on the matter, I actually have tried a chiropractor when I hurt my back a year or two ago. The dude bled me for $120 and after a month of weekly visits, I was none the better. My back eventually got better via the use of alternating hot/cold compresses, but has never been quite the same.
I’m not sure if I’d go to the chiropractor if it wasn’t free for me (my mom works for one), but it definitely works for me.
Placebo works for you, too (as it does all of us). Funny world we live in.
watching you trying to catch a fly ball is a surprisingly painful experience
HIYO!
I’ve gotten better. You should play ball with us. You might be surprised.
Could you please post a link to some serious criticism about chiropractic? I’m not looking for an argument here, but I would legitimately like to see the error in my ways.
I think about my body like a mechanical engineer thinks about any other machine. It makes perfect sense to me that parts get jiggled and bumped and need to be maintained, just like anything else. I also get hurt quite often (I play hockey about 4 times a week), and there has never been a time when my chiropractor has failed to relieve my pain.
Hell, I sprained my ankle really badly a couple of months ago and the swelling wouldn’t go down for a week. I went to the chiropractor, he re-set my ankle, and bam, swelling gone the next day.
It’s nothing a quick google search wouldn’t turn up. There’s no “serious criticisms” against chiropractic — simply that efforts to prove it’s efficacy have failed. To date, every study done on it has shown that it has a success rate equal to that of placebo. There are some studies that show that spinal manipulation may have some added benefits, but the results are inconclusive.
This doesn’t disprove chiropractic, it just weakens whatever case it might have had. Many chiropractors have apparently had success by switching to more proven physical therapy methods in additional to SM, and calling the whole thing chiropractic. Maybe that’s what your guys does.