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kathrynt's highly recommended chiropractor tonight on the grounds that I've been feeling "off", and that I needed a maintenance adjustment. I'd also been having trouble getting in touch with my regular chiropractor, and wasn't willing to wait another week for her to get back to me--apparently she's changed practices, but for whatever reason hadn't communicated this to her clients. So. Kathryn had spoken extremely highly of the folks at Kaufman, so I went in for a free referral exam on Tuesday night and had x-rays done on my neck, and came back tonight for the adjustment.
The good news is, I felt immediately better after Dr. DuBois cracked my neck and back around. The not so good news is, apparently my neck is more screwed up than I thought. There's a bone spur on one of my vertebrae, and from the length of it, Dr. DuBois suspects it may be collateral damage from when I broke my arm. There's also some sign of degeneration of the discs between a couple of the lower vertebrae as well, down near the base of my neck where I've been actively having problems for a while now. Neither of these surprise me terribly; I've known my neck has been cranky for a while now. But this tells me why.
So. She's asked me to come back and see them regularly for a while, to the tune of three visits a week for the next 4-6 weeks, and we'll see if we can make my neck a lot happier. It'll screw around with my dinner schedule in the evening, but at least I can catch the bus from work and go straight there, and get home easily by bus too--this way I won't have to mess with my work schedule any, and I don't have to break out the car either.
I went to go see
kathrynt's highly recommended chiropractor tonight on the grounds that I've been feeling "off", and that I needed a maintenance adjustment. I'd also been having trouble getting in touch with my regular chiropractor, and wasn't willing to wait another week for her to get back to me--apparently she's changed practices, but for whatever reason hadn't communicated this to her clients. So. Kathryn had spoken extremely highly of the folks at Kaufman, so I went in for a free referral exam on Tuesday night and had x-rays done on my neck, and came back tonight for the adjustment.The good news is, I felt immediately better after Dr. DuBois cracked my neck and back around. The not so good news is, apparently my neck is more screwed up than I thought. There's a bone spur on one of my vertebrae, and from the length of it, Dr. DuBois suspects it may be collateral damage from when I broke my arm. There's also some sign of degeneration of the discs between a couple of the lower vertebrae as well, down near the base of my neck where I've been actively having problems for a while now. Neither of these surprise me terribly; I've known my neck has been cranky for a while now. But this tells me why.
So. She's asked me to come back and see them regularly for a while, to the tune of three visits a week for the next 4-6 weeks, and we'll see if we can make my neck a lot happier. It'll screw around with my dinner schedule in the evening, but at least I can catch the bus from work and go straight there, and get home easily by bus too--this way I won't have to mess with my work schedule any, and I don't have to break out the car either.