When I was 19 I was working construction. We were roofing a 2 story that day, I was hauling bundles of asphalt shingles up a ladder on to staging, dumping them off on the roof. The staging was on pump jacks and consisted of doubled up 2x12 plank. About mid morning I hauled a bundle up, walked out on the staging and it broke out from under me. I landed on the uneven, yet to be backfilled ground by the foundation, bundle still on my shoulder. I dropped the bundle, checked myself out, seemed to be okay. I carried a few more bundles and my back started to get sore. I spent the rest of the day doing other stuff. The next morning I could hardly set up in bed my back hurt so much. I took some aspirin and it helped but still hurt.
I went to the local chiropractor. He had me lay flat on the patient table, measured my legs. One leg was 3/4" longer than the other! He had me contort into various positions and he would gently give a push or a nudge my shoulders to snap various vertebra in my back, about 8 different times. It was painless. I was amazed this frail little 125lb doctor could snap me so easily, I weighed about 210lbs of muscle at the time. Anyway ... one visit and a day or two of rest and I was as good as new! Never had to go back for more. So ... for structural issues I highly recommend a good chiropractor.
Good results! I just worry they could make something worse.
I'd ask around for recommendations but this guy was not a specialist. He knew his stuff though.
A year or so later I came to him with a fever, body aches, runny nose ... I knew it wasn't just a cold or flu. He gave me something that was essentially aspirin + pain killer, it didn't touch the symptoms. A week later I was in emergency diagnosed with meningitis ... so there's that. BTW, you have to get a spinal tap to verify meningitis, your spinal fluid turns whitish from the dead white blood cells fighting the infection. So this doctor was great for skeletal issues, not necessarily as great for severe illness.
ooh that sounds rough
Bullshit. You’re leg was 3/4 of an inch longer than the other??! That’s crazy!
The vertebra were misaligned which causes the hip to tilt. Legs were the same length but the misaligned vertebra/tilted hip made them measure 3/4" difference.
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