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Is the Chiro helping?
I've experienced lower back problems on and off for years. A recent (and my first) visit to a chiropractor has resulted in my learning that I have lumbar scoliosis and ostoearthritis. After several(5) adjustments (which would help for a bit of the day, but then I'd just feel miserable all over again) I am now experiencing tingling and numbness in mid back just under my shoulder blades like a belt across my back.
Should I look into this discomfort or is it something that will change as I go through these adjustments?
Is it true that it may feel worse before it gets better?
Should I look into this discomfort or is it something that will change as I go through these adjustments?
Is it true that it may feel worse before it gets better?
Thank you for the info. The chiro HAS seemed to help some of the problem.(I'm not getting stuck when I bend over any more!) I do try and stay active. I walk to work every day(about 20 minutes to, 20 from).
Mornings I feel pretty stiff but can deal with it. It's later in the day, after I've been active, that troubles me. It seems as the stiffness goes away, I experience a lot of cracking, slipping, and bone on bone rubbing, AND I get very tired.
Some days my whole back feels inflammed.
I will look into The Ostopedic doctor.
But I my also consider a rhuematologist? (having problems with wrists, fingers and elbows as well.)
Could I possibly be having RA in my back that gets worse when I get adjusted??
Mornings I feel pretty stiff but can deal with it. It's later in the day, after I've been active, that troubles me. It seems as the stiffness goes away, I experience a lot of cracking, slipping, and bone on bone rubbing, AND I get very tired.
Some days my whole back feels inflammed.
I will look into The Ostopedic doctor.
But I my also consider a rhuematologist? (having problems with wrists, fingers and elbows as well.)
Could I possibly be having RA in my back that gets worse when I get adjusted??
I fully believe in chiropractors!! They are experts in the muscular/skeletal systems and if u find a good one, are worth their weight in gold. I look for a chiro that practices The Pettibon System which is a full spinal reguvenation program. They also have to practice decompression therapy. It took sum ppl years to get there backs in bad shape, it takes time to correct the problems.
How did the chiropractor establish the conditions that he or she diagnosed? Chiropractic has an established record of efficacy for lower back strain. However, so far as I am personally aware from long-term study of the literature on pain, chiropractic has no established record of long-term positive outcomes for osteoarthritis. Likewise, if you are actually dealing with scoliosis (spinal curvature), then you FIRST need to establish what the cause of the curvature is before any form of treatment is pursued. If that cause includes disintegration of one or more discs, then some forms of chiropractic could be actively harmful.
I suggest that you schedule an appointment with a Board Certified orthopedist immediately, for evaluation of the tingling and numbness in the mid back.
I suggest that you schedule an appointment with a Board Certified orthopedist immediately, for evaluation of the tingling and numbness in the mid back.
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I have no idea if you exercise or not, so please forgive me if you already do - BUT: Your Chiro should be giving you some sort of Physical Therapy type exercises to do sooner or later?? Chiro treatment for me involved much activity also. There is no quick fix for bad backs. I have done lots of walking, water walking, weight loss; always on the move. I've been through 3 lists of PT exercises. It works! I herniated #4 along with other bulge injuries 2 years ago and my doc put me on Vicodin. The pain clinic started ESIs. But I got addicted to the opiate feeling. So I quit taking the stuff. Now I'm off it for good. Pain Meds weren't the answer.
I found this info once on a site, who's address I've long since forgotten: If anything, just start walking. When you walk the fluid in your disks will leave the disk. When you sit or lay down, the disk fills back up again. In my case it would fill up; pushing a 9cm hernia further into my main sciatic nerve, blowing me out of bed every 2 hours.
Walking and light exercise under the expertise of a Chiro is a beginning, if you're not already doing it.