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From: zarifes@bnrmtv.UUCP (Kenneth Zarifes)
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Subject: Re: What do you go to chiropractors for?
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 19:14:50 EST
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> and non-traditional healing professions.  Rather, I would really like to
> hear from people who have had success from chiropractic.  Please tell us
> what your problems were, how they were helped, and what the chiropractor
> did.

Once I had an intense muscle spasm in my back that muscle relaxants didn't
do anything for.  It was extremely painful.  I went to my mother's chiro
and in 15 minutes I walked out feeling great.  The spasm was gone and it
never came back.

The only other cases I've seen are people at my karate studio who see
chiros.  I have seen several people with hip problems go to chiros and
their flexibility has increased tremendously.  Their high kicks are now
much stronger, faster and higher in my opinion. The difference is visibly
obvious, and impressive, to me. Also,  they claim that the pain in their 
hip joints is now gone. (We don't advocate high kicks for tactical reasons, 
but that's a entirely different subject!! :-)).

I have developed similar problems with my hip joints.  The joints are painful
when I'm sitting in a chair and spread my knees apart (bad sign eh?) and I
develop laower back pain when I take a fairly long walk.  I'm considering
a chiro,  but I will see a MD first to rule out things like arthritis, 
obvious injury, etc.

I feel that chiros are great if they STAY WITHIN THEIR DOMAIN.  When they
start trying to treat diseases, etc.  they then become quacks.

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