by Eileen Hughes

Created on: November 04, 2007

There are many varieties of medical treatments for spinal, neck or back injuries, all of which help in different ways. Medical practitioners, normally wish to operate to rectify problems. The physiotherapists try to diagnose the cause of pain, which could be in the joints, nerves, or muscles, and use a drug free therapy. Chiropractic care is from manipulation, to free the nerves trapped between the vertebras. Each of these treatments can be beneficial to anyone under a variety of circumstances. The relief from this treatment is felt immediately or within a few days.

Your spine virtually controls everything you do. The power of your movement is controlled by the many muscles and ligaments attached to the back of your spine. Each individual bone (vertebrae) provides support for your spine, and the discs connected in front of your spine help support it.

It is easy to dislodge a disk, simply sneezing, could cause a pinched nerve between these disks. People neglect their spinal column, and often suffer ailments caused from injuries ten or twenty years before. If left untreated it causes wear on the disks as they grind against one another. Compressed nerves in your spine can affect the nerves to your organs causing them to work less efficiently. Therefore, it pays to take care of your spine.
I know from personal experience the benefits of chiropractors and their treatment to my family and friends.

We knew a little seven-year-old girl whose doctor told the parents she would never hear because of a medical condition. They took her to a chiropractor and after having x-rays and with a few manipulations, she was then able to hear.

My Husbands experience with Chiropractors
My husband worked on a farm and while out kangaroo shooting he fell off the back of a utility. Treated in hospital and then sent home. Then years later while truck driving and lumping bales of wool, he suffered back pains and could not stand or walk. The doctor treated him for a cold in his back. After a week he eventually took himself to a chiropractor and, the x-rays showed he had three disks out and that he had broken his neck years earlier when he had fallen from the utility which had caused most of his back problems.

Years passed and he suffered back pains again, this time the doctor put him in hospital on traction, (which stretches the back by hanging weights on his legs) He put up with this for a week. Then the doctor decided to fly him to Perth (650 k's away). As the flying doctor was not available,

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