How can one rehabilitate a sprained back if one's HMO doesn't cover chiropractors? (besides pay out the hooha)
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chiropractors are not expensive i only pay 25 dollars to see mine. Try a heating pad.
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Invite a chiropractor give services in exchange
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Chiropractic treatments can become very expensive.  I have taught dance for 30 years and find most back problems, tightness, soreness, can be alleviated by slow stretching.\nSuggestions:\nSit on floor, bend knees with feet on floor, roll down the spine one vertebrae at a time.\nHug knees into chest, release.\nPull right knee into chest, hug it.  Stretch leg out.\nRepeat with left knee.\nHug right knee back to chest, With left hand, pull right knee across the body to floor on left side, release and let knee fall to floor on right side, straighten out leg.\nRepeat this move slowly with opposite leg.\nIf you feel excruciating pain.  stop.\nRoll over on stomach, leave body on floor, place hands beneath shoulders on the floor and slowly push upward the chest off the floor until arms are as straight as you can get them.  \nRepeat 2-3 times.\nThen roll back on back and hug knees.\nPrior to getting up, roll to side, push up to sitting position, kneeling, stand, by putting one foot on floor, place hands on knee and slowly push up.\n\nGood luck!  This helps my tired back from standing all day at retail job, then going and teaching dance for 4 hours per day.
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yes, as long as the Osteopath is trained, licensed & certified.\nI broke my back in 3 places d/t an automobile accident. My chiropractor would not even touch me without x-rays to see what was going on inside.\nYou may want to consider this, too; taking some x-rays. Just a safety precaution.
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Try going to a chiropractor.  Going there has helped my back a lot.  Maybe your insurance will even cover it.  Call around and see who takes your insurance.  You will need to have an X-ray done the first visit.  You will have a consultation and probably an adjustment the first day too. If you can't go to a chiropractor, you could try your doctor.
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I would seriously consider going to a chiropractor. you have so many vital bones and your spinl cord in your back. do one thing wrong and bad things could happen.
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i would see a chiropracter they would fix you up real good i know because i had three ribs out of place and they had me better ir a few weeks oh! and use a heating pad that works too. good luck!
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You could go to the chiropractor, who could take an x-ray and then adjust the bones accordingly to fix your shoulder. I went to the chiropractor for my back, knee, neck problems and now they have significantly improved.
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The prognosis for failed back surgery syndrome is poor.  However, your best bet is probably chiropractic treatment with flexion distraction.  Make an appointment with someone in your area certified in Cox Distraction and ask him what can be done, if anything:\n\nhttp://www.coxtechnic.com/referrals.asp
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A massage school has discounted massages supervised by instructors.   But -- you also put your question under pain/pain management.  If you have back problems I would only go to a professional physical therapist/massage therapist who specializes in manipulating the spine.
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See a chiropractor they may be able to help you.
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Go see a chiropractor quickly. He/she will evaluate you by X-ray and physical exam. You will then be started on whatever therapy is beneficial to you. I went through something similar after an accident. It helped me.
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I have the same in the lower back following a car accident last year. Found great relief with my Physical Therapist at northstarpilates.com. Maybe there is a similar option near you? I highly recommend it. The exercises are easy and research backs it up, it works! Only a few short months ago, I thought I would be crippled for life. Now, I can hike, garden, most everything as before with minimal pain.\n\nI did find that yoga aggravated the problem.\n\nGood luck-
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I have had good results with a chiropractor for neck and back pain. Many people have had great success but you will find many have not and would tell you never. You need to ask around to people you know and find a good one in your area. Like any profession some do not know what they are doing. A good one should require a number of X-rays to make sure they understand your injury/problem. Work on your posture when you play your video games start sitting up properly and in a good chair - I know how kids sit for hours in a slump playing these games, so over years you may have caused this, plus you said that you were in an accident years back. good luck I know how you feel!
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That is total bull.  Visit your primary care physician and have a thorough evaluation done, if he/she just gives you meds and you want more than that then ask for a referral to see a physiatrist if you have chronic symptoms. A referral to a physical therapist may also be an excellent option for you based upon the physician's findings.  Also, tell your physician which chiropractor you visited and what they told you was wrong, that way the physician is aware of this quack. \n\nI will say this, if you decide to see a therapist, do not be afraid to call around and ask to speak to the therapist to see if they indeed specialize in spinal care. Some do and some don't, it is a much wider field than most realize. Most physical therapists that do specialize in spinal care are highly educated in the dynamics of the spine and also do perform manipulation of your joints when warranted but they also have many other options for advanced treatment. \n\nNone the less, I do not recommend corporate facilities such as HealthSouth, NovaCare or Banyan Tree as most of these facilities do not allow the therapist to have control over thier own schedules and you may not be able to see the same therapist from visit to visit, which in my opinion is poor medical care care driven by corporate interest. \n\nChiropractic care, if you can call it that, what a sham! There may be a few good chiros out there who want to do a good job and may actually practice ethically but the profession is litered with so many quacks like the one you visited that finding a good chiro is about as likely as winning the lottery or being struck by lightening.\n\nWhat the general population doesn't seem to realize anymore is that chiropractors are traditionally not trained in modern medicine nor are they a branch of modern medicine. They do NOT go to medical school. Chiropractors are trained in chiropractic which is an unfounded, unscientific model of quasihealthcare usually taught in colleges that only teach chiropractic. There is not a single chiropractic school in the states that is found in a university system. They are usually seperate entities from all other schools because they teach their own form of science and health which is NOT recognised in the mainstream. They are NOT another type of medical doctor that just decided to go into chiropractic care versus say, orthopedics or neurology. \n\nIf you want to know the truth behind chiropractic care and chiropractors, then check out the following links. Really check out these sites too as many of the articles are written by chiropractors that have renounced their own profession.\n\nhttp://www.ncahf.org/pp/chirop.html...\nhttp://www.quackwatch.org/01quackeryrela...\nhttp://www.chirobase.org/01general/chiro...\nhttp://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsid....\nhttp://www.chirobase.org/01general/skept...\nhttp://www.quackwatch.org/01quackeryrela...\nhttp://www.chirobase.org/06dd/chirovet.h...\n\nAlso, chiropractors state that research has justified their techniques, check out the following;\n\nDuring the past few years, two reports about the treatment of low-back pain have placed chiropractic in a favorable light. One, issued by the RAND Corporation, concluded that spinal manipulation was appropriate for some cases of low-back pain. The other, produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), judged manipulation useful for controlling symptoms while awaiting the spontaneous recovery that occurs within a month in most patients with low-back problems.\nAlthough chiropractors have promoted these reports as endorsements of chiropractic, they are not. They merely support the use of manipulation in carefully selected patients. Only a few of the research studies on which their conclusions were based involved manipulation by chiropractors; most were done by medical doctors and physical therapists whose practices are not identical to those of chiropractors. Most chiropractors manipulate the vast majority of patients
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Talk to your Chiropractor about spinal stabilization exercises.  Also, talk to your Chiropractor about the bones being "out of place" versus not having the proper motion.  The "out of place" statement is pretty much a old-time analogy.  Actually, Chiropractors restore normal segmental motion between the vertebrae.  Now, if the motion has been abnormal for a while, it may take a while to restore the motion for any decent period of time.  Think of stretching the muscles: one stretch doesn't get all of the flexibility back in them- it takes repeat stretching and time.  Anyway, talk to your Chiropractor and have them explain it better to you.
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see a neurologist..............\nnot some  duck chiropractor who may do far more harm than any good.\n\nNeurologist can determine from mri's and testing exactly what damage has been done..\nyou can end up...with severe spinal damage resulting in nerve damage that no doctor can help if you don't get the right treament and chiro don't know diddle about nerve damage and spinal cord and cervical fusion,