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Originally Posted by Hoovie
As many of you know, had a back injury last fall (I prefer to call it Autumn now!!)
I had a L2 compressed spinal fracture and a torn disc in the sacrum area. The disc continues to to cause pain an numbness in my leg and foot from time to time.
I have had tons of x-rays MRI and CAT scans. The Orthopedic Dr seemed to think I was headed toward surgery unless I responded well to physical therapy. Of course I got better, then worse then better. The workers comp peeps don't think highly of chiropractic manipulation. I have had three trips to a chiropractor in spite of that, and do get some relief when I go.
What are your thoughts on Chiropractic care? Any experience, good or bad? Are they a scam? Should I cave and opt for surgery? I am not so inclined at this point...
Please share your thoughts and experiences.
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I still have clear pictures of 4 people that God healed by the laying on of hands. God heals a lot of backs. These 4 are very specific cases where I had been tiold directly by the saints what they had been diagnosed with and had them describe their symptoms. One Was not only dealing with a herniated disc, she also had a degenerative back condition. I was watching her limp into church with a walker and she was in so much pain, she was doing damage to her arms the way she was squeezing the walker. I laid my hands on her while she was sitting in the pew. . After God touched her, she lept out of the pew and went stumbling and spinning toward the front of the church and started jumping.
Another guy I prayed over and annointed, I had in Bible studies. He loaded up on pain killers one evening during church. When he got baptized that night, he came out of the water healed. 2 of these 4 people also had to have deliverance from a strong hold after their orthopaedic healing. In neither of these 2 cases did I know they needed a deliverance until the physical healing was complete.
My orthopod buddies, maybe half think chiropractors do nothing or in some cases do damage and give bad advice. Other are favorible toward chiropractic. Of course they have the same opinions about osteopathic medicine vs alleopathic.
I am a strong advocate of chiropractic and know its limitation.
When my daughter went to NCAA nationals in track, her team traveled with an orthopod and an awesome chiropractor. She had more than 1 fracture in an aggressive history of the heptathlon. She also is facing a lot of fracture risks in centurion and triathlon events.
There are some awesome chiropractors
There are some highy gifted orthopods in sports medicine.
There are now some awesome implants from Medtronics and others for compression fractures.
If one has a back fusion, the post op scarring creates another set of pains sometimes. Post op pain from harvesting bone graft material from the iliac crest which is one technique is also painful.
The bottom line is getting a good doc that will lay out the agenda, time line and post op expectations.
Everytime an appendix is removed, you will never have appendicitis again. Even if they go in find find it normal , remove it and fiind you just had a case of mesenteric lymph adenitis.
In a back, if the goal was a discectomy or a fusion, that is usually successful. Having pain gone is not always successful.
I think we should call on the Healer first.
I too often see people invoke healing and get swarmed after the docs say there is nothing they can do.
, it helped me get out of one that didn't "work" for me, and into one (if you can call it a religion) that does work for me. 
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