Chiropractic care...

Has anyone gone to a Chiropractor after ADR? Has anyone needed to? What about massage therapy? Any input is appreciated, thanks!!

[Harrison]

Pablo, massage is a no-brainer! Just make sure you are past the critical stage of healing (different for everyone)...maybe 3-4 months post-op?

BTW: Massage for scar tissue reduction is helpful too, if you can find someone that even knows what this is!

Harrison, what kind of massage do you get? I like the Shiatsu kind.

[andromeda1111]

Massage yes - Chiropractic on an artificial disc -no way.

Laura

[mmglobal]

What she said... I would not let a bone crusher get near my discs.

[ans]

Now myofascial release is cool.

Maybe this is what breaks down scar tissue.

What is Myofascial ans? Laura and Mike, I guess I never looked at Chiropractic in such a way... Crush, eww!!

[Mariaa]

Myofascial release is a technique of massage working with muscle and fascia which is a type of connective tissue that envelopes bone,joints,muscles.. in a manner that relieves tension and stress on a particular area of the body or all over the body.

A good PT trained in Myofascial release can do this or an Osteopathic Dr.(some are much better than others at this)~

This is something that is considered very low impact on the area, shouldn't be painful~ or cause pain.

Thanks Maria, I'm starting PT on Monday and I'll ask my PT about that. Well I'm off to Vegas now. I haven't been back since before my surgery.

[Melody Beattie]

They have a type of physical therapy they recommend for adr patients and currently I'm having brin lock and can't remember it -- it's aninternational network. It will come to me, and I will post it. You can look it up on line. The places that do this physical therapy on post adr patients (and we want the medical kindof physical therapy, not the "fun" kind -- ok,not brain dead == its gyrotonic. Anyway, theses gyrotonic places (according to the pt therapists at Alphaklinik) should be able to reommend massage therapists who can work on our bodies safely and effectively after adr. I've gone to chiropractors over the years, but never bone crushers. the kind of chiropractic care I've used is called kineseology (sp). The practitioner tests your body to see what your body wants done -- and it looks at all components -- emtional, belief systems, toxins, and structural issues. I'm not sure if I'll be going back to that at all but I will definitely pursue gyrotonic and their recommended massage therapists. Have already begun doing my yoga restorative poses (just gentle sitting with my lumbar supported flat and my legs elevated and resting. Feels great. what I was told in physical therapy is that pain is my enemy (again that keeps coming back). Listen to my body. It will tell me what it wants and what it doesn't want, what it likes and what it doesn't like. We're each different and I know I will be extrordinarily careful with who i let work on this body/back after this surgery. This was definitely intense. It was very helpful for me to watch the online video of the surgery. It gave me a lot more compassion for what my body has been going through. May. Wow. That's a lot -- the pushing aside of everything, the clamping, the protecting of the vessel, the measuring of the discs, the taking out of the old ones and the correct insertion of the new. Very traumatic surgery. i know that for those of you who already don't think I'm over the edge, this may convince you, but i asked my body before surgery -- what did it want. Did it want to live with the discs as they were, the pain as it was? did it want me to get rid of the old discs and get some new parts put in? All I can say was that I had a continual "feeling" (not emotional, different than that let's call it a "sense") that I should go forward with this surgery. I'm not always right. We'll see. I do know that day by day, I feel better, stronger, more like me. I also know I have a long way to go. Okay. Done now.