I have a problem with my neck/spine that may require me to go under the knife. I would rather not have my neck sliced open and my vertebra pummelled/replaced and so, in common with many people in a similar situation, I am looking in other directions for a "cure". I have seen a Chiropractor twice now (at a cost) and, apart from an ok'ish massage, I am failing to see what benefit it brings.
Clicking a device (a bit like a weak automatic centre punch)
against my spine will not (as far as I can tell) achieve (“adjust”) anything. Selling me a foam pad and telling me some exercises to do may help, but definitely
lines the Chiropractors pocket with 40 more of my pounds (I did not go with
that idea!.) I am doing the exercised
with my own “scientifically” designed foam pad (that did not cost £40).
“Adjusting” my posture, in the way that it apparently is
being done just seems like voodoo.
I am a simple person.
I can understand that if something us not right you do something that
changes something and it then things are better than they were. If a computer or a machine is broken I can
replace a part or reset some settings and then it works. This is often a process of trial an error and
sometimes makes things worse before they get better. Standing on the outside shouting incantations
will not help. Running pseudo diagnostic
scanners or fake virus scanners (lots of them about) achieves nothing apart from
making the person who wrote the scanner, or who is charging for running it,
richer.
I am sorry to say that, so far, the Chiropractor feels like
the latter and the surgeon feels like the former.
Our local chemist (who apart from being a grumpy old git,
also seems to know his stuff) is vehemently of the opinion that much of this
alternative stuff is bunk and I should go with the surgeon (he is also of the
opinion that they are all quacks and I should go for a second (surgical) opinion).
The only thing that is for certain is that I am in pain and
it will only get worse. I can delay the
op for a while, before they drop me off the list and I have to start the whole
tedious process again.
I can really understand how vulnerable people are duped in
to paying a fortune for “treatments” that do nothing and delay getting real
help. I will be carrying on with the
Chiropractor for a few more session, if it works on me then maybe there is something
to it.
Why am I writing this?
Not sure really. Maybe I want
some other opinions, maybe someone can convince me that this is not all
quackery and I am not being duped. Or
maybe someone will convince me that the op is safe (ish) and I am right in the
opinion that is slowly crystalizing.
Anyone got any contacts in the neurological unit of Queens
College Hospital?
