Watching this documentary tonight at Mamas Chiropractic Clinic about the fight to get the medical establishment to tolerate alternative therapies has inspired me to tell you all a little bit about how I became a convert to Chiropractic care and Acupuncture. I literally might not be here today without them. It started when I was an apparently healthy 22 yo. The previous year had been very stressful after my fathers sudden suicide, among other things. I had recently started doing yoga and was loving it. I attended a yoga class and felt great. Woke up the next morning in excruciating pain. Had to crawl to the bathroom. Luckily my roommate in the 5th floor walk up apartment was willing to get me food. At this point I knew that chiropractors existed and held no bias against them. I also held no animosity towards MD/DOs. I had just recently decided not to apply to medical school because of the brutality my older friends were telling me about. I hobbled to some medical clinic and came away with a script for muscle relaxers, which only served to make crawling to the bathroom more challenging. Im not sure how Bram Moreinis got involved, but he invited me to come up to Binghamton to stay for a few days and see his chiropractor. I literally crawled into the chiros office and walked out!!! I found a chiro in NYC for future care and he was also a kinesiologist. I had not been able to digest meat for as long I could remember. It would basically rot in my stomach, causing awful pain. Being a vegetarian was an easy fix, but the chiro figured out the imbalance in my acid production that caused the problem. Will try to keep this short, but from then on, when I developed a problem, my first step was to seek natural treatment. I was diagnosed with IBS (awful horrendous vomiting and other things) when I was 37. Saw a GI doc, had colonoscopy and was put on meds that give horrible dry mouth, which is not cool when you basically talk for a living. I asked the Dr when I might be able to eat a salad again. She said maybe when I was 50. 6 months of acupuncture and chiro treatment, I was off all meds and eating anything I wanted. There were other instances where chiro and acupuncture saved my life. My point here (and one of the points of the documentary) is that these modalities are not just for back pain or to treat problems. Great quote from one of the chiropractors interviewed. Medicine is like the fire department. Your house catches on fire and they come with the axes (surgery) and hoses (medications) and save your house. But you dont have them come back every few days to spray down your house to prevent another fire. https://youtube/watch?v=z5MoZ4yqJRQ
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 01:51:34 +0000
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