Dulak - I see a chiropractor. Screw back doctors. They're quacks..
"Greg C." wrote:
What's the difference between a chiropractor and a "back doctor"? I've never heard of a back doctor.
This injury to Thompson sounds ominous. It seems like usually when the possibility is mentioned of a neck injury being career-ending, it is. I would hate to see that happen to him.
"zombieslayer" wrote:
Well I assume zombieslayer is talking about a orthopedist or perhaps a nerologist. These people are trained alopathacally meaning typical medical model; generally they have a hammer and see everything as a nail.
(obviously the above statement is a generalization).
Same could be said of chiropractors thou ...
IMO if you treat ever person as an individual and you go from least invasive first and look to have the body heal natural most of all then this is usually the best.
General medical model for example for a low back disc bulge (which sounds like Justin Harrell has and has had multiple failed sugeries).
They do this (usuaully):
- xrays and MRI
- drugs and or physical therapy
- steroids into the back either one or repeated doses over say a 6 month period
- surgery
#1 Things people may not know - steroids can cause complications (negative); weakness in the area - ligament structures, bone, disc etc ... also can cause diabetes (had a patient acquire diabetes from taking steriods as perscribed by his GP (I think they were oral for pain - and said patient brought a article showing how its possible to get diabetes from said steroids).
#2 General back surgery is usually summed up like this - 50% of the time it will not help or make things worse. IMO for a professional athelete when you change the natural structure of something you can compromise that atheletes ability to perform in the future no matter what the surgery is for. Hence why ACL surgeries often cause the players to be at -33% ability after the surgery.
- btw dont get me wrong - IMO many times there are probably reasons why a person should have something done using the medical model when seeing a chiropractor but the chiro sees everyone as a nail too. Why IMO its important to have a doctor that is not biased and cares about said patient.
anyways - know this is long winded ... just some tidbits.