For a couple of months (yeah, I know) I've had this pain in my neck that went down my right shoulder and into my arm. I thought it would go away, that it was just a result of sleeping on my belly with my head twisted to the side. It was becoming a constant pain and getting worse, so I finally sucked it and went to a chiropractor.
He took some X-rays and analyzed my posture... My right leg is shorter and, therefore, my hips are not level and neither is my lower back. My torso is rotated slightly to the right and my head is tilted to the right too... I cannot rotate my neck as much as I should (by 10 degrees!) and my shoulders are not level. The X-rays show that my spine is like a snake, bending first to the right, then to the left, then back to the right. My neck is straight instead of having a curvature, so my head has moved forward and two of my vertebrae are completely rotated. Turns out the nerve that comes out of my neck going to my shoulder is being pinched by that vertebra, causing the pain.
The worst section of my spine is vertebra 8, and (and here comes the shocker) the nerves coming out of that section communicate with the pancreas! So problems in this area (nerve weakness, lack of communication) could cause complications... At this point I said, it's funny that you say that...
So I have 30 sessions ahead of me and, after only the first my neck already feels sooooo much better! My doctor twisted it to both sides and made it crack (realigned it) like in the movies. Scary sound but oh so relieving. Then he said "let me show you something". He pressed on one of my vertebrae on my mid back and asked me to press my leg, as hard as I could, against his hand. He then did the same, but while pressing on vertebra #8. I had NO strength whatsoever. He then realigned it by making it crack and we tried again. My strength was back. AMAZING.
So it's all about the spine, baby.
He took some X-rays and analyzed my posture... My right leg is shorter and, therefore, my hips are not level and neither is my lower back. My torso is rotated slightly to the right and my head is tilted to the right too... I cannot rotate my neck as much as I should (by 10 degrees!) and my shoulders are not level. The X-rays show that my spine is like a snake, bending first to the right, then to the left, then back to the right. My neck is straight instead of having a curvature, so my head has moved forward and two of my vertebrae are completely rotated. Turns out the nerve that comes out of my neck going to my shoulder is being pinched by that vertebra, causing the pain.
The worst section of my spine is vertebra 8, and (and here comes the shocker) the nerves coming out of that section communicate with the pancreas! So problems in this area (nerve weakness, lack of communication) could cause complications... At this point I said, it's funny that you say that...
So I have 30 sessions ahead of me and, after only the first my neck already feels sooooo much better! My doctor twisted it to both sides and made it crack (realigned it) like in the movies. Scary sound but oh so relieving. Then he said "let me show you something". He pressed on one of my vertebrae on my mid back and asked me to press my leg, as hard as I could, against his hand. He then did the same, but while pressing on vertebra #8. I had NO strength whatsoever. He then realigned it by making it crack and we tried again. My strength was back. AMAZING.
So it's all about the spine, baby.
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