Case study for why you should try chiropractic first in Tigard Oregon
The very first patient I ever helped was while I was a student at Western States Chiropractic College. She was the close friend of my girlfriend at the time, visiting from out of state. While walking on the beach, she was recounting an ordeal that was going on three months’ time. She recalled having pain out of nowhere to the back of her left shoulder, which prompted her to visit her physician. The medical doctor suggested some anti-inflammatories and painkillers and sent her away. When those didn’t work, she returned and was given muscle relaxers and different painkillers. When the symptoms persisted, she went back and was given x-rays, which were negative for any obvious problem. After a couple of months, she got an MRI, which also came back negative. Her doctors couldn’t figure out what was going on.
The real kicker was when she told me that they were “going to consider exploratory surgery,” if it wasn’t resolved by the time she got back. in Tigard Oregon
I asked if it would be OK to take a look at her when we got back to town and she agreed. After a very simple chiropractic examination, it was pretty obvious to me that she was suffering from rib joint dysfunction and her muscles have been stretched and irritated for three months. After doing a simple and gentle Chiropractic adjustment to the area and some common soft tissue techniques like trigger point therapy and pin and stretch techniques, she sat up and took a deep breath and said “there’s no pain…”
In a joking manner, but also a little surprised, I responded “I know.”
She took another deep breath and said “there’s no pain…!”
I told her how happy I was that she was feeling better. She cut me off and said, “no, you don’t understand. Every single breath that I have taken for the last three months, pain that started at only 50% of a normal breath, caused me pain. And now it’s gone”
At the time, she was going through her own medical training to become a medical doctor. She had trusted the allopathic system to take care of her problems, and they not only had not discovered the problem, but were about to cause her even more harm than they already had by trying allopathic solutions to a Chiropractic problem. Her medical doctor had never mentioned Chiropractic or even physical therapy to help the problem. I shudder to think how many people have gone down that same track with those doctors and been left maimed by surgical scars and poisoned livers, kidneys, and intestines with pharmaceuticals that were unnecessary. I’m happy to say that this first patient has likely gone on to save thousands of other people from a similar fate. When you have musculoskeletal complaints that don’t involve blood and open wounds, you should always try chiropractic first. Different clinician specialize in different things. And we have to acknowledge the chiropractic has been the best for these kinds of conditions, for a very long time.
