Many things can cause back, neck and spinal injuries. Once damaged, it is harder to protect it, and the disks may move from a simple action of bending down. Therefore where possible prevent the injury before it happens.

Possible causes:

• Car accidents
• Falls
• sport injuries
• Birth injuries
• medical conditions

Any one of these could affect your spine.

Spinal and neck injuries need to be treated with special care. We have one back bone so look after it.

There are many varieties of medical treatments for spinal, neck or back injuries, all of which help in many different ways.

• Medical practitioners, normally wish to operate to rectify problems.
• The physiotherapists try to diagnose the cause of pain, which could be in the joints, nerves, or muscles, and use a drug free therapy.
• Whereas Chiropractic care is from manipulation, to free the nerves trapped between the vertebras. Each of these treatments can be beneficial to anyone under a variety of circumstances. Relief from this treatment is felt either immediately or within a few days of the manipulation.

Your spine controls everything you do. The power of your movement is controlled by the many muscles and ligaments attached to your spine. Each individual bone (vertebrae) provides support for your spine, and the discs connected in front of your spine help support it.

It is easy to dislodge a disk, a simple sneeze or cough, could realign it and cause a pinched nerve between these disks. When people neglect their spinal column, they often suffer ailments caused from injuries ten or twenty years before. If left untreated it causes wear on the disks as they grind against one another. Compressed nerves in your spine can affect the nerves to your organs causing them to work less efficiently. Therefore, it pays to take care of your spine.

I know from personal experience the benefits of chiropractors and their treatment to my family and friends.

We knew a little seven-year-old girl whose doctor told the parents she would never hear because of a medical condition. They took her to a chiropractor and after having x-rays and with a few manipulations, she was then able to hear.

My Husbands experience with Chiropractors

My husband worked on a farm and while out kangaroo shooting he fell off the back of a utility. Treated in hospital and then sent home. Then years later while truck driving and lumping bales of wool, he suffered back pains and could not stand up straight. The doctor treated him for a cold in his back. After a week, he eventually took himself to a chiropractor and, the x-rays showed he had three disks out and that he had broken his neck years earlier when he had fallen from the utility, which had caused most of his back problems.

Years passed and he suffered back pains again, this time the doctor put him in hospital on traction, (which stretches the back by hanging weights on his legs) He put up with this for a week. Then the doctor decided to fly him to Perth (650kms away). As the flying doctor was not available, they put him on a normal light plane, so that when he arrived in Perth he was blue. Back injury patients should not fly at the altitude of normal planes.

After several treatments, they told him that if he did not have an operation he would be in a wheelchair before he was forty. He declined having that operation on the ground that while he could walk he would not risk it. He has lived under the care of chiropractors for years and now and at sixty-five; he is still working a lawn-mowing round. Sure, he has his bad days, and still reasonably fit, considering he has many degenerated disks now.

My experience with Chiropractors

A doctor treated me for flaryngitis, (a badly inflamed sore throat) and gave me antibiotics for two months. My boss referred me to his chiropractor, as it turned out I had two disks out in my neck. After one treatment, I was back driving my van with no more throat problems and could turn my head with no ill effect at all. When I have a migraine, I go to the chiropractor and no more migraine.

I had a painful jaw and the doctor told me not to chew or strain it, therefore drink fluids only. Again, I went back to the Chiropractor, and he used a small spring loaded implement, which simply realigned my jaw back into place. Some people have a lower tolerance to pain than others do; therefore, it seems worse than it actually is. After suffering years of pain, some learn to accept it and take it as a way of life.

I agree that everyone has good and bad experiences with any medical profession. Although before agreeing to have any operation or treatment, have the injury x-rayed and obtain second or third opinions. It is your body and only you know how it feels. Some people have their disks fused together, to eliminate problems, and instead it causes more.

Whether you suffer an injury from a car accident, from a fall, or sporting injury always obtain other opinions from a variety of sources for your particular injury. Look after your spine, and in return, it will look after you. In the end, the decision of treatment is entirely yours.

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