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As you know from my 4 part Back to Basics blog posts, I had an excruciating encounter with sciatica on December 30, 2008. If you haven’t read the dramatic story of my back pain saga you may want to click here to read it before continuing:here’s the link to the beginning, from there you can follow the links to the other installments: Back To Basics

To update you on my progress, I’ve continued the story here:

I had a feeling my mid-way re-exam at the chiropractor’s office was going to be a lot different from my initial exam.  And I was right. The changes were impressive and significant.

Dr. Krieg put me on the dual scale and instead of being 13 ½ pounds heavier on my right side, I was now only 1 pound heavier on my left!  Right within normal range. Wow!  Amazing!  My hips were no longer 1 ½ inches off: I was right on even!  Overall I had improved in all areas, and some of the changes were dramatic.

At that point though, I was still having a lot of pain in my lower back and down my right leg due to the sciatic nerve.  But, the good thing was that my alignments were holding; I only had to be adjusted about once every 2 weeks. So the initial work was going well and producing the results that we wanted. I had another deep tissue massage with Robin and that really helped with the circulation in my right leg.

I kept on seeing Dr. K twice a week.  Since I was staying in alignment, Dr. K started working on my lower back.  He took me to a different table.  Here he had me lay face down and then lowered the bottom half of the table as he kept his hand on my lower back.  As he did this, my back was stretched like I have never had it stretched before.  It felt great!  Dr. K explained that the little muscles in between the vertebrae can not get stretched with conventional stretching.  This process speeds up the recovery time it would take if I was to only to do stretching on my own.

I am so pleased with how my treatment is progressing.  I feel so much better.  I hardly have any pain from the sciatica.  My right leg is still a bit tighter then the left, but not nearly as bad as a few weeks ago.  Seems like what used to take weeks to see results is now happing in a few days, I now only have to see him once a week.

He also recommended a joint formula that I have been taking for about 6 weeks. That, along with the deep stretches and running, makes me feel almost new again.

I go in for my (hopefully) last re-exam at the beginning of April.  Dr. K will take x-rays and compare them to the ones he took back at the start of the year.  I’m looking forward to seeing those.  I’ll keep you posted on the results!

How ‘bout it?

Vision Runner

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