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Ditchrunner said:
Good advice in here. I used to go once a month or so for maintenance, but the stretches and being more active has got me down to going as needed when I really do something dumb.
Definitely be willing to hobble out of any chiro office you are leery of. Find a good one, get stuff to stay aligned and then do the exercises and stretching they recommend.
I have an inversion table I’ll use occasionally and an exercise ball that honestly is the best thing.
I also bought a new mattress and that helped tremendously.
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You guys that have the inversion tables, recommend one. Prefereably fairly cheap and from amazon.

What are you doing with the exercise ball? I have one I use for situps, etc.
 
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dntsdad said:
The hip issue, I have had MRIs and specialists. I am just not willing to do the surgery to fix it. Cutting the top of my femur off and replacing it with Terminator titanium ball and redoing the muscle sounds good until they say 15 year life span on it.

I am going to wait until it's unbearable and then I will do it. RIght now, I can manage.

The back though, I want to fix. I can't even sit for too long or I pay for it for days.
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The hip may be causing the back pain. They give a shot in my hip about 6 weeks ago to isolate the pain and make sure they were looking at the right location. Had terrible back and SI pain, Shot made 95% of the pain go away. Meeting with Ortho next week to discuss replacement. Had pain since my teens, same story wait till your older so you only have to do it once, only 54 but I can't wait to get it done.
 
dntsdad said:
You guys that have the inversion tables, recommend one. Prefereably fairly cheap and from amazon.

What are you doing with the exercise ball? I have one I use for situps, etc.
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I bought the cheapest one on amazon, and it did exactly what it was supposed to do.

If you have hip pain, don't discount leg workouts. Squats, lunges, etc. even with body weight.

Im more into the power lifts at the gym, but I also like to do hip adductor/abductors on leg day. Yes, you're gonna look like a goon doing the "good girl/bad girl" exercises on the cable machines, but it does work wonders for hip stability and strength.

If I don't throw those in on leg day, my right hip will get sore and I regret not sticking around to do them.
 
I’ve been to the bone breaker before. I’ve been wrenching professionally for my whole life and it takes a toll on your body. When I was in my 20’s and started having back pain I started going to the bone breaker, he wants you to come in multiple times a week for the rest of your life.
I went to the family doctor, he did xray’s and said there’s nothing wrong with your back except it’s weak, he said to start exercising.
This doctor is also a DO, DO’s will crack your back, I don’t think MD’s will.
I’m now in my 60’s and have had minimal back problems over the last 40 years after a life of wrenching.

So… take care of you back, exercise and strengthen your core and you’ll have minimal problems.
I’ve had all kinds of other problems from wrenching, both hips replaced, hands have had surgery 8x, both elbows have had surgery, so I have some miles on my ass.
 
The analogy I’ve used with people is they are basically mechanics for your body, there are good ones and bad ones. A lot of people go to one who doesn’t fix anything and takes their money, or makes it worse and never return. Go to a bad mechanic one time, and you don’t just quit servicing/repairing your car forever.

I realize that’s not a great example here as most guys work on their own stuff. An inversion table and stretching is probably the DIY example.

I am also pretty much against modern “medicine” for things except infections and trauma repairs. I had pressure related urticaria all over my body several years ago. Basically a rash/hives that would pop up and the joint near it was arthritic. It would move all over my body and something as simple as putting pressure on a breaker bar would make my elbow feel like it had been hit by a hammer. End of every day was just lying on the couch in pain.

It was obviously some type of histamine/inflammation response caused by a certain trigger. Went to my primary care doc, and a dermatologist, and the best they came up with was “take two Zyrtec and two Allegra every day, it should go away eventually.” The average time it lasts for many people is 7 years.

I went to a holistic doc here that hooked me up to body monitors like an EKG and told me I had some type of freshwater amoeba parasite. Seemed bullshit, but their treatment was to take a few $30 tinctures and hold them under my tongue twice a day. Within about 10 days it was 100% gone and has not returned.

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Had an awesome experience. They put my on a couple automatic massage tables. One with a big roller up and down your spine, and one was a warm water massage. Then into a chair that did your whole body. Arms, feet, everything but my ears.

He came in and felt me up a bit and nailed every pain I was having, even the ones that I didn't mention or had forgotten. I was fucking unreal how accurate he was.

He had my on my back and twisted my hips and my upper body vs legs like wringing out a towel. Softly and the jerked the fuck out of it. Both ways.

Pulled on my legs to provide some traction relief as well.

Then he put my on a sonic untrasound type of thing. Like a Tens machine on steroids. THAT was the winner. Heated me up and I have felt like a new man since. No pain last night or today. He said the effects take about 2 days to peak. I have a 4 hour drive in a bit to buy some new gold clubs so we will see how that goes and how I feel. Normally, Id be like a 2x4 getting out after that long.

He mentioned that the inversion tables do work well but only for a short time for most people. That after a month or so, it won't be able to keep helping. He also said that I should only need about 5-6 visits with him so I don't think he was trying to put them down so I would keep coming to him. Is this the experience of you guys that use them? Marketplace is flooded with them so I can get one pretty cheap.
 
I've wanted to go to a chiropractor several times. But the only one in town is a dude and several people have told me that he likes to tell dick jokes.

Nope. :laughing:
 
I go every few years when I mess something up. Should go more often, feels so good after an adjustment.
 
Once.

I had a customer that was with me while we were messing with his vehicle. I had a nerve pinch and almost fell to the ground.

Then it happened a couple of more times. In my usual hard-headedness I told him I was fine.

When it happened again and I couldn't turn my head he made me load my ass into the truck and go see his chiro.


My first time ever going to a chiro and that dude was a miracle worker.
 
Drove about 4.5 hours this morning and felt pretty good after. I would normally walk like I was Joe Biden for about 20 minutes after a drive like that and there was just the slightest of stiffness. I may have to buy one of those ultrasonic thingies.
 
dntsdad said:
Drove about 4.5 hours this morning and felt pretty good after. I would normally walk like I was Joe Biden for about 20 minutes after a drive like that and there was just the slightest of stiffness. I may have to buy one of those ultrasonic thingies.
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Glad it worked for you
 
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