Chiropractors are great for back and bone things. I wouldn't go to one for cancer, but anyone who dismisses them out of hand for what they are good at, clearly is missing information and experience.

They aren't quacks.

And all back pains don't right themselves as easily as others. I know whence I speak.

orik--

everyone is of course entitled to see a chiropractor and to their views. But I would never go, even if my life depended on it.

Tana--please don't be so equally dismissive of those who don't trust chiropactors. It is the same side of the coin. How one pursues medical treatment is an entirely personal choice.

So well said. Thanks, My.

I make a distinction between medical (disease requiring treatment) and other problems with spinal alignment, and stuff like that. The chiropractors I knew spent years in college, and I just cannot think they're quacks. They don't make bunky claims to cure all ills, which would be quackery, but help the body align itself. There is a correlation between the way the nerves run through the body, and pain resulting if that course is disrupted (pinched nerves, etc.). Seeing a chiropractor, to me, is like making the bed smooth, without wrinkles.

While I do understand the notion that chiropractic treatment is not a substitute for a medical doctor, if you've a severe illness or infection, but that is distinct from seeing one when your back is out.

i am glad to see you are following forum policy and not connecting this directly to ngatti's chicken in bile sauce.




(ngatti, i keed, i keed)

Get well soon and think about the rest then.

clb

V, this was so sweet of you. . I couldn't get into the school of osteopathy on friday so I went to get Acupuncture in the meantime. But I did go to see them yesterday and I found them, enlightening and relieving.

I'm still in pain, but not as much and the environmental consultants are supposed to come see me today about my office. Apparantly, I have been sitting wrong for the entire time I've been at this desk and it threw the balance of my back off (I had been compensating for the fact that I'm hunched over my laptop) and when I went to correct it, my back freaked out. The part of my spine that had been acting as "the balancer between the top and lower parts) was already stressed out and then I did this. It couldn't do its job anymore and my lower back just went.

Liza

sorry

Rumors running around school that they are closing early,
only to find out that they weren't true

Sorry Liza. That is awful!

From what I've seen in most companies, you're absolutely right.

not anymore ron!

Just be thankful you weren't one of the victims of food poisoning in the Philippines.

Yahoo News food poisoning link

virgins are always skittish

Women do get wooly.

...wearing that old knitted dress.

One of my favorite anecdotes, so I might have told it before.

Interviewed a candidate who was completely unsuitable for the position advertised, and in addition had a full range of odd tics and mannerisms and a very odd voice. A week later, Human Resources calls back candidates for a second interview. Imagine my surprise when the same guy walks in, obviously thinking he's just what we're after. Called back through a clerical error. And I feel I have to sit there and do him the courtesy of conducting a full second interview, although what I really want to do is collapse on the floor howling with laughter.

Somehow made it through.

you sir, will be hearing from my solicitors shortly.

i say keep the trash cans where they are now until they control their exhibitionism or until they build a higher wall.

Been there, done that, paid through the nose for it.

The old boiler was 85+ years old so I couldn't really complain.