Chiropractor

Although only at the age of 27, long have I been suffering from upper-back problems, since I sit before a computer for 12 hours a day. To temporarily alleviate the problem, I have been take massages every a few weeks. The massages, especially deep tissue massages, more or less works, but the condition reverts back after only a few hours.

When I was on vacation in San Francisco a few weeks ago, I had such a bad backache that I decided to visit a local masseur immediately. During the process, I asked him to push the backbone in shape as usual. To my surprise, he said, "I am not licensed to do bones. I can only massage the muscles," and suggested that I visit a chiropractor. So I scheduled a visit to a chiropractor as soon as I was back in Chicago.

This was the first time I visited a chiropractor in my life. He was a middle-aged man who called himself Dr. Brian. The hair on his forehead began to lose, but he looked energetic, warm, and professional. Having inquired in detail what seemed to be the problem, he asked me to take my shirts off and lie on my stomach on a special bed. He covered my back with a hot blankets for a few minutes, and then massaged the back muscles quickly. And then he said he was ready to realign my spine.

The spine aligning was when the real fun began. The first part he was going to realign was my upper-back. He asked me to do a couple of deep breathes, while he put his hands on my upper back to feel the movements of the spine. When I was haling out, he pushed abruptly on the spine. The push was not heavy, but I heard some cracking sounds from my spine. Then he asked me to lie on my left and right side in turn to realign my lower back. After some quick pushes on the lower spine and some more cracking sounds, the lower back was done. Finally, I lay with my face up to let him adjust my neck. He turned my head left and right for a couple times, and suddenly moved my head to the left. Cracking sound. He then moved it to the right, and more cracking sound. Till now, the realigning was completed.

When I got up, I felt so strong headaches that I almost lost my composure. Dr Brian said that, since this was my first time, after the realigning, a lot of toxins accumulated in the spine was released, and asked me to drink more water. After drinking water for about two hours, I felt better than ever.