I Went to the Chiropractor

I've always had back issues. When I was in middle school and high school i'd get SO stressed out that my whole back and neck would absolutely knot up, as well as migranes...i was forever begging my parents to rub my back for me, i was always in pain. It got better going into college then picked up again by senior year. Senior year even migrane pain OTC meds didn't do anything for me anymore. In the many years since then, my head got a billion times better and my back goes on and off. While in college, my mother told me a story of her friend's friend who got paralysed after seeing a chiropractor. I was scared. In the past year or two, i started seeing massage therapists to help with my back issues, but they always counsel me that maybe I should see a chiropractor. finally i was starting to think that maybe i should put aside my fears and go, when suddenly i hurt my lower back (possibly from lifting weights). I sucked it up and got a referral from my doctor and went. It was fine! One reason I'm posting this up is in case anyone else has trepedations about going. I was a little late to my first appointment, due to the whole public transportation system breaking down, but I finally got there, and everyone was friendly. I didn't even have to put on a johnnie, I just wore my regular clothes, and he felt my back, neck, head, spine. It turned out I had, just as I suspected, two issues - the new lower back problem, and the existing upper back thing. I started going in twice a week for almost 3 weeks, just tiny fifteen minute visits, right near work, on my insurance. He'd feel my back, crack have me breathe in then out and crack it, then have me position myself and then he'd sort of snap my body. On the 2nd or 3rd visit, as I was leaving, I suddenly felt so LIGHT. A lot of the knotted tension was gone, my vertebrae were not sticking together, things could move around in there. All that blood and spinal cord fluid moving around better left me dizzy and lightheaded for a few hours. My favorite part of the visits was at either the end or beginning, I'd get to go on the roller table for a few minutes. It's like a massage chair, but as a table, it just rolls up and down. So relaxing! It functions to just loosen things up. Finally, at the end of my treatments, the doctor had loosened things up as much as possible, and aligned my neck, spine, etc. I was kind of sad, because it really helped the tension I get every day. That tension still builds up, and I'd love him to crack my back every day and help it. I wasn't to 100% lower back wise yet, I'm almost there now…I've been lifting lower weights and being super careful, but I think it's a matter of the muscles and tendons healing too. I can feel that it's more freer to move around, in my dance and kickboxing classes, and in pilates too. There was no reason to have been scared and I'll definitely go back again if needed!