Not Quack, CRACK!!

Don't ask me why, but I've always thought that chriopractors were quacks. Let me tell you I have been VERY MISTAKEN! My neck has been bothering me for a while, so I decided to stop whining about it and do something about it. So I called the chiropractor that a couple of people had recommended to me, and OH MY GOSH!! Let me just tell you that he was wonderful.

I was very nervous when I first got there that he would break my neck or that I would get some sort of major neck injury. The first thing they did was take me back and talk to me about what problems I was having. Then they took me back for x-rays. After the x-rays they let me lay on this theraputic bed. I want one of these in my house!!! It looked like a regular doctor's bed at first with a blanket over it. Then the nurse rolled back the blanket, and wha-laa it was not a regular bed at all, but a DREAM BED. You lay on your back, and it is like a waterbed type contraption underneath you with jets that beat up and down your back. I'm telling you it was the best thing since sliced bread. Out of this world! =) It was so wonderful that I fell asleep on it. It only lasted for 10 minutes. When the nurse came back in I asked her if it was really necesary for me to get up. She laughed.

The doctor then came in and talked to me about my x-rays. Your neck is supposed to be curved in a c shape, well mine was curved the opposite way, and also my discs are starting to unalign. He told me that I am only in phase 1 though, so it was a good thing that I came and saw him now instead of waiting like alot of people do, then it is pretty much hopeless to get it back to normal.

He then laid me on my stomach and cracked my back, then flipped me over and took my head and cracked to the left and right. I didn't know that your body could make that sort of sound. Then he told me the best news ever. I have terrible TMJ, and I grind my teeth horribly EVERY night. I guess that I hold alot of my tension in my jaws. Well he tells me that he can align my jaws so that I will not have this problem anymore. I never heard of such a thing. He proceeds to put this device on both sides of my cheek along my jaw line, and POP it pushes your jaw back into place. Now I know that it will take a few trips back to completely help, but I swear that I feel like a new woman!! My neck and jaws are a little sore, but I cannot believe how much it helped!! Lord have mercy! I'm getting myself put back together slowly but surely. =)