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From Wikipedia (with sources):Has anyone here received chiropractic care? If yes, how was it going into it the first time? And did you see improvement?
Have recently noticed a pain in my upper back/lower neck with left hand numbness/weakness and tremors. I’m thinking pinched nerve and contemplating a chiropractic visit.
Numerous controlled clinical studies of treatments used by chiropractors have been conducted, with conflicting results.[4] Systematic reviews of this research have not found evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[4] A critical evaluation found that collectively, spinal manipulation was ineffective at treating any condition.[10] Spinal manipulation may be cost-effective for sub-acute or chronic low back pain but the results for acute low back pain were insufficient.[11]
Has anyone here received chiropractic care? If yes, how was it going into it the first time? And did you see improvement?
Have recently noticed a pain in my upper back/lower neck with left hand numbness/weakness and tremors. I’m thinking pinched nerve and contemplating a chiropractic visit.
Yeah I don't think I have any neurodegenerative disease...just some discomfort. Wanted to see the opinions on chiropractic care since people are certainly strongly one way or the other. From what I gather reading around...there's some really good and really bad experiences...rarely anything in the middle.Neck/back pain (even with extremity numbness/tingling/weakness) are rarely correlated to a physiological abnormality that can be identified by CT/MRI. Generally these are diagnosed on symptoms alone and regardless, the treatment is the same in either case. Peripheral neuropathy, pinched nerve, fibromyalgia, etc ... Take NSAID's, gabapentin or corticosteroids.
I don't think invasive imaging would be warranted under these circumstances but it would be diagnostically useful if a MD/neurologist prescribed a medication for nerve pain. If it helps, then you know it's nerve related. If not, you have other avenues of possibilities. If things become serious, I.e. dysfunctional motor movements, substantial numbness or altered sensations.. See a neurologist immediately. Otherwise, "watchful waiting" is what I would do if I was in your shoes. If it's just noticable and not debilitating.. then I don't see much of a rationale for some kind of huge neurology workup. That said, seeing a neurologist is a good idea IF there's reasonable concern this could get worse and is already impacting your daily life.
I only say this because Kory's post doesn't seem to exhibit this being a hugely alarming and debilitating problem. Final note: Seeing a doctor would never hurt, and there could certainly be something going on requires professional intervention.
Yeah I don't think I have any neurodegenerative disease...just some discomfort. Wanted to see the opinions on chiropractic care since people are certainly strongly one way or the other. From what I gather reading around...there's some really good and really bad experiences...rarely anything in the middle.
Much like how my orthopedic took care of my meniscus injury, it was a conservative, physical therapy approach, that's how I'm probably gonna handle this. Man, it's a pain getting old.