Having Lower Back Problems?

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If you or someone you know is having lower back pain or soreness try this experiment. Where your hands join your wrists you should see a couple of lines. Put your hands together, prayer style, so these lines match up. Now look at the length of your hand at the fingertips. You will probably notice one hand is slightly longer than the other. My left hand is about 3/8" longer than my right. The same thing happens to legs. One can be slightly longer than the other. This causes problems where the spine joins the pelvic. I had constant lower back problems until I went to a chiropractor who took a full back x-ray. He gave me a lift to wear in one shoe. Has made a world of difference.

-- Ken Scharabok (scharabo@aol.com), July 21, 2000

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It's called scholeosis, and it's a genetic deformity. I've been wearing a lift in my right shoe for about 25 years because my right leg is about 3/8" shorter than my left. It's a great start, but it's not a cure-all. My doctor told me to walk for about 30 minutes every day, to work the lower back muscles, because exercise is still the best medicine. He also told me to avoid lifting very heavy loads (try doing that on a homestead!), and when I was doing lifting of any kind, to wear one of those brace belts, like the grocery stockers do. Using a little common sense goes an awful long way, and will really cut down on the aspirin bills. Good luck, and here's to feeling better!

-- Julie (rjbk@together.net), July 21, 2000.

Ken, are you left handed by chance? Usually the dominant side is a bit more developed on all folks. Being out of alignment like you say can cause some real problems. I also see a chirocracker every so often, I'm going to have to ask him about this. I'm an RN and a lot of doctors really look down at chiropractors and any other "non-traditional" health care providers. I say go for what works. The less invasive the better. How long have you been using this lift? John

-- john in S. IN (jsmengel@hotmail.com), July 21, 2000.

No I am right handed. Have been wearing the lift (about 3/8") for about ten years. Back got to the point where it was constantly tight and sore. If I stepped in a hole without being prepared for it a jarring pain would just about make my knees buckle. Started going to a chiropractor. For the first month or so of treatment my back would be out again before I got back home. He finally did a full back x- ray and found the difference in leg lengths by measuring the difference between horizonal and the top of my pelvic bones. Almost immediate improvement since then. Now I just go every six weeks for a tune-up. Some health care plans cover chiropractor visits.

-- Ken Scharabok (scharabo@aol.com), July 22, 2000.

As far as we're concerned, there's nothing better, medically speaking that going to a chiropractor. We go regularly. Make sure you get a good one. We were going to one, I was doing o.k. but my husband wasn't. We switched to a different chiropractor and after 3 months my husband's back is 80% better and I didn't know I could improve so much. Ours is into nutrition which is doing so much good for the chemical poisoning.

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), July 22, 2000.

Cindy,

My chiropractor helped my son and me so much more then the regular doctors with our chemical problems. My neice no longer needs hearing aids because of adjustments and no dairy. Regular MDs didn't pick up on that. I am now going to a homeopath.

-- Dee (gdgtur@goes.com), July 23, 2000.



Dee, my chiropractor is going to do something homeopathic to try to help me de-tox from chemical poisoning-environmental illness. I've taken a few remedies before and had good results. Most regular doctors are taught to treat the symptoms and not the disease. I could just imaginge what they would have said about my problem.

-- Cindy (atilrthehony_1@yahoo.com), July 25, 2000.

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