Treatment Story: Balanced treatment is important
Treatment Story: Balanced treatment is important Is your chiro or physio actually helping you by treating ONLY the painful spot? I treated a client who had been suffering from pain due to his bulging disc in L4/L5. He had been seeing a chiropractor, a physio, for a few years, but there had not been significant improvement. I started with loosening up his right back. "My pain is on the left side," he said. "I know, but I need to do both sides so that your muscles pull evenly on your spine and it is beneficial for treating your bulging disc," I responded. I found his right back very tight, so I massaged to loosen it up. "Click!" something inside seemed to have opened up, and I felt his right back freer. "Was there a click inside?" I asked. "Yes, there was!" He confirmed. Then I checked his left back to find it was a lot softer than the right side-- I believed that it was softer because it had been worked on; therefore, the muscles were...