With skiing accidents and a roll-over crash in my twenties, I lived a ""half-life"" for years. Meaning, in addition to extreme pain (shoulder blades, hip & neck, migraines, IBS, depression & fibromyalgia and extremely numb ""dead"" hands) my mental & emotional state was always in ""Fight or Flight or Fall-apart"" mode. An intimate friend described me as if ""someone pulled a plug out of my neck and all the happiness ran out"". Well, 25 years later, I find out he was so right. My atlas had interfered with the natural flow of the healing, calming, feel good brain juices which regulates everything.
After years of physical therapists, acupuncturists, neurologist and normal, worthless (for me) chiropractics I found out what was allegedly wrong with me: 5/8 inch ""leg length discrepancy"" which caused my hip & rest of skeleton to be off the same amount, scoliosis and irreversible peripheral neuropathy, all of which I was told I had to live with (my cure was to wear a lift in my shoe.)
FINALLY, while living in OR, someone referred me to a NUCCA-trained chiro. My first atlas adjustment released a flood of chemicals I had never experienced and I slept all day. Pain was decreased and mood improved. I would pop out and go back and basically maintained for the last couple of years, but still periodic pain, headaches and dead hands, all causing loss of sleep and
So upset I had to move to CA and feared the worst. Now, Dr. Flory is the BEST thing about having moved (okay the weather is better but....). Before, the only ‘diagnostic tool’ after the one set of x-rays was my rating of my symptoms. First visit with Dr. Flory, he was able to tell me exactly the degree that my hips were “off”, to what degree my dysfunction was causing tension and pain in my muscles. After the 2nd visit, my 5/8” was down to 18” and my hips were LEVEL for the first time in years. I suspect as many years as I was “off”, it may take a few visits for the adjustments to stick; bottom line is after 3 visits, so far, no dead hands or migraines and nominal pain overall.
Pros: professional, personable, knows his stuff
Cons: none other than a bit of a drive for me but worth it
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