I started having pain down the back of my leg about 2 1/2 years ago. I went to my family doctor and she diagnosed me with sciatica. We went to the beach a few months later and the last day we were there we walked on the beach and that night I was in a lot of pain. We came the next day and I looked on my insurance company's website for a chiropractor that took my insurance. After calling 2-3 different places with no one answering the phone I called Dr. Osborne and they answered the phone. I explained my symptoms to the guy that answered the phone and he said that he felt they could help me. He told me they had an appointment the following day so I said I would be there. The person that I was talking to the whole time was Dr. Osborne. I went in the next day and they had me fill out paperwork, they took xrays of my back and Dr. Osborne did a complete exam. I went back a couple of days later and Dr. Osborne went over my xrays with me and told me that the upper part of my back looked great but the lower part didn't. My one disc was a lot thinner than the rest of them. He said that was why I had the sciatica which caused the pain in my leg. He said he was pretty confident that he could help me. He told me what the plan was and I told him I would do anything to get rid of the pain in my leg. I started having adjustments 3 times a week and about 1 1/2 months into the process I was feeling good. One weekend something happened and when I went into the office that Monday I was bent over and leaning to the side to relieve the pain in my back. He was surprised to see how I was standing and asked me what happened. I told him I didn't know, that I hadn't done anything strenuous over the weekend. He suggested we do our regular adjustments that week to see if it would help but unfortunately it didn't. The following Monday when I went in I wasn't any better and that's when he suggested doing spinal decompression therapy. Basically what it did was elongate my spine to get the spinal fluid to the bad disc and the disc repaired itself without surgery. It wasn't painful just a little pressure from the pulling. He explained the process to me and I told him I would do anything to not have back surgery. I didn't want anyone putting a scalpel to my back and I had heard such horror stories from people that the surgery didn't work. I started the treatments the following day on the DRX machine. I did 24 treatments and by the end of the treatments I was standing upright again. Thank god Dr. Osborne had a DRX machine in his office. The next thing I had to do was wait for my sciatic nerve to heal. It took a few months for the pain to completely go away but it finally did. Dr. Osborne told me that sciatic nerves on heal about 1/4 of an inch a day and my nerve had been enflamed for so long that it probably took longer than usual. I still go once a month for maintenance adjustments and I do the DRX machine every 4 months for a ""tune up"" to keep my disc healthy. If it wasn't for Dr. Osborne and his terrific staff I wouldn't be standing upright and enjoying my life again. Thank you Dr. Osborne.\r
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