Who knows? Nothing he said is right or wrong. Long ago accidents are a problem depending on what happened during the accident. When you see a doctor after an accident, he just looks for breaks and bleeding. He doesn't tell you that a process of inflammation has started that could have repercussions way down the road. The same thing happens to athletes who engage in collisions -- doctors tell them they're fine but a few year later they're not fine. This happened to me -- I was in a car accident and the seat I was sitting in broke. Doctors found no breaks, didn't say, after you stop hurting see a massage therapist or chiropractor or physical therapist to avoid the travails down the road of chronic inflammation, because what the body does is wall off areas of inflammation and they stay inflamed. Later, you have back problems or neck problems. So many years later I see a chiropractor, who wasn't very good, but he did show me on an x-ray where my cervical discs were wearing away and if I was in an automobile accident x number of years ago -- he got it to the year. Later MRIs with orthopedists confirmed this as it worsened. But we don't know if your accident was of that nature, so that's where he could be bogus. Everyone has disc changes as they age and do things, but most people won't feel any pain from it. It depends on how serious the original injury was if there was an injury and how successfully the body walled it off with protein. As for his program, I'd always avoid anyone who has a program with a set number of visits. How does he know how long your particular body will take to heal? It could be just one treatment is all you'll ever need, and it could be a million treatments won't fix it. By the way, it's not Stem, its Stim, or electrical stimulation. Most chiros use it and many physical therapists use it, but I've never found it to be helpful. Heat depends -- sometimes it's ice, sometimes heat -- depends on the injury. Sometimes both. So as I say, he could be right and he could be wrong, but the uniformity of his program when everyone is different is a sign of laziness.
I suggest seeing a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine D.O.
I wouldn't see a chiropractor if you paid me!
I've seen a video of a chiropractor having a small child lying down on the parent and then adjusting the parent so that the adjustment helped the child!
I wish i could find the video but I haven't found it!
Thanks for the detailed response. I'm going to go seek a 2nd opinion...if I can just get my X-rays from the doc without his PC crashing when I go to pick them up. Yeah, professionalism in this office is lacking. That was my first major red flag.
My crash was 9 years ago, at less than 5 MPH. I've hit things harder than that car with my 4-wheeler before and never thought much of it.
Hey, Gym, I saw a woman once slap her child in a baby carriage. Should I never have anything to do with women?
I like Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine! Not to say they are all good.
I love woman!!
Woman? I've never seen an osteopath, just chiros -- some good, some bad. But they're a lot cheaper and an adjustment is an adjustment -- some are good at it, some aren't -- I think it's more an art than a science. If you want science, I guess you see an orthopedist, but I can't say I've had much luck with them, either. I have considered seeing an osteopath many times, but it's the money that stops me.
Medicare and my Ins. and My wife's Ins. covers O.D. ( wife's ins. is through the state for teachers)
I've got insurance through my wife, but none of the osteopaths around here take insurance. A lot of practitioners don't take insurance around here, including most of the psychologists and psychiatrists and any practitioner of integrated medicine. Oddly, most chiropractors do take insurance, but you only get a few visits a year. We have good insurance, but if the docs don't take it, it doesn't pay much.
That's what happens when you live that close to Washington D.C. and Obama
Still tying Obama to everything? This has been true for many years, long before he came along. It's true most places where the economy is very successful, as these practitioners can find plenty of paying customers without having to find them through insurance referrals and don't have to deal with the insurance company rules. It's the corporate bureaucracy they don't want to deal with, as these same docs often do take Medicare patients. Who you gonna blame when Obama's term is over and we're back to having a white president?