Originally Posted by drjones

Chiropractors can help certain ailments, but some things you need to know..

Any chiropractor that doesnt have a structural massage therapist on hand or send you to one after treatment, is pretty much a quack. I'm not talking about a Swedish massage therapist, that you would usually find in a spa, I'm talking about a structural massage therapist that has studied postural and muscular imbalances and knows the treatments to correct them.

Any skeletal imbalance you have had for any length of time, will cause your muscles to shorten in certain places, and lengthen in others, and contribute to the imbalance. A chiropractor will adjust your bones, but if you dont follow up with massage to lengthen your muscles in the right places, their tension will slow or even reverse the progress your chiropractor made in a very short period of time. This basically ensures you are a client for life. Stretching helps, but no where near as well as a Neuromuscular massage (NMT). NMT is very targetted and specific and works wonders in conjunction with Chiropractic treatments.

Make sure you have a chiropractor thats interested in curing you, and has a time frame for recovery. He should lay it all out for you, if he cant fix your problems in X amount of time, he should refer you to someone else who may be able to help better. Just be careful, there are a lot of shady chiropractors out there.