Step 1: Call all the dance schools in the different areas you live in and find out their attending chiro's names

Step 2: Go with a couple or three names, set primary visits to talk

Step 3: See if they want to slap you on the table or do they do full physicals, blood workups and xrays

Step 4: Walk out of any office where the above is NOT done before they will touch you

Step 5: Pick the one that you gelt most comfortable with that also does the full battery

Step 6: Go get the tests asap. Usually takes a week or so to get all the results like bloodwork etc

Step 7: Go start getting treated.

I live with the back problem King. He had his back fractured in martial arts in his eaarly 20's and didn't know it. Fell thru a roof in his late 20's and was down in a body cast for a yr. Prognosis wheelchair without a doubt. After they let him out of the cast it took him a month at night to get to where he could walk.

One night just before getting out of the hospital he scared the BeJesus out of the night shift nurse when he walked up to her desk and asked her if she had any snacks. ;-) He was literally starving!!

He still goes to his Doc once in a while for a few weeks in a row . But he had done alot of research and the best chiro's were the ones that handled the dancers. She treated me once for the very thing thats bothering you Quiet. One visit and I was fine. Might need to go again soon but hey, its been 8 yrs. lol

They also have all the correct exercises for YOU to do for what YOUR problem actually is. Massage therapists etc have no clue.

I do, but not as much as before the accident.

make sure you sit up straight. hunching over isnt good.

For me, it's all about the lumbar support. Try wearing shoes without any arch support in them and your feet will hurt, it's the same with your back. If you spend hours sitting in a chair with no lumbar support you're entering a world of back pain. The same is true for sleeping as well IMO.

Check out this stuff

http://www.relaxtheback.com/global/p...&treeID=187 5

Great advice!! I would add two things about chiropractors:

1. Stay away from the ones who think that chiropractic heal everything. Holistic and hippie-like is ok, but not the ones that think a spinal adjustment heals everything from cancer to shingles.

2. If the dance studio idea does not work in for you in your area, the best chiropractors are referred, not advertised. Get recommendations from friends instead of the phone book.

That's a bit of a cheapshot at Dr's :). Meds can provide great symptomatic relief to back pain, but every Dr knows they're not going to fix a bad back, and they are usually more than willing to recommend a physio.

You shouldn't need a referral to go to a physio.

What the hubby found out on dance docs is important... They deal with everything from 6 yr old girls up to adult dancers so their gentleness is a must. And dance studios won't deal with the quacks that think they can do it all.

Our doc does the Columbus Ballet and all the companies that come thru here. She has toe shoes from every top ballet dancer that has been thru here for 20 yrs. ;-) She does think that a back in good shape promotes food health etc but theres the rub...

The holy docs don't GIVE that battery of tests. lol Fast way to find out without being tacky eh?

blood work ?, x-ray? damn waste of resources :)

my back is completely fucked and im only 19, a few years ago my physio told me id be physically incapable of playing basketball by the time i was 24. my back is getting progressively worse.

If i were you i would find a really good physio and get some excercises for your lower back, depending on the severity of the problem this could be anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours per day (it is fucking boring, believe me) but it is the only real way to fix it. also try to walk around between sitting, and make sure that you have good shoes, you wouldnt believe how much they can contribute to back problems (this probably wont apply to you as much, as this was injury related)

either way find a good physio and start working on strengthening the muscles again, theres nothing worse than having a fucked up body like this. if i could have one wish it would be that my body isnt as fucked up as it is.

jesus.

so many conflicting views - what the hell should i do? i guess i could just sweat it out and hope for the best, but if that doesn't work i'd like to just head to a single place.

i know they have one of the best physical/sports therapy institutes in the world in Whistler. maybe i should go there (i know it won't be cheap lol)?

Some major back pain!

you should do what I say :)

Just remeber that a pretty hood number of 'back probs' are actually medical ones. Hence the testing of those things to rule them out first. ;-)p

If you went down hard recently. odds are you thru the spine out down in the (I think our doc said) lumbar region. She laid me on my side with one leg bent at the knee over my other right at the side of the table, Put her knee on my nebt one, one hand on my hip, and the other on my shoulder and BAM!

Want to see stars?! Ouch! Then she did it to the other side. REALLY ouch! I was sore for a couple of days but wow. It was totally gone after that. :)

My lower back had hurt for a couple of yrs from a slip in high heels on a dance stage where one of the gfy idiots big brothers thought it would be funny to pour their drink on the stage while I was dancing. He doesn't go see girls anymore. lol The bouncers spoke to him out back for awhile.

Welcome to the club. Could be injured/detoriating disks.

I get that adjustment almost every visit - great for hip and low back probs. There is even a stretch where you can partially do that move yourself.

That sucks:(