Chiropractor & Physiotherapist

kaiphas

Hi,

I've been attending a Chiropractor for over a year now with back/hip & neck pain. After the sessions (typically one a month but was one a week for the first six months) my back & neck feel better but the pain comes back in after a few days to a week.

Is it the case that the Chiropractor is just "relocating" the out of place joints and I would be better off going to a Physiotherapist how will also relocate the joints but will also recommend a series of exercises to build up the mussles which may keep the joints in place longer.

All ideas/feedback would be welcome.

Thanks,

Amz

I've always gone to a physio with back/hip pain so I've no experience of Chiropractors.

I'd advise maybe going to see a physio, even for just one session to get their opinion on it. I realise this may be costly, but if you feel that the work they do with you is more beneficial than that of the chiropractor then you've gained in the long run.

I was out of sport for four months with back/hip problems and saw a physio and she gave me exercises to help stabilise the joints and built back up the range of motion. Now I'm finished with they physio, still doing the exercises she prescribed and also building up core stability.

Hope that helps and that you start to feel better soon.

kaiphas

Thanks AMZ. Will let you know how I get on.

DrIndy

Go see a physio, they have a much more extensive knowledge than a chiropractor.

I'm not knocking chiropractors, but if it is a problem that goes beyond your back, then a physio is the lady to see you.......

N8

DrIndy wrote:

Go see a physio, they have a much more extensive knowledge than a chiropractor.

I'm not knocking chiropractors, but if it is a problem that goes beyond your back, then a physio is the lady to see you.......

what a crock of ****e! recently the world health organisation published guidelines on chiropractic training and safety and in it they stated that a medical grad would have to put in an extra 1800 hours training (including 1000 hours of clinical training). Why are the medics so far behind in musculoskeletal training - because it is inadequate.

jazzbandit

Before i get banned permanently for the following post....


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=302520

...I just wanted to say that obviously doctors now much more than physios chiropracters about musculoskeletal medicine.
Physios are pretty good, but chiropracters are, in my experience, pretty lame.

I'm not saying i dont believe that the WHO rates them, but would be interested to see a link to the original article.

And to say that it would take a doc 100933773737 whatever years to become a chiropracter is really a non-argument....it would take ur average doctor a few years to retrain as a nurse, but it dont mean they know more medicine than docs.

Anyway, take care, and keep lovin each other.


The jazz man

N8

sorry you must be one of the few out there that think this way about MDs knowing musculoskeletal medicine because in general MDs don't feel at all confident in it and the research shows it......

http://www.irishmedicalnews.ie/articles.asp?Category=Pview&ArticleID=14280

if you are an MD check the Journal Of Bone and Joint Surgery October 1998 article on the poor competency levels in regard to musculoskeletal medicine, then read its follow up in 2005 which again confirms the woeful state of education in this subject....

jazzbandit

none of this research compares levels of competency of doctors with chiropractors or physios.

kaiphas

Just for the record. I went to the physio (as recommended above) and after four sessions am pretty much back in good shape (pain wise anyway!).

The physio was more interested in giving me exercises and stretches to do to keep me injury free once they had me back on the straight and narrow. They recommend I come back if I feel any twinges etc as opposed to the Chiropractor who wanted me back every few weeks.

In my limited experience the physio was interested in getting me back in shape, the chiropractor was more interested in my wallet.

I realise that this may not be the case all the time but as I said this is my (limited) personal opinion.