Visit to the chiropractor

[pegkerr]

I had my first visit to the chiropractor yesterday for the lower back pain I've experienced since March 8, the day after a P90X back workout. I've never visited a chiropractor before. The pain was very specific, located in a three inch spot on the right of the lower back. It would give me a stab of pain at a certain point of my stride, every time I walked. She asked questions and did some simple tests. I had brought in the worksheet from that workout so that she could see exactly what exercises I did, and she pointed out one exercise that sometimes causes problems like this: she suspected it was the right sacroiliac (SI) joint. It's supposed to flex when you walk, but sometimes it gets stuck, due to a wrench (as in this case, from weight lifting). She said she's seen people come in with injuries like this from P90X.

So she ran electrodes through the muscles in my back for a few minutes to relax them. Then, she had me lie on my side, hoicked up my knee, had me wrap my arms around my shoulders and turned me so that my spine was twisted. She leaned down and pushed and--CRACK! I yelped, but not so much in hurt as in surprise at the click I felt deep within myself. Wow.

I got up, and ran through the tests again. I still felt some pain bending over, but less. And the pain when I walked is all but gone. There are some vague aches today, but nothing like the stabbing I felt before.

I'm to go back for a follow up on Monday, and I'm to hold off attempting to exercise at all until after then. But I'm very hopeful that this will quickly have me on the mend. Amazing.