Hi, I am researching treatments for spinal problems. Please post your imput here. Here are some things that I have found effective in treating my problems in order from most effective to least effective;

1)Acupuncture
-No negitive side effects only reliefe

2)Tui-na treatments
-Very efective at correcting problems simmilar to chiropractic care

3)Traction
-It helped me but I was using a table which hung me by my feet and caused a knee problem (If you get one get one that hangs you from your knees with gutial support or a body bridge like I reciently ordered).

4)Chiropractic adjustments
-Though effective at first it has actually made my condition worse but has merrit.

5)Massage
-This acually could go with tui-na but I feel they are too different to go together. I feel the most effective form is Thai massage, next comes deep tissue, then Shiatsu, while sweedish is ok for relaxation before a chiropractic adjustment.

6)Other little things that help me:
-Herbs(nerer used but researching), ligiments (Traumeel, also used in little white pills), ice, heat(especially icing then using heat), glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin, streching (consistently every single day), and being aware of me posture to include how I get out of bed and having things in my back pocket when I sit down.

Ok now lets help each other and post whatever helps you

,Mike

Hello Mike,

I've tried nearly everything and the best I've tried (which is kind of miraculous if the therapist got the right teaching) is myotherapy.

Nathalie

I suggest considering acupuncture along with physical therapy. It helped my herniated neck disk. At the risk of sounding like a spammer, consider two pillows I invented, the SquidFace and ComfyRest pillows, that alleviate my neck disk problem when the pain reappears. Lying on my back or facedown it corrects the herniation and alleviates the pain. It helps people with back pain also. It is strange but it works wonders. Bob

Orthipedic adjustments, that's right not many orthipedic doctors do it but since I have one as an instructor he is doing it for my back three times a week and it is helping.

THIS IS NOT LIKE A CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENT!

The back is given a swedish type of massage to warm it up then the vertibra are slowly pushed into aligment.

Correction that is OSTEOPATHIC adjustments. I sometimes I get the two mixed up but my professor corrected me the other day. He also said the only type of DO's who will do the full treatment are DO's who don't really care about the money because this treatment takes a lot of time.

TREATMENT
This is a just about a one hour treatment thirty minutes on the prat of the massage therapist than 15-30 on the part of the DO. The DO should have a massage therapist do the fist part which is basically a sweadish massage for him then he will come in and take over the massage only now he is also pushing the vertibrea back into allignment. You need to get this three times a week or better if you are in pain. Also SOME massage therapist know how to do this and call is myfacial release. Cation if you go with a massage therapis make sure they leared this from a DO or they can actually make you worse.

I know I am very lucky to have a DO doing this for me.

May God bless you all and I pray with all my heart that whoever is reading this uses it to avoid the knife and live a happy life.

,Mike

Correction that is OSTEOPATHIC adjustments. I sometimes I get the two mixed up but my professor corrected me the other day. He also said the only type of DO's who will do the full treatment are DO's who don't really care about the money because this treatment takes a lot of time.

TREATMENT
This is a just about a one hour treatment thirty minutes on the prat of the massage therapist than 15-30 on the part of the DO. The DO should have a massage therapist do the fist part which is basically a sweadish massage for him then he will come in and take over the massage only now he is also pushing the vertibrea back into allignment. You need to get this three times a week or better if you are in pain. Also SOME massage therapist know how to do this and call is myfacial release. Cation if you go with a massage therapis make sure they leared this from a DO or they can actually make you worse.

I know I am very lucky to have a DO doing this for me.

May God bless you all and I pray with all my heart that whoever is reading this uses it to avoid the knife and live a happy life.

,Mike

My back pain is subsiding though my neck is still in shambles.

Recently bought a traction device that hangs me from my waste rather than my feet. I use it for a total of 20-25 minutes a day.

,Mike

BTW if anyone else knows some cool trick to relieve the pain and fix the problem post them here.

I have been improving every day little by little. I recently bought a new mattress and box spring. That was a great move and the new yoga DVD I bought I really like, at the end I fall asleep it's called back care yoga if anyone is interested. The pain in my mid-upper back has went down significantly. Though I am still at 7 treatments a week.

,Mike

For years now people have recomended me to do yoga, I even went and tried it a few times but as a good athlete like I was I never took yoga seriousily I mean I always spent at least one hour a day just streching and doing joint mobility drills. But boy oh boy I finally started doing yoga and I have found it to be much more helpful than the streching I was doing on my own. I case some of yall don't know there are different kinds of yoga the kind I am doing is refered to here in the west as power yoga and it is really helping me. Though this type of yoga may be too strenious for people who are in the first phases of recovery for me it is great and there are other kinds that may be right for you. Trust me give yoga a try (heck they have videos so no one even has to see you doing it) and thank me later;-)
,Mike

BTW Nathalie I learned that myotherapy is a massage therapists way of doing the ostioopathic adjustments that I am getting now. I also find it to be very effective. It is also refered to as myofacial release (spelling).
,Mike