In our office this week!

Good things are happening in our office everyday but I would like to tell you about a specific patient that presented to our office today. A patient that had not been into the office for a couple of months because he thought he was doing alright finally re-appeared in a less than desired condition. This man that is in his 50’s and has worked hard most of his life, which means he has abused it on a daily basis, could hardly apply any pressure on his leg due to the extreme pain that SHOT from waist to foot. It took him minutes to stand from the chair in the waiting room and he hobbled down the hallway to a treatment room. He stated that the pain had started approximately two hours prior while he was crawling around in an attic working on something. He felt a pop and immediate pain. He stretched a little but completed his work thinking it would just go away. Looking back, he says that it had been getting progressively tighter in the days leading up to this event and every night before he went to bed he would tell his wife he really needed to get back into our office. As we were reviewing these events, he stated that he has almost passed out from the pain in the last 2 hours a couple of times and his wife had to drive him over. We got him on the table and adjusted him, and then put him on our Triton DTS decompression table to help open up the disc space and relieve some of the pressure on the sciatic nerve. After the completion of our visit, he was not completely out of pain, he did still hobble down the hallway but there was some significant change. We arranged for him to get back in later that evening to double check him.
This is where it gets good folks….I walked up to the front of the office later in the evening and this patient who could barely walk less than 5 hours earlier literally jumped out of the chair and did a jig. I had tears in my eyes. Chiropractic had changed this man’s life today and I got to be a part of it. This is what I LOVE about my job!