“How A Lower Back Pain Sufferer Started Golfing Again at 70 Yrs Of Age!”

This is a story of a gentleman who barely walked into our office because he was suffering from extreme lower back pain.

His back had ‘gone out’ & he had been bed-ridden for at least 3 weeks before he made it into the office to see me. When it first happened , he went to see his family doc.His family doc told him he had a problem with his sacro-iliac joint and prescribed him some medication.

And that’s what MD’s do is to recommend / prescribe medication. But believe me, in all my 25 yrs of practice I cannot recall someone having a health problem because they were NOT taking drugs.

Getting back to this story, this patient did not get better. So he was prescribed a different, stronger drug & another & another because nothing was working. He was still in excruciating pain & could not get out of bed even to use the washroom. The family doc then arranged for a nurse to come into his home to inject him with Demerol & this made him so sick & nauseated that he said “forget it!”.

He decided to try something else.

He remembered one of his friends had a bad back & called her to get the name of her chiropractor. He knew that her back got a lot better after visiting a Burlington chiropractor and that’s where I come into this story.

This poor man barely, & I mean barely walked into my office. It took every ounce of his energy to keep a straight face & keep himself from shedding tears of pain. He could not even sit down during the consultation. He needed to stand up & lean against the wall for support.

So I asked him what happened.

He told me he just bent over to put on his socks one morning, something clicked in his lower spine & he could not get up. The pain progressed to the point where he could not move or stand. I asked him what the family doc recommended & he told me he was instructed to take pain-killers & put heat on his back.

YIKES! – I said to myself. Putting heat on something that is already inflamed & painful is the WORST thing you can do!  Heat just caused the inflammation to increase & his pain level went thru the roof !!

I immediately got him down on the exam table & put an ice pack on his back for 30 min. This offered him enough relief that I was able to examine him & his family doc was right . He did have a mis-aligned sacro-iliac joint. But drugs & heat was totally the wrong way to treat this.

The joint needed to be re-aligned. And I told this patient also that it wasn’t bending over to put his socks on that caused the problem. I asked him if he was taking care of his spinal hygiene like he was his dental hygiene. Like most others, he said “no”.

I told  him that it wasn’t his fault that no-one told him that he should be taking care of one of the most important parts of his anatomy & that I would do the best I could to help him.

I gently re-aligned his sacro-iliac joint & told him to go home & lie down with knees bent & apply ice to his back instead of heat. We followed this same procedure several times over the next 2 wks at which time he was able to walk quite comfortably on his own.

He took no more medication & was very thankful for that too because not only did it not work, but it caused him to become severely constipated which did not do his lower spine any favors either. ( the lower back nerves & the lower intestines are directly connected ).

I will never forget the day about 2 months after I first met him when he came bouncing into my office with a huge smile on his face.

I asked him what’s up & he told me he just shot a 91. I said I didn’t realize he was a golfer & he told me he hadn’t golfed for 20 yrs because of his back. But he was feeling so much better that he decided to give it a try and now he was golfing better than ever!

This patient has continued maintenance treatments with me faithfully over the past 15 yrs & still plays golf regularly at 85 yrs of age !

You see, it is an absolute must that you keep a healthy, flexible properly aligned spine for your whole life because as you age, your spine can be you greatest asset or your greatest liability.

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