Actually chiropractors are like any other tool. They have to be applied to the right job. When I get muscle tension in my upper shoulders and neck, my neck locks up and dull pain sets in. It doesn't do away by itself. Getting a physical adjustment loosens everything back up in an hour or so. Noticeable relief is immediate. I don't get my lower back adjusted because L4 and L5 discs were previously blown out, requiring two surgeries, and adjusting the lower back could result in more damage and lots of pain. Even my chiropractor knows that. Some chiropractors are as you said, unable to help many back issues, but some can be trusted to apply tension eliminating techniques properly. As for your wife, it seems that exercise (physical therapy) was the way to go. Exercise also keeps us limber such that we rarely need to visit the chiropractor for relief, even as we get old and creaky. The trick with any injury or pain is finding the correct treatment, sometimes very different that other people.
I started my diet 9 months ago today! I've lost 39 pounds and feel and look so much better. S visible 6 pack at 68 isn't all bad. A combination of eating and drinking less and steady work on my exercise bike.....I really recommend them. I do about 12 miles a day on the hardest setting.
Wow. I should try that.. at least the wedding photo part...
Your last sentence is a perfect descriptor of me in my life at very nearly 79 years of age. That, and playing the guitar for, and reading to my wife, who through the vicissitudes of life is being stolen from me a little day by day by the death of a thousand cuts known as memory decline. And, yes, it is what counts.
You are as an angel to your wife, Peter, doing God's work.
