Your Prayers Please

[Allegheny]

Hello Donnie,

Have faith in God's healing powers. 17 years ago I had my first very serious bout of poison Ivy.
Hundreds of open scores on my arms and legs.
None of the treatments prescribed by the doctors worked. The infection was only getting worse and spreading.

At that time our family was attending a orthodox Greek church in a small town in central Illinois.
During the service, one Sunday, when the priest called out for healing of the ill, on his third appeal to our Lord Jesus Christ, I felt a tingling sensation starting in my toes and working up my body to the top of my head and then back down and then back up again (the sensation was similar as though I was being scanned).

When I arrived home shortly after service and started taking another shower to clean the wounds, to my amazement all of my wounds began to heal right before my eyes. I could physically see the wounds closing up completely without any trace of a scab or redness remaining.

Within an hours time there wasn't a single open score on my body!
This was also witnessed by my wife who I called out to come and see what was happening. Simply amazing.

Thus the power of prayer and faith as a child will get you through the most difficult of times.
Have faith in God and our Lord Jesus Christ and you will be protected by HIS healing and protective hand.

May God bless you and anyone else reading this message that is need of healing.

 

[3L120]

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.

My oldest is a DO, and was taught manipulation along with the standard MD stuff. After 20 years, he doesn’t have much use for manipulation, thinks it can cause more harm than good.

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

My oldest is a DO, and was taught manipulation along with the standard MD stuff. After 20 years, he doesn’t have much use for manipulation, thinks it can cause more harm than good.

Manipulation can certainly cause damage if tissues or muscles are torn or damaged. Manipulation of previous injuries (like my lower back) can cause harm. For tight joints and locked up neck bones, manipulation can be a source of great relief from muscle tension and pain. Every so often, my neck and shoulders will lock from from muscle tension caused by too much desk work and not enough exercise. After a few days of pain, a trip to the chiropractor fixes me right up. But this only happens once or twice per year.

 

[11320 Titanic]

Donny, Sorry to hear that. will do, hope all finds you well and doing better.

 

[Spars]

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.

Good for you. At 75 and after a battle I am 10 lbs more that when I gave up soldiering in 1974. Takes daily work.

 

[Spars]

Donny, you have my sympathy.

I was attacked (1977) from behind and received a flying kick to the base of the spine and my life has been blighted with extreme pain ever since.

Physio is a no no, Osteopath deserved a knife in the neck, steroids, lumbar punctures, myelograms, every pain med known to man.
Nothing helped, until I began a year of regular acupuncture.
It took a year, but the result was night and day, the pain became just a memory for over a decade.

Last November I had the misfortune to lose a leg in a motorcycle accident.
To my horror the spinal injury was back (excuse the pun) with extreme vengeance.
The only relief now is Morphine!
My only hope is the trauma will settle down.

The dreary truth, in my experience, is life is all about pushing that big rock up hill!

It's one day at a time. I look for small successes. This is where my model building comes in handy. I can always claim some victory.

 

[Spars]

as someone else suggested a physical therapist will do you the most good. a real doctor (md or do) can order the physical therapy.

What I di is combine physical therapy with housework. For example I squat to pick something up; going up the to back steps I take one at a time on the bals of my feet.