This good doctor, who had the very best of intentions, prescribed a pain medication and a muscle relaxant and told my friend that he should go to bed and let his back get well. Weeks went by, but the pain was getting no better.
Next, my friend made an appointment and saw a bone specialist. This bone specialist was supposed to be one of the very best.
The specialist ordered x-rays of my friend's back and when he looked at them he said that he could see nothing wrong. Nothing wrong? My friend could hardly walk.
A mutual friend came by to see both me and my friend later that day, and he told us how a chiropractor had helped him.
My friend immediately made an appointment with the very same chiropractor. The next day, my friend crawled to his car and I drove him to the chiropractor's office.
The chiropractor ordered more x-rays, but these x-rays were taken while my friend was standing -- not lying down.
The chiropractor looked at the x-rays. Then he did a spinal manipulation -- an adjustment. My friend had crawled into the chiropractor's office but he WALKED out.
It took many weeks of adjustments (spinal manipulations) to finally get my friend's back so that it would stay straight, but the pain became less with each and every adjustment.
What medical doctors (including specialists) hadn't been able to fix in three months, the chiropractor made better in one visit and healed completely in a few weeks.
This is an absolutely true story. You can make the decision about how to treat your own back pain yourself.
