I have found some relief for my knee
I was recommended by Pascal’s daughter, a Chiropractor herself, to a guy in Peoria Illinois. Dr Mark Werking In about fifteen minutes he did for me what surgery and ten years of medications have not been able to do.
Now, I have a lot of people who are willing if not anxious to write off chiros as so much quackery, and I am not qualified to have an opinion. However: I am a results based guy, and if someone says lick a ladder and rub a live squirrel on the affected tissue while humming Mussorgsky’s “In the Hut of the Baba Yaga” and it makes me feel better, well, get me that sheet music.
Dr Werking made me feel better. I have not been able to straighten my left knee past maybe 12 degrees for a very long time, locking that knee has been impossible for at least ten years. Well, I still can’t completely straighten it, but I can get it a lot straighter, and it doesn’t keep me up at night, or at least hasn’t the last two weeks.
So he wrenched me around and gave me instructions to see a doctor more local to me and I did, Saturday. She ascribes to the same methods and in fact goes to see Dr Werking herself regularly.
She mentioned that she had some joint issues and in fact had gone into Chiropractic medicine because, at least in part, because of the personal joint issues she has. I can understand that.
It took me back to another time. I was at a family reunion, walking around with my cousin Bill. He had gone into psychiatry, he told me, because he had what he called a lot of unresolved issues with his mother and many of the other women in his life, or so his professors had managed to convince him. He said he hoped he would be able to eventually be more comfortable in the company of women.
I told him I always figured he was uncomfortable in the presence of women because he was gay.
I never did know if I was the first person who told him that or not. He turned and looked at me with his mouth open, started to say something, then closed his mouth, and looked away, then looked back at me, started to say something again, then shook my hand and walked briskly away.
The next time I saw him he had a turquoise feather boa and a purse dog. he’s happy, which is all that matters to him.
Anyway, I’m gonna keep going back to the chiropractor, if she can make this knee progressively better.
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Almost a million visitors.
yeah, it’s creeping up there. With three or five hundred uniques a day I don’t get too excited though.
Just as long as your treatment doesn’t involve wearing turquoise feather boas and carrying a purse dog. Can’t have Neanderpundit turning into Neandercutie, you know!
;-)
Nobody will ever call me cute.
I dunno on the cute meter. I can make small children cry just by looking at them.
I too find Chiro’s are good. I don’t know why MD’s usually don’t like them other than the procedures work and pain med’s not so much.
As to the guy with the feather boa, he is too wrapped up in himself. We have a person going through that right now that comes to our church. Look more open since she became Clair. I weep for our youth.
Keep up the good work, and I, for one, am not concerned that Og could be a closet cross dresser.
I’m so damned ugly I’m ugly on the phone.
You win! lol
So, most of us here have “faces made for radio”?? And no issues with chiros here….the ex used em off and on for her back issues since the late 70’s. Trying to find one that will be able to meet the needs of my sweetieheart of almost 16 years now.
Don’t know nothing about feather boas and purse dogs…however, black leather and german shepherds…??
Dude, that mental picture segue was just too good. But now I cannot get the picture in my head of you, with your dog in a big ol’ purse, wearing a sparkly purple feather boa. It’s just wrong….
Wrong is what I do. One is glad to have been of service. Bills dog was a yorkie, I think.
“I’m so damned ugly I’m ugly on the phone.”
Is that ugly enough to make a blind kid cry?
Is that ugly enough to make a blind kid cry?
Only if he answers the phone. :)
I had a similar range-of-motion with a shoulder a while back. Chiro got it right eventually, but the issue had gone on long enough that the associated muscles (down into the lower back in my case) had tightened up and took a while to stretch out sufficiently. Maybe something similar going on with your knee so there’s hope you will eventually be able to lock your knee and stand around long enough to pass out yourself someday.
Errr … or something hopeful. :)
By the way, Mussorgsky’s ” the hut of Baba Yaga” is. Fucking. Terrifying.