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Topic: Chiropractor or Message?
Aaron (the good one)
posted 07-20-2008 06:17:45 PM
I am a courier (UPS, FedEX, DHL), so I lift a pretty decent amount of boxes during any given day. While I am fine during the entire week, on the weekends when I sit my lazy ass down in the chair for 4-5 hours either catching up on the TV I missed or playing games, my upper left back hurts. It's the kind of pain where if I could crack it (like when you are stretching and you feel things in your body move), I feel it would go away.

Is this a chiropractic thing or just tense muscles? Or should I stop consulting a group of people on the internet and go see a doctor?

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Pancake
posted 07-20-2008 06:36:07 PM
Ask a professional, but a chiropractor might not be bad.
Steven Steve
posted 07-20-2008 07:23:28 PM
ibuprofen and rest
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Brahmin Bloodlust
High Priest of Drysart
posted 07-20-2008 07:34:13 PM
I would go for a message. I mean, Steve and Anklebiter have given you messages now... and I have now as well. If these messages aren't making you feel better, I would think about talking to a chiropractor.

Though if you know any therapeutic massage professionals, I guess a free rub down couldn't hurt.

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Pancake
posted 07-20-2008 07:38:25 PM
Try stretching, then taking a nap.
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Sakkra
Office Linebacker
posted 07-20-2008 07:48:24 PM
Massage and a happy ending.
Maradon!
posted 07-20-2008 08:10:04 PM
Chiropractors are charlitans
Steven Steve
posted 07-20-2008 09:53:00 PM
Everyone is overqualified and overpaid for the work they do, frankly
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Callalron
Hires people with hooks
posted 07-20-2008 09:53:47 PM
Massage.

Unlike chiropractors there's minimum education and licensing required.

Callalron
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Alidane
Urinary Tract Infection
posted 07-21-2008 01:10:15 AM
quote:
Maradon! posted

Chiropractors are charlitans


The large majority of them are. You're better off getting a massage, or if you're in a large amount of pain (for some definition of large), actually going to a real doctor.

Greenlit
posted 07-21-2008 01:40:56 AM
quote:
Alidane obviously shouldn't have said:
real doctor.

^^

Still, probably not even needed. Get some good stretches in before work and see how it goes.

Delphi Aegis
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posted 07-21-2008 12:25:29 PM
quote:
Greenlit's fortune cookie read:
^^

Still, probably not even needed. Get some good stretches in before work and see how it goes.


Before and afterwards.

Chiropractors aren't entirely bogus, they can do some helpful things, but most of the time the spine realignments they perform on people don't have a root cause of a structural defect, but more often than not, it's a muscle overtense on one side that pulls everything out of alignment. Popping a book to the edge of the shelf to align with all the other books while there's still a bungee cord attached to the back doesn't do much good other than throw your money away, tbh.

Look for a Massage Therapist. Any reputable establishment will call themselves that rather than masseur/masseuses.

Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 07-21-2008 01:53:53 PM
Whoever said "real doctor" should win a cookie. You'd probably be surprised how many back pains have nothing to do with back problems. Ankle and knee problems, especially, can manifest as rather serious back pain due to unconscious posture shifts to avoid stressing the injured joint.

Odds are good it's just a posture problem manifesting as tight muscles, but don't trust anyone other than an M.D. to tell you that definitively. C'mon--I thought all you Canookians were always bragging about your socialized medicine!

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Steven Steve
posted 07-21-2008 03:08:35 PM
The doctor will tell you ibuprofen and rest
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"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
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Blackened
posted 07-21-2008 06:02:47 PM
Strech, ibuprofin and rest.

Although my distaste for you as a human being is brobdingnagian,
what I'm about to do isn't personal.
Oh shi...
what
posted 07-21-2008 08:26:46 PM
Turns out my work will pay for 12 messages a year if I get a doctor to prescribe me message therapy

Now to find a walk in clinic that isn't closed by 8:00pm

Gadani
U
posted 07-21-2008 08:48:41 PM
why do you keep spelling it like that
Maradon!
posted 07-21-2008 08:58:33 PM
It's mAssage

As a mnemonic you can try to remember austin powers going "a sensual ma-ssage?"

He's another one of you canadian faggots so it shouldn't be hard

Maradon! fucked around with this message on 07-21-2008 at 08:58 PM.

Oh shi...
what
posted 07-21-2008 09:16:12 PM
my hands type message but I want to type massage.
Blackened
posted 07-23-2008 08:45:41 PM
shit, get the free massages

Although my distaste for you as a human being is brobdingnagian,
what I'm about to do isn't personal.
Number 1 Poster
posted 07-23-2008 09:22:40 PM
Doctor prescribed mAssage therapy. gg me
Gadani
U
posted 07-25-2008 12:48:03 AM
how many posting accounts do you have
nem-x
posted 07-25-2008 12:58:15 AM
Enough to make any poll he crates invalid
nem-x
posted 07-25-2008 12:58:35 AM
thats right i said crates
Number 1 Poster
posted 07-25-2008 09:11:55 AM
quote:
nem-x had this to say about Cuba:
Enough to make any poll he crates invalid

Someone's bitter

Karnaj
Road Warrior Queef
posted 07-25-2008 09:32:43 AM
1:45 or so.
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Beer.

Number 1 Poster
posted 07-25-2008 09:35:40 AM
$15 for an hour massage. Time to book an appointment
nem-x
posted 07-25-2008 09:55:08 AM
Karnaj
Road Warrior Queef
posted 07-25-2008 10:36:00 AM
quote:
Aw, geez, I have nem-x all over myself!
i hope you get a man

Joke 1:

So does he.

Joke 2:

And the man insists on giving a happy ending, after which the real massage therapist walks in.

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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith



Beer.

Azakias
Never wore the pants, thus still wields the power of unused (_|_)
posted 07-25-2008 08:06:44 PM
Huh. I was seeing a chiropractor once every two weeks for a while because of back pain, but then again, the military foot the bill for me.

Granted, since I havent gone in about two and a half months, the pain is back with a vengeance...

I should go to the doctor too..

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Number 1 Poster
posted 07-26-2008 12:46:39 PM
Who knew that laying down on a table for an hour while having some woman massage your back would be so exhausting. I woke up 3 hours ago and I'm so sleepy.
Number 1 Poster
posted 07-26-2008 12:47:00 PM
Also best doctor prescription ever
Steven Steve
posted 07-26-2008 01:01:31 PM
The only time I've had back problems is when I had scoliosis, which I cured myself by doing spinal decompression for a few months
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Number 1 Poster
posted 07-26-2008 01:23:06 PM
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The only time I've had back problems is when I had scoliosis, which I cured myself by doing spinal decompression for a few months

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